Roundup: Howl-O-Scream Rises Nationwide; The Weeknd in Singapore

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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.

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

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at the link in the show notes. And as always for the news roundup,

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I'm passing it off to Daryl.
Get ready for this year's Haunted Attraction

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Network Hauntathon. Starting September first,
we will celebrate haunted attractions daily via videos,

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podcasts, and articles. Stay tuned
to the podcast this week for a

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preview of this year's Hauntathon content.
Hallow Scream at Bush Gardens, Tampa Bay

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in Tampa, Florida. We'll return
night September eight through October thirty first with

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an all new haunted house, two
new scare zones, and new interactive entertainment

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offerings. This year's event will feature
six spine chilling scare zones, five hair

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raising haunted houses, and four elaborate
entertainment productions. Fan favorite haunted houses such

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as Stranglewood Estate, which of the
woods and the residents home for the holidays,

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will return, as well as infamous
scare zones including the Junkyard, Beyond

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the Vale, the Short Cut,
and Ravens Mill. New for twenty twenty

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three are scare Zones Big Ads,
Demolition, Derby and Sin City, Zombies,

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and a Haunted House dh Pagham's Circus
of Fear. The Forgotten Uprising Haunted

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House has been reimagined with all new
chills and thrills. Eerie entertainment will include

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the Rock the Grave Stage Show,
musical performances by the Rolling Bones, Rave

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Yard Dance Party, and Cirque x
Screams, death defying acts and stunts joining

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in the musical fun with the all
new Scary Oak Experience where fans can sing

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along to their favorite tunes. Hallow
Scream is a separated ticketed event. Tickets,

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upgrades and packages are on sale now
at the event's official website. Hallow

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Scream at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando,
Florida, returns select nights September eight through

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October thirty feet with three new houses, three new scare zones, five Sirens,

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and the return of four fan favorite
attractions. New House Delirium six six

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six Laboratories, Beneath the Ice,
the Meltdown, and Dead Vines. Nolan's

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Nightmare join the reimagined Captain's Revenge,
Drowned in Darkness and Blood Beckoning. The

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three new scare zones Toxic Turmoil,
Blood Light District and Carnevil Pier join returning

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favorites Portal of Passage, Frozen In
Terror, Alive in the Ice, Witchcraft

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Bayou, and Terrors of the Deep. The Hallow Scream experience would not be

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complete without SeaWorld's darkly entertaining, high
energy shows like The Haunting Sirens Song and

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the award winning Monster Stam. Guests
can wench their thirst per fear at a

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variety of fiendishly interactive bars, Carnevil
curiosities new for twenty twenty three, The

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Longshoreman Tavern, Tormented, Poisoned Grotto, and Siren's Last Call. Hello Scream

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is a separately ticketed event. Single
day and multi night tickets are on sale

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at the event's official website. Prepare
to delve into the enigmatic world of Grammy

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winning artists the weekend at Universal Studios
Singapore Halloween Horror Nights in Santosa, Singapore,

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after successful houses in Universal Orlando Resort
in Universal Studios Hollywood last year.

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This new house will feature chart topping
hits from the Weekend's album After Hours and

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Dawn FM. The Weekend After Hours
Till Dawn Nightmare promises a spine tingling journey

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into the singer's mind, where guests
will traverse through the eerie corridors of his

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nightmarish nightclub. The house will feature
five new rooms inspired by Dawn FM.

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Halloween has been significant to my music, and that makes Universal Studios Halloween Horror

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Nights such a fun and novel stage
to bring my music around the world.

