31: Action Park: The World's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Action Park was notorious for being the world's most dangerous and deadly amusement park. The Vernon, NJ park had a reputation for chaos from both the staff and the guests.
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| 0:00.0 | A deep dive into the grave pool. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm Rebecca Leib. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:04.6 | And this is Ghost Town. Fill your summer with action. And when it's hot, we've got the coolest action around, |
| 0:37.0 | where you can swing, slide, and dive into crisp mountain water. |
| 0:45.0 | This summer, catch the action at Action Park. |
| 0:49.1 | There's nothing in the world like it. |
| 0:52.0 | That was a vintage commercial of Action Park. |
| 0:57.1 | Do you have regional commercials where you're from that you as a kid just played all the time they were kind of like |
| 1:04.1 | low budget did you have a lot of that? Oh my God of course like in Milwaukee in the 90s yeah like it |
| 1:10.9 | was amazing like also like data technology. I mean there are so many amazing ones. |
| 1:15.0 | Then when you if you heard it again you'd be like oh yeah that I had that and if you were in the tri-state area if you were in New York, New Jersey, |
| 1:24.8 | Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Action Park was one of them. |
| 1:28.8 | The marketing was so aggressive for Action Park. |
| 1:31.9 | They were known for like a very aggressive |
| 1:33.4 | which I can respect aggressive marketing yeah absolutely if you've ever I mean you know |
| 1:38.1 | ghost towns marketing could be considered aggressive I mean only if you want it to be. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, but if you don't like it then it's not all. |
| 1:47.0 | We're not even trying. |
| 1:48.0 | Who are what? |
| 1:49.0 | What? What? |
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