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Advocates Criticize Cedar Point Haunted House (Updated)

By Kyle Swenson on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:00 am

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Google Images gave us this for haunted house, but were not exactly sure whats going on here.

Google Images gave us this for haunted house, but we're not exactly sure what's going on here.

Update II: The last update on this story from back in October of last year had Cedar Point refusing to back down under pressure from the National Alliance on Mental Illness to change the names of two HalloWeekends attractions because they were insensitive. Well, skip ahead to August 2011 and Cedar Point has done just that. Two features — Dr. D. Mented’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane and The Edge of Madness: Still Crazy — will be renamed. Via WEWS, Cedar Fair CEO Dick Kinzel says the park acquiesced because it didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. No plans as of yet to rename the Magnum because some men still get coaster envy when visiting the park. — Grzegorek

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Update: Cedar Point announced today it won't bow down to the National Alliance on Mental Illness' concern over the park's attractions. The haunted houses don't represent reality, a park spokesman told the AP, and weren't meant to be insensitive or insulting.