Oct. 1, 2024

NEWS: Maze Delays Plague Six Flags Fright Fest Extreme Nationwide

Read the stories https://mailchi.mp/hauntedattractionnetwork.com/hush-expands-entertainment-maze-delays-plague-six-flags. This week's Headlines: Hush Haunted Attraction expands live entertainment; Fright Fest Extreme Plagued by Delayed Openings; Kings...

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Read the stories here. This week's Headlines: Hush Haunted Attraction expands live entertainment; Fright Fest Extreme Plagued by Delayed Openings; Kings Dominion brawl described as "mass chaos" by Sheriff's Office; Peacock TV & Blumhouse debut "Overnightmare" at Stanley Hotel; EverHaunt opens Oct 5th with new experiences; Uber & Spirit Halloween partner; Ring's Great Ghost Search offers a $100,000 grand prize; Anaheim Beautiful seeks entrance for home decorating contest; Lvcrft releases "Halloween Hop" single; Creep I.E. Con returns January 31st - February 2nd, 2025.

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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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The Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan, has returned to

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the Detroit metro area with three haunts, three bars, and

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expanded live entertainment for twenty twenty four. Philip Bernandez of

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the Haunted Attraction Network was there opening night to take

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a tour of the mazes and bars. Running twenty five

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select nights through November two, Hush has debuted several editions

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incl uoing a new stage for enhanced live performances, new

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drink menus for their three secret bars, and new viewing

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deck at the Voodoo Blues Bar, and renovated scenes at

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each of the haunts. The Hush Falls Harvest and the

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Fall Festival will feature live music, fire dancers, aerialists, and more.

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On October twenty seventh, enjoy a family friendly afternoon of

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fund with their Monster Meet and Greet. Enjoy lights on

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walkthroughs of the haunts, meet the monsters, and collect candy.

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Tickets for Hush are on sale now starting from nineteen

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ninety nine to thirty two ninety nine for general admission.

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Peacock and Blumhouse invite you to face your fears when

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they take over the Loge at the iconic Stanley Hotel

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in Estays Park, Colorado October eighteenth through twentieth for the Overnightmare,

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an immersive overnight experience set against the ominous backdrop of

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the Stanley Hotel, the place that inspired Stephen King's classic

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horror novel The Shining Step and Sleep Inside the worlds

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of Insiduous, The Purge, Freaky, and and Happy Death Day.

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Each evening will feature and after dark experiences. Guests are

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pulled from their rooms for one of four personalized, poly

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immersive activations inspired by each of the Blumhouse films and

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featuring interactive characters, narratives, and scares. Guests will be able

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to choose their scare level from one to four Daggers.

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Throughout the weekend, guests will be able to visit the

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Teacup Room, a spooky salon that will take guests inside

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the world of their new thriller series produced by Jamee

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Wand's Atomic Monster exclusively on Peacock, and the Blumhouse Bar,

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a haven for horror fans to have a sip and

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scare and play the company's upcoming video game, Hear the Spotlight.

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Overnightmare packages start at one thousand and thirty one dollars

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and include lodging, an admission for up to two people,

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one scare experience per guest, a complimentary welcome dinner, one

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hundred dollars credit toward breakfast, ed or lunch, two drink tickets,

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free nightly screenings, interactive moments, photo ops, and more. As

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of September twenty seventh, though I'll packages are currently sold out,

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frights are creeping back to Angola, New York when ever Haunt.

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Haunted House reopens for the Halloween season on Saturday, October fifth.

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This year's event will feature numerous new experiences, including the

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Curse of the Mummy Escape Room, Delaware Creek Horror Boutique,

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and The Triage, a simulation experience of terrifying guests before

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they even enter the haunts. Ever Haunt contains multiple haunts,

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midway games, coffin rides, escape rooms, virtual reality rides, photo ops,

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a local horror story show, and the popular Delaware Creek

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Pumpkin Spectacular. Also returning this year is the event's horror

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Icon series, where guests can meet horror celebrities select weekends.

