Haunt Weekly

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're looking at some of the meanest reviews that large, well-loved haunted attractions have ever received.This isn't to call out those haunts, but to show that even the best attractions sometimes get ugly one star review. But how many of these are customers gone wild or actual haunt issues? That's what we're trying to find out.This Week's Episode Includes: 1. Intro2. Work We Did for Our Haunt3. Question of the Week4. The Origin of This Episode5. 6 Haunts Get Their Mean Reviews Read6. We Read Ours7. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly it is time to do the news! And it's a quiet month for haunted attraction news but there are plenty of stories for us to sink our teeth into.We have the latest on the Hotel of Terror, a casket washing up on Galveston beach and, yes, that terrible Willy Wonka event in Glasgow.So kick back and relax as we go through the haunt news that is not fit to print.This Week's Episode Includes: 1. Intro2. Work We Did for the Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Conference Reminders5. Springfield, KY Leaders Negotiating with Hotel of Terror - https://www.ky3.com/2024/02/13/springfield-city-leaders-discussing-proposal-end-debate-over-hotel-terror-property/6. The Sad/Hilarious Willy Wonka Event - https://www.audacy.com/wwl/news/local/coffin-on-texas-beach-stirs-up-social-media7. New Haunted Amusement Park Coming to NY - https://wyrk.com/haunted-amusement-park-clarence/8. Scream Break Returns to Six Flags - https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/travel/scream-break-returns-march-16-april-7/ar-BB1jsT

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're taking a more positive approach as we discuss trends we're seeing in the haunt industry that we hope will continue and grow even stronger.Whether it's better accessibility to all, improved marketing or a more diverse vendor landscape, there are a LOT of reasons to be positive about the future of the industry.Here is just a handful of them!This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did for the Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Apologies for Being Late5. Good Luck to Everyone at Transworld6. A Quick Aside About Glasgow's Willy Wonka Event7. Trends We Hope Will Grow in the Haunt Industry8. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're letting you write the episode as we discuss 13 trends we hope will die in the haunt industry, as commented by you.So what were your least favorite haunt trends and what are our thoughts on them? That's the exact questions of this week's episode and, believe me, there's a lot of trends to go around.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did on the Haunt3. Conference Reminders4. Intro to the Topic5. 13 Trends You Said Should Die6. ClosingAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're talking about haunt trends that we wish would just go away... permanently.That's right, we're covering ten of our least favorite things we see in haunted houses and why we think it's past time the industry moved on.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Question of the Week3. This Week's Question of the Week4. 10 Haunt Trends We Wish Would Go Away5. OutroAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news! We have a haunt putting on a special show for a conference, the world's smallest escape room and a petition to save a long-gone but still beloved haunted attraction.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did for the Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Conference Reminders5. Spanish Company Introduces World's Smallest Escape Room - https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/worlds-smallest-escape-room-is-coffin-2024-01-25/6. A Petrified Forest Does Special Show for Megacon - ç7. Contain Introduces Haunt Elements to FPS GEnre - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/this-spec-ops-haunted-house-shooter-got-me-thinking-about-unexpected-scares-in-call-of-duty8. Anarchists Build Haunt to Raise Money - https://crimethinc.com/2024/01/19/how-to-host-a-haunted-house-with-a-video-walkthrough9. Petition to Revive Long Gone Washington Haunt - https://www.change.org/p/reopen-our-beloved-haunted-attraction-in-washington-court-house-oh10. ConclusionsAll in all, this i

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're talking about empowering people, specifically how you can help empower your fellow haunters and your customers through the art of fear.For many people, haunting gives them a very real sense of pride, control and achievement that they can take into other parts of their lives. Here's how to nurture that experience.This Week's Episode Includes;1. Intro2. Work We Did for Our Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Intro to the Topic5. Ways to Empower Fellow Haunters6. Ways to Empower Customers7. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're taking a look at the things you can learn from reality TV and why your guilty pleasure TV time may not be as big of a waste of time as some may think.To that end, you can learn a great deal from reality TV, from learning what your particular tastes are, mastering new techniques and even basic skills like communication and business operations."Trash TV" can be surprisingly useful to a haunter...This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Housekeeping3. Work We Did for the Haunt4. Question of the Week5. Conference Reminders6. Our Recent Reality TV Viewing Habits7. Things You Can Learn from Reality TV8. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, due to illness, we are revisiting an older episode where we sat down with Dwayne Sanburn from the 13th Gate. A great interview with a great haunter.Check out part two of the interview here: https://www.hauntweekly.com/1991532/10646240-haunt-weekly-episode-70-dwayne-sanburn-2-13th-gate-----Previous Notes: This week on Haunt Weekly, we sit down with a legend in the industry, Dwayne Sanburn of the 13th Gate Haunted House, Necropolis 13, 13th Gate Room Escapes and Midnight Productions.In this episode we sit down with Dwayne and discuss his haunt history including how he got started in the business, how he opened his first haunt and the path to having one fo the haunts that is consistently listed on top ten haunted attraction lists across the country.What we learn is that Dwayne's path to haunt success was not a linear one, it was a journey that involved a lot of hard work, more than a dash of inspiration and suffering through a few setbacks as well.So take a moment and spend the ho

