October 29, 2025 • 5 mins
Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ to The 17th Door, Orange County's most intense, most terrifying and most fun haunted attraction in Buena Park California!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Okay, We've been to some scary places and some not
so scary places for the Boot preview this year, and
since it's right before Halloween, we wanted to take the
scare to the next level. Our Boot preview took us
to the seventeenth Door in Buena Park. Now, I was
told this place is not for you, Amy, because they
know I don't like to be scared. But I figured, hey,
(00:23):
I jumped off at twenty five story building. I can
handle a haunted house right right. Be caught up with
the owner of the seventeenth Door, Heather Luthor. So Heather
tell us how this experience is different than any other
haunted house in southern California.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sure, well, it's an extreme haunt for starters, so it
is not hitting. It is considered an extreme haunt experience.
It's extremely interactive and immersive, kind of lata over the
top effects and stuff. It is an intense experience. It's
thirty minutes long. You're locked in each room for a.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Given amount of time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We cannot move faster than than the amount of time
we want you to go through. And there's a lot
of extreme things that happen. We have electric shocks, we
have live bugs, We have tyranch bluds, we have rooms
that spin three hundred and sixty degrees. We have you know, projectiles,
poone bullets, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, and then let me I want to talk about
the room that spins because it is well over the top.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Though, like that was one of the least scary lens
and boie was that fun right, Like it's a feet
of engineering to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I completely It actually took a while for them to build.
The concept was there, but it took a lot of
troubleshooting to get that room to work the way it does.
Everything inside is very highly technical. So the stuff that
they can accomplish like a buill team, it's pretty amazing
what they do in there. So yeah, that room spins
all the way around with people in it, it's very disorienting. Yes,
(01:57):
absolutely decided.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You have people company you in there that are just
a little bit frightening as well, correct us.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There are some clowns jumping around, yes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, and then let's talk about the wind tunnel too.
That room is wow.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yes, that is my favorite room of this this year.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is that new this year?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We added it last year?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So okay, second year entirely wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We clocked the wind speed at like one hundred and
ten or one hundred and twelve miles per hour, so
it is very strong winds. I don't know what level
of hurricane at is, but it doesn't go. I mean,
it's a little difficult to get through, and we have
had people, you know, tumble a little bit out, but
I might have tumbled a little bit, just a little bit,
but it is That's just one of the extreme.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Things we do.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Again, it's not someone jumping out and scaring you, but
it's trying to get through this tunnel of just like
high speed games. So it's just a different effect and
of something new.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And it was kind of cool because you know that
there are seventeen doors, so if you're going through the maze,
I'm like, okay, I've been through five, only eleven more.
And then when we got to fifteen, I was like, okay,
only three more. Ya. That's a store.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We get that a lot. I see customers and guess
inside that are like okay, okay, we're all we got
five more rooms to go, just like you said, or
they're literally like looking at the door numbers as they
walk in and counting them. Okay, we're at door ten. Guys,
we're at door ten. It's like an accomplishment to get
through all seventeen, yes, but it's kind of fun for
them to kind of keep track of how many they've
gone through and how many they have left.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay. So I will say it is scary, it is intense.
And if it gets to be too intense or you're
like I didn't think I was gonna make it through
what I did, you did. And there is a way
that you can experience it and not have it be
quite as intense. Yes, And that is with oh I
lost my mercy netfoot that's okay. Well, there's a mercy
in here somewhere here. It is there, it is okay,
(03:40):
So there's that If you want to purchase.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A mercy mercy pendant. Yeah, And this is a mercy pendant.
It protects you from the electric shocks and from coming
into contact with it bugs.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And you can also use the safe word mercy at
any time to avoid you know, have the actors back
off or kind of just be an observer in.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The room instead of going through it. Okay. And then
I want to say at the very end is the
seventeenth door and you go in it seems like a party,
but it's not quite over yet and we're not going
to say anything more secret. Okay, Heather, thank you so much.
This was surprisingly fun. You're so well scaring.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm very proud of you. All right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's where we're out and about our boob review is
at seventeenth door. Y gotta check it out. Like I said,
it was surprisingly fun, also terrifying, like you go through
the doors and I think I was on after door
number four. I was like hyperventilating. I mean, it's like
such an adrenaline rush, but it was. It was really good.
(04:39):
And it's got jump scares like other haunted houses, but
it's got other things going on aside from the jump scares,
and some of the experiences are just crazy open nightly
through Sunday. They do say you should go to the
website get your tickets ahead of time. It's the seventeenth door,
and not to freak you out or anything, but the
(04:59):
first you do when you walk in the door is
there like get your waiver? Did you sign your waiver?
Did you sign your waiver? Okay, you can come in, yes?
Is it like that sign above Space Mountain. You might
die on this thing. Oh no, they have this whole
huge sign. It's on it's on the interview that I'm
about to post on Instagram that says trigger warnings and
it kind of lists everything that you might experience. But
(05:23):
do check out my video. You can get a sneak
peek at some of the scares. I'm about to post
it at Amy Kking on Instagram, also on the wake
Up called Facebook page, and it'll show up on the
Kfi Instagram too. That's at KFI a M six forty.
Of course, I'd love it if you can follow me
at amy K King and do check it out though.
