BEREA, Ohio - An actor at a haunted house in Ohio who was carrying a real "Bowie-style knife" as a prop accidentally stabbed an 11-year-old boy, according to police.The incident was reported just after 8 p.m.
ET on Sept. 18 at the 7 Floors of Hell Haunted House, located at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, Ohio.The boy and a family friend were approached outside the haunted house by one of the roaming actors looking to scare them, according to a police report.
The actor, a 22-year-old man from Middleburg Heights, Ohio, was carrying the large fixed-blade knife as a prop.The haunted house actor "scraped the knife on the ground in front of them and began to stab at the ground" near the boy’s feet, the police report states.