NEWS: Madame Scrooge Returns & Holiday Haunt Updates

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. Coming up. Over one hundred and thirty haunted houses are opening this December for spooky holiday events. In US Haunt and event News. Madame Scrooge, a Christmas Carol musical, is returning to the Nocturn Theater in Glendale, California, December fifth through twenty second. Written by Justin Patrick Meyer of Meyer to Meyer Entertainment, this unique holiday adaptation recounts the story of Madame Eleanor Scrooge, a miserly spinster visited by the ghost of her former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet to come. Hollywood film composer Chris Thomas has crafted the brand new Broadway style musical score, while costume designer Tanya Seer adds over the top costumes, ghosts, and creature effects. Meyer to Meyer Entertainment LLC is known for its interactive audience participation, and rumour has it that a playful snowball fight may break out during the performance. Tickets are on sale now, starting at fifteen dollars for select seats and up to seventy

1:38 five dollars for preferred seating. When the musical debuted in twenty twenty three, the Haunted Attraction Network interviewed Melissa Meyer, co owner of Meyer to Meyer Entertainment, about the production's creation. Follow the links in our show notes to watch the full interview. Distortions Unlimited unveiled their first prop from their Halloween twenty twenty five collection, Banshee Legend. This is a flatbacked static version of the animatronic Banshee that debuted in twenty twenty four. Standing at seven foot four inches tall, the Banshee's mouth can be posed either closed or open, exposing a set of terrifying large sharp teeth. On its metal stand, the banshee appears to be eerily floating a foot off the ground. The prop is on sale now for a discounted price of six hundred and thirty nine dollars regularly priced at six eighty nine. Researchers from Aarhas University in Denmark suggest that recreational fear experiences such as haunted attractions may reduce inflammation in individuals with low grade inflammation.

2:38 As part of her study, the researchers had one hundred and thirteen subjects visit a haunted attraction in Vele, Denmark. Their heart rates were monitored, fear levels self reported, and blood samples collected. Of the twenty two participants that exhibited low grade inflammation before the event, eighteen or eighty two percent of them showed a decreased in an inflammatory signal mark three days after the event. This suggests that the recreational freight experience made less than immunity responses. Further research is needed to confirm the observed effects and to see how this knowledge may be able to be incorporated into a healthcare setting. Now for a list of some of the holiday haunts they are going to be open this holiday season in Alabama. They include the a Rox Factory in Leeds, Alabama, Estaboga Manor in Estaboga, Alabama, Nightmare three thousand and eight in Fulton Dale, Alabama, and Spook Trail Haunted Maze in Quentin, Alabama. In Arkansas, you'll find Asylum X in Fort Smith, Folklore Slaughter House in Graysville, and Reapers Night Off in Donaldson, Arkansas. California, you'll be able to see All Saints Lunatic Asylum, Haunted Attraction in Apple Valley, De Soto Asylum in Needles, Haunted Holiday's Car Wash in Anaheim, High Desert, Haunted House in Apple Valley, and Rate of Terror in Thousand Oaks, California. In Colorado, you'll be able to find the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Denver in Denver, Colorado. Florida.

4:02 Holiday haunted houses include the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Jacksonville and Jacksonville, Florida, Blackwater Grave in Fort Mead, Creepy Hollow Woods in Jy, Ominous Descent in winter Haven, Sir Henry's Haunted Trail in Plant City, and Tales of Terror and Astatula Florida. Georgia. Be on the lookout for Circus of Horrors in Rome, Georgia, Folklore Haunted House in Ackworth, Paranoia Haunted House in Canton Screams Haunted Experience in Hoboken and Wicked South Productions in Pembroke, Georgia, Illinois. You'll be able to be scared by the Thirteenth Floor Haunted House Chicago in Chicago Area sixty six, Haunted School in Livingston, Dungeon of Doom, Haunted House and Zion Factory of Beer, and Molean in Sanity, Haunted House in Peru, Massacre Haunted House in Montgomery, and Midnight Terror Haunted House in Oaklawn, Illinois.

4:55 Indiana will be scaring you with the abbat War Haunted Attraction in Vincennes, India, the House of Anguish at the Culbertson Mansion in New Albany, Hysterium Haunted Asylum in Fort Wayne, Malice Manor and Clarksville, Nightmare On Edgewood in Indianapolis, and Scavania in Munsey, Indiana. Iowa has the Hillside House of Hell in Glenwood in the Slaughterhouse Haunted attraction in Des Moines, Kentucky. Haunted houses include the Black Orchard Haunted House in Shelbyville, Kentucky, the Haunted Hotel ky and Louisville in the Haunted Trail of Chaos in London, Kentucky, Louisiana. Holiday haunted houses include decomposed haunted Houses in Huma, Louisiana, Necro Manor Haunted House in Bossier City, and the New Orleans Nightmare in New Orleans, Louisiana.

