News: Scary Farm Returns Early; OSCARES Submissions Closing

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

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And as always for the news roundup,

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I'm passing it off to Darryl.
The deadline for the Haunted Attraction Associations Annual

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Scholarships is fast approaching on December thirty
first. This year, James K.

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Smith Memorial Scholarship, the Joe Taylor
Scholarship, and the Bloody Mary Makeup Scholarship

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are available to any actor, makeup
artist, or other cast or crew member

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of any HAA member above the Associate
Member level. The recipient must be accepted

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and or enrolled in an accredited college
or university and working towards a two or

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four year bachelor, associate or other
degree. The scholarships will award one thousand

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dollars each to the winning candidates.
Learn more and submit your applications on the

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haa's official website. Winners will be
announced at this year's trans World Helloween and

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Attraction Show. Nominations for the twenty
twenty four OSCARES Awards close on December thirty

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first, twenty twenty three. The
oscars honor attraction owners, vendors, and

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others who've excelled in the haunt industry. Award categories include Vendor Excellence Awards,

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Board of Directors Awards, the President's
Award, Special Recognition, Home Haunt Award,

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and Lifetime Achievement Award. The nomination
process is available to the entire industry.

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Volunteer members and board members will sort
through the submissions to evaluate and vet

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nominees. The HAA will present the
awards at the trans World's Halloween and Attraction

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Show in March twenty twenty four.
Submit your nominations via the aja's official submission

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form. Not Scary Farm from Buena
Park, California, is announced extended dates

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for twenty twenty four. Next year's
event will run September nineteenth through November two,

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giving fans an extra weekend of fright. Granville Haunted Farm in Oxford,

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North Carolina, has been named the
North Carolina Attraction of the Year. The

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award was presented by the North Carolina
Travel Industry Association. Follow the links in

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our show notes or the newsletter to
read the full article. John Schwartz Junior,

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the owner of Scare USA, has
pleaded not guilty on sex assault charges.

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Charges include repeated sexual assault of a
same child, third degree sexual assault,

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exposing genitals to a child, and
causing mental harm to a child.

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Schwartz was arrested at Scare USA in
October after police received reports of a possible

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sexual assault at the attraction. Two
charges against to Heaven dropped because of the

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statute of Limitations has expired on those
crimes, which allegedly occurred between twenty seventeen

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in twenty eighteen. His next court
date to set for January twelfth. Of

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twenty twenty four. Baberic and Craft's
retailer Joe Ann saw a double digit sales

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growth with better margins for their Halloween
merchandise this season. In an effort to

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turn around a streak of losses from
the past seven quarters, the retailer began

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its Halloween decoration sales about a month
early. Consumers responded by buying more Halloween

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items earlier, including a five hundred
dollars eight foot tall skeleton and using fewer

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discounts than usual to do so.
As a result of our strategic pullback on

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non Halloween seasonal inventory receipts, we
saw exceptionally high sell through rates and meaningful

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approved profitability over the prior year,
said CEO Chris Detulio on an earnings call.

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The retailer is still facing overall losses, but their Halloween related sales show

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that consumer spending for the Helloween season
is still very strong. According to a

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recent Washington Post article, Crampis isn't
coming to town. He's already here.

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From spooky home display and haunts to
ugly Christmas sweaters and craft beer labels,

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this figure of Central European folklore is
popping up more and more around the United

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States each December. Crampus helps balance
the Mariah Carey in the Hallmark Channel,

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says Jason Score, organizer of a
Christmas two Dismember holiday horror convention in Mesa,

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Arizona. It gives us a little
bit of that spooky, that fun,

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that mysterious, that dark side of
things, and we're still celebrating the

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purity of Christmas. Here's a lisdom
haunts so let us know that they are

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open this Christmas season. Thirteenth Floor
Haunted House Denver, Denver, Colorado.

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Thirteenth Floor Haunted House, Houston,
Houston, Texas. Thirteenth Hour Haunted House,

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Wharton, New Jersey. Seven Gates
Screen Park, Niagara Falls, New

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York. Asylum forty nine, tw
el Utah Asylum, Oklahoma, Nowada,

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Oklahoma Asylum X Fort Smith, Arkansas, AZRA Chamber of Horror's Haunted House,

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Madison Heights, Michigan, Bayville,
Haunted Scream Park, Bayville, New York.

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Brighton Asylum, ASAIC, New Jersey, Brimstone Haunt Wilmington, Ohio.

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Chambers of Hell, Hoppage, New
York. Cinema of Horror's Haunted House,

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Kelso, Washington, Dark Chambers Hazel
Green, Wisconsin, Dark Hour, Plano,

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Texas. The Darkness Saint Louis,
Missouri, Dread Hollow Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Factory of the Dead, Saginaw,
Michigan, Beeer Columbus, Columbus,

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Ohio. The Fear PDX Portland,
Oregon, Fiesta Fright Saint George, Utah,

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Wright Haven, Stratford, Connecticut.
Fright Nights West Virginia, Daniels,

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West Virginia, The Haunted Hotel Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, Haunted Trail of

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Chaos London, Kentucky. The Hauntings
of Boogeyman, Haunted House, Mathis,

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Texas, Hauntsville, Haunted House,
Aliria, Ohio, Hillside House of Hell,

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Glenwood, Iowa. Hinterled Haunted Attraction, Ashley, Michigan, Hell's Dungeon,

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Dayton, Ohio, Insanity, Haunted
House, Peru, Illinois, Jail

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of Terror, Newark, Ohio,
Kim's Crypt, Haunted Mill, Scream Park,

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Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Creepy Hollow, Bishopsville, South Carolina, literally

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a Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion,
New Albany, Indiana. Laurel's House of

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Horror, Laurel, Maryland, Lincoln
Mill, Haunted House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

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Malice Manor, Clarksville, Indiana,
Massacre, Haunted House, Montgomery,

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Illinois, Midnight Terror, Haunted House
in Oaklawn, Illinois. Nashville Nightmare Nashville,

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Tennessee. Necro Manor, Haunted House, Bossier City, Louisiana, Necropolis

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Underground, Haunted Attractions, Indianapolis,
Indiana, Nightmare Acres, South Windsor,

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Connecticut. The Nightmare Chamber, Haunted
House, Medford, Oregon, Nightmares from

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Hell, Haunted Attraction Inlay City,
Michigan. Nightmares on the Rogue, Haunted

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Mines, Medford, Oregon, Nowhere
Haunted House inver Grove Heights, Minnesota,

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Pinhead's Graveyard Canton, North Carolina,
Plantation Blood Augusta, Georgia, Rotten Manor,

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Holly, Michigan, Scream Hollow,
Wicked Helloween Park, Mithville, Texas,

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Sir Henry's Haunted Trail, Plant City, Florida, Six Flags Over Texas,

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Arlington, Texas, Spooky Acres,
Haunted House, Norfolk, Virginia,

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Spooky Bottom, Haunted Trail, Seagrove, North Carolina, Strangest Things, Haunted

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Farm Eugene, Oregon, Terror Manor, Roanoak, Virginia, Terror on the

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Coast, Gulfport, Mississippi, Twisted
Haunts La Los Angeles, California. If

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you're in the area of any of
these haunts, make sure you go see

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them because this is the final weekend
many of the haunts listed. Some events

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come up in the new year include
the Halloween and Party Expo in Las Vegas,

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Nevada, January twenty third through twenty
fifth, and Hot Kon in Daytona,

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Beach, Florida, February ninth through
eleven, and that's all for the

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news this week. Today's episode was
produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting

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by Daryl Plunky post production by David
Swope. This hont News Update is a

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