NEWS: 88 Haunts Open Nationwide This Weekend for Valentines

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the Haan Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes. And as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. Prepare to get your scare on this weekend. With eighty eight haunts that are open for the Valentine's weekend, We'll get to the full list shortly. The Haunted Attraction Association has announced last week that the Chaos recertification program is now available online. Anyone needing to complete their Chaos recertification may go to the Chaos page of the AHAA web site for the HAA Facebook page for more information and the link to register. The cost is fifty dollars. The re certification process involves four seminar videos approximately five hours of content, with tests to be completed after each video.

1:16 For those who would like to become certified for the first time, the full chaos certification will be conducted at Transworld's Halloween Attraction Show Thursday through Sunday, February twenty seventh through March first of twenty twenty five. Tickets are now on sale for the Spooky Swap Meet in Los Angeles, California, happening April twenty fifth through twenty seven. Shop among the Spirits at the Heritage Museum for one of a kind Halloween treasures. This curated marketplace features a mix of used Halloween to core and props, as well as unique new merchandise. Address in your Halloween Finest. Cosplay is encouraged to trigger treatment manners. Hosted by local haunts and businesses including La Haunted hay Ride, a Mister he Slasher, Edatorium Emporium, Stage Freight Theater, so Win's Restless Farm, and more. The event will also feature Fortune Teller's food, live performances, and walk through experiences. Single day general admission tickets are twenty two dollars.

2:13 Friday first access Ghost Getter tickets are thirty two dollars. Be sure to purchase your tickets early, as the event is sold out in previous years. You can follow the links in the show notes to learn more about this spooky experience with one of our walk through videos. Early bird pricing for trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show in Saint Louis, Missouri ends on Thursday, February thirteenth at eleven fifty nine pm CST. Early bird tickets started ninety nine dollars for general admission, one ninety nine for early Access, four thirty for VIP passes, and seven hundred for VIP with unlimited seminar passes. Taking place February twenty seven through March second at the America Center in Saint Louis, trans World's Halloween an Attraction Show offers an expansive marketplace where the industry gathers to network, get new ideas, and purchase products.

3:03 The event will co locate with Transworld's Interactive Entertainment Show and trans World's Christmas show. Dance with Demons in Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group's Toxic Vampire from February twenty first through twenty third in North Hollywood, California. Become entranced by the Motley Misdievious Toxic Vampire Coven as they lure thrill seeking humans to their wretched soul Sucking Phantasmagoria The Toxic Vampire Pleasure Discotheque, a sinister den of deception, embombed with the blood promise of a blissful, eternal life devoid of pain and worry. This forty minute haunted walk through theater experience contains mature triggering and adult themes. Guests must be eighteen and over. Tickets are on sale now for twenty dollars in advance. In twenty five at the Door, Arizona Haunters will offer a tabletop Pepper's Ghost Class at Heat Sink Labs in Mesa, Arizona, on Saturday, February fifteenth, at ten am to one. This May and Take workshop will teach attendees how to build a tabletop version of the classic illusion using a cell phone. Perfect for home haunters, this technique uses reflections to make ghostly figures appear and disappear before your eyes. Learn the principles behind this time tested effect and see how it can transform your haunt into something unforgettable. Whether you're new to haunting or a seasoned pro, this hands on project is sure to inspire you.

4:24 Registration is twenty dollars and forty cents. Sign ups and after Monday, February tenth, and now the list you've all been waiting for this weekend. We've got eighty eight haunts that are opening for Valentine's Day on February fourteenth and fifteenth. You can get scared at Arx Mortis in Killin, Alabama. Conjure Haunted Attraction in Birmingham, Alabama. Nightmare At three thousand and eight in Fultondale, Alabama. Pope's Haunted House in Salem, Alabama. Folklore Slaughter House in Gravesville, Arkansas. Two Nine Haunts in Linden, California. The Haunted at Tesca Darrow in a Tesca Darrow, California. The Thirteenth Floor Haunted House in Denver, Colorado. Wentz Brothers Festival of Fears in Fort Waltham Beach, Florida. Folklore Haunted House in Ackworth, Georgia. Lake Joy, Trails of Terror in Kathleen, Georgia.