5:42 Maine has the Maniac Manor in Bangor, Maine. Maryland is spooking you with the Bennett's Curse Haunted House in Baltimore, Maryland, Creekside Manor in Williamsport, Harrah's Nightmare in Westminster, Maryland, and Laurel's House of Horror in Laurel, Maryland. Michigan, You'll be able to see the Azra Chamber of Horrors, Haunted House in Madison Heights, Michigan, Deranged Haunt and Romulus Factory of the Dead in Saginaw, Hinterland, Haunted Attraction in Ashley, Nightmare Realm and Mattawan, Rotten Manor and Hawlly the Scream Machine in Taylor and Saint Charles Haunted House in Saint Charles, Michigan, Missouri. You'll be able to find the Darkness in Saint Louis, The Lamp Haunted House in Saint Louis, and Terror on Route sixty six in Sullivan, Missouri. Mississippi is coming to you with Terror on the Coast in Gulfport, Mississippi, while Nebraska has the Roca Scary Farm in Roca, Nebraska. New Hampshire is coming to you with a Fright Kingdom in Nashaua and New Jersey has got the Thirteenth Hour Haunted House in Wharton and the Brighton Asylum in Passaic, New Jersey.

6:45 New York will be able to scare the shivers out of you in Seventh Gate Screen Park, Niagara Falls, the Bayville Scream Park in Bayville, New York, Chambers of Hell and Hoppage, Demon Acres in Hannibal, Ever Haunt and Angela head Us Horsemen in Ulster Park, and Terror Field in Clyde, New York. North Carolina holiday haunted houses include Extreme Fierce Scare Grounds in Kinston, North Carolina, The Haunted Forest at Panic Point in Youngsville, Pinhead's Graveyard in Canton, Spooky Bottom, Haunted Trail and Seagrove and Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ohio has the Akron Haunted Schoolhouse in Akron, Ohio, Blood Prison in Mansfield, Brimstone Haunt and Wilmington the Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati. Here Columbus and Columbus Hel's Dunion in Dayton, The Nightmare on Stagecoach Hollow in East Liverpool and Nightmare Manor in Middletown, Ohio, Oklahoma. Includes mad Jack's Haunted House in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Wicked Wayne's Haunted Trail and Seminole Oregon.

7:51 Will Bring You the Fear PDX in Portland, Oregon, Nightmare Chamber, Haunted House in Medford and Nightmares on the Rogue in Medford, Oregon. Pennsylvania will Creep You Out with Castle Blood in Monisson, Pennsylvania, Demon House and Minoga Helip Devil's Last Laugh in Leyton. Here at the Farm in Bloomsburg, Field of Screams PA in Mountville, Haunted Hills Estates and Uniontown Hidden Screams, Haunted Attraction in Lewistowon Kim's Crypt, Haunted Mill, Scream Park in Spring Grove, Lincoln Mill, Haunted House in Philadelphia, Penhurst Asylum in Spring City, Raven Manor and Baccaria and Spookhaven Haunted House in mill Hall, Pennsylvania. South Carolina is coming in with the Dark Castle in Elgin, South Carolina. The Deceased Farm in Lexington and Nightmare Dungeon Haunted Attraction in Greenville, Tennessee, has got the Thirteenth Realm in Jackson, Tennessee. Dread Hollow and Chattanooga Freight Works and Powell Haunted Webb's Scream Park in Memphis, Malice Haunted Attraction in Belfast, Nashville, Nightmare in Nashville, riger Mortis, Haunted House in mc Minville, in the Unknown Haunt in Clarksville, Tennessee. Texas will scare you with the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Houston in Houston, Texas, Dark Hour in Plano, Doc Wilkes House of Horrors in Longview, Haunted Oaks in San Antonio, House of Torment and Austin Moxley Manor, Haunted House in Bedford, Scream Depot and Baird and Terror

9:23 Isle and Texas City, Texas. Virginia's spooking you with a Darkwood Manor in Lay, Virginia, Fright Mare in Chesapeake, Milltown Haunt and Lovetsville, Red Vane Haunted House in Ashland, Spooky Acres, Haunted House in Norfolk, and Terror Manor in Roanoke, Virginia. Washington has got a cinema of Horror's Haunted House in Kelso, Washington, West Virginia, includes Fear of Farm WV in Winfield, West Virginia, Fright Knights WV. And Daniels and Farham and Tara Hell on Earth in Wheeling and twelve Pole Manor in Wayne, West Virginia. And finally, Wisconsin is coming to You with Dark Chambers and Hazelgreen Wisconsin and Pradition Pines and Antigo, Wisconsin.

10:06 See the complete list of the holiday haunts open near you at our Haunted Attraction Network dot com website or by following the links in our show notes or newsletter. Some upcoming events this November through January include Halloween and Party Expo January thirteenth through fifteenth in Las Vegas, Nevada, and creep i Econ in January thirty first through February first in Ontario, California. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky post production by David Swope. This HANT 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.

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