Today in Extremely Specific Fetishes, we follow the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleaders into a haunted house at Busch Gardens’ annual Howl-O-Scream event. It’s the scariest thing the poor girls have had to do since somebody approached them and said, “hey, go do a stupid horse dance behind the mascot, we’re gonna make a Gangnam Style video“.

From the YouTube description:

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders challenged their fears inside the Dark Side of the Gardens at Howl-O-Scream last weekend. The cheerleaders toured the new houses Blood Asylum and Circus of Superstition 3-D.

In Blood Asylum, the cheerleaders ran from “The Creature” in a high-security asylum for the criminally insane. Then, in Circus of Superstition 3-D, the 14 cheerleaders faced 13 superstitions and crazed circus clowns in a 3-D tent of terror.

This is the fourth year they’ve done it, and frankly it’s a teen-boy-reading-Fangoria‘s dream. After the jump, you’ll find video of their … uh, “tour,” as well as a variety of photographs that prove once and for all that bright red lipstick and hot pants will not protect you from a werewolf attack.

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This week’s With Spandex guest is Veda Scott, a talented young wrestler who you may’ve seen interviewing stars backstage at Ring Of Honor, hyping upcoming events from the CHIKARA offices or competing in the ring everywhere from Beyond Wrestling in the Northeast to Absolute Intense Wrestling in the Midwest. Oh, and she just graduated from law school.

In episode 4 we laugh about concussions, talk about Veda’s announcement as one of the eight women competing in Anarchy Championship Wrestling’s American Joshi Queen Of Queens tournament, throw shade at community college documentary filmmaking classes, discuss our favorite episodes of ‘Forensic Files’, compare and contrast our identical housecats, complain extensively about Kings Dominion turning three great old rides into one terrible super coaster and the value of pro wrestling perfection. It was a great conversation. About 20 minutes of it in the middle is nothing but bar exam study questions.

Go ahead and give it a listen. You love her already.

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In what might be the greatest combination of pro wrestling, Fast and Furious movies and cheesy amusement park photos of all time, bear witness to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posing on Splash Mountain at Disneyland. Here’s a link to the original photo, in case you didn’t want to miss the Will Ferrell guy taking a dump in the back. The pose is great by itself, but the sunglasses and the sleeveless, patriotic Team Bring It shirt really put it over the top and make it the best Splash Mountain pose since my friend Andy (pictured, bottom left) redefined the genre of fear back in 2008.

Johnson had so much fun on Splash Mountain he swore he’d never leave Disneyland, then left immediately and hasn’t been back since this picture was taken.

Rock’s Twitter account is great not only for pictures like these (including mark photos with Goofy and Minnie Mouse wanting a piece of The Great One’s strudel) but for vague, passionate declarations of nothing, like “GO AFTER IT” or #kicksomef’nasstoday. He is very concerned with bringing it, and knowing whether or not it has been brought.