What’s scary is about to get hairy on episode two of season two of “Scariest Houses in America.“
HGTV star and show host Retta is introducing us to “sprickets.”
Haven’t heard of them? Neither had Retta.
But in the episode of “Scariest Houses in America” airing Friday night, September 26 at 9:00p.m. ET, it looks like we’re all going to get an education in “sprickets.”
In an Instagram video previewing the episode, a homeowner asks Retta, “How do you feel about sprickets?”
“I don’t know what a spricket is,” Retta replies warily.
That’s when she gets the answer no one wants. “It’s half spider, half cricket,” the homeowner explains.
“I don’t feel good about it,” Retta deadpans. “They spring,” the homeowner counters, whereupon Retta loses her chill as he shows her one in a glass jar. “So you’ll be trying to enjoy your nice movie night and then, spricket attack, spricket attack,” the homeowner continues.
Cut to Retta outside, away from spricket central, where she tells the camera, “I saw enough of the spricket. Did you see? Did you see? It was fuzzy.”
‘Scariest Houses In America’ Is Keeping it Creepy
Sprickets aren’t the only creepy feature in episode two of season two of “Scariest Houses in America.”
The episode is titled “The Haunted Heartland,” and one woman’s jail-turned-home features a ghost she calls Chester.
And she’s actually gotten pictures of Chester!
In an Instagram video, homeowner Mareia explains that she lives in the old Meriwether County Jail, built in 1896. Maria bought it at auction for $5,000. But after she moved in, she found that she wasn’t alone. “I had no idea it was haunted. Doors open and close. I’ve had the covers snatched off of me,” Mareia told the camera. But is she bothered? Not exactly. “I think they like me,” she said.
Retta had a slightly different take, saying, “It is a special person who says, ‘That’s a ghost. I’m gonna name him Chester.”
Retta told the camera, “I didn’t expect it to be that creepy and crusty and rusty. I felt I was inhaling… tetanus.”
Haunted Heartland Episode Takes Us to a Murder House
As if Spricket attacks and a ghost named Chester weren’t scary enough, Retta visits another heartland home where the owners explain, “Within the home, there’s exactly ten people that died. That’s been recorded. There was actually one murder on the property.”
A wide-eyed Retta responds, “What the [expletive] was going on in here?”
Which leads Retta to explain to viewers one of her hard-and-fast real estate rules. “When it comes to buying a house, I limit the death toll to zero.”
But you know what they say, different spooks for different folks. “I’m okay with it being haunted,” says the homeower, “I want to put a nursery in here.”
You can catch episode two of “Scariest Houses in America” Friday night, September 26 at 9:00p.m. on HGTV and streaming the next day on HBO Max.
