I Need Name Ideas For Something!!

[coolconfidentme]

This has nothing to do with DC, but I need some help.

1st..., I own an old county jail. I know its weird. I had my final meeting at City Hall & I have the blessing from the local powers that be. I can have a HAUNTED HOUSE at my JAIL!! I'm leaving all the cells/bars intact & I created a maze thought the entire jail, including the basement. I'm going for realism without the monster boo factor. I will have 2 types of tours. 6-10pm with low grade lighting & 10-2am with lights out. Yes, creepy things happen there & it has a deep history. It was built in the 30s btw.

I'm open to suggestions for a name. I need to come up with something soon. Anybody have a cleaver one?

[NightOwl]

Wow! How friggin cool is THAT??
Do you want a name, in general, for the property? Or you're specifically looking for haunted type names?

Purgatory, where prisoners go in but they never come out. Muahahahahaha!! Lol.

[starz0123]

I'm an Aussie I have no idea how county jails work do they just close it and it ceases to operate or do they still have one just new building ... If it ceased to operate I would try to keep its name most people don't remember business names over time potential future visitors would find it easy to find if you kept original name plus respecting/acknowledging towns history most people in your town/surrounding area probably already use the same name for it

[hope]

I don't have any name suggestions but wanted to say that sounds like a idea! I love spooky things. A tour like that sounds wonderful. Hopefully you can do all year round!

[coolconfidentme]

The county built a new jail unfortunately they outgrew the size of this one. It's 10,000 sq ft. I bought it 17 years ago cuz I though it was cool. I had no idea what to do with it. The main cell block consist of 8 cells, . It also has 3 cells in the drunk tank, 3 solitary confident cells & 1 padded room. A ton of other rooms too, it's very compartmentalized. It's old, eerie, brick walls & metal bar everywhere.

We actually lived in the sheriff's quarters while my son was in middle school & high school so he could get back/forth to events in town/school. I'm not going to lie.., you hear things.

I like purgatory.., it's evil sounding.

[Blackcat31]

Oooh, you could invite people to the tours with some of these funny advertising lines....I them stole from the haunted house tours we have in my community and altered them a bit.

Ours is an old house that does something similar. Mild tours until 10PM and then all hell breaks loose after that... Ours is called "Scream in the Night"

• Come "cell-ebrate" our ghostly site!
• Just don't scream too loud or you'll be put in solitary confinement!
• Don't let fear keep you prisoner!
• Confine your fears or be sentenced to fright the whole night!
• Ghosts and goblins, vampires and zombies.....Let Sheriff Frank N. Stein keep you safe
• Come for the scare....if you dare!

[NightOwl]

Oooh, you could invite people to the tours with some of these funny advertising lines....I them stole from the haunted house tours we have in my community and altered them a bit.

Ours is an old house that does something similar. Mild tours until 10PM and then all hell breaks loose after that... Ours is called "Scream in the Night"

• Come "cell-ebrate" our ghostly site!
• Just don't scream too loud or you'll be put in solitary confinement!
• Don't let fear keep you prisoner!
• Confine your fears or be sentenced to fright the whole night!
• Ghosts and goblins, vampires and zombies.....Let Sheriff Frank N. Stein keep you safe
• Come for the scare....if you dare!

:: sheriff frank n. stein ::

[Unregistered]

I just have to say how much I love your typo: cleaver (wide-bladed knife)
Maybe you can use that in some way.

[NightOwl]

When you think about it, jail is kind of a purgatory! You can't leave until a higher power says you can. Lol.

[CedarCreek]

That is so cool!!

I can never get my kids to go through haunted houses but who can blame them?

I'm thinking "The House of Shocks and Shackles" Too cheesy?

[coolconfidentme]

I just have to say how much I love your typo: cleaver (wide-bladed knife)
Maybe you can use that in some way.

That's funny! I didn't know I did that. With kids under foot is hard to proof read, .

[Childminder]

The Gated Community
Prison Break
Destiny
Breakoutta
Iron Bar Hotel
Country Club
Maximum Security
Nightmare Lockup

[midaycare]

That is so weird and cool at the same time. We all get free passes, right?

I love the ideas posted. People will come from all over for your HH!

[Unregistered]

That's funny! I didn't know I did that. With kids under foot is hard to proof read, .

It would fit well with some of the other suggestions. I am not cleaver enough to come up with something, but maybe someone else can.

[coolconfidentme]

The state fire marshal called me as I was serving lunch today. He wanted to know the name of the haunted house & could we run over there to do a walk though. (He was in town having lunch with the local building inspector.) I told him no name yet & I run a 24 hr daycare & cannot just go at a moment's notice during the day. I'm not sure what job he thought I had where I could just walk out the door, but I wanna sign up for it!!