This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news! We have a lot of important stories this week including the latest on a haunt owner pleading guilty to sexual assault, a haunt that is facing imminent domain and two major acts of haunt charity.Not bad for a January.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Housekeeping Notes3. Question of the Week4. Conference Reminders5. Haunt Manager Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault - https://gantnews.com/2023/12/20/clearfield-man-pleads-guilty-in-sexual-assault-case/6. Field of Screams Gives Away 100 Christmas Trees - https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/field-of-screams-lancaster-county-christmas-tree-giveaway/521-81558f5c-dbe7-4c10-b469-d5832f03b15a7. Canadian Home Haunt Donates $18,000 to Local Food Bank - https://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/big-scares-generate-big-bucks-for-tri-cities-food-bank-80358888. Reaper's Realm Faces Imminent Domain - https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/hammond-moves-to-replace-reapers-realm-haunted-house-in-his

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're taking a look at the (now expanding) public domain and what in there might be of good use for haunted houses.Due to a copyright extension, no new works entered into the public domain from 1999-2019. However, now things are lapsing every year including early versions of Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse and the rest of the Sherlock Holmes stories.So what's in the public domain that may be good for haunters to use? It turns out a lot. There's even some weird quirks that caused much newer works to lapse way before their time.Special Thanks:Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/Screen Rant: https://screenrant.com/best-public-domain-horror-movies-ranked/This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did on Our Haunt3. The Question of the Week4. Intro to Copyright and the Public Domain5. 2019-2024 Public Domain Entrants6. Random Things in the Public Domain7. Historical Public Domain Characters8. ConclusionsAll in al

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're celebrating the new year by both looking back at the year that was and looking ahead to the opportunities and challenges we see for the 2024 season.To that end, 2023 was a challenging season with many haunts reporting staffing shortages, lower numbers and rising costs. So, will 2024 break those trends? That's what we look at in this episode!This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro 2. Work We Did for the Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Conference Reminders5. Look at Last Years Predictions6. This Year's Predictions7. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're talking about flat black walls. We promise, it's at least slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.That's because we're talking about how to quickly and easily decorate such walls. After all, we've all been there and run out of time to detail, here's how to fix it. But if that doesn't sound interesting to you, that's ok. We also get to discuss Decomposed Haunted House's Christmas show, as well as Christmas shows more broadly.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did on Our Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Decomposed Haunted House5. Fixing Flat Black Walls6. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're celebrating episode 420 (nice) the only way we can...By doing a regular news episode...That's right, we're covering all the haunted attraction news that is fit to print including a possible Terrifier haunted attraction, a huge home haunt that's avoided closure and much, much more!This Wee's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did on Our Haunt3. Update on Last Week's Episode4. Question of the Week5. Conference Reminders 6. Haunt Owner Pleads Not Guilty to Sexual Assault - https://www.seehafernews.com/2023/12/04/haunted-attraction-owner-pleads-not-guilty-on-sex-assault-charges/7. Terrifier Haunts House a Possibility - https://screenrant.com/terrifier-art-the-clown-video-game-haunted-house-experience-creator-plans/8. Spooktacular Documentary Looks at America's First Haunted Theme Park - https://horrorfuel.com/2023/11/20/documentary-spooktacular-explores-americas-first-haunted-attraction-in-new-clip/9. Terror Vault's The Initiation Returns i

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're not discussing haunted attractions. Instead, we're taking our year "holiday" divergence to talk about something that means a great deal to us.Rather, we're talking with someONE who means a great deal to us and that is George Patience, the performer behind I HATE XMAS, one of the all-time great anti-Christmas tracks.So sit down with us as we sit down with him and he tells us the history