hey guys we're here at Knott's Scary Farm again and we're going to do a tour of Mesmer yes it's
going to be a special tour to give you guys a little bit more of the story behind the maze
so we'll be walking through and giving you a little bit of background as we go
this is the opening room of mesmer where we see phineas mesmer actually kill lucenda yes and she
will be when you walk through the maze in this lovely chair dying i don't know a less morbid
way to say that but yeah so if you notice this one will be spinning when you walk through the
maze and you're also in a giant zoetrope which you can see by the little eyes and illustrations and
so as lucinda dies she actually starts to bring us into the world that phineas mesmer has created
in this world when you walk through it at night we'll obviously have very cool graphics of eyes
going on here and these kind of like this is the transition room this is when you're actually
starting to die you're like going into the beyond and into the hells of all mesmer's victims
and you'll know each time you walk through these little fabric ropes that you're going into a new
room with a different side of the story so when we walk into this room we meet the illustrated man
he is actually the tattoo artist who worked with the carnival and he um
was obsessed obsessed with tattooing skin and so he asked mesmer he's like i've run out i literally
have no more skin on my body what should i do yes so mesmer then hypnotizes him and convinces him to
open up his body and tattoo the other side of his skin so he tattoos both sides of his skin which
you can see from the creepy skin on the walls and his victims yeah so like this is like his skin
and the skin of the people that the illustrated man has murdered and there is beautiful detail
but yeah it is the details are beautiful super cool
i think i was too scared to see it in the night time so this one is actually kind of easy to miss
because right as you walk in is the regurgitator's sign and so like if you're focused on going this
way and like not being scared by the scared scare actors you could miss it but the regurgitator
was actually his whole stick for the carnival was that he would swallow things on stage like any
sword swallower is kind of like what clicked in my mind when he said it so he was then convinced
by mesmer when he was hypnotized to swallow a sack of spiders which then ate him alive
came outside just like crawled through his gullet out under everywhere you could see through the
spiders the acts of spiders and people in spider webs so gross yeah because there's like a body
that's like all webbed this one is like one of the grossest ones to me i don't know why
like it should the tattoo one probably should be grosser to me but like something about the spiders
this one gets me so then we come through another transition here to mr skeletons
and this is actually a really special part of the story because phineas mesmer was actually not the
original leader of the carnival it was actually mortimer and this is mortimer's room he has become
mr skeleton and he has a bit of an obsession with grandfather clocks as we see in this room
um and then there's a little fun scare that happens here with the clock and this
is actually a special clock because mortimer has to wind it up himself every day so that he
does not die and obviously they're all zombies so they're all kind of like undead but he will
cease to exist if he does not wind it up every single day he's very protective of that clock
next we have viola the human violin and she when she was hypnotized there's a running
theme i don't know if you guys caught on that all of these gruesome things happen
to members of the carnival when they're hypnotized and then through their hypnosis
they die and they do these gruesome things so this one is viola she's the violin girl
and so when she was hypnotized and died she actually opened up her arm and used her ligaments
as her strings so she could feel the vibrations of the music yeah she felt like she wasn't like close
enough to the music like she could never really feel it and so mesmer said like why don't you
use your ligaments to um literally like to feeling so now she does feel the vibrations she's actually
probably one of the happier zombies like very much like died for her art definitely quite the artist
next we go into this is madame fettuccine the human noodle
and they actually have a contortionist in this maze who's incredibly talented and she
will be here doing a cool contortion thing that i can't do um but yeah it actually kind of does
like twist you up as you're walking through it's harder to see without the lights on but when you
guys are here you'll see it there's a very cool like optical illusion and it feels like you're
being twisted through this room guys there's some fun hidden blood and guts too for you
which brings us into the snake charmer yeah kind of back when they had these carnivals in the dust
bowl era a lot of times they would have a snake charmer as like part of the team and so this
snake charmer in particular she had this thing for like feeling the poison go through her blood and
so she would always let the snakes um bite her and poison her until she builds up a tolerance to it
uh and so phineas mesmer told her well why don't you let the snakes actually consume you and kill
you so she let her [ __ ] yeah and she became one and there's actually a special kind of cool thing
on this wall there's like a um there's an ode to kind of her snake goddess like if you look
really closely you can see it in the illustrations here but yeah this is the snake goddess that she
worships and that kind of inspired her to be so very religious when it comes to snakes
she loved them this tunnel is actually really cool too it's um in the day it doesn't give
as much of the illusion but at night it's like you are actually being swallowed by the snake
so the tunnel gets smaller and smaller as you go which doesn't we're a little on the shorter
side so for most people most people a little bit a little closer but yeah you do get that feeling of
being swallowed which brings us back to madame fenicini the human noodle well this is that's
her poster but actually this is lucinda's room we have come full circle i was wrong
because she is light as a feather stiff as a board and i don't know if you guys like ever played
that game in the middle of the night sitting around a ouija board with some candles you know
the movie the craft and a couple other things yeah but like people have done that as well
yeah but yeah so this is actually um through this room everything floats because that was kind
of her dream and also her hell is this idea of floating and flying and so this is lucinda's room
and this was actually one of the scariest for me personally it was just very off-putting
especially with the things like floating on the ceiling uh there's like lots of balloons lots of
feathers and it creeps me out yeah it's pretty pretty freaky so if you come in here definitely
take the time to look up if you're not screaming and running like i was um it's pretty cool and if
you listen closely you'll hear them whisper light as a feather stiff as a board which is pretty cool
which brings us to the metronome which is also used in hypnosis quite often they and what's cool
about these are these are legit like wind-up metronomes so it's actually the scare actors