(05:43):
It's a cool experience.
Okay, We've been to some scary places and some not
so scary places for the Boot preview this year, and
since it's right before Halloween, we wanted to take the
scare to the next level. Our Boot preview took us
to the seventeenth Door in Buena Park. Now, I was
told this place is not for you, Amy, because they
know I don't like to be scared. But I figured, hey,
(00:23):
I jumped off at twenty five story building. I can
handle a haunted house right right. Be caught up with
the owner of the seventeenth Door, Heather Luthor. So Heather
tell us how this experience is different than any other
haunted house in southern California.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Sure, well, it's an extreme haunt for starters, so it
is not hitting. It is considered an extreme haunt experience.
It's extremely interactive and immersive, kind of lata over the
top effects and stuff. It is an intense experience. It's
thirty minutes long. You're locked in each room for a.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Given amount of time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We cannot move faster than than the amount of time
we want you to go through. And there's a lot
of extreme things that happen. We have electric shocks, we
have live bugs, We have tyranch bluds, we have rooms
that spin three hundred and sixty degrees. We have you know, projectiles,
poone bullets, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, and then let me I want to talk about
the room that spins because it is well over the top.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Though, like that was one of the least scary lens
and boie was that fun right, Like it's a feet
of engineering to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I completely It actually took a while for them to build.
The concept was there, but it took a lot of
troubleshooting to get that room to work the way it does.
Everything inside is very highly technical. So the stuff that
they can accomplish like a buill team, it's pretty amazing
what they do in there. So yeah, that room spins
all the way around with people in it, it's very disorienting. Yes,
(01:57):
absolutely decided.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You have people company you in there that are just
a little bit frightening as well, correct us.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There are some clowns jumping around, yes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, and then let's talk about the wind tunnel too.
That room is wow.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yes, that is my favorite room of this this year.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is that new this year?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We added it last year?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So okay, second year entirely wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We clocked the wind speed at like one hundred and
ten or one hundred and twelve miles per hour, so
it is very strong winds. I don't know what level
of hurricane at is, but it doesn't go. I mean,
it's a little difficult to get through, and we have
had people, you know, tumble a little bit out, but
I might have tumbled a little bit, just a little bit,
but it is That's just one of the extreme.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Things we do.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Again, it's not someone jumping out and scaring you, but
it's trying to get through this tunnel of just like
high speed games. So it's just a different effect and
of something new.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And it was kind of cool because you know that
there are seventeen doors, so if you're going through the maze,
I'm like, okay, I've been through five, only eleven more.
And then when we got to fifteen, I was like, okay,
only three more. Ya. That's a store.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We get that a lot. I see customers and guess
inside that are like okay, okay, we're all we got
five more rooms to go, just like you said, or
they're literally like looking at the door numbers as they
walk in and counting them. Okay, we're at door ten. Guys,
we're at door ten. It's like an accomplishment to get
through all seventeen, yes, but it's kind of fun for
them to kind of keep track of how many they've
gone through and how many they have left.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay. So I will say it is scary, it is intense.
And if it gets to be too intense or you're
like I didn't think I was gonna make it through
what I did, you did. And there is a way
that you can experience it and not have it be
quite as intense. Yes, And that is with oh I
lost my mercy netfoot that's okay. Well, there's a mercy
in here somewhere here. It is there, it is okay,
(03:40):
So there's that If you want to purchase.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A mercy mercy pendant. Yeah, And this is a mercy pendant.
It protects you from the electric shocks and from coming
into contact with it bugs.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And you can also use the safe word mercy at
any time to avoid you know, have the actors back
off or kind of just be an observer in.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The room instead of going through it. Okay. And then
I want to say at the very end is the
seventeenth door and you go in it seems like a party,
but it's not quite over yet and we're not going
to say anything more secret. Okay, Heather, thank you so much.
This was surprisingly fun. You're so well scaring.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm very proud of you. All right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's where we're out and about our boob review is
at seventeenth door. Y gotta check it out. Like I said,
it was surprisingly fun, also terrifying, like you go through
the doors and I think I was on after door
number four. I was like hyperventilating. I mean, it's like
such an adrenaline rush, but it was. It was really good.
(04:39):
And it's got jump scares like other haunted houses, but
it's got other things going on aside from the jump scares,
and some of the experiences are just crazy open nightly
through Sunday. They do say you should go to the
website get your tickets ahead of time. It's the seventeenth door,
and not to freak you out or anything, but the
(04:59):
first you do when you walk in the door is
there like get your waiver? Did you sign your waiver?
Did you sign your waiver? Okay, you can come in, yes?
Is it like that sign above Space Mountain. You might
die on this thing. Oh no, they have this whole
huge sign. It's on it's on the interview that I'm
about to post on Instagram that says trigger warnings and
it kind of lists everything that you might experience. But
(05:23):
do check out my video. You can get a sneak
peek at some of the scares. I'm about to post
it at Amy Kking on Instagram, also on the wake
Up called Facebook page, and it'll show up on the
Kfi Instagram too. That's at KFI a M six forty.
Of course, I'd love it if you can follow me
at amy K King and do check it out though.
(05:43):
It's a cool experience.
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