Erebus Unveils Primordium: The Terrifying Origin of Dr. Colber’s Time-Travel Experiments

World-renowned Erebus Haunted Attraction Opens September 18th for the 2026 Season

PONTIAC, MI, UNITED STATES, September 17, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Beginning tomorrow, Friday, September 18, Pontiac, Michigan’s Erebus Haunted Attraction takes guests back to where the horror began. Before Dr. Colber conquered time, before his experiments tore through the boundaries of reality, and before Erebus became the nightmare it is today, there was PRIMORDIUM.

For years, the brilliant but dangerously obsessed Dr. Colber pursued the impossible. He dissected time, challenged the laws of nature, and sacrificed everything to find a way to penetrate the past. Every experiment failed.

Latin for “the beginning,” PRIMORDIUM reveals the discovery that started Dr. Colber’s journey. Guests are thrust into Colber’s original laboratory as his discovery spirals violently beyond his control. Frozen containment chambers fracture. Experimental machinery convulses with unstable energy. Ancient tissue regenerates, mutates, and spreads through the facility as the line between prehistoric life and modern humanity begins to rot away.

Recovered from Mount Erebus, beneath miles of Antarctic ice, perfectly preserved for millennia, the organism that should have been dead, became the foundation of his time-travel technology. Its primitive biology possessed an impossible connection to time itself. Its cells survived without aging. Its tissue reacted to events that had not yet occurred. Within its genetic structure, Dr. Colber discovered the breakthrough he had spent his life hunting: the biological key to unlocking time travel.

Blending the merciless isolation of Antarctica, volcanic menace of Mount Erebus, and twisted machinery of Colber’s first lab, PRIMORDIUM exposes the horrifying origin of the Erebus story.

Tickets and general information:
September dates are Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19; Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26. October dates are Thursday–Sunday, October 1–4; Wednesday through Sunday, October 7–11; Tuesday through Sunday, October 13–18; daily, October 20–November 1; Thursday – Sunday, October 1 – 4; Wednesday through Sunday, October 7 – 11; Tuesday – Sunday, October 13 – 18; Daily, October 20 – November 1; November 6 and 7.

Erebus Haunted Attraction is located at 18 South Perry Street in Pontiac. For information and tickets, visit www.HauntedPontiac.com or call 248-332-7884. Follow Erebus on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

About Erebus Haunted Attraction:
Located in downtown Pontiac, Michigan, Erebus Haunted Attraction is a world-renowned haunted destination known for its immense scale, immersive environments, elaborate special effects, and aggressive, interactive scares. At the center of the Erebus mythology is Dr. Colber, a brilliant and unhinged scientist whose successful time-travel experiments unleash devastating consequences across the past, present, and future.

Opened in 2000, Erebus is a four-story playground for your mind, named after the Greek god of primordial darkness. With staff working year-round, Erebus Haunted Attraction’s engineers create and design thrills to agitate all five of your mortal senses. Year after year, Erebus is consistently ranked as one of the world’s scariest haunts. From 2005 through 2009, Erebus held the Guinness World Record for the largest walk-through haunted house.

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