every night who wind these up wind it up i think they said like every 10 minutes yeah
and get them going then it goes so um and it it kind of like it does have a really cool eerie feel
especially like they light up as you walk through which is really cool and since they're not in sync
they all might be a little off which makes it even scarier yeah and brings us into the room that made
me dizzy and i think a lot of people i've heard yeah this i really like the whole like um uh art
deco feel for like the 1920s like hotel style vibe that we've got here it's it's like really it adds
that creep factor and it keeps everything in the same like era like you you do feel like you're
almost going through time yeah a lot of people actually like i felt better about myself
when we went through because they told us that some people have to be escorted out of here
because they get so dizzy it's so hard to see and the floor is moving the walls are moving so
good luck finding your way out yeah we did it on the other side which now brings us to the area
which is really cool at night you can't really see it during the day but when you go through
the nays this will look like you're walking across a tightrope and it looks like it goes
down endlessly when it's dark and then the lights are coming from below you could see it really good
in our other maze video it's such a cool optical illusion that it's like it really does look like
it goes down endlessly it's scary i'm afraid of heights so i was like i don't know about this
this is actually this room in particular um was inspired by um not scary farm itself this was
one of their original types of scare rooms where they would do the polka dots and it's
because you can't see the scare actors you can't you just don't know where they are and they have
mannequins to look like scare actors as well so you never know what's going to move and what isn't
yeah which is very scary but i feel like the polka dots kind of like feel like a carnival
talking during the day but at night your choice that's what i mean so this is vanya the vain uh
and if any you guys know anything about the story of nurse this is like he was in love with his
visage with his face vania was the opposite she looked at the mirror way too much and it
horrified her she just kept finding more and more and more flaws until she couldn't take it anymore
and so she shattered the mirror and like thrust the like the the glass into her face and so that's
why half of her face is like filled with glass and the other half is normal so she'll like move so
you see the normal side of her face but it's like that just like makes my skin crawl because like
imagine glass just like actually like stabbing yourself in the face with glass how horrible yeah
yeah which brings us to our very scary room with many mirrors yeah i actually love this room i
love mirror rooms and mazes i think mirrors themselves are scary just because of all the
stories of them stealing your soul but this is a really cool part of the maze this actually
moves on its own but um but it also is like a really cool optical illusion like as you're
walking past and you just like see it going it reminds me of the zoetropes a little bit
even though that's not quite but like it feels like you're in your own zootrope almost which
i think is cool it definitely plays into our theme of hypnosis which brings us to
oh my gosh the flesh eater the lovely fleshy day the fleshy
this was probably like the most grotesque piece in this entire maze pretty gnarly
and his story is he's actually a cannibal like legit like he eats people and i think
that was his thing on stick on stage is like he would decide to do that like he just did it
well he had to be hypnotized to get this gruesome and this monstrous about it to where he just
could not stop consuming human flesh and actually became a monster after he was hypnotized but yeah
this i mean for a lot of great reasons is the most gruesome and we're actually going to show you guys
a secret there's actually a whisper in here where it tells it talks to you about a red door and
it says don't go through the red door don't go through the red door you want to know a secret
you can go through the red door we did not know that yeah it actually has this like secret room in
here where it has doorknobs and um there is like i think a cool light that comes through here we
didn't find this thing ourselves to tell us it was here but it feeds right back into the maze
and into mr zoetrope's room so don't worry if you are one of the few i don't know if anyone has yet
but if you are one of the few that go through the red door you can still get out yeah you're nagging
you're not tracked you didn't go the wrong way but yeah i think this is cool i am a nerdy cinema
studies major so i was just like i was scared in this room but i always thought this was so
cool too because they actually have like a legit like zoetrope here it's like a um like a 360 one
and um this is even an older form of zoetrope that i studied and should remember the name of
yeah it shows the moving pictures so when you spin it you kind of see
the characters almost in like an animated fashion which is super cool
one of my professors is going to see this video and be super disappointed in me
yeah but yeah this it's like i love these details because they're so cool and then this is like the
piece to resistance i mean look at how huge this thing is and this is like mr zoetrope himself
and so he and himself like this whole room feels like an optical
illusion because like when it's dark they have the lights going so fast
which is really crazy but yeah he is basically the one who started this whole thing and he is
also your grand finale which is such a cool piece yeah very talented sculptor
next we go now this is like this room is actually the grand finale and when you go through this dark
section here you'll hear bedroom bedroom red room and that's actually phineas mesmer himself
trying to get out of the carnival he has realized that it has become too powerful for him and that
he has no way of getting out he is now a slave to his creation of this dark carnival and so there's
like a cool kind of like graphic that comes here at night and then there's like a scare
actor that'll jump down from a bungee on this side which is really scary because like it comes from
the back so you're walking right now i'm really excited about how like intricate this entire
story is and i also think it's kind of cool that there's a couple of members who we haven't seen
their hells yet i don't know if that's something we'd see in the future but the bearded lady who
is out front and i think another performer has not been hypnotized by phineas mesmer yet
yeah they're still a part of the carnival but we don't know their full story yet so hopefully
in the years to come yeah you'll get to see their version of hell as well but yeah that's pretty
much our maze for you we hope you enjoyed it was cool to get to actually see the story behind the
maze because they're so intricate and they put so much work and so many ideas into these mazes
and sometimes it's hard to see when you're walking through and just like characters are jumping out
but they put so much work into this story so it's awesome to get to share with you guys
and see it ourselves yeah let us know if you have a particular story a particular character
that you really liked their backstory and yeah what you guys thought yeah see you guys later
okay sounds good um