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I'm thrilled to have a haunted house
in Singapore and share this experience with my

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fans in Southeast Asia. The Weekend
said in a news release. Universal Studios

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Singapore Halloween Horror Nights eleven will spend
eighteen sli nights from September twenty nine through

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November fourth. Tickets are on Ziale
now starting between seventy nine to eighty nine

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dollars. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween
Party at Walt Disney World in Orlando,

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Florida, held its opening night on
August eleventh. This separately ticketed nighttime event

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features the spell Binding Entertainment Tricker,
treating, festive foods, photo ops,

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Disney characters dressed in their Halloween fast
and more. Entertainment highlight includes Mickey's Booty

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You Halloween Parade, Disney's Not So
Spooky Spectacular featuring projections, special effects,

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music, firework, and the Pumpkin
King Himself, Jack Skellington, and the

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Hocus Pocus fill In Spectacular stage show. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party runs

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select nights through November First. Tickets
are on zale now starting one hundred and

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forty nine dollars two hundred and ninety
nine dollars for adult admission. The Taste

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of Terror at Universal Studios Orlando in
Orlando, Florida, opened on August tenth

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and runs select nights through August twenty
six. The special event features an exclusive

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All You Care to Enjoy preview of
select items that will be featured at the

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Halloween Horror Nights, and options for
alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. Tickets are

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on sale now for one thirty five
ninety nine per person. Castle Park and

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Riverside, California, will celebrate fifteen
years of Fears this Halloween season as it

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transforms into Castle Dark Fridays through Sundays
September twenty second through October twenty nine.

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For its fifteenth season, Castle Dark
will feature five all new experiences, the

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Cinema of Fear and Night Shift Haunts, Shipwreck Cove and Slider Alley interactive shows,

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and the Haunted Highway Antique car ride
overlay. Tickets are on sale now

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starting at twenty four ninety nine,
Warner Brothers, Discovery Global Themed Entertainment,

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and Eagan Escape Productions have joined four
once again to bring fans a second installment

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of Escapeit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Escape It Chapter two features over sixteen

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interactive rooms that bring the hit film
to life, from the Jade of the

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Orient Restaurant to the Dairy Canal,
Days Midway and Pennywises Lair. The Escape

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Room utilizes special effects, lighting,
animatronics, and live actors to create a

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creepy and immersive experience. In addition
to the two Escape Room experiences, the

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venue hosts a lobby area with props
from the film, carnival style midway games,

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and a full scale It themed retail
store with photo ops and exclusive custom

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merchandise. Tickets for Escapeit Chapters one
and two were on sale now starting at

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fifty four ninety nine for single experience
general admission, seventy four ninety nine for

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single private VIP admission, eighty nine
ninety nine for Chapter one and Chapter two

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combo general admission tickets, and one
twenty nine ninety nine for combo VIP tickets.

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Learn more about these escape rooms in
their creation from our interview with Jason

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Egan from March twenty three. Follow
the links in our show notes to find

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this interview. Zombie Joe's Underground Theater
Group is thrilled to bring Urban Death Tour

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of Terror back to North Hollywood,
California, from select nights October sixth through

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October thirty feet of twenty twenty three. Part twisting Haunted House and part theater

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production, Urban Death Tour of Terror
will reach into the depths of the darkest

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corners of the Human Psyche to bring
you their most horrifying show yet. The

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monstrous Freaks are here to terrify and
shock you to your core. After facing

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the spine chilling and often risk a
maze upon entrance, guests will be treated

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to a captivating live show consisting of
a series of shocking and bloody wordless vignettes

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and mind blowing physical performances. Guests
will then face frightening new creatures hiding within

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the reversed version of the scream inducing
Tour of Terror Maze on their way back

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to the real world. Tickets are
on Ziale now, starting at twenty two

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dollars for advanced purchases twenty seven at
the door. Dark Harvest Haunted Attraction will

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be housed in a new location for
twenty twenty three, a three acre lot

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in Garden Grove, California. The
expanded location will allow for two fully themed

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walkthrough attractions, photo ops, and
entertainment. This year's haunt include a sequel

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to the event's twenty twenty two Maize
Shady Pines Asylum, The Escape, and

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The Scary Clowns. Celebrating its eighth
year, Dark Harvest will employ twenty five

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actors, high tech scares, and
spooky sets to startle and scare the communities

