NEWS: Dark Nights at Hersheypark Returns Sept 13 with NEW Haunted House

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the hn 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. Dark Nights at Hershey Park and Hershey, Pennsylvania. We'll return Friday, September thirteenth with more haunting dates than ever before. The event will run for twenty five nights, including Halloween. New for twenty twenty four is the Haunted House, a state of evil where every corner holds tales of temptation and terror. This Haunted House joins four returning houses Antimore's Abatar, Haunted coal Mine, Curse of the Tommy Knockers, Twisted Carnievil, and the Descent Catacombs of Decay. Three scare zones including Followed Zone, Midway of Misery and Dark Stones, Hollow, and more ghoulish delights throughout the park. Did you miss last year's event? Watch our video of Anti Mortem's Abbatoir Twisted Carnival, or see the full event on the video that we produced with Sharp Productions by following the links in our show notes. Are you interested in working with Dark Knights? Epic Entertainment Group, now in an expanded partnership with Dark Knights, is hosting six open auditions nationwide. The tour will visit Los Angeles on

1:41 June eighth, Harrisburg on June twenty eighth, Hershey on June twenty ninth, Philadelphia on July thirteenth, Hershey on July twelfth, Lancaster on July twenty seventh, and New York on August eleventh. Fifteen people were injured in a tram crash at Universal Studios, Hollywood, Universal City, California, on Saturday, April twelfth. According to the California Highway Patrol report, the last car of the tram struck a guard rail, which caused the car to tilt and eject multiple passengers from the tram. Universal released a statement the next day. Our thoughts continue to be with the guests who were involved, and we are thankful that, based on agency reports, the injuries sustained were minor. We are working closely with public agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, as we continue to review the incident and safety remains a top priority. Tickets are now on sale for creep It Real Nostalgic on September fourteenth and fifteenth at the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana, California. Answer the doorbell for an invitation to an eighties and nineties trigger Treat party filled with entertainment, over eighty spooky vendors, food and drinks, and more. Turn back the clock and check out some relics of creepy days gone by with the Museum of Nostalgia and dress in your Halloween finance to participate in the Ultimate Nineties Pog Scavenger Hunt. Tickets start at seventeen dollars for single day admission, twenty seven for the Creeping Weekend

3:12 Pass, and forty nine dollars for the Dual Festival Weekend Pass, which grants you entry to the full weekend of events for both creep It Real Nostalgic and creep It Real Festive in November. Get ready to Scream this weekend May third and fourth, as Northern Screams Attraction in Blezzard Valley, Ontario, Canada, visits the Freak Show Museum. Step into a world where creepy clowns and freaks have taken over an abandoned hostel, creating an eerie atmosphere packed with chills and thrills. The events will be a mashup of Northern Screams award winning attractions. Tickets are on sale now starting at fifteen dollars each. Additionally, on May fourth, celebrate World Comic Book Day with a twist. Come dressed as your favorite comic book villain and enjoy a day filled with vintage carnival games, inflatable sports games, and a massive dino maze for the little ones to explore.

4:06 The Freak Show Museum will also be opened for a lights on, sensory friendly walkthrough before reopening for the nighttime Haunt. Tickets for the daytime halfway to Halloween event are on sale now starting at fifteen dollars for adult admission and ten for child admission. Lincoln Mail Haunted House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, returns this week with a new May the fourth, Corrupt You, one night only event. The Haunt will go cosmic with this Star Wars inspired event, including all new ultra violet lights, a sci fi soundtrack with a dark horror twist, Out of this World, makeup in costumes, and other surprise nods to the famous movie. Throughout in Star Wars, there is a constant clash between good and evil, and the evil force is constantly striving to spread its influence, said Lincoln Mail. Haunted House co founder Jared Bilsack. Tickets are on sale now, starting at thirty two dollars for general admission and fifty for VIP tickets.

5:01 Halloween decorations are out early this year, and some retailers offering items for Halfway to Halloween home depots. Halfway to Helloween sale went live at six thirty am on Thursday last week and promptly sold out in less than an hour. As part of the celebration, limited quantities of the twelve foot skeleton, the Skelley Dog, Inferno, Deadwood Skelley, and Frankenstein Monster were available for purchase. The retailer has not yet announced when items will be back in stock for the Halloween season sales, but based on previous years, the items will likely arrive online and in stores sometime in July. Lows these DIDs twenty twenty four Halloween lineup from Clowns to Wednesday in Adams Family Animatronics, A skeletal rock band, to the Haunted Mansion, to Capitated night an inflatable dragon to Nautical Nightmares.

5:50 Offerings will fit any Halloween display. Additionally, Low's announced that their twelve foot lighted animatronic scarecrow is returned and is on sale now for three hundred and ninety nine dollars. Save the date. Spirit Helloween's grand opening celebration will occur Thursday, August first in Eggharbor Township, New Jersey. Fans and influencers lucky enough to attend will be the first to see this year's full animatronics, props, costumes, and more in the lineup at the retail chain's flagship location. More details will be announced in the coming months. Spirit Halloween and US Ghost Adventures allow fans to win the ultimate Lizzy Borden House experience. Follow both brands on Instagram, like their post and tag your friends to be entered to win a guided house tour, a late night ghost tour complete with professional ghost hunting equipment, and private breakfast in the Borden Family Dining Room, Ghost Hunting starter kit and a lesson for two at us Ghost Adventures Ghost Hunting Course, a Lizzy Bordon gift shop package, and the winner's choice of a ghost Tour experience in Salem or a true Crime experience in Boston for two. Official rules can be found on Spirit Halloween's website. If you're in the So Cal area. Coming up, make sure you check out Urban Death in North Hollywood, California, May third and fourth, and tenth and eleventh, The Sip and Scream Hell Raiser in Burbank, California, May third, The Haunt super Show in Poemn's, California, May third through twenty seventh, halfway to Halloween Festival in Riverside,

7:24 California, May eleventh through twelve, Google's Day Out in Los Angeles, California, May eighteenth. A little farther along is Monster Palooza May thirty first through June second in Pasadena, California, and then Midwest Haunters Convention June seventh through ninth in Rosemont, Illinois. No, that's not California, but it's a good event to at ten. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez with reporting by Darryl Plunky. Post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Fraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunta Attraction network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighting and controls.

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