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Send us Fan Mail Benjamin Selecky, along with his partner Alexis Abare, are already staples of the haunt community.  As co-owners and co-CEOs of Haunted Farms of America , they've carved out a much-needed niche helping farms launch, operate and grow their haunted attractions. They've become highly sought after experts in agritainment and have assesmbled a broad number of outside experts...

Send us Fan Mail Here at Haunt Weekly we're always looking for ways to improve our podcast. So we finally figured out the best thing we can do is bring on some better podcasteers. And that's exactly whatt we're doing this week as we're joined by Brian Forman and Darryl Plunkie of HaunTopic Radio , Haunters's Toolbox and, most recently, ScareIt Badges. They spend the hour w...

Send us Fan Mail Haunt flyers. Every attraction has them. Most of the suck. However, it doesn't have to be this way. Haunted attractions can and should strive to do better here and, by doing better, we mean doing less. So, in this episode we put both of oour degrees to good use as we sit down to discuss the ins and outs of flyer design so you can get working on your next season's flyer a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, it's another episode divisible by four so that means it's' time to do the news!  It's a bit of a slow news cycle for us. We're in that strange time of year where there's not much post season going on but we're not yet ramping up for the new season. It's a time for conferences and planning, not for making news. But,...

Send us Fan Mail Haunting isn't just for Halloween anymore.  More and more haunts are opening their doors for other holidays in a bid to make some more cash in the off-season. But, if you want to open up out of season, what holidays should you target? There are a LOT of great holidays between New Year's and Christmas but not all of them are suited for haunting. So which one(s) do you do?...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, we have a very special guest as we sit down with Dr. Margee Kerr: The Sociologist Who Studies Fear .  Dr. Kerr has been everywhere. Perhaps best known for her segment on Full Frontal with Samantatha Bee, she's also been in Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post and SyFyWire and so much more. She has so many credentials that it makes you wonde...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing a topic that, for us, has been a LOOOOOONG time coming: Aphantasia in haunting. What is aphantasia? It's the inability to form pictures in your mind. Where most of the population can picture a beautiful beach or a country cottage, people with aphantasia see only words, letters or numbers. Though this was originally discovered in the...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, it's another episode divisible by four so that means it's time to do THE NEWS! However, we're in the slow season for haunted attraction news. This past month covers all of the holidays and, to be frank, not a lot has been going on. Still, there are a lot of updates worth reporting including a new licensed escape game, one haunt closing its...

Send us Fan Mail HAuNTcon 2018 is in the books and we were there for the entire event and then some. So, what happened then? That's what this episode is about, it's our full recap of HAuNTcon 2018 as we look at everything from the classes we attended to the show room floor (both of them). HAuNTcon was a beast of a show there's a lot to say so, be warned that this episode does go a b...

Send us Fan Mail Boy howdy has this movie caused some controversy in the haunt community. Just hours after it hit Netflix people were talking about it left and right in various haunter groups on Facebook and we found ourselves getting multiple requests to cover it. So, cover it we will. But while we share many of the same concerns other haunters have about the film, we also wanted to try and hone...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are back once again, Crystal is adequately recovered from her surgery and we are back to talk about a... video game?  That's right we spent a good part of our time off catching up on some video games and one of the ones we played is  Layers of Fear , a horror-themed walking simulator with some intersting ideas with regards to storytelling and layout/design....

Send us Fan Mail First thing is first everyone, Merry Christmas! While we here at Haunt Weekly certainly haven't been nice enough to justify a visit from Santa (Krampus maybe) we're still giving out gifts this year and that includes an all-new episode of Haunt Weekly. Best of all, since it's another episode divisible by four, that means it's time to do the news.  And a lof of n...

Send us Fan Mail Every year around this time, we take a break from the haunted attraction stuff and, instead, discuss some of our favorite Christmas horror themes. Turns out, when you get down to it, Christmas (and the other winter holidays) is a pretty messed up holiday in a lot of places. So we're continuing that tradition again this year with another slate of Christmas traditions that seem...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, we're celebrating the release of The Disaster Artist by asking a question that we haven't actually asked before: "Can a haunt be so bad it's good?" We talk about films this way all of the time with The Room, the film The Disaster Artist is based on, being an oft-cited example. But, if it can happen in films, can it happen in haun...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing things a bit differently. Rather than talking about haunted attractions we're talking about our fair city, New Orleans. Since many of you are coming down here for HAuNTcon, we wanted to do our part to make sure that you have the knowledge and info to be safe, have a good time and maybe know a few off-the-beaten path places that you...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 100, as most of you remember, was our blowout celebration episode where we definitely did NOT talk about any news. Episode 104 is where the hangover sets in. Now we have to get through two months, the two busines months, of haunt news in one go. So, that's exactly what we're going to try and do (and probably fail miserably in the process).  So, with that in mind,...

Send us Fan Mail Starting any haunted attraction is a daunting challenge. Starting a professional one is much, much more so. However, when Jamie Lee Sullivan and Rickie Haines set out to make their own pro haunt, they didn't even have experience with a home haunt. Though they had been involved with haunted attractions for decades, they had never actually built a haunt in their lives.  So how...

Send us Fan Mail Haunting is hard. It's hard work, it's a hard business and it's hard creatively.  Because of that, we sometimes turn to crutches and lean on things that, maybe, are more out of laziness and lack of ideas than what is actually best. So, in this episode we're taking a look at just some of those crutches, the things we lean on when we're out of ideas but need...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, we're taking it a bit easy. It's been a long, wonderful season so we need to take a moment to relax, reflect and talk about the season that's just finished. And what a season it was. Record numbers, amazing scares and hours of security camera footage to pour over. We've got a LOT left to do but we can't help but take a minute and...

Send us Fan Mail HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! Hope everyone's season is going well and that you're having a safe, scary and (if relevant) profitable October. The big night is just ahead but, for us, this is also a major milestone as we release episode 100 of Haunt Weekly! Due to the time of year and the fact we, like everyone else, is at our busiest, we decided to keep things low key, we&ap...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, we're wrapping up conversation about our Atlanta trip by looking at some of the lessons we learned from it. Many of these lessons come not from anything specific to Atlanta, but rather, from visiting 9 haunts over 4 nights (including 7 haunts in 2 nights). When you do that, you start to see some paterns that you might miss when you go to just one or...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! We have returned from the exotic locale of Atlanta and, along the way, managed to take in 9 different haunted attractions including seven in two nights.  While we really didn't want to make this a "review" episode of Haunt Weekly, it's kind of hard to talk about the trip without it being at least review-like. So, we're going to break down the...

Send us Fan Mail Hope everyone is having a great season and that your haunts are operating as smoothly and as briskly as you like.  For us as home haunters, this part of the month is the time where we head out and visit literally all of the haunts we can. However, we noticed something: It's getting to be a pretty expensive hobby. With that in mind we had to ask ourselves a simple question: Ar...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Haunt Weekly, it's another episode divisble by four and that means it's time to do THE NEWS! If your season hasn't already started it's likely coming up very soon. Either way, this is definitely the busy season for the industry and that's also true for the news about the industry. However, a lot of this week's news isn't all that hap...

Send us Fan Mail As haunters, we like to build things and the things we don't build we usually have a "source" or a "guy" we'd rather buy from. However, that doesn't mean it isn't fun to traipse through the Halloween section at Walmart or swing by your nearest Spirit store at least a couple of times per season.  In this episode, we take a look at Halloween r...