“What’s your problem?”
The woman sitting across from me didn’t ask it out loud, but that’s exactly what the look she gave me conveyed.
“Sorry,” I said sheepishly, hoping she’d forgive my squeak of excitement.
I mean, I understood. I was in a doctor’s office, after all. Whether you’re ill or there for a check-up, most people’s demeanors are more subdued. Yet, there I was, giddy about a commercial playing on the waiting room’s TV.
Maybe you had the same reaction when you saw the ad for the forthcoming Scariest House in America. It premieres on HGTV on Friday, October 4, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. It will also be available to stream the same day and time on Max and discovery+.
Scariest House in America is basically a spin-off of Ugliest House in America. Except, instead of ugly houses, comedian, actress, and home design enthusiast Retta will check out the creepiest. Specifically, she’ll tour nine eerie and terrifying houses through the Midwest, Northeast, and South. The houses have everything from built-in death traps and questionable taxidermy to daunting basements and ghost sightings.
Retta will share unfiltered views about each home’s scary appearance, bad function, and fright factor. Then HGTV will deem one house the “scariest” of them all and award the homeowners a $150,000 renovation by popular network designer Alison Victoria.
Retta said she didn’t see this version of the show coming. “I was cool with the summer road trip and ugly in paradise,” she said. “But, for a gal that is spooked by every creak, critter, and errant hair that brushes my shoulder, this wasn’t it. Glad I got through it, but I won’t lie and say I ‘enjoyed’ it.”
Yeah. I think Scariest House in America will definitely be creepy comedy, HGTV-style. What about you?
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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“Fear has a new address…” Clever 🙂
Oooooooh! Sounds like a hoot!