Roundup: Midsummer Scream is This Weekend

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the h A N 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 Darrow. Midsummer's Scream will take place this weekend, July twenty eight through thirtieth at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. The event features an exhibit floor with over three hundred and fifty spooky vendors, the Hall of Shadows, Mini Haunts, the Screaming Room, panels, presentations, performances, paranormal Pixies, Pumpkin Patch, Children's Zone, the Black Cat Lounge, Day Night Party, and more. Programming highlights include the Hot Haunts for twenty twenty three, Not Scary Farm, fiftieth anniversary presentation, Happy Haunts Materialize behind the scenes of Disney's Haunted Mansion, and Halloween Horror Nights. Presentation. Midsummer Scream also hosts a wide range of classes and make and take workshops for hands on learning. View their full schedule of panels and presentations on your show via their app. The Hall of Shadows Mini Haunts area will feature nearly twenty haunts and attractions, dungeon entryway designed by cal haunt S, Decayed Brigade, slider performances, and more. Tickets are on sale now with single day adult admission passes starting at thirty five dollars to one hundred and

1:41 forty dollars for a three day VIP gold bat pass. Follow the links in our show notes. Ghosts of Summer takes place this weekend July twenty ninth and thirtieth at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. With over sixty thousand square feet of spooky fun, The event features one hundred and fifty plus vendors, live performances, in drafting experiences, home haunts, panels and presentations, and more. The Traveling Vampire Show will host a costume contest both days of the event, with first place prize packages valued at three hundred and fifty dollars. Enter by July twenty eighth to take part. Tickets are on sale now, starting at twenty four dollars for single day adult general admission and forty dollars for two day passes. Hollow Scream at Sea World San Diego in San Diego, California is re emerging for a third year select night September twenty ninth through October thirty first, offering guests a frightful and spine tingling Halloween nighttime event with haunts, scare zones, theme bars, music, and more. Plan ahead and prepare for the scares. With a sinister sale. Now on through July thirtieth, guests can purchase Hollow Screams single night tickets for up to sixty percent off. Single day tickets start at thirty three ninety nine and for one hundred and four dollars ninety nine cents. Guests can test themselves with unlimited scares and unlimited mission tickets for the events drop dead prices this low won't last long expires at eleven fifty nine pm on Sunday, July thirtieth. Tickets are now on sale for Not Scary Farms fiftieth anniversary season. Knots Berry Farm in Buena Park, California will host the Halloween event for twenty nine select nights between September twenty

3:15 first and October thirty first. The fiftieth anniversary line up will include ten haunts, five scare zone, and four live shows. Knots has not yet announced the specific maze show and scare zone line up. Stay tuned for announcements in the coming days. Tickets start at fifty nine ninety nine. Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania is currently looking to fill more than two hundred and fifty positions for its annual Phantom Fall Fest. Available positions include scare actors, makeup artists, and other service roles. Hiring events will begin in August. Interested individuals can apply via the park's official jobs website. Darkness is sweeping over Hersheypark, Pennsylvania weekends from September fifteenth through October twenty ninth, as Dark Knights returns for twenty twenty three. This year's event will include five haunts, three spine chilling scare zones, rides, special entertainment, and more. New for twenty twenty three is Haunt Anti Mordem's Abattoir and scare Zone fallout Zone. Admission to Dark Knights is included with the Hershey Park Halloween ticket, and those who want to get to the thrills faster can upgrade with fast Track. Tickets are on sale now starting at forty nine ninety nine. Scream Agedtin in Dade City, Florida is adding a new interactive experience for the twenty twenty three Haunt Breach Omni Labs Reckless experiments un least mutant creature human hybrids, which the few surviving scientists are calling weapons grade organic life forms. Visitors entering Breach will be faced with an important decision. Should you explore Omnilabs and simply watch the action, or should you mark yourself to truly interact with the creatures. Those ages eighteen plus

4:48 who opt in for a truly interactive experience may be grabbed, held back, sent into hidden cells, removed from the group, or even forced to remain choose wisely. Breach joins five other Scream MC getting attractions for the season, Rage three D, Bloodwater Bayou, Zombie Paintball Assault, Ravenhill Asylum, and Demons Revenge, as well as a Monster Midway and Beer Garden. Tickets are on sale now starting at thirty one ninety five to fifty two ninety five. Step into your wild as nightmares with Scarescape, an all new haunt experience coming to Murrita, California this fall nineteen select night September twenty ninth through October twenty ninth. Scarescape promises an unforgettable experience that goes beyond reality, beyond fear, mercing guests in a truly nightmarished mension. The event features three GA mazes, one VIP maze, bars, VIP lounge, live entertainment, roaming monsters, food trucks, a vendor marketplace, and more. We're excited to introduce Scarescape to the SoCal haunt scene and provide a spooky haunted experience that highlights the talent and creativity of our local community shared Lexi Beru Creative Minds Productions. We designed each maze to embody some of the most archetypal and fears that humans experience.

6:00 From calbroophobia the fear of clowns, to pasmophobia, fear of ghosts and the supernatural, Scarscape will take you on a terrifying exploration of humankind's deepest fears. Tickets are on sale now starting at twenty five dollars for GA tickets and forty five for VIP. Early bird buyers can use promo code Spooky Summer to save ten dollars on GA tickets through July thirty first. Upcoming events from July through September include the Midsummer Scream July twenty eighth through thirtieth and Long Beach, California. Ghosts of Summer July twenty ninth and thirtieth in Portland, Oregon, Creep at Real oc Xpo September sixteenth and seventeenth in Santa Ana, California, and the West Michigan Halloween Expo September twenty third and twenty fourth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Is your haunt doing additions and casting calls. Let us know by replying to your newsletter or following the links in our show notes like these ones have RX Mortis in Killing, Alabama, Blackcraft Haunt in Salem, Massachusetts, Blood Prison in Mansfield, Ohio, Crawford School of Terror in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Creatures of the Night at Zoo Tampa and Tampa, Florida, Krooked Descent in Herkimer, New York, Dark Knights at Hershey Park, and Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Darkness in Saint Louis, Missouri, Darkside, Haunted Estates in Middlesex, North Carolina, The Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, Ohio. Demon Acres in Hannibal, New York. Eloise Asylum in Westland, Michigan. Arabis Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan. Extreme Fierce Scare Grounds in Kinston, North Carolina.

7:35 Field of Screams Kentucky in Brandenburg, Kentucky. Fright Nights West Virginia and Daniels, West Virginia. Haunted Hills, Farm Trail and Hayride Jasper, Georgia, Hinterland Haunted Attraction in Ashley, Michigan. Nightmare Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, Phobia, Haunted Trail in Caledonia, Ohio. Scream Hollow in Smithsville, Texas, Southern Screams in North Charleston, South Carolina. Terror Vault in San Francisco, California, Undead in the Water in Tampa, Florida. Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina. And for those of you in Alberta, remember you can visit Haunted Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, this coming weekend. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunkey. Post production by David Swolk. This haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Traction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Traction network dot com.

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