By the numbers: Horror and hops

Haunted Basement and Zombie Pub Crawl factoids.

September 30, 2010 at 7:44PM

HAUNTED BASEMENT

8,000: Ticket buyers in 2009.

12,000: Estimated attendance this year.

219: People who said "uncle" in 2009.

2: People who vomited last year.

18,000: Hours it took to build the Haunted Basement.

300: Volunteers who helped out.

3,000: Slices of pizza that will be eaten by volunteers this month.

150,000: Approximate number of bottle caps utilized this year (nobody knows for what).

$50,000: Estimated amount the project will raise for Soap Factory's regular programming.

ZOMBIE PUB CRAWL

150: Zombie participants in the first year (2005).

4,026: Current Guinness world record for "largest gathering of zombies."

9,000: Zombies expected this year.

18: Bars involved.

2: Zombies arrested last year ("mostly for lurching into traffic").

20: Estimated number of zombie Jesuses last year.

7: Months it took to organize.

3,000: Gallons of beer consumed by zombies last year (estimated).

1.5: Miles crawled.

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