Roundup: Texas Haunters Convention Happens This Weekend

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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. On

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

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and as always for the news roundup,

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I'm passing it off to Darryl.
The Haunted Attraction Association has launched a survey

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for their next three year strategic plan. Three years ago, the AHAA drastically

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changed the rules of their operations for
the better. Based on industry feedback,

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member of satisfaction has risen to nearly
ninety two percent, and they have welcomed

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to increase of over forty two percent
of new members from home and charity haunts

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to high volume attractions. They are
now looking to the future once again with

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this anonymous twenty twenty four through twenty
twenty seven HAA industry wide survey. The

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survey will only take between ten and
twenty minutes, but it is vital in

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helping the AHAA better evaluate where they
have been and where you would like to

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see them go in the future.
The survey is open to the entire industry

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HAA members and non members, owners, staff, vendors, media, scare

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actors, etc. Survey results will
be reported in aggregate to HAA membership and

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the broader industry in twenty twenty four. The survey can be completed by following

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the links in our show notes.
The deadline to submit your response is Thursday,

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July twentieth. The Texas Hunters Convention
takes place this upcoming weekend, July

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fifteenth and sixteenth at the Mesquite Convention
Center in Mesquite, Texas. The event

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will feature over fifty thousand square feet
of family friendly vendors, events, demonstrations,

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and classes targeting Helloween and cosplay enthusiasts. The fund begins the night before

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the convention with a Haunt tour of
both Dark Hour Haunted House and thrill Vania

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Haunted House Park. Weekend programming highlights
include on Sliding one oh one, The

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Ins and Outs Home, Haunt Videography
Part one and two, Marketing Year Attraction,

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and a Chamber of Haunters Annual Board
Meeting, The Annual Costume Ball will

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take place Saturday night, featuring a
live DJ, costume contest, prizes,

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giveaway, cash, bars, and
more. Tickets are still available online with

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weekend schauffloor passes starting at twenty five
dollars per adult and ten per child.

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Halloween Horror Knights is returning to Universal
Studios Japan September eight through November fifth of

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twenty twenty three. Be surrounded in
terror with more zombies than ever before in

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Street Zombies, Scare Zones. Haunted
houses include Chucky's Carnival of Chaos, The

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Universal Monsters, Legends of Fear,
and the Interactive Biohazard The Extreme Plus join

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a wild and bizarre dance party in
Zombie to Dance featuring music by pop star

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Ato. Thrills continue with Sadako's Curse
Dark Horror Ride, which takes over Space

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Fantasy The Ride on September twenty fourth
through January twenty eighth of twenty twenty four.

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Halloween Horror Nights is included in general
usj park admission and occurs every day

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September eighth through November fifth. Halloween
Horror Nights Express Passes are on sale now

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starting at seventy eight hundred to ten
eight hundred yen. The rip Tour will

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also be available for fans who want
to skip the lines and enjoy a dedicated

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tour guide, zombie greeting, special
viewing area for zombie to dance, and

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limited edition gift. Join the Festival
of Fears in Fort Walton Beach, Florida

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for their first ever Summer Scream event
on July fourteenth and fifteenth and twenty first

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and twenty second experience Crypted Hollow,
a new attraction that will only be open

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for the summer season. This is
the first haunt they are opening in their

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new location, which features an all
new expanded midway, multiple mini attractions,

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a new horror gift shop, a
bar, food trucks, and upgraded amenities

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throughout general admission. Tickets are on
sale now for twenty dollars. The Horror

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Project of from Denver, Colorado,
is making its chilling debut at jad's Mile

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High Smoke Lounge on Friday, October
thirteenth. The event will have the unique

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option to enhance them movie watching experience
by offering cannabis for purchase. Attendees can

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elevate their senses and immerse themselves in
a terrifying world of horror flicks like never

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before. Aside from the spine tingling
movie screening, the Horror Project is an

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array of vendors lined up from terrifying
collectibles to spooky art. Fans will have

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the opportunity to take home a piece
of the Horror Magic. Tickets will go

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on sale soon follow the event's official
Instagram account for more information. Pumpkin Hollow

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and Piggot Arkansas used smart technology to
plant the Corn Maze for their thirty first

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annual event. The event collaborated with
local equipment distributors in the University of Arkansas

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System Division of Agriculture in a new
precision AGG approach to construct their maze.

