I didn't know Daniel Balsz passed away!? - General Tiki

H hodadhank Member Mission Beach, CA Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 1689	H hodadhank Posted posted on Tue, Jan 3, 2006 8:58 AM On 2005-10-02 22:03, Nightmaretony wrote: Anyhoo, couple of years later, former friend invites me to a haunted house at lake elsinore, at Tiki's. They have a giant pumpkin baloon and either 7 or 12 spotlights. I asked if it was the same Tiki's when I got there, they said yup... I always wondered what happened to Tiki's. Couldnt find ANYONE with the answer. Driving past Elsinore's legendary Tikis a several times a year I've always wanted to take a peek, so when we finally popped off the highway, we went directly to a little storefront filled with senior citizens where my girlfriend asked about the ruins. A few were adamant that no such place had ever existed at Lake Elsinore, but after some bickering and head scratching one insisted the old place was in fact "just down the road" and kindly gave us directions. It was just beginning to get dark when we pulled into the paint-ball lot and we quietly parked our VW Bug between two hulking monster trucks. Thankfully the cluster of intimidating men in their camouflage uniforms and paint ball weaponry hardly noticed as two interlopers slinked through the gate and onto the Tikis property. Man-made rock formations were everywhere eerily silhouetted by the fading sunlight, like an abandoned kingdom of African termite mounds. Other semi collapsed metal superstructures were also visible. There was a spooky graveyard stillness there, and I was struck with the notion that this was exactly the type of place that one might expect to be haunted. So...I already had a raging case of "the creeps" when I realized the wall upon which I was leaning was embedded with dozens of human skulls! I damned myself for not bringing a camera and although we stumbled around in the growing blackness for a few more minutes it was now far too dark to explore further in safety so we split promising each other we'd return another time. I understand why the grounds would have made a wonderful haunted attraction but Nightmaretony's post makes me wonder if the "Skull Wall" was an original part of the Tikis or merely a Halloween addition added later.

On 2005-10-02 22:03, Nightmaretony wrote:

Anyhoo, couple of years later, former friend invites me to a haunted house at lake elsinore, at Tiki's. They have a giant pumpkin baloon and either 7 or 12 spotlights. I asked if it was the same Tiki's when I got there, they said yup... I always wondered what happened to Tiki's. Couldnt find ANYONE with the answer.

Driving past Elsinore's legendary Tikis a several times a year I've always wanted to take a peek, so when we finally popped off the highway, we went directly to a little storefront filled with senior citizens where my girlfriend asked about the ruins. A few were adamant that no such place had ever existed at Lake Elsinore, but after some bickering and head scratching one insisted the old place was in fact "just down the road" and kindly gave us directions.

It was just beginning to get dark when we pulled into the paint-ball lot and we quietly parked our VW Bug between two hulking monster trucks. Thankfully the cluster of intimidating men in their camouflage uniforms and paint ball weaponry hardly noticed as two interlopers slinked through the gate and onto the Tikis property. Man-made rock formations were everywhere eerily silhouetted by the fading sunlight, like an abandoned kingdom of African termite mounds. Other semi collapsed metal superstructures were also visible. There was a spooky graveyard stillness there, and I was struck with the notion that this was exactly the type of place that one might expect to be haunted. So...I already had a raging case of "the creeps" when I realized the wall upon which I was leaning was embedded with dozens of human skulls! I damned myself for not bringing a camera and although we stumbled around in the growing blackness for a few more minutes it was now far too dark to explore further in safety so we split promising each other we'd return another time.

I understand why the grounds would have made a wonderful haunted attraction but Nightmaretony's post makes me wonder if the "Skull Wall" was an original part of the Tikis or merely a
Halloween addition added later.

Post #205444 by hodadhank on Tue, Jan 3, 2006 8:58 AM