5:19 Wright Haven in Stratford, Connecticut, Chittyville School Haunted House in Harron, Illinois. The Massacre Haunted House in Montgomery, Illinois, Malice Manor in Clarksville, Indiana. Necropolis Underground in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Thirteenth Floor in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hillside House of Hell in Glenwood, Iowa. The Haunted Hotel, ky And Louisville, Kentucky, Necro Manor and Bossier City, Louisiana. Bennett's Curse in Baltimore, Maryland. Harri's Nightmare in Westminster, Maryland. Laurel's House of Horror in Laurel, Maryland. Awake In Haunted Attraction in Leslie, Michigan. Azra Chamber of Horror's Haunted House in Madison Heights, Michigan. Terror On Route sixty six in Sullivan, Missouri.

6:05 Brighton Asylum in Passaic, New Jersey. Seven Gate Scream Park in Niagara Falls, New York. Akron Haunted Schoolhouse in Akron, Ohio, The Asylum in Newada, Oklahoma. The Fear PDX in Portland, Oregon. Field of Screams PA in Mountville, Pennsylvania. Haunted Hills Estate, Scream Park in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Borween Haunted Warehouse in Mount Union, Pennsylvania. Lincoln Mill, Haunted House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Penhurst Asylum and Spring City, Pennsylvania. The Seased Farm in Lexington, South Carolina. Also on February twenty first and twenty Second Wright Works in Powell, Tennessee. Riger Mortis Haunted House and McMinnville, Tennessee.

6:48 The Scream Chamber Haunted Attraction in North Athens, Tennessee. Cutting Edge in Fort Worth, Texas. Asylum forty nine and two, l Utah Right Mare in Chesapeake, Virginia. The Terror at Potomac Manor in King George, Virginia. Terror Manor in Roanoke, Virginia. Cinema of Horrors in Kelso, Washington. Frightvale in Oakarbor, Washington. Coming to You on the fourteenth through the sixteenth of February includes Warehouse thirty one in Pelam, Alabama. All Saints Lunatic Asylum in Apple Valley, California. Sir Henry's Haunted Trail in Plant City, Florida. Thirteenth Floor Haunted House Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, Disturbia Haunted House and Downers Girl of Illinois. Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan. The Hotel in Ahoskie, North Carolina, Beer Columbus and Columbus, Ohio. The thirteenth Floor Haunted House Houston in Houston, Texas. The Hangman's House of Horrors in Fort Worth, Texas. House of Torment in Austin, Texas. Spooky Acre's Haunted House in Norfolk, Virginia. Only open from the thirteenth through the fifteenth this weekend include East of Boga Manor in easta Boga, Alabama. La Cassada Satanas in Chicago, Illinois, Nowhere Haunted House in Invergrove Heights, Michigan, Bayville Adventure Park in Bayville, New York, Nightmare Dungeon in Greenville, South Carolina, Nashville Nightmares and Madison, Tennessee. Only open on February fourteenth include The High Desert Haunted House in Apple Valley, California,

8:20 Hysterium Haunted Asylum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Crooked Descent Haunted Attraction in New Hartford, New York, Health Dungeon and Dayton, Ohio. The Blackness Haunted House in Plainview, Texas, The Haunted Dollhouse in San Antonio, Texas, Nightmare on Nineteenth Street in Lubbock, Texas, and the Castle of Chaos in Midvale, Utah. And those only open on the fifteenth of February include Screams Haunted Experience in Hoboke and Georgia, Hutchings Haunt and Petersburg, Illinois. Abattoire, Haunted Attraction in Vincenne's Indiana, Nightmare on Edgewood in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Darkness in Saint Louis, Missouri, Chambers of Hell and Hoppage, New York, Holler and Haunts Hayride in Clinton, North Carolina, Pinhead's Graveyard in Canton, North Carolina. Nightmare on the Rogue in Medford, Oregon, Hidden Screams Haunted Attraction in Lewiston, Pennsylvania, Dark Castle in Elgin, South Carolina, Dark Hour in Plano, Texas, Delusions Scream Park in Brian, Texas, Doc Wilkes House of Horror in Longview, Texas. And Here on the Farm in Winfield, West Virginia. Some upcoming events February through April of twenty twenty five include trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show in Saint Louis, Missouri February twenty seventh through March, Second Spooky Swap Meet in Los Angeles, California, April twenty fifth through twenty seventh, and the East Coast Haunters Convention in Oaks, Pennsylvania from April twenty sixth through twenty seventh.

9:53 And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky post production by David Swape. This haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Hantattraction network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighting and Controls. Until next time, Haunters Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production.