Nov. 28, 2024

NEWS: Madame Scrooge Returns & Holiday Haunt Updates

This week's news: Madam Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical returns Dec 5th; Distortions Unlimited debuts first 2025 prop; Researchers suggest that haunts may reduce inflammation; 2024 Holiday Haunt Updates. Our 2024 Holiday Haunt guide is...

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the

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haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the

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HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and

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education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we

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bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read

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more about these stories and so much more in our

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free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes,

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and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it

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off to Darryl.

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Coming up. Over one hundred and thirty haunted houses are

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opening this December for spooky holiday events. In US Haunt

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and event News. Madame Scrooge, a Christmas Carol musical, is

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returning to the Nocturn Theater in Glendale, California, December fifth

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through twenty second. Written by Justin Patrick Meyer of Meyer

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to Meyer Entertainment, this unique holiday adaptation recounts the story

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of Madame Eleanor Scrooge, a miserly spinster visited by the

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ghost of her former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the

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spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet to come. Hollywood

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film composer Chris Thomas has crafted the brand new Broadway

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style musical score, while costume designer Tanya Seer adds over

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the top costumes, ghosts, and creature effects. Meyer to Meyer

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Entertainment LLC is known for its interactive audience participation, and

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rumour has it that a playful snowball fight may break

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out during the performance. Tickets are on sale now, starting

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at fifteen dollars for select seats and up to seventy

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five dollars for preferred seating. When the musical debuted in

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twenty twenty three, the Haunted Attraction Network interviewed Melissa Meyer,

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co owner of Meyer to Meyer Entertainment, about the production's creation.

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Follow the links in our show notes to watch the

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full interview. Distortions Unlimited unveiled their first prop from their

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Halloween twenty twenty five collection, Banshee Legend. This is a

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flatbacked static version of the animatronic Banshee that debuted in

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twenty twenty four. Standing at seven foot four inches tall,

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the Banshee's mouth can be posed either closed or open,

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exposing a set of terrifying large sharp teeth. On its

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metal stand, the banshee appears to be eerily floating a

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foot off the ground. The prop is on sale now

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for a discounted price of six hundred and thirty nine

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dollars regularly priced at six eighty nine. Researchers from Aarhas

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University in Denmark suggest that recreational fear experiences such as

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haunted attractions may reduce inflammation in individuals with low grade inflammation.

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As part of her study, the researchers had one hundred

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and thirteen subjects visit a haunted attraction in Vele, Denmark.

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Their heart rates were monitored, fear levels self reported, and

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blood samples collected. Of the twenty two participants that exhibited

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low grade inflammation before the event, eighteen or eighty two

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percent of them showed a decreased in an inflammatory signal

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mark three days after the event. This suggests that the

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recreational freight experience made less than immunity responses. Further research

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is needed to confirm the observed effects and to see

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how this knowledge may be able to be incorporated into

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a healthcare setting. Now for a list of some of

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the holiday haunts they are going to be open this

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holiday season in Alabama. They include the a Rox Factory

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in Leeds, Alabama, Estaboga Manor in Estaboga, Alabama, Nightmare three

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thousand and eight in Fulton Dale, Alabama, and Spook Trail

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Haunted Maze in Quentin, Alabama. In Arkansas, you'll find Asylum

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X in Fort Smith, Folklore Slaughter House in Graysville, and

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Reapers Night Off in Donaldson, Arkansas. California, you'll be able

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to see All Saints Lunatic Asylum, Haunted Attraction in Apple Valley,

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De Soto Asylum in Needles, Haunted Holiday's Car Wash in Anaheim,

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High Desert, Haunted House in Apple Valley, and Rate of

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Terror in Thousand Oaks, California. In Colorado, you'll be able

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to find the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Denver in Denver, Colorado. Florida.

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Holiday haunted houses include the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Jacksonville

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and Jacksonville, Florida, Blackwater Grave in Fort Mead, Creepy Hollow

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Woods in Jy, Ominous Descent in winter Haven, Sir Henry's

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Haunted Trail in Plant City, and Tales of Terror and

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Astatula Florida. Georgia. Be on the lookout for Circus of

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Horrors in Rome, Georgia, Folklore Haunted House in Ackworth, Paranoia

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Haunted House in Canton Screams Haunted Experience in Hoboken and

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Wicked South Productions in Pembroke, Georgia, Illinois. You'll be able

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to be scared by the Thirteenth Floor Haunted House Chicago

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in Chicago Area sixty six, Haunted School in Livingston, Dungeon

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of Doom, Haunted House and Zion Factory of Beer, and

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Molean in Sanity, Haunted House in Peru, Massacre Haunted House

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in Montgomery, and Midnight Terror Haunted House in Oaklawn, Illinois.

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Indiana will be scaring you with the abbat War Haunted

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Attraction in Vincennes, India, the House of Anguish at the

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Culbertson Mansion in New Albany, Hysterium Haunted Asylum in Fort Wayne,

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Malice Manor and Clarksville, Nightmare On Edgewood in Indianapolis, and

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Scavania in Munsey, Indiana. Iowa has the Hillside House of

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Hell in Glenwood in the Slaughterhouse Haunted attraction in Des Moines, Kentucky.

