The world’s a little heavy right now. People come here to laugh and let off steam.
— Betty Dick
On a Monday morning in October, Betty Dick, 80, rolled out of bed around 10 and picked up her sister for a doctor’s appointment down the road.
The ladies went for a late breakfast — or early lunch — at Denny’s, where Betty ordered a stack of French toast with a side of bacon.
Then she went home, let her dogs out in the yard and prepped for an evening of blood-curdling screams.
Ms. Betty, as she’s known to the hundred-something people she spooks alongside every fall, is the oldest actor at Scream-A-Geddon, a haunted house in Pasco County often dubbed the scariest in Tampa Bay.
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