The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Friday, October 30, 2026
Studies conducted at the Dystopia haunted house revealed that visitors experience a specific range of heart rates and physiological responses called the 'sweet spot of fear,' where they maximize the fun and benefits of recreational fear without being bored or overwhelmed.
“And so they found this in dystopia that there was a certain sort of range of heart rates, for example, where people were in what they described as the sweet spot of fear”