May 24, 2023

News Roundup: HHN Auditions; ScareCON Awards

News Roundup: HHN Auditions; ScareCON Awards

Read the stories https://hauntedattractionnetwork.com/halloween-horror-nights-2023-auditions-universal-studios-hollywood-scareactor-opportunities/. Scareactor auditions are now open for Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights; ScareCon...

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Read the stories here. Scareactor auditions are now open for Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights; ScareCon announces the winners of this year's Scare Awards (SCARs); Midwest Haunters Convention Early Bird Discounts end this Thursday, May 25th at 11:59 p.m. CDT; Dark Hour Haunted House will host a yard sale on Saturday, June 10th; The Centralia Halloween Parade announces this year's theme: "Monsters & Mischief"; Spencer's & Spirit Halloween are adding 81,000 sq. ft. of office space and amenities to their corporate headquarters; Ralph Lee, founder of NYC's Village Halloween Parade passed away on May 12th at the age of 87; Learn the history behind how summer became Japan's "Spooky Season."

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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
h A N Show. We bring you

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the haunt news, information and education
you need to prepare for Halloween. On

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Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup
of news from haunts worldwide. Read more

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about these stories and so much more
in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at

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the link in the show notes,
and as always for the news roundup,

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I'm passing it off to Darryl.
Scare Con from Chertsey, United Kingdom announced

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the winners of the twenty twenty three
Scare Awards. The Scars the twenty twenty

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three Awards are based on events and
attractions that opened or operated for a significant

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duration between April twenty two and March
twenty twenty three. All fifteen categories were

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judged by the scare Con and Scare
Tour review team and scored upon specific requirements

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for each category, including public reviews. Awards were received by Tully's Octoberfest,

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Traumatica Terror Mountain, Satan Slammer,
Fear Avon Valley, horror Land, Bloodbath

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by Screamworks, Baalzell, scare Maas, the London Bridge Experience, Movie Park

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Germany, Scream Factory, Psychopath,
The Nightmare, Realm, Howel Valley High,

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and Scream Allowed. Congratulations to all
of the winners and the nominees.

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Get your tickets for the Midwest Haunters
Convention in Rosemont, Illinois very soon as

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early bird discounts and this Thursday,
May twenty fifth at eleven fifty nine pm

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Central daylight time, with precon hot
tours on June eighth and ninth, and

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event dates June tenth and eleventh.
This action packed weekend is stacked with excited

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entertainment, top notch exhibitors, educational
programming, networking parties, contests, and

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more. Some recently featured highlights on
the event's Facebook page include the Chicago haunt

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Builders walk through Haunted House on the
show floor, Kids Zone Ghoul School limited

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to thirty students aged six to twelve, and the MHC Zombie Walk presented by

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the Chicago Zombie March. Learn more
about this conventions learn more about all of

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the convention's events and seminars on its
official website by following the links in our

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show notes. Dark Hour Haunted House
in Plano, Texas has done some spring

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cleaning and plenty of things must go. The Haunt will host a yard sale

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on Saturday, June tenth, from
nine am to two pm Central daylight time.

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Check back often in the events Facebook
page to see pictures of items that

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will be available at the yard sale. Organizers of the Centralia Halloween Parade in

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Centralia, Illinois announced the winner of
the twenty twenty three parade theme contest,

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Monsters and Misship. The winning theme
was submitted by fourth grader Turner Aid.

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Members of the parade committee showed up
at Turner's class in Saint Mary's Grade School

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to present him in his classmates with
the pizza party. Turner will be honored

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at the ninety sixth annual parade in
October twenty eighth, twenty twenty three.

