Six Flags offers perks for customer coffin time

Six contestants for a promotion at Six Flags St. Louis are competing for a $300 prize, season tickets and other perks, and all they have to do is spend 30 hours in a coffin.

Participants chosen for the ghoulish contest bide their time in 2-by-7-foot coffins from 1 p.m. Oct. 12 to 7 p.m. Oct. 13 at the park. The contest celebrates the 30th year of Fright Fest.

Contestants get a brief hourly bathroom break, but otherwise remain coffin-bound.

All who complete the challenge get two 2019 Gold Season passes and other park prizes. If more than one makes it to 30 hours, a drawing will determine who gets the $300.

One more perk: Successful coffin dwellers get to keep the coffin.