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Haunted houses include the Black Orchard Haunted House in Shelbyville, Kentucky,

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the Haunted Hotel ky and Louisville in the Haunted Trail

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of Chaos in London, Kentucky, Louisiana. Holiday haunted houses include

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decomposed haunted Houses in Huma, Louisiana, Necro Manor Haunted House

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in Bossier City, and the New Orleans Nightmare in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Maine has the Maniac Manor in Bangor, Maine. Maryland is

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spooking you with the Bennett's Curse Haunted House in Baltimore, Maryland,

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Creekside Manor in Williamsport, Harrah's Nightmare in Westminster, Maryland, and

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Laurel's House of Horror in Laurel, Maryland. Michigan, You'll be

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able to see the Azra Chamber of Horrors, Haunted House

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in Madison Heights, Michigan, Deranged Haunt and Romulus Factory of

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the Dead in Saginaw, Hinterland, Haunted Attraction in Ashley, Nightmare

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Realm and Mattawan, Rotten Manor and Hawlly the Scream Machine

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in Taylor and Saint Charles Haunted House in Saint Charles, Michigan, Missouri.

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You'll be able to find the Darkness in Saint Louis,

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The Lamp Haunted House in Saint Louis, and Terror on

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Route sixty six in Sullivan, Missouri. Mississippi is coming to

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you with Terror on the Coast in Gulfport, Mississippi, while

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Nebraska has the Roca Scary Farm in Roca, Nebraska. New

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Hampshire is coming to you with a Fright Kingdom in

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Nashaua and New Jersey has got the Thirteenth Hour Haunted

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House in Wharton and the Brighton Asylum in Passaic, New Jersey.

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New York will be able to scare the shivers out

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of you in Seventh Gate Screen Park, Niagara Falls, the

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Bayville Scream Park in Bayville, New York, Chambers of Hell

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and Hoppage, Demon Acres in Hannibal, Ever Haunt and Angela

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head Us Horsemen in Ulster Park, and Terror Field in Clyde,

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New York. North Carolina holiday haunted houses include Extreme Fierce

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Scare Grounds in Kinston, North Carolina, The Haunted Forest at

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Panic Point in Youngsville, Pinhead's Graveyard in Canton, Spooky Bottom,

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Haunted Trail and Seagrove and Woods of Terror in Greensboro,

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North Carolina. Ohio has the Akron Haunted Schoolhouse in Akron, Ohio,

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Blood Prison in Mansfield, Brimstone Haunt and Wilmington the Dent

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Schoolhouse in Cincinnati. Here Columbus and Columbus Hel's Dunion in Dayton,

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The Nightmare on Stagecoach Hollow in East Liverpool and Nightmare

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Manor in Middletown, Ohio, Oklahoma. Includes mad Jack's Haunted House

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in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Wicked Wayne's Haunted Trail and Seminole Oregon.

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Will Bring You the Fear PDX in Portland, Oregon, Nightmare Chamber,

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Haunted House in Medford and Nightmares on the Rogue in Medford, Oregon.

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Pennsylvania will Creep You Out with Castle Blood in Monisson, Pennsylvania,

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Demon House and Minoga Helip Devil's Last Laugh in Leyton.

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Here at the Farm in Bloomsburg, Field of Screams PA

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in Mountville, Haunted Hills Estates and Uniontown Hidden Screams, Haunted

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Attraction in Lewistowon Kim's Crypt, Haunted Mill, Scream Park in

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Spring Grove, Lincoln Mill, Haunted House in Philadelphia, Penhurst Asylum

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in Spring City, Raven Manor and Baccaria and Spookhaven Haunted

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House in mill Hall, Pennsylvania. South Carolina is coming in

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with the Dark Castle in Elgin, South Carolina. The Deceased

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Farm in Lexington and Nightmare Dungeon Haunted Attraction in Greenville, Tennessee,

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has got the Thirteenth Realm in Jackson, Tennessee. Dread Hollow

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and Chattanooga Freight Works and Powell Haunted Webb's Scream Park

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in Memphis, Malice Haunted Attraction in Belfast, Nashville, Nightmare in Nashville,

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riger Mortis, Haunted House in mc Minville, in the Unknown

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Haunt in Clarksville, Tennessee. Texas will scare you with the

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thirteenth Floor Haunted House Houston in Houston, Texas, Dark Hour

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in Plano, Doc Wilkes House of Horrors in Longview, Haunted

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Oaks in San Antonio, House of Torment and Austin Moxley Manor,

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Haunted House in Bedford, Scream Depot and Baird and Terror

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Isle and Texas City, Texas. Virginia's spooking you with a

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Darkwood Manor in Lay, Virginia, Fright Mare in Chesapeake, Milltown

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Haunt and Lovetsville, Red Vane Haunted House in Ashland, Spooky Acres,

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Haunted House in Norfolk, and Terror Manor in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Washington has got a cinema of Horror's Haunted House in Kelso, Washington,

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West Virginia, includes Fear of Farm WV in Winfield, West Virginia,

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Fright Knights WV. And Daniels and Farham and Tara Hell

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on Earth in Wheeling and twelve Pole Manor in Wayne,

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West Virginia. And finally, Wisconsin is coming to You with

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Dark Chambers and Hazelgreen Wisconsin and Pradition Pines and Antigo, Wisconsin.

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See the complete list of the holiday haunts open near

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you at our Haunted Attraction Network dot com website or

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by following the links in our show notes or newsletter.

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Some upcoming events this November through January include Halloween and

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Party Expo January thirteenth through fifteenth in Las Vegas, Nevada,

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and creep i Econ in January thirty first through February

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first in Ontario, California.

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And that's all for the news this week.

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

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by Daryl Plunky post production by David Swope. This HANT

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