Culture
Preserving America's Spookiest Amusements
Meet the guy using high-tech tools to document rickety scare shacks.
On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.
Joel Zika straps his 3-D camera rig to a chair splattered with fake blood and asks if he’s breaking the rules. He’s not trespassing: He has permission to be in Coney Island before the amusement park opens to visitors on a mid-October morning. But he’s worried that he’s flouting the unspoken agreement of horror by documenting all the jump scares and secret surprises along the park’s Spook-A-Rama haunted house ride.