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Auditions are now open for Halloween Horror
Nights twenty twenty three at Universal Studios Hollywood

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in Universal City, California. Scare
Actor Edition time slots are available for Wednesday,

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May thirty first and Thursday, June
first. Appointments are required. Applicants

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must be eighteen plus years old and
will be asked to do some improvisation and

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demonstrate scare abilities. Proof of eligibility
to work at the United States is also

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required. A current headshot and resume
are preferred. Spencers and Spirit Halloween announced

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they are expanding their corporate headquarters in
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The

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project will add eighty one thousand square
feet of office space and amenities to the

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company's current campus, bringing the total
footprint to twenty four acres, or the

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size of five football fields. The
new office area will provide the company with

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space to accommodate their growing workforce.
The company currently employers more than thirty thousand

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associates across the country, seven hundred
of which are located at the New Jersey

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corporate offices. We look forward to
welcoming new members to our Spencers and Spirit

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Halloween family, where our guiding principles
has always been to foster an environment of

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inclusivity, passion, and resilience,
embracing differences, authenticity and fun for all,

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said CEO Stephen Silverstein. The company
is actively searching for skilled and motivated

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individuals to fill a variety of positions
across multiple corporate functions, with half of

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the current openings being in the tech
sector. Those who would like to apply

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for exciting career opportunities available at Spirit
Halloween should visit the company's official career website.

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Ralph Lee, the founder of NYC's
Village Halloween Parade, passed away May

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twelfth, at the age of eighty
seven years. Lee directed the first Village

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Halloween Parade in nineteen seventy four and
continued for twelve years before stepping away to

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pursue other artistic endeavors. Parade began
as a theatrical event featuring mass performers,

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giant puppets, floats, and musicians, all marching through Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

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Halloween is for the kid and all
of us, Lee said in a

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nineteen eighty two New York Times article. It gives people, especially adults,

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permission to act any way that they
want. Over the years, his Village

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Halloween Parade has grown, becoming one
of the city's most cherished events, attracting

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more than sixty thousand costume participants and
two million spectators. Twenty twenty three marks

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the parade's fiftieth anniversary. While many
cultures wait until autumn to start their Halloween

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celebrations, Japan's spooky thrills and Chills
take place in the scorching heat of summer.

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Our recent article by Carl Sampson discusses
the history and legends behind how summer

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became Japan's spooky season. Some upcoming
events between May and July twenty twenty three

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include Monster Palooza June second through fourth
in Pasadena, California. Midwest Hodder's Convention

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June tenth and eleventh in Rosemont,
Illinois, Texas. Hodge's Convention July fifteenth

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and sixteenth in Mesquite, Texas.
Or are Ween Cohn, Idaho. July

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twenty first through twenty third in Boise, Idaho. Midsummer Scream July twenty eighth

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through thirtieth in Long Beach, California. Ghosts of Summer July twenty nine through

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thirtieth in Portland, Oregon. Spring
and summer haunted events happening in May include

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the Eribis Factory of Terror in Erie, Pennsylvania, The Halls of Madness in

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Paris, Illinois, the Haunted Hotel
in Louisville, Kentucky. Haunting in the

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Hills Onstead, Michigan. Then in
June, you can catch all Hello's Eve

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Terror Town in Williamsburg, Ohio,
the Drake Society in Ontario, California.

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Eloise Asylum in Westland, Michigan,
Freight Mayor in Chesapeake, Virginia, Hollering

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Haunts, Hay Ride in Clinton,
North Carolina, Riverside Entertainment and Salome Springs,

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Arkansas, Scream Hollow, Wicked Helloween
Park in Smithville, Texas, Castle

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Blood in Menissan, Pennsylvania, Dark
Castle in Elgin, South Carolina, Wicked

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World Scaregrounds in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Acropolis Underground in Indianapolis, Indiana. SRDS

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Haunted Attractions Polkatello in Polkatello, Idaho. Then in July the Ams Haunted Attractions

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in Maryville, Tennessee, Blood Prison
in Mansfield, Ohio, The Cinema of

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Horrors, Haunted House in Kelso,
Washington, and Ever Haunt and Angela,

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New York. Find the exact dates
and times by following the links in our

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

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produced by me Philip Hernandez, with
reporting by Daryl Plunky, post production by

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David Swolk. This Haunt News Update
is a production of the Haunted Traction Network,

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