News Roundup: Haunt Faces Eminent Domain after 34 Years

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

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the show. I'm Philip on the
HN Show. We bring you the haunt

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as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl. The
City of Hammond, Indiana, is moving

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forward with plans to replace Reaper's Realm
Haunted House with a riverfront development. Reaper's

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Realm has rented its location for thirty
four years at the Historic Indiana Botanic Gardens.

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The City of Hammond has recently filed
an eminent domain lawsuit in the Lake

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County Superior Court to obtain the property, claiming the land is under utilized and

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houses a deteriorating building. During a
recent city council meeting, John Halusca of

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Halusca Enterprises, the family business that
owns Reaper's Realm, said the property loss

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would devastate the family financially. Despite
his statement, the council approved an Ordinance

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expanding their Gateways redevelopment area to include
the Haunt property with a six to two

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vote. After a successful run this
past Halloween season, Ashland Public Library will

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again team up with Jeff D.
Paoli, host of That Halloween Podcast,

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for a series of Haunted Happenings live
streams. The first live stream of the

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year will be held on January eighteenth
at six point thirty Eastern Standard time and

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feature Tony Gardner, founder of Alterian, Inc. A Los Angeles based studio

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specializing in the design and creation of
animatronic and prosthetic makeup effects. Listen as

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they discuss many of Gardner's projects,
emphasizing his work for the Chucky television show

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and movie franchise. Hear how his
work work for the family friendly movie hocus

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Pocus led him to building and puppeteering
the iconic killer doll for numerous projects.

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Register today to receive the live stream
zoom link by following the links in our

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show notes. Body paint artist Passer
is hosting two workshops at Name's in Burbank,

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California, Body Paint Lingerie on January
twenty second and Monster Heads Body Painting

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on February nineteenth, In these hands
on classes, artists bring their models and

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learn passer's makeup tips, tricks and
techniques. Walk out with a portfolio worthy

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piece and help master your body painting
skills. Workshop tickets are one hundred and

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twenty five dollars per student. Students
must bring their own body painting supplies and

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models. Space is limited. Arizona
Hunters will host a PVC Candle's workshop and

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Mesa, Arizona on Saturday, January
twentieth at ten am MST. This class

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will teach a method of using pre
wired flicker LEDs, which can be plugged

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in for a steady light. For
five dollars, each participant will receive three

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pieces of PVC pipe pre filled with
foam, three orange flicker LEDs, twenty

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two gage wire, female power jack
adapter, and some hot glue. Extra

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candles will be available for a dollar
each. A twelve volt adapter will be

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needed to be purchased separately. If
you have a hot glue gun, please

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bring it in register by January eighteenth
to attend. Exhibitor registration is open for

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the Texas Haunters Convention in Mesquite,
Texas. Early bird pricing is in effect

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until March thirty first at eleven fifty
nine PMCST. Save fifteen percent by registering

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early. Returning twenty twenty three exhibitors
will also receive an additional five percent discount.

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The Texas Haunters Convention will take place
at the Mesquite Convention Center July thirteenth

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and fourteenth of twenty twenty four.
Attendee registration will open on March first.

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There's a new year round hell Halloween
in Haunt store in Ironton, Ohio Backfire

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Boutique. After operating an online business
project Backfire and receiving a positive response with

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booths at Fear Expo and trans World's
Halloween An Attraction Show, eighteen year old

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Tayan Poplin opened the brick and mortar
store to sell her spooky wares to like

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minded Helloween fans and haunters. I
realized that people liked the weird and odd

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things, and I always wanted a
storefront to sell, and I wanted it

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to be a workspace out of my
house, Poplin said in an interview with

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the Ironton Tribute. And also,
if a local haunted attraction needs something and

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can't wait a month for something to
come in, we can build it in

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a couple of days. Despite her
age, Poplin already has quite a lot

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of haunt experience. She began scare
acting at age eight. By fifteen,

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she managed a trail with over forty
five crew members, scaring nearly two thousand

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people each night. She then began
building props to their dad, which eventually

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turned into Project Backfire. Her store
now sells everything from s the attic props

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to animatronics, as well as spooky
gifts, clothing, costume, mask jewelry,

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and much more. The Backfire Boutique
is opened Tuesday through Saturday from eleven

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am to six pm. Gore Galor
has released a new line of scenic detailing

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mosses for twenty twenty four. These
real dried mosses come in easy to install

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sheets. The sheets can be stapled, glued, or set with their gore

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foam. Once installed, fire treated
on site for safety and fire marshal compliance.

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There are some upcoming events January through
March of twenty twenty four, including

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Halloween and Party Expo January twenty third
through twenty fifth in Las Vegas, Nevada,

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hont Con February ninth through eleventh in
Daytona Beach, Florida, and the

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trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show March
seventh through tenth in Saint Louis, Missouri,

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

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me Philip Bernandez, with reporting by
Daryl Plunky post production by David Swope.

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