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In her four years of employment, this Northern Kentucky University senior has taken on the role of virtually every character. And yes, she has played the infamous Rat Lady.

"(The directors) go through and give you tactics to use," she said. "Your main goal is to usually startle people; if you can't do that, you try and make them laugh or try to scare them."

"In the control room, you sit and watch the (15) monitors ... and you just keep an eye on them, making sure the actors are doing what they are doing and making sure the customers aren't harming the actors," she said.

"One of our first nights open I had three emergencies buttons going off," she recalled. "I had to turn on the house lights to find a lost child, plus I had to call an ambulance from a prior emergency."

"They have an air blaster in one of the hallways that I can control to scare people," she said with a smile. "If the actors know that there is a camera by them, they'll often times makes faces at me and dance in front of it."

"It's fun. (During) the six weeks, it's like a big family reunion," Oakley said. "(The cast) get together and (go out)... It's just so much fun.

"Probably the most positive thing that I've gained out of it are the life-long friends. There are people that I've met, and I talk to them year-round now."

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