Funland's swinging Sea Dragon ride is just feet from a Rehoboth Beach home. Now it's gone viral.

If you've ever been on Funland's high-swinging Sea Dragon ride, you've felt the fear.

Not from the heights or the stomach-turning speed, but rather the home that borders the iconic Rehoboth Beach amusement park.

At one point during the ride's swing, the Sea Dragon comes only feet away from the white house at 5 Brooklyn Ave.

It's not only scary for the kids on the ride, but it now strikes fear in adults thanks to a viral TikTok video that imagines if you lived there.

A vacationer posted a video earlier this month showing how close the screaming thrill-seekers get from the rear bedroom windows of the house, already garnering more than 1.6 million views.

The video, set to the popular TikTok song "Oh No" by KREEPA, included this message from the person (@XackDaddyMacDaddy) who posted it: "When you buy a house sight unseen."

He also added, "And the listing had the audacity to say 'conveniently located near the Boardwalk.'"

He happened to be staying at an Airbnb rental across the street when he had the idea for the humorous post. But the TikTok user certainly isn't the first to notice the unique setup.

Virginia-based author and high school English teacher Melanie McCabe wrote about it a few years back for Barely South Review, the literary journal of the creative writing program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

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"I imagine the child put to sleep in that back bedroom. Lying awake as the colors flash over his body, as the creature’s bared fangs fill the window, obliterate the sky. Would the screams he heard fade to a white noise, heard so often that it was no longer listened to at all? Or would they be threaded each night through his dreams, no plotline possible but one that encompasses peril?," she wrote in the essay before asking the real question: "Who willingly pays to rent a getaway presided over by a sea monster?"

The answer is no one, usually. It's owned by the extended Fasnacht family, which owns and runs the park, led by 92-year-old Al Fasnacht.

According to Chris Lindsley, author of the 2019 book "Land of Fun: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Amusement Park for the Ages" ($20), the home is owned and used by Gwen and Randy Curry.

Gwen is the daughter of Al's brother Don, who is also still involved in the park and lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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He said they still stay there during the summer and when they are in town for weekends at other times during the year, apparently accustomed to the noise and nightly scare that the ride has provided since being installed in 1990.

In fact, their son Ian lived in the rear bedroom growing up, Lindsley said, and he now works at the park full time as part of the family's fourth generation to do so since 1962. (No word on whether the ride gave the then-little guy any dragon-related nightmares.)

Lindsley, who worked at Funland years ago and knows the Curry family, said the ride and its location have long been a source of good-humored chatter.

For Lindsley, it adds to the down-home appeal of the iconic, yet cramped Boardwalk destination.

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"Part of the charm and mystique of Funland is the fact that it's on a very small footprint and they are constantly having to figure out how to get in as many rides as you can," he said. "Part of the draw of the ride, especially for first-time riders, is that you literally come so close to the corner of that house.

"It's something people always talk about. They are fascinated when they see it for the first time."

McCabe is one of those people and said she was inspired to write her piece about the ride after showing it to her boyfriend about six years ago. She has been going to Rehoboth Beach ever since she was 15, so she wanted him to see how close the Sea Dragon really gets.

"I told him, 'Just look at how it towers over this back window. I mean, can you imagine if you had to live in that house?'" she said. "As a young person, I was aware of the houses, but I didn't have the perspective of an adult. Back then I just thought, 'How cool to be that close to Funland?'" 

Funland reopened for the season on May 8 with a new online booking system offering two hours of unlimited rides seven days a week at funlandrehoboth.com/booking. Masks are required for anyone over the age of 3.

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