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This year's series is headlined by Tyler Maine, best known

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for his work as Michael Myers in rob Zombies Halloween

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movies and Sabertooth in the X Men franchise. Ever Haunt

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has continued their partnership with several charities in this season,

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including Kids Escaping Drugs, Operation Good Neighbor, and Shine Bright

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Little Fright. The event runs select nights October fifth through

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thirty five. First tickets are on sale now starting at

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twenty nine ninety eight for general admission forty four ninety

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nine for the VIP fast pass. Chuck E Cheese is

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bringing back its popular Halloween Bootacular for its fifth year,

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running now through October thirty first every day through Halloween,

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The celebration will include free e tickets, nightly free candy.

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Haunted house, dance parties, Pumpkin shaped pizza, limited time menu

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items and merch and more. We know that kids love

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the Helloween season, and we've made it more affordable for

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families to visit all month long, said Mark Kupferman, executive

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vice president of Chuck e Cheese. Every child in costume

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gets five hundred bonus E tickets on every visit. Fun

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pass holders get unlimited visits and up to two hundred

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and fifty play points on the Gold Pass, and parents

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can feel safe because we're tailored this experience just for them.

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The lays of plagued freight Fest Extreme It's six Flags

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Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Prior to the

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events Friday, September thirteenth, opening, park officials announced to it

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open as a preview that evening instead, with only certain

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mazes being operational. On September eighteenth, the park released a

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statement that the preview period would be extended another week.

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As of this past weekend. Texas Chainsaw, Trick or Treat

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and Stranger Things mazes are still listed as coming soon

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on the website, and they have not been advertised open

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on the park's official social media channels. Stacey Wheeler, the

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spokesperson for six Flags Great Adventure, released a statement on

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the delays. Due to unforeseen circumstances, some of our mazes

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are opening later than expected, but during our fright Fest

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Extreme Preview weekends, guests had the unique chance to enjoy

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all of our fall events, Kids Boofest, Octoberfest, and of

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course FrightFest Extreme, all included with their daily park admission.

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Guests have been critical of the delays, especially since many

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had purchased higher tier season passes to have access to

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the separately ticketed maze during FrightFest Extreme. Six Flags Great

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Adventure is not the only six Flags park that has

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seen delays in opening their haunts. In this week's Green

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Tagged Theme Park in thirty, Philip and Scott discussed this trend,

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the possible causes and potential effects on the park and

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the ips involved. King's Dominion and Doswell. Virginia erupted into

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what the Henover Sheriff Saw has described as mass chaos

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as a handful of people brawled and hundreds of onlookers

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became disorderly around nine pm on Saturday, September twenty first.

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The Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a fight

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inside the park's arcade area. We had a handful of

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people fighting, surrounded by hundreds of people that were encouraging it,

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egging it on being disorderly, being difficult for us to

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get through the crowd to get to the middle of

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what was going on, said Sergeant Steve Wills. And then

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as we started flushing them out of the arcade, the

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group goes outside and just spreads to the outside now

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and then somebody screams gun and the next thing you know,

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we have a flood of all these people we just

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kicked out of the arcade coming rushing back in as

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we are trying to restore order and get outside to

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see if there is somebody with a gun. It was

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mass chaos. The situation was eventually contained and no major

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injuries have been reported. As of Tuesday, September two, twenty fourth,

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no arrests were made in relation to the incident. King's

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Dominion released a statement. In the incident, a minor physical

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altercation occurred among some juvenile seeking refuge in the park's

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Candy Apple Grove area after rides were temporarily shut down

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due to inclement weather, but was quickly halted by the

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security team and the parties involved were subsequently banned from

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the park. Normal operations resumed once the weather cleared the area.

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At no point where any weapons used or found inside

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the park. This comes immediately after another altercation and stabbing

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incident at Bush Gardens, Williamsburg, further fueling debate over teen

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admission to Halloween events. Prior to the start of the

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Halloween season, King's Dominion had implemented a chaperone policy, which

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was in effect on the date of the incident. All

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guests ages fifteen years old or younger must be accompanied

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by a chaperone who is at least twenty one years old,

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to be admitted to or remain in the park past

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four pm daily. The chaperone may accompany up to ten

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guests per day, must remain inside the park during the visit,

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and be a available by phone throughout their stay. Articles

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on the incident did not mention the exact ages of

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the parties involved, nor did they mention whether chaperones were

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present during the altercation. Uber Technologies and Spirit Halloween are

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partnering to offer consumers an easier way to get all

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their Halloween needs. Halloween fans in the US and Canada

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can now shop Spirit Halloween on Uber, Eats, Postmates, and

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the Uber app. The Spirit Halloween Catalog will be available

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to shop on Uber at the same price consumers will

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find in any of the chains one, five and twenty

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five locations. Uber one members will benefit from zero dollar

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delivery fees in five percent discounts and all Spirit Halloween

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orders with a thirty five dollars minimum purchase, and all

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consumers will benefit from up to forty percent off their

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next Spirit Halloween order I fifty dollars or more through Helloween.

