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Make-Up, Hell House, Skeletons

October 27, 2006

Horror School (courtesy Douglas Education Center)

Hell House

Every year around Halloween, thousands of Americans go to their churches to meet the devil. These "Hell Houses" - designed by Pastor Keenan Roberts - are kind of like haunted houses, but each room gruesomely displays the consequences of sin. Now a secular group of artists and actors have staged a Hell House in the capital of blue state America: New York City. And they got a stamp of approval from Pastor Roberts himself. Peter Crimmins looks at this strange partnership between Christian believers and liberal non-believers.

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