Haunted Attraction Network

It's another episode that's divisible by four and that means its time to do the news! And what a week do we have for you guys. We have attempted arson, a haunted house run by a retirement community and one of the craziest haunt moves I've ever heard of. Since this episode covers a bit of the end of the season and most of November, we get a good mix of in-season news and stories about upcoming holi...

Based on a suggestion from the "A Scott in the Dark" Facebook group, Scott uses his visit to ChristmasTown at Busch Gardens Tampa to discuss the similarities and changeover process between Halloween and Christmas Events. This episode was recorded on opening night of ChristmasTown 2019.

Last week, we discussed how to find what your pricing should be for your haunt. This week, we're looking at how to increase your prices if you decide you need more pert ticket and how you can make it more palatable to the customer. The simple truth is this: Price increases suck. Nobody likes them. That said, there are ways that you can raise your prices and not lose your customers. In fact, you ca...

Scott shares ideas to recognize and celebrate the cast between haunt seasons...let's keep the after dark family together!

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're talking about pricing your haunt. Choosing the price for your haunt is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make with it and it's one of the easiest to get wrong. Price too high, no one comes. Too low and you can never turn a profit. So how do you do it? That's the topic of this week's episode as we look into some approaches for finding your haunt's tick...

A collection of recordings done over the Halloween Weekend 2019. Scott talks to SpOoOoky Steve, the winner of the 2019 Trick or Tweet story telling competition at Tampa Theatre, gives his view of Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa, chats about closing night at Undead in the Water at The American Victory Ship and reads a piece from his newest book, Awake in the Dark.

Everyone, the 2019 season is in the bag and that means all eyes should be on 2020. But, before we get back to slinging panels and building props, it's worthwhile to take a moment and examine the lessons that we learned. However, this year is a little bit different as we were actually closed due to road construction. So, we have to look outisde our haunt to find things we can learn and, fortunatley...

ScareHouse is on hiatus for 2019 while the attraction relocates, but the team announced two new experiences for this Halloween Season—a remodeled version of The Basement plus a new escape room, Stalked by a Killer. Both attractions are open Thursday through Sunday from October 17 to November 2. Scott Simmons (co-owner and creative director of ScareHouse) has been haunting for 35 years, and the new...

The ScareTrack team experience the Contained Liverpool Press Night! Click and listen too our full review of the TWO brand new attractions at Contained Liverpool. ............................................................................................................................ BUY CONTAINED TICKETS HERE: https://www.containedliverpool.co.uk/ ..................................................

Last weekend we had to record early because we were making the long trip to Houston. Well, we're back and, after having hit nine haunts in just three nights, we have a LOT to talk about. We visited two trail haunts, three scream parks, one tourist attraction and three traditional haunts. It was a wild trip with hours and hours punctuated with trips to some of the best-known haunts in the region. S...

Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan, is debuting three haunted houses in a new venue that’s 6X as large as the previous space. The trio of haunted houses—Descent, Coven, and Rosecliff Hall—reside inside a 40,000-square-foot-building for one admission price. Hush opened on September 27th for the 2019 Halloween season and continues every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and on select weeknight...

For the 2019 Halloween season, Cross Road Escape Games unveiled a unique, theatrical horror experience with escape-game overtones—The Séance—which opened on October 2nd and will continue on through though November 3rd. Ticket costs range from $45 to $60 per person depending on the date and time. Each séance group is a maximum of eight people, and guests must be 16 years and older. Madison Rhoades,...

Dead Factory, located in Mexico, Missouri, is a 30-minute, linear walkthrough experience in a 12,000-square-foot building. Guests enter the realm of Dr. Phil Phobia, a deranged neuroscientist who specializes in the wide variety of human fears. Dr. Phobia’s allows guests to get up close and personal with common phobias, which change yearly. Dead Factory is open from October 4th, 2019 to November 2n...

ScareTrack - Thorpe Park Fright Nights 2019 / On-location Review The ScareTrack team experience the 3 mazes at Thorpe Park Fright Nights 2019 Listen now to hear our thoughts on their brand new attraction Creek Freak Massacre ............................................................................................................................ BUY FRIGHT NIGHT TICKETS HERE: https://www.thorpep...

We're more than just haunt builders, we're major haunt customers. It's one of our favorite things to do and we spend north of $1,000 per year just going to haunts. But, as much as we love it, there are times that haunts kind of tick us off. Usually not intentionally, but they're things where, if the haunt had just done nothing, we would have been much happiier. So, with that in mind, here are seve...

The ScareTrack team experience the Tulleys Shocktoberfest VIP Press Night! Tulleys Shocktober Fest the world-famous Scream Park, located in Crawley England. The Scare attraction features over 18 nights of fright, book now or miss out! Click and listen too our full review of Tullys 2 brand new attractions along with the rest of this amazing Scream Park.

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're playing catch up as we cover all of the news we didn't get to cover in Episode 200 due to our anniversary celebrations. And news we do have as it's the busy season for haunted attraction news. We start off with a two-fer about a haunt in Missouri that was so bad it hurt other haunts in the area, We discuss the second coming of both the Slipknot haunt and the Six Fl...

The multiple award-winning event ‘Horror Nights – Traumatica’ takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. In the immersive live story world, 5 factions all vie for control of Traumatica. The more you know about the world of Traumatica, the more immersed you can become. Visitors (minimum age 16) can experience their very own horror movie here. During Horror Nights – Traumatica, visitors follow a trail...

“This isn’t just an old warehouse building in some downtown area. It's an actual fort with real buildings that give people a completely different haunt experience.” Those are the words of Matt Schanandore, Creative Director for Haunted Fort, which is a seasonal attraction that takes place every October at Fort Abraham Lincoln near Mandan, North Dakota. The site is a reconstructed military fort fro...

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, Lancashire, North West England. Mikey and Hannah visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the Freak Nights Press Preview event. We find out more about this first time event and interview some of the creative minds behind it.

It is our 200th episode and, to celebrate, we're going through our entire library and highlighting the best of the best. That's right, we both blindly picked 12 episodes we thought worthy of mentioning. Of the 12 we each picked, we had four we agreed on leaving us with 16 episodes we each wanted to highlight and 4 that we both agreed on. This gives us our top 20 episodes (with some extreme caveats...

Evac Scare Attraction returns to the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield on Fri 11th October 2019 - Sat 12th October 2019. For nearly half a decade all had been quiet at the Museum, until in the dead of night the telephone rang! A dark, mysterious voice spoke just three chilling words. “They’re Back... Again.” After four years the award winning Scare Attraction returns to the National...

The ScareTrack team experience the biggest launch night ever at Farmaggedon. Click to listen to on-location screaming, crying and laughter with our review of all 4 attractions. ............................................................................................................................ BUY FARMAGGEDON TICKETS HERE: https://farmaggedon.co.uk .............................................

It's been a rough few days around here. Earlier this week we learned that we have no choice but to cancel our 2019 season due to road construction and safety concerns. This, obviously, has us gut wrenched and we were forced to throw away our planned episode this week and, instead, talk about this. So, if you don't want a bummer of an episode, skip this one or revisit any of the other 198 that we h...

An abandoned theme park sat deserted for years after a horrific accident, but now, the chaotic and haunted remains of what was once a fun-filled playland are coming back to life. Slaughterland, located in Binghamton, New York close to the Pennsylvania border, will feature four attractions—Dark Magic, Wendigo Woods, Frightmares 3D, and Fallen Fairgrounds. Two of these are indoor haunts, and two are...