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This new planting process saved a week's
worth of labor and reduced waste. In

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previous year, corn was planted and
then when it reached about a foot tall,

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the team would go out into the
field, measure out and mark the

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design, and then cut the design
of the corn with a mower. In

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the new precision AGG approach, the
pathways of the corn field that are usually

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cut out were never planted in the
first place. The smart technology turned the

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tractor planter on and off in accordance
with a digital design of the Maze.

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To learn more about Pumpkin Hollows twenty
twenty three event, visit their official website.

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Turn on the Dark Entertainment LLC in
Casper, Wyoming, utilized a Wyoming

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program for entrepreneurs to launch a crowdfunding
campaign for the twenty twenty three event.

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In a recent interview with K two
Radio owner Nicholas Johnson describes how he wanted

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to start a business that specialized in
Halloween attractions, but he was always told

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that Wyoming wasn't big enough to support
such a venture. In twenty twenty one,

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Johnson entered the Visit Casper Business Challenge, which offered seed money for tourism

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related businesses in the Casper area.
Although he did not win, his business

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placed in the top five entrances.
He continued to search for funding opportunities,

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finally discovering Advanced Casper and the Local
Crowd Center for Wyoming, which offered a

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platform. With the crowdfunding campaign.
With less than a week to go in

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the campaign, turn on the Dark
Entertainment LLC has raised nearly four thousand dollars

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towards their Haunt funding goal. Johnson
plans to open Casper, Wyoming's first Haunt

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in October twentieth, twenty twenty three. Follow the crowdfunding campaign and all of

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the Turn on the Dark Entertainment LLC's
event on their official Facebook page. A

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few upcoming events this July through September
include the Texas Haunters Convention July fifteenth and

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sixteenth in Mesquite, Texas. Or
Rween Cohn, Idaho. July twenty first

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through twenty third in Boise, Idaho. Midsummer Scream July twenty eighth through thirtieth

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in Long Beach, California. Ghosts
of Summer July twenty ninth through thirtieth in

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Portland, Oregon. Creep at Real
oc Xpo September sixteenth through seventeenth in Santa

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Ana, California. West Michigan Halloween
Expo September twenty third and twenty fourth in

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Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ready for
your additioner casting call, well check out

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the following arks. Mortist in killin
Alabama, Blood Prison in Mansfield, Ohio,

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Crawford School of Terror in Connellsville,
Pennsylvania, Creatures of the Night at

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Zoo Tampa, Tampa, Florida.
Crooked Descendant in Herkim in New York.

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Dark Knights at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Darkness in Saint Louis,

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Missouri, Darkside, Haunted Estates in
Middlesex, North Carolina, The Dent

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Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, Demon
Acres in Hannibal, New York. A

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Louis Asylum in Westland, Michigan.
Arabis Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan.

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Extreme Fear Scare Grounds in Kinston,
North Carolina. Field of Screams Kentucky,

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Brandenburg, Kentucky, Fright Nights West
Virginia, Daniel's West Virginia, Interland Haunted

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Attraction Ashley, Michigan, Nightmare Cleveland
and Cleveland, Ohio, Scream Dreams in

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Thomasville, North Carolina, Scream Hollow
in Smithsville, Texas, Southern Screams in

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North Charleston, South Carolina. Terror
Vault in San Francisco, California, un

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Dead in the Water Tampa, Florida, and Woods of Terror in Greensboro,

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North Carolina. Follow the links in
your show notes or reply to your newsletter

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email to let us know about your
haunted attraction. Looking to visit a haunted

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attraction this summer. Blood Prison in
Mansfield, Ohio, and Cinema Horrors.

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Haunted House in Kelso, Washington,
along with Festival of Fears in Fort Walton

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Beach, Florida, are open various
dates through July. And that's all for

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

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reporting by Darryl Plunky post production by
David s Folk. This Haunt News Update

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