News: Scary Farm Returns Early; OSCARES Submissions Closing

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip. On the HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes. And as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. The deadline for the Haunted Attraction Associations Annual Scholarships is fast approaching on December thirty first. This year, James K. Smith Memorial Scholarship, the Joe Taylor Scholarship, and the Bloody Mary Makeup Scholarship are available to any actor, makeup artist, or other cast or crew member of any HAA member above the Associate Member level. The recipient must be accepted and or enrolled in an accredited college or university and working towards a two or four year bachelor, associate or other degree. The scholarships will award one thousand dollars each to the winning candidates. Learn more and submit your applications on the haa's official website. Winners will be announced at this year's trans World Helloween and Attraction Show. Nominations for the twenty twenty four OSCARES Awards close on December thirty first, twenty twenty three. The oscars honor attraction owners, vendors, and others who've excelled in the haunt industry. Award categories include Vendor Excellence Awards, Board of Directors Awards, the President's Award, Special Recognition, Home Haunt Award,

1:42 and Lifetime Achievement Award. The nomination process is available to the entire industry. Volunteer members and board members will sort through the submissions to evaluate and vet nominees. The HAA will present the awards at the trans World's Halloween and Attraction Show in March twenty twenty four. Submit your nominations via the aja's official submission form. Not Scary Farm from Buena Park, California, is announced extended dates for twenty twenty four. Next year's event will run September nineteenth through November two, giving fans an extra weekend of fright. Granville Haunted Farm in Oxford, North Carolina, has been named the North Carolina Attraction of the Year. The award was presented by the North Carolina Travel Industry Association. Follow the links in our show notes or the newsletter to read the full article. John Schwartz Junior, the owner of Scare USA, has pleaded not guilty on sex assault charges.

2:36 Charges include repeated sexual assault of a same child, third degree sexual assault, exposing genitals to a child, and causing mental harm to a child. Schwartz was arrested at Scare USA in October after police received reports of a possible sexual assault at the attraction. Two charges against to Heaven dropped because of the statute of Limitations has expired on those crimes, which allegedly occurred between twenty seventeen in twenty eighteen. His next court date to set for January twelfth. Of twenty twenty four. Baberic and Craft's retailer Joe Ann saw a double digit sales growth with better margins for their Halloween merchandise this season. In an effort to turn around a streak of losses from the past seven quarters, the retailer began its Halloween decoration sales about a month early. Consumers responded by buying more Halloween items earlier, including a five hundred dollars eight foot tall skeleton and using fewer discounts than usual to do so. As a result of our strategic pullback on non Halloween seasonal inventory receipts, we saw exceptionally high sell through rates and meaningful approved profitability over the prior year, said CEO Chris Detulio on an earnings call.

3:43 The retailer is still facing overall losses, but their Halloween related sales show that consumer spending for the Helloween season is still very strong. According to a recent Washington Post article, Crampis isn't coming to town. He's already here. From spooky home display and haunts to ugly Christmas sweaters and craft beer labels, this figure of Central European folklore is popping up more and more around the United States each December. Crampus helps balance the Mariah Carey in the Hallmark Channel, says Jason Score, organizer of a Christmas two Dismember holiday horror convention in Mesa, Arizona. It gives us a little bit of that spooky, that fun, that mysterious, that dark side of things, and we're still celebrating the purity of Christmas. Here's a lisdom haunts so let us know that they are open this Christmas season. Thirteenth Floor Haunted House Denver, Denver, Colorado.

4:31 Thirteenth Floor Haunted House, Houston, Houston, Texas. Thirteenth Hour Haunted House, Wharton, New Jersey. Seven Gates Screen Park, Niagara Falls, New York. Asylum forty nine, tw el Utah Asylum, Oklahoma, Nowada, Oklahoma Asylum X Fort Smith, Arkansas, AZRA Chamber of Horror's Haunted House, Madison Heights, Michigan, Bayville, Haunted Scream Park, Bayville, New York. Brighton Asylum, ASAIC, New Jersey, Brimstone Haunt Wilmington, Ohio. Chambers of Hell, Hoppage, New York. Cinema of Horror's Haunted House, Kelso, Washington, Dark Chambers Hazel Green, Wisconsin, Dark Hour, Plano, Texas. The Darkness Saint Louis, Missouri, Dread Hollow Chattanooga, Tennessee.

5:20 Factory of the Dead, Saginaw, Michigan, Beeer Columbus, Columbus, Ohio. The Fear PDX Portland, Oregon, Fiesta Fright Saint George, Utah, Wright Haven, Stratford, Connecticut. Fright Nights West Virginia, Daniels, West Virginia, The Haunted Hotel Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, Haunted Trail of Chaos London, Kentucky. The Hauntings of Boogeyman, Haunted House, Mathis, Texas, Hauntsville, Haunted House, Aliria, Ohio, Hillside House of Hell, Glenwood, Iowa. Hinterled Haunted Attraction, Ashley, Michigan, Hell's Dungeon, Dayton, Ohio, Insanity, Haunted House, Peru, Illinois, Jail of Terror, Newark, Ohio, Kim's Crypt, Haunted Mill, Scream Park, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Creepy Hollow, Bishopsville, South Carolina, literally a Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion, New Albany, Indiana. Laurel's House of Horror, Laurel, Maryland, Lincoln Mill, Haunted House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Malice Manor, Clarksville, Indiana, Massacre, Haunted House, Montgomery, Illinois, Midnight Terror, Haunted House in Oaklawn, Illinois. Nashville Nightmare Nashville, Tennessee. Necro Manor, Haunted House, Bossier City, Louisiana, Necropolis Underground, Haunted Attractions, Indianapolis, Indiana, Nightmare Acres, South Windsor,

6:53 Connecticut. The Nightmare Chamber, Haunted House, Medford, Oregon, Nightmares from Hell, Haunted Attraction Inlay City, Michigan. Nightmares on the Rogue, Haunted Mines, Medford, Oregon, Nowhere Haunted House inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, Pinhead's Graveyard Canton, North Carolina, Plantation Blood Augusta, Georgia, Rotten Manor, Holly, Michigan, Scream Hollow, Wicked Helloween Park, Mithville, Texas, Sir Henry's Haunted Trail, Plant City, Florida, Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas, Spooky Acres, Haunted House, Norfolk, Virginia, Spooky Bottom, Haunted Trail, Seagrove, North Carolina, Strangest Things, Haunted Farm Eugene, Oregon, Terror Manor, Roanoak, Virginia, Terror on the Coast, Gulfport, Mississippi, Twisted Haunts La Los Angeles, California. If you're in the area of any of these haunts, make sure you go see them because this is the final weekend many of the haunts listed. Some events come up in the new year include the Halloween and Party Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, January twenty third through twenty fifth, and Hot Kon in Daytona, Beach, Florida, February ninth through eleven, and that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky post production by David Swope. This hont News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter

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