Oct. 3, 2023

Roundup: Join the Haunted Attraction Network this weekend for Blood & Bones

Roundup: Join the Haunted Attraction Network this weekend for Blood & Bones

Join the Haunted Attraction Network this weekend for Blood & Bones: The Ultimate Fan Experience; The Anaheim Fall Festival celebrates its centennial; The Edgar Alllan Poe Speakeasy cocktail experience comes to Philadelphia; Ring in Halloween with...

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Join the Haunted Attraction Network this weekend for Blood & Bones: The Ultimate Fan Experience; The Anaheim Fall Festival celebrates its centennial; The Edgar Alllan Poe Speakeasy cocktail experience comes to Philadelphia; Ring in Halloween with a Spooktacular Sleepover at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater; The Pageant of the Monsters announces their theme for 2023 - "Maze of the Minotaur"; Discovery Cube hosts second annual Pumpkin Palooza event; New haunt ScareScape opens in the Inland Empire September 29th; Midsummer Scream returns July 26 - 28, 2024; Butterfinger becomes Spirit Halloween's official candy bar; HalloweenCostumes.com lists 2023 costume trends.

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

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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.
Join the Haunted Attraction Network this weekend

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on Saturday, October seventh for Blood
and Bones, the Ultimate Fan Experience in

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San Francisco, California, from show
producers Joshua Grannell, features Christ and David

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Flower. Comes in experience that's taken
the Bay Area by storm and already garnered

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a cult like following. Brimming with
freakishly fabulous performances, this hybrid Haunt theatrical

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horror show leaves you begging for more. At this ultimate fan experience, you

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will get to experience the initiation here
from show producers Joshua Grannell, phs Christ

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and David Flower during a panel Shake
your Bones with Skeleton Sam from Lovecraft and

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even get bloody with exclusive photo moments. Get your tickets today for this exciting

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event. The Anaheim Fall Festival in
Anaheim, California, one of the longest

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running civic celebrations of Halloween in the
US, celebrates its centennial this October.

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The festival itself was established in nineteen
twenty three, while it's associated Anaheim Halloween

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Parade was established in nineteen twenty four. This year, both events occur on

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Saturday, October twenty eighth, with
a festival taking place eleven am to six

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pm, followed by the parade kickoff
at seven pm. The Anaheim Fall Festival

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and Halloween Parade represent a welcoming,
family oriented, whimsyfield day of Cossack hometown

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Halloween fun and a throwback to Anaheim
small town roots, states Jody Daily,

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president of the Anaheim Fall Fair.
Now that the festival and parade as celebrating

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their back to back one hundred year
anniversaries, we are proud to have been

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able to keep the festival and parade
feeling authentic, handmade, and citizen centric,

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with a design nod to the nineteen
fifties but representing the terrific cultural diversity

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of today's Anaheim come to the festival
to enjoy an old fashioned Halloween carnival with

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local artists, live music, magic
shows, costume contests, float decorating variety,

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acts, crafts, foods, treats, and photo ops. The Edgar

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Allan Poe Speakeasy Chilling Cocktail Experiences coming
to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for one weekend

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only on October twelfth through fourteen.
The submersive pop up Dark Speakeasy will celebrate

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the stories of Edgar Allan Poe with
four of his most famous stories retold and

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reimagined by Poe historians. The events
maccab lead mixologist will transform each of those

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stories into a four part cocktail experience
that is paired with live entertainment and storytelling.

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Over a century and a half after
Edgar Allen Poe's death, this cocktail

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experience brings the most beloved works of
Poe to life, off the page and

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onto the stage, said VBG Group
Director of Marketing Ryan Wissarek. Come out

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for an immersive evening that pairs four
tales with a dash and history and heavy

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libations. We love Poe's work and
wanted to celebrate it. This is our

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favorite national traveling show and we can't
wait to introduce it in Philadelphia, where

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Poe found so much inspiration for some
of his most famous works. It was

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important for us to bring Poe to
a neighborhood here where Poe had a strong

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connection. Tickets are on sale now
for fifty five dollars per person and include

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four cocktails, venue admission, and
the interactive show. Guests must be twenty

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one and over. Spend the night
at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los

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Angeles, California during their Spooktacular sleep
Over October thirtieth. The event runs ten

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pm October thirtieth through eight am October
thirty first. The event will include a

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backstage tour of the workshop, audio
archives, and library, pizza party and

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snacks, screening of a Halloween movie, tarot card readings, breakfast, cereal

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bar, and much more. Bring
your sleeping bag, but don't expect to

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get much sleep. Tickets begin at
two hundred and fifty dollars for an individual

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and four hundred for a two ticket
package. Proceeds directly benefit Bob Baker Marionette

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Theater and Omission of Preservation, education
and innovation at the intersection of puppetry and

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the Allied Arts. This event is
recommended for guests ages thirteen and over.

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And that's all for the news this
week. Today's episode was produced by me

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Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl
Plunky post production by David Swolk. This

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Haunt News Update is a production of
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