Happy Holidays, Haunting Community! While the afterglow of the Halloween season has begun to dim, the bright lights of the holidays light our path forward. This year, our Holiday Guide 2023 provides you with the best holiday season lights displays, immersive experiences, drink festivities, and of course, haunted holiday attractions. Heat up some hot cocoa, [...]
The Haunted Soiree: A Macabre Cocktail Party was previously known as House of Spirits: A Haunted Cocktail Soiree—and it was one of our favorite events during the Halloween season. The experience runs two-hours and is sandbox in style, meaning guests have free roam over the entirety of an atmospheric theater, finding monstrous scavenger hunts, demonic [...]
Angel of Light: An Aesthetic Experience “Cigars… Cigarettes….” The concession girl’s voice wafts through the violet air, carried by a heavy fog. I move past her, into the Angel of Light's expansive ballroom, lit like a dream. Deep blues and purples flood the space, as men and women in black tie regalia float past me. [...]
Welcome to Haunting’s 2023 Halloween Guide . This yearly guide details the best experiences that celebrate the Autumn spirit, the spooky season, and the Halloween holiday! Below, you’ll find categories that will introduce you to local haunted houses, conventions, immersive horror experiences, yard displays,, and other horror experiences. We are adopting the same format as [...]
I received a letter from my Aunt Leticia, Matriarch of the Sunflower family. I guess her son, Johnny, has met—and proposed to Judy Rose. Yes, you read that right: a Rose. Us Sunflowers have never gotten along with the Roses, worse than soil and salt; but if I know Leticia, she has something up her [...]
When I was growing up in the 80’s to early 90’s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters were my favorite franchises. I owned a full Ghostbuster suit with a proton pack and, of course, I had every Ninja Turtle as an action figure. Yet, last night, when I stepped into Stranger Things The Experience, I [...]
“Do you believe in ghosts?” James asks me as we traverse deeper down the dark corridor lit only by his lantern light. The coin purse jingles in my hands, reminding me of my mission—to deliver this definitely-not-a-bribe to the Magistrate. But as we walk deeper down into the mausoleum, I worry that I am further [...]
Note: The Nutcracker Suite ballet by the American Contemporary Ballet is my second favorite ballet (just under American Contemporary Ballet’s Inferno and Burlesque). The opening and article contain minor spoilers to the immersive portion of the show, so if you want to be fully surprised, stop reading now and just purchase tickets for this holiday [...]
Stardust is a two-hour (three with VIP or if you get there early) immersive experience by Alterea Inc and directed by Alexander Whitover. Ambitious in fit and form, Stardust introduces participants to over twenty different characters, all of which have distinct and unique tracks that navigate throughout the two floors of the hotel as well [...]
The 28th floor. The elevator takes me straight up. No stops. And the doors open to a mundane office hallway. Nondescript doors on both sides, illuminated by the glow of fluorescent bulbs hidden behind ceiling panels. I walk down the hallway, until the find the door I was instructed to locate. Room 2580. I try [...]
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