PALM BAY — A Halloween haunted house in Palm Bay will be able to open this year as organizers are now in compliance with city code.

What You Need To Know

  • Halloween haunted house's code issue resolved

  • Palm Bay required the Haunted Lair to upgrade its sprinkler system

  • The work is complete and has passed inspection, organizers say

  • The Haunted Lair, a tradition for nearly 10 years, will open Friday

For nearly a decade, Chelsea Brown, family and friends, have worked to frighten as many people as they can.

Her 3,500-square-foot Haunted Lair has different scary-themed rooms, each designed to make your goosebumps rise and get your heart pumping with fear.

And she wants the experience to be “personal.”

"People come in and they get scared right there,” Brown explains. “It's just their family, no more than five or six people. For them, it's the best thing ever."

Preparatory work for this year's lair is completed, and they had been worried they might not be able to open.

The city of Palm Bay required the group to upgrade the lair to a larger sprinkler system to meet new safety requirements.

"Our system wasn't hooked into a smoke-detection system, so we had to get everything synched together with three different companies," Brown says. "We had to come out of pocket a lot."

That work is complete, and Brown said the Haunted Lair passed inspection.​

So Friday night, the Haunted Lair will welcome those who dare come through. It will mark the start of a 15-day weekend run.