Catherine Mote and her significant other Kevin Fisher love Halloween. On one of their first dates six years ago, they went to the Blind Scream haunted house in Rohnert Park.
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This weekend they went back with almost a dozen of their friends. Just as they reached a room called the "museum of oddities" one of the scary actors handed Catherine an object from a cabinet.
Turns out it was an engagement ring!
Kevin got down on one knee, and she shrieked-- not in terror-- but of delight!
"I was not expecting it to happen at that time. I thought he was showing me a secret room that we were going to go through, I was genuinely surprised," Beams Catherine.
Kevin worked with the creators of Blind Scream well in advance to plan out the surprise. Despite it being a busy Saturday night before Halloween where 1,500 to 2,000 guests visit the haunted house, organizers made sure they coordinated the moment perfectly and captured the magic moment on video.
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Kevin says it'll be a proposal they'll be talking about the rest of their lives.
"I wanted to think outside the box. I wanted to propose to her at a football game or have a sport be involved somehow, but finding common ground on something we both enjoy and we would have a lot of fun doing, felt like it was something different."
The happy couple says they plan on getting married next October-- but perhaps at city hall, and definitely not at a haunted house!
Blind Scream's creators say this is the first engagement inside their house! The house will be open Tuesday and Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Details can be found here.