UT - The ethics of a haunted house starring psych patients as a Halloween attraction

[wfgodot]

Atlas Obscura:

The Complex Ethics of a Haunted
House Starring Psychiatric Patients
A Halloween attraction at a Utah mental-health
hospital perpetuated stigmas but benefited residents

One October morning in 1996, Pat Baker was driving her three youngest kids to school. On the car radio, the zany and irreverent DJ Jimmy Chunga was jabbering about the haunted castle in Provo.

Like everyone in north-central Utah, Baker knew about the castle, which sprung up every October: A spook alley infamous not because it was particularly well-done (though by all accounts it was), or particularly scary (though it was better than average), but because it stood on the grounds of Utah State mental hospital—and because some of the actors who worked there, playing witches and zombies and chainsaw murderers, were patients at the institution....
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much more at the link above

So -- whattaya think??

 

[matou]

Looks like a freakshow to me.

 

[LietKynes]

Hmmm... if it is actually benefiting the patients....Are they free to come and go --the patients ?
Or are they more like inmates ?
As long as they are willing. But it doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Why not hire local residents or amateur actors ?

 

[wfgodot]

I hate to say it and I hate myself for it, but I bet I would have paid good English copper to see the patients in their cells at Bedlam, in the day.