NEWS: 2024 Valentine Haunts

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news
from around the haunt industry. Welcome to

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the show. I'm Philip on the
HN Show. We bring you the haunt

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news, information, and education you
need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays,

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we bring you a roundup of news
from haunts worldwide. Read more about

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these stories and so much more in
our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the

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link in the show notes, And
as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl Holy Terror
Days, Inc. Operator of the Haunting

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of Keystone in Keystone, South Dakota, received the Peter Norbeck Excellence and Tourism

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Innovation Award at the Governor's Conference on
Tourism, presented by Governor Christy Noah and

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Travel South Dakota. The award honors
an industry partner for their innovative thinking and

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making their destination, business, event, or attraction even more appealing to visitors.

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In the thirteen years it has operated, the Haunting of Keystone has grown

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in popularity, making it an important
economic boost each year to Keystone, while

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devoting ten percent of its annual gross
to community improvement. As the event's popularity

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is grown, so has the impact
in this small town in terms of motel

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reservations and restaurant businesses. In twenty
twenty three, event attendance was up thirty

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four percent, said Governor Noam for
their efforts in providing a haunting good time

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for visitors. It's my privilege to
present this award. Nile's Screen Park from

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Niles, Michigan, will award scholarships
to local high school students. Each five

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hundred dollars scholarship is awarded based on
community service, economic need, and academic

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merit. Eligible schools include Nile's High
School, Brandywine High School, Buchanan High

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School, Dowagiac High School, Edwardsburg
High School, Penn High School, and

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Lakeshore High School. Interested students should
speak to their guidance counselors to receive the

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scholarship application. Zombie Joe's Underground Theater
Group in North Hollywood, California, is

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bringing back fan favorite the Dark Dark
Ride Ride for three weekends of intoxicating thrills

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February second through seventeenth. All aboard
for ZJU's hand pushed ride through Helen Back.

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You'll never know where you are or
what's lurking in the dark. Grab

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a loved one to hold on to
or brave the dark alone, but get

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ready for a bond and freaky treat. This production is directed and created by

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Zombie Joe with the music of Joseph
Peshara. Tickets are on sale now for

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thirty five dollars. Follow the links
in our show notes to get yours today.

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Monster Poloosa has announced the exhibitor list
for this year's May thirty first through

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June second event the Pasadena Convention Center
in Pasadena, California. Over four hundred

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artists and vendors include Cinema Makeup School, Grex Airbrush, Ice, Nine Kills

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and Cleaver Clothing, lafemin Noir,
Love, Pay and Stitches, McGee FX,

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Midnight Studios, Effects Reynolds, Trick
Retreat Studios, and many more.

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Meet the award winning masterminds behind some
of the greatest creatures ever created for feature

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film, television, and the haunt
industry as you get lost among exhibitors selling

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one of a kind creations, live
makeup demonstrations, celebrity guests, Monster Pelooza

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Museum and more. Early bird price
tickets are on sale now starting thirty five

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to forty five dollars for single day
admission and eighty five dollars for three day

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weekend tickets. Creep I e Con
in Ontario, California is returning to the

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Ontario Convention Center February second through fourth
with cast reunions for both Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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and Scream. Fifty years after the
premiere of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, actors ed

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Neil John Dougan, Alan Danziger,
Terry mcmahn, and William Vale will reunited

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creep I e Con from Scream stars
Nev Campbell, David Rquette, Matthew Lilliard,

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Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kay Kennedy,
and Leewoodell will appear. Fans can

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expect photo opportunities, meet and greets, and more with these iconic horror actors.

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Tickets are on sale now, starting
at thirty dollars for Friday admission,

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forty dollars for Saturday admission, thirty
five for Sunday admission, and seventy dollars

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for a full three day pass.
The Halloween and Party Expo takes place this

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week Tuesday January twenty third through Thursday
January twenty fifth to twenty twenty four at

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the Mirage Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The HPE is a one

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stop shopping destination for all your Haunt
gift store needs from costumes, party goods,

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masks, accessories, makeup, decorations, props, and more. This

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year features over one hundred and twenty
exhibitors including California Costumes, Cinema Secrets,

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Halloween Costume Association, Morris Costumes,
Trick or Treat Studios, Wolf Effects,

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The Gone Studios, and more.
HPE is open to qualified industry buyers only.

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Pre Orders are now available for Vegan
Treats twenty twenty four, val Time's

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Day fatally yours Birds of a Feather
coffin chocolate boxes. Within a gold foil

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embossed coffin box, your Valentine will
discover seventeen meticulously hand crafted premium Swiss milk

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and white chocolates with macob shapes including
sculls and gravestones. A box costs one

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hundred and nine to ninety five,
with a gluten free box for one fourteen

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ninety five. If that sounds like
a little too much death by Chocolate,

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Vegan Treats also offers an eight ounce
heart shaped box featuring six chocolates. Speculus

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Cookie butter swan heart roasted pecan gie
and Duha Skull, white chocolate peanut butter

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skull, blackout, brownie bite heart, white chocolate strawberry pistachio preleine flour,

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and a Swiss chocolate hazelnut preleine crunch
leaf. The eight ounce box costs fifty

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nine ninety five for the standard version
or sixty two ninety five for the gluten

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free version. On January first,
the earliest depiction of Disney's Mickey Mouse,

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Steamboat Willie, entered the public.
Horror filmmakers have wasted no time taking advantage

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of this iconic character, with two
menacing mouse horror films in the works.

