No ghosts. No monsters. Only humans—and the hell they supposedly create for themselves. Pastor Keenan Roberts, now of Colorado’s Outreach Church of the Rockies, created the original Hell House script in the 1990s. He calls it “truth evangelism.”
“I’ve been to hell,” Roberts told me in a 2019 interview. “Not physically. But spiritually. God showed me visions. The gnashing of teeth. The thirst. The loneliness.” is hell house real
The scenarios—abortion, school shootings, addiction, suicide—are tragically real. The cause-and-effect (sin leads to hell) is a theological claim, not a factual one. No visitor has returned from the final curtain to file a Yelp review. No ghosts
Yet ask the woman who fled in tears, clutching a Bible she didn’t own an hour earlier. Ask the teenager who knelt at the cross, sobbing. Ask the pastor who says he saw the pit in a vision. Pastor Keenan Roberts, now of Colorado’s Outreach Church
Yet for every horrified visitor, there is a volunteer who testifies to transformation.