NEWS: Midsummer Scream Gathers 50,000 Halloween Fans This Weekend

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news
from around the haunt industry. Welcome to

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as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl. Midsummer
Scream takes place this weekend July twenty sixth

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through twenty eight at the Long Beach
Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

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The event features an exhibit floor with
over three hundred spooky vendors, the Hall

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of Shadows, Mini Haunts, the
Screaming Room, panels, presentations, performances,

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paranormal Pixies, Pumpkin Patch, Children's
Zone, the Black Cat Lounge,

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Day Night Party, and more.
Tickets are on sale now and be sure

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to get them soon, as a
record breaking fifty thousand Halloween fans are expected

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to attend this year. This year's
Haul of Shadows celebrates spirits and legends with

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an impressive lineup of mini haunts and
experiences for guests to enjoy. Enter through

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a dilapidated ghost town created by the
team at Fear Farm and go on an

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experience of over a dozen spooky attractions. Lions Gate, in partnership with Plague

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Productions, will present Gears of Fear, explore the legacy of lions Gate Horror,

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inviting attendees to come face to face
with the studio's greatest mad men and

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monsters. Survive the kill room of
a psychotic madman with Scream Warriors, an

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immersive audio experience from Lovecraft and Christopher
Young. Join the Mystery Incorporated crew with

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Drake Society Scooby Doo in the Carnival
of Chills. Visit a Celtic cemetery with

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a haunt with no name yet now
with more ghosts. Popular photographer Rale of

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the Dead returns at the new pop
up photo experience. Enter the exclusive Warehouse

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six with Santa Anna, Haunt haunting
grounds at the Happy Hauntings Bar. Encounter

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familiar monsters around each corner in a
one of a kind photo op. Walk

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through Haunt with Pizza Planet truck and
art side show The Real Side Show.

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Try Not to Wake the Dark denizens
of a Realm of Shadow Labyrinth of Lost

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Souls. Take a spooky and unique
photo with a haunted car wash three hundred

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and sixty degree photo experience. Celebrate
cal Haunts twentieth Anniversary cal Haunt S Phantom

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Express. Get a sneak peek at
the beauty of handcarved pumpkins and displays coming

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this fall with Magic of the jack
O Lanterns Los Angeles Preview. Face a

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mysterious force that lurks in the cursed
mining town with Hellazondo. Haunt the Incident

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at Hope's Edge. Cheer on your
favorite sliders at the daily performances from Decayed

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Brigade. Celebrate Dia de los Morito's
with George Newman's Casa Calaveras a walk through

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art experience all this and more.
Wait in the Hall of the Shadows Dark

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Zone. Get your tickets to Midsummer
Screen Today to experience all of the chills.

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Links are in our show notes.
Nightmare Fuel Nocturnal Circus will entertain guests

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at this year's Halloween Horror Nights and
Universal Orlando, Orlando, Florida. Step

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right up to the Dark Circus and
get trapped in a thrilling spectacle of pyro

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and aerialist to the beat pulse of
pounding rock rhythms. This is the fourth

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version of the Nightmare Fuel Show,
which premiered at HHN Orlando in twenty twenty

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one. Halloween Horror Nights run select
nights August thirtieth through November three. Tickets

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are now on sale. Russ mccamie, owner of mccamie Manor, was arrested

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last Friday on domestic assault charges.
According to a Lawrence County arrest Affidavid mccamee

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allegedly assaulted his girlfriend. He posted
one thousand dollars bail and has been ordered

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to have no contact with the victim. His initial court appearances schedule for August

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sixth in Lawrence County General Session's Court. A new fall tradition presented by Medpace

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is coming to the Cincinnati Zoo and
Buttananecal Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jack

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O Lantern Glow. This immersive walkthrough
experience will feature more than five thousand handcarved

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pumpkins and fall displays along a half
mile trail in the Zoo. Best of

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food including pumpkin spice, hot chocolate, apple cider, Sprits, pumpkin beer,

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and caramel apples will be available for
purchase. Jack O Lantern Glow will

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take place select dates October third through
thirty first. Tickets are on sale now

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for twenty five per adult and twenty
dollars per child, with Cincinnati Zoo members

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receiving three dollars off all general admission
tickets. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

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Sam's Club will debut a new ten
and a half foot air blown inflatable archway

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based on the classic nineteen eighty eight
film Beetlejuice. This Halloween season, transport

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trigger treaters into the afterlife with the
tutular Ghost to the Most and the iconic

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Sandworm. The archway is now on
sale for one hundred and ninety nine ninety

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four. Target has debuted some of
its twenty twenty four Hide and Eke Boutique

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collections online this past week. Feel
transported back to in the eighties with the

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punk rock, disco vibes and electric
hues of the Neon Thrills Halloween collection embrace

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a mysteriously woodland style with dark forest
decor. These new editions and many returning

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Favorites are available for purchase online and
will come to store shelves in the coming

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weeks. Warner Brothers Pictures released the
second trailer for the highly anticipated Beetlejuice.

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Beetlejuice. The trailer gives fans a
better taste of the upcomings film's plot and

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glimpses of the all noon returning ghouls
Lydia and her daughter Astrid will face as

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they journey into the afterlife Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice will be released in the US on

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September sixth of this year. Upcoming
events from July through September include Midsummer Scream

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July twenty six through twenty eighth in
Long Beach, California, and Creep at

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Real Nostalgic September fourteenth and fifteenth and
Santa Ana, California. Other events in

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SoCal this Halloween include the Oogie Boogie
Bash at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim August

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twenty fifth through October thirty. First
Halloween Horrnites at Universal Still Studio and Universal

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City September fifth through November three.
Write Fast Extreme Magic Mountain in Valencia September

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seventh through November three not Scary Farm
at Knottsberry Farm in Buena Park September nineteenth

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through November two, The Queen Mary's
Dark Harbor in Long Beach September twentieth through

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November second, Halloween Scream and SeaWorld
San Diego September twenty seventh through November second.

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And Reign of Terror in Thousand Oaks
September twenty seventh through November second.

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And that's all for the news this
week. Today's episode was produced by me

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Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl
Plunky. Post production by David Swope.

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