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First up is Mickey's mouse Trap,
and it had been directed by Jamie Bailey

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and written by Simon Phillips. The
film features a masked killer dressed to the

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iconic rodent, terrorizing a young woman
and her friends inside an arcade and amusement

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complex. The release date has not
been announced, but filmmakers say they are

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hoping for a March twenty twenty four
release. Another film in the works will

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be directed by Steven Lamort, known
for The Mean One, a horror parody

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of The Grinch. He describes the
horror comedy as having a sadistic mouse that

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will torment a group of unsuspecting ferry
passengers. He plans to start production this

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spring. It all comes from our
love of these characters, he said in

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an interview filmmakers. We're all kids
in the sandbox. We love taking them

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and playing them in different ways.
It's not a desire to ruin these characters

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or make a quick buck, but
to love them and honor them and show

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them in a new light. With
the excitement that this new public domain figure

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is generating, we are sure to
see even more uses in horror and haunts,

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but be sure to use caution.
While the specific portrayal of Mickey Mouse

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from Steamboat Willie as a public domain, Disney retains the rights to newer versions

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of the character. More modern versions
of Mickey Mouse will remain unaffected by the

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expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright,
and Mickey will continue to play a leading

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role as the global ambassador for the
Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme

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park attractions, and merchandise. A
Disney spokesperson said in a press release,

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we will, of course continue to
protect our rights and the more modern versions

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of Mickey Mouse and other works that
remain subject to copyright, and we will

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work to safeguard against consumer confusion caused
by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other

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iconic characters. Mickey is not the
first beloved children's character to receive the horror

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treatment. AA Milns Winnie the Pooh
entered the public domain in twenty twenty two,

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and in February twenty twenty three,
filmmaker Reese Frake Waterfield brought us a

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Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey
one year later. He plans to release

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its sequel, Winnie the Pooh,
Blood and Honey two. In a recent

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Hollywood Reporter interview, director Rees Frake, Waterfield and producer Scott Jeffrey discussed the

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first film success and how they planned
to make the sequel bigger and better.

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While the original Monster cost about seven
hundred and seventy dollars to design, this

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new titular Killer cost over twenty thousand
dollars, designed by a dedicated prosthetics crew

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whose past credits include Harry Potters,
Volde Martin, Star Wars characters Freak,

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Waterfield and Jeffrey don't intend to stop
with Winni the Pooh. The duo have

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a slate of films in the work
inspired by classic tales, including Bambi and

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Peter Pan. Some upcoming events this
January through March include the Helloween and Party

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Expo this week January twenty third through
twenty fifth in Las Vegas, Nevada,

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creep I e Con February second through
fourth in Ontario, California, Aunt Con

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in February ninth through eleventh in Daytona
Beach, Florida. And Transworld's Halloween An

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Attraction Show March seventh through tenth in
Saint Louis, Missouri. Is your Haunt

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open during Valentine's Day like these ones
are, Please make sure you let us

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know. Thirteenth Floord, Jacksonville and
Jacksonville, Florida. Thirteenth Hour Haunted House

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in Wharton, New Jersey. Abbatoar
Haunted Attraction in Vincennes's, Indiana. Akron

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Haunted Schoolhouse, Akron, Ohio.
All Saints Lunatic Asylum, Apple Valley,

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California, Arks Mortis killin Alabama,
The Asylum, Nowada, Oklahoma. Awaken

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Haunted Attraction in Leslie, Michigan.
Bayville Haunted Attraction in Bayville, New York.

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Bennett's Curse in Baltimore, Maryland,
Brighton Asylum and Passaic, New Jersey.

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Carnage, Haunted House in Columbus,
Ohio. Chambers of Hell and Hoppage,

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New York, Cutting Edge, Haunted
House and Fort Worth, Texas.

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Dark Castle in Elgin, South Carolina, Dark Hour in Plano, Texas.

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The Darkness in Saint Louis, Missouri. Deceased Farm in Lexington, South Carolina.

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Dread Hollow and chattaw N Nooga,
Tennessee. Factory of Fear and Mowleane,

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Illinois. Beer Columbus and Columbus,
Ohio. Beer on the Farm in

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Winfield, West Virginia. Field of
Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania. Fiesta Fright

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in Saint George, Utah, Folklore
Haunted House and Ackworth, Georgia. Folklore

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Slaughter House in Gravesville, Arkansas.
Fright Haven and Stratford, Connecticut. Freight

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Mare, Haunted House in Chesapeake,
Virginia. Freight Works Haunted House and Powell,

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Tennessee. Hangman's House of Horrors in
Fort Worth, Texas. Haunted Hills

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Estate and Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Ells
Dungeon and Dayton, Ohio. Holler and

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Haunts Hayride in Clinton, North Carolina, Borroween Haunted Warehouse and Mount Union,

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Pennsylvania. Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan. Lincoln Mall Haunted House in

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Maallace Manor Clarksville, Indiana, Nashville Nightmare in Nashville,

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Tennessee, Necro Manor and Bossier City, Louisiana. Decropolis Underground in Indianapolis,

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Indiana. Nightmare at three thousand and
eight in Fultondale, Alabama. Nightmare on

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Nineteenth Street in Lubbock, Texas.
Paranoia Haunted House in Canton, Georgia,

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Pope's Haunted Farm in Salem, Alabama, Rigor Mortis Haunted House and Mcminville,

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Tennessee. The Scream Chamber in North
Athens, Tennessee, Screams in Hoboken,

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Georgia, Sir Henry's Haunted Trail in
Plant City, Florida, Spook Cavan in

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mill Hall, Pennsylvania, Spook Trail
in Quinton, Alabama, Spooky Acre's Haunted

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House in Norfolk, Virginia, Terror
Manor in Roanoke, Virginia. And Warehouse

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thirty one in Pelham, Alabama.
And that's all for the News this week.

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Today's episode was produced by me Philip
Bernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky,

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post production by David Swope. This
Haunt News Update is a production of

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