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Terms and conditions apply. Spirit Halloween joins a growing number

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of retailers, including Big Lots, Low's, Michael's, Party City, and

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more who use Uber's app to reach new customers. Got Ghosts.

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The video doorbell and security company Ring will pay you

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to escape your haunted house with Ring's Great Ghost Search.

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From real paranormal proof to family and friends in costume.

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Ring is looking for the country's greatest ghost sightings, whether

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seriously spectral or sublimely silly. Ring users can submit videos

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of paranormal activities captured on their Ring doorbeller camera now

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through November one of twenty twenty four for a chance

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to win a grand prize of one hundred thousand dollars.

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To enter, log into your ring account and follow the instructions.

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Video clips must be thirty seconds or less and captured

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on an existing Ring device, while eligibility requirements can be

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found on their official website rules. Anaheim Beautiful in Anaheim, California,

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is hosting their twenty twenty four Fall and Halloween Home

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decorating contest. Residents are encouraged to make Anaheim beautiful and festive,

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whether it be through traditional pumpkins and scarecrows, to witches

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in spooky lighting, or anything in between. Entries will be

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judged on concept, creativity, and originality. The registration deadline is

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midnight Pacific daylight time on October thirteenth. Entrance should have

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their home decorated from October sixteenth through thirty first. Decorations

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must be visible when walking in the neighborhood or driving

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by in the car. No haunts or walkthrough experiences will

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be judged. Prizes include home depot gift cards, seventy five

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for first place, fifty for second place, and twenty five

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for third WKYC three Studios in Cleveland, Ohio is seeking

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the best Halloween home displays in the northeast Ohio area.

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The station is building a guide for residents to find

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the coolest, creepiest and spooky Halloween displays for twenty twenty four.

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They are seeking submissions for homes to feature. Interested haunters

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should send an email to Halloween at WKYC dot com

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with Halloween Submission in the headline, include your name address

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in a photo and video with a description of the display.

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Selected homes will be featured in their guide and may

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appear on one of their TV news broadcasts. Ahead of

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their upcoming sixth album release in October, First Lovecraft has

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released the single Halloween Hop. This is the spooky dance

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anthem We've all been waiting for, as a collaboration with

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award winning actor David Desmalchian and horror content creator Thunderwolf.

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The lyrics will help you to learn the easy to

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follow dance. Stomp your feet like Frankenstein, thriller hands side

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to side, slide to the left, slide to the right,

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go Norman Bates to the beat, pop your fist for

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Halloween Hop. You can listen to this single today on

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your favorite streaming services or by following the links in

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our show notes Save the dates. Creep I e Coon

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from Ontario, California. We'll return to the Ontario Convention Center

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January thirty first through February second of twenty twenty five.

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Tickets for next year's event will go on sale on

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October thirty first via the event's official website. Some upcoming

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events for September through November of twenty twenty four include

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Son of Monster Palooza and Burbank, California from October eleventh

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through thirteenth, and creep It Real Festive in Santa Ana,

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California from November twenty second through twenty third. Have you

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been listening to our sixty one day hauntedthon happening right

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now through Halloween? Celebrate haunted attractions daily via short and

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long form videos and podcasts. Some recent ones include videos

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on the Hush Haunted Attraction, a full walkthrough Deranged Haunted Attraction,

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and their full walkthrough Helli's Scream SeaWorld in San Diego

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opening night delays, curfusing global expansion, Halloween challenges in Iappa's

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Middle East, Move inside Maryland's most Haunted Forest, Dent Schoolhouse

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that has a frightening makeover, and most Evil Monsters are

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in this Haunted House Devil's Attic. Follow the links in

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our show notes and listen to our sixty one day Hauntedthon.

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And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode

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was produced by me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by Daryl

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Plunky post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update

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is a production of the Haunted Rass Network, and you

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can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunt Attraction

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Network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum

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