Teen Hanging From Halloween Noose Saved

A teenager hanging from a noose in a Halloween attraction had passed out and turned blue in the face, and a 10-year-old girl thought it was just part of the act.

Then Holly Leverett realized something was wrong with 15-year-old Matt Feicht and screamed for help.

Feicht was in fair condition today at Ruby Memorial Hospital in adjacent Morgantown, a spokesman said.

Holly told authorities she thought the teenager was wearing blue makeup for the stunt Sunday at a haunted hayride fundraiser.

“She kept telling him to open his eyes or she was going to tell someone,” her mother, Denise Boyd, said Tuesday. “She told him: ‘Open your eyes, you’re scaring me.”’

Then Holly noticed that Matt was drooling and she screamed, Boyd said. That brought Kevin Schuller, who used his Boy Scout pocket knife to cut the rope while 6-foot-3 Jason Dorinzi helped support Feicht’s weight.