Jan. 11, 2025
NEWS: Valentine Haunts & Drone Crashes
Read this week's stories https://mailchi.mp/hauntedattractionnetwork.com/drone-crash-valentine-haunt. This week: Drone Crash Raises Questions About Safety in Attractions Industry; 2025 Valentine Haunted Houses; 2025 Prep Podcast from Haunter’s...
Read this week's stories here. This week: Drone Crash Raises Questions About Safety in Attractions Industry; 2025 Valentine Haunted Houses; 2025 Prep Podcast from Haunter’s Toolbox; 2024 Spooky Awards to Honor Halloween’s Best; Reminders from the Haunted Attraction Association.
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Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the
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haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the
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HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information and
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education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we
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bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read
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more about these stories and so much more in our
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free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes,
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and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it
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off to Darryl.
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Drone crash raises questions about safety and costs in the
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attractions industry. On December twenty first, multiple drones unexpectedly fell
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during a holiday show at Lake Iola, Orlando, injuring seven
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year old Xander Edgerton, who required open heart surgery. The
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FAA launched an investigation and suspended sky Elements Part one
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oh seven waiver, effectively vulting all night drone flights over
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populated areas. Sky Elements has canceled shows nationwide as investigations continue,
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and Universal Orlando Resort has removed drones from its nighttime spectacular.
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With drones increasingly used in attractions and Halloween events, this
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incident could lead to heightened safety requirements and increased costs
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for drone shows across the industry. We discuss the ramifications
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on this week's Green Tagged podcast. Follow the links in
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our show notes to hear it all. After Christmas, Valentine's
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Day is tied as the most popular time for haunted
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houses to open for off season events. We've begun populating
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a list of haunted houses opening for Valentine's Day, with
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the dates ranging from February eighth through February twenty first,
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suggesting a few haunted houses will try to extend the holiday.
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The latest episode from haunters Toolbox, The Ghosts of Past,
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Present and Future, Alcohol sales, safety, Q linesmores, and more,
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explores essential topics for the haunt industry as twenty twenty
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five approaches. Discussions include selling alcohol at haunts, free marketing
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strategies and campfire rentals, and selling s'mores, concessions and merchandise sales,
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corn maze operations, and preparing for the upcoming season. Upcoming
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on Haunter's Toolbox, Ask the Expert Leonard Pikell a ninety
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minute live Q and a session with Leonard Pikell on Tuesday,
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January fourteenth from seven thirty to eight thirty PMCST. Leonard
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Pickel has over forty years of themed attraction design and
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operations experience, creating more than three hundred original and innovative
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dark themed attractions from major venues worldwide. A pioneer in
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the haunt industry, Leonard has founded key organizations, launched national conventions,
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and been featured as an expert on major television network.
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Twenty twenty four Spooky Awards to honor Halloween's best. The
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Halloween in Costume Association the HCA will host the inaugural
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Spooky Awards at the Halloween and Party Expo in Las
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Vegas on January fourteenth, twenty twenty five, at five pm.
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This event celebrates innovation and creativity in Halloween costumes, accessories,
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and decre with finalist judge on artistry, marketability, and trendsetting potential.
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Learn more about the awards by following the links in
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our show notes. A reminder the HAA Scholarship applications. The
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Haunted Attraction Association is accepting scholarship applications until January thirty,
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first of twenty twenty five. Eligible members, including family and
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staff of small and large haunts and vendors, can apply
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for two one thousand dollars college scholarships and one one
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thousand dollars makeup scholarship. The Haunted Attraction Association is calling
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for donations for its annual auction at trans Worlds Halloween
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and Attraction Show. Proceeds help fund vital industry initiatives like
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the OSCARS Awards and scholarships. If you'd like to contribute,
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please submit your donation using the AHAA auction donation form
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by following the links in our show notes, and we
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thank you for supporting the Haunt community. Valentine's Day Haunted houses.
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These top spooky attractions are coming to you in February
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twenty twenty five. If you want to get your haunt
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on our list, his father links in our show notes
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or in our newsletter to let us know and you
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can be on this list too. In Alabama, Valentine's Haunted
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Houses are Hill Billy Hollow in Vincent, Alabama. California's Valentine
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Haunted Houses, including the two Nine Haunts in Lynden, California.
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Georgia has Lake Joy Trails of Terror in Kathleen, Georgia
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and Screams Haunted Experience in Hoboken, Georgia Indiana. Valentine's Haunted
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houses are Malice Manor in Clarksville, Indiana, and a thirteenth
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Hour Haunted Attraction in Indianapolis, Maryland. Valentine's haunts include Bennett's
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Curse in Baltimore, Maryland and Harrah's Nightmare in Westminster, Maryland.
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Missouri has the Terror and Root sixty six in Sullivan, Missouri,
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and Ohio has got Hell's Dungeon in Dayton, Ohio. Pennsylvania
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includes Haunted Screams Haunted Attraction in Lewiston, Pennsylvania, or Ween
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Haunted Warehouse and Union and Penhurst Asylum in spring City, Pennsylvania.
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South Carolina has Got the Deceased Farm in Lexington, South Carolina,
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while Texas Valentine's Haunted Houses is the Nightmare on Nineteenth
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Street in Lubbock, Texas. Virginia's Haunted house is Terror at
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Potomac Manor in King George, Virginia, and Washington's Valentine's Haunted
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House is in Frightville, Okarb, Washington. Upcoming events through February
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twenty twenty five include the Halloween and Party Expo in
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January thirteenth through fifteenth in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cree by
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e Coon January thirty first through February first in Ontario, California,
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and trans World Talloween and Attraction Show February twenty second
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through March second in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode
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was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl
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Plunky post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update
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is a production of the Haunted Rash Network and you
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