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by admiral33 2062 days ago
There's a whole market for that. Roller coasters, haunted houses/corn maze etc. They get people as close to the edge of that feeling as possible. They won't get that full effect though because people know they are safe. If you wanted to get the full effect you need to break the illusion that customers signed up for midway through. Convince riders that the roller coaster is broken while they're still going full speed. While in line for the corn maze have a sociable "couple" (staff) go before you. While you're going through have one of them start screaming running back past you - you continue and find the other "dead", background music turns off, bright lights, "exit the maze immediately" over a loud speaker... cue chainsaw man.
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Nathan for You S01E05:

"Nathan makes a haunted house scarier by convincing visitors that they have contracted an airborne disease."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nathan_for_You_episode...

Thank you for the best surprise birthday party idea ever!
Go parachuting. The split second before the chute catches is something else.. terrifying. Especially if you tandem jump. I imagine bungee jumping is similar.
I did a tandem in the Middle East and the instructor kept joking about how I wasn't Arab and didn't have faith and it would be so easy to clip me off the parachute :D

"Lol"