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of Orange County. Tickets are on
sale now, starting at thirty dollars for

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general admission and forty five for express
queue. In music news, Midnight Syndicate

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have released their fifteenth studio album,
The Brimstone Club, featuring the soundtracks from

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Imaginary Films concepts. The band helped
pioneer. The Brimstone Club blends orchestration and

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sound effects to take listeners into a
shadowy theater club where the strangeness of its

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exotic entertainment and libations are matched only
by its peculiar clientele. The album was

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inspired by the Parisian Cabaret de la
Alpha, the nineteenth century hell themed cabaret

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that was a four runner to the
Haunted attraction and themed restaurants from the taverns

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of today, said Midnight Syndicate founder
and co composer Edward Douglas. Sometimes a

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piece of history can prove to be
as fascinating as anything one might imagine,

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added Midnight Syndicate co composer Gavin Goscott. Similar to Midnight Syndicate's other albums,

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The Brimstone Glub utilizes music and sound
to tell a story whose details are left

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up to the listener. We hope
people can listen to it at least once,

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from start to finish, in a
quiet, darkened room. There's a

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lot in this world to explore in
your mind's eye, said Douglas. All

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set for summer Camp. Creep It
Reel OC and Santa Ana, California,

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returns to the Heritage Square Museum of
Orange County on September sixteenth and seventeenth,

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twenty twenty three, with a Creepy
Camp theme and a celebration of thirty years

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of Disney's hocus Pocus. In its
fourth year, creep It Reel is presenting

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its largest event to date, filled
with over one hundred and twenty spooky vendors,

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live music and entertainment, food trucks, spirited drinks, photo ops,

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scare actors, and attribute to the
fan favorite film hocus Pocus. The hocus

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Pocus Museum will be a curated exhibit
showing off actual props, costumes, and

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creative treatments from both original feature films. Also meet with the stars of the

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nineteen ninety three classic hocus Pocus,
Vanessa Shaw, Allison, Amri Kats Max

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and Jason Martston, the voice of
banks Cat. Our goal is to create

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and share the environment where local artists, vendors, dei wires, and Halloween

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enthusiasts will join together as a season
ramps up to further ignite the excitement of

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the spookiest time of year. Co
producer Kevin Valentine says tickets are on Ziale

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now starting at fifteen dollars for single
day admission twenty five dollars for weekend passes.

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Admission is free for children ten and
under. The Food Network has released

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their twenty twenty three Halloween programming lineup. The networks Devilishly Delicist slate of programming

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will include five returning favorites, the
Halloween Baking Championship, Halloween Cookie Challenge,

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Halloween Wars, Kids Baking champions Blood
Curdling Bakes, and Outrageous Pumpkins. Are

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you ready to attend some events this
August through October? Make sure you make

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it. Two Creep at real oc
Expo September sixteenth and seventeenth in Santa Ana,

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California, The West Michigan Halloween Expo
September twenty three and twenty fourth in

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Grand Rapids, Michigan. And the
Son of Munster Palooza October thirteenth and fourteenth

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in Burbank, California. There's still
a few. There are still a few

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haunts across the countries that are doing
auditions and casting calls, including Seven Gates

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Scream Park in Niagara Falls, New
York. The Darkness in Saint Louis,

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Missouri, Demon Acres in Hannibal,
New York, Arabis, Haunted Attraction in

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Pontiac, Michigan. Right World America's
Scream Park and Buffalo, New York.

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Hallow Weekends in Sandusky, Ohio.
Haunted Calgary in Balzac, Alberta, Canada.

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Nightmare on Edgewood in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Haunted Hotel in Beaumont,

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Texas, The howl at Meat Open
Farm in Billington, United Kingdom, Jail

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of Terror in Newark, Ohio,
Spooky Ranch in Columbia Station, Ohio.

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And the Village Evil Harvest in Fairburn, Georgia. 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 Swolpe. This Haunt News Update is

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a production of the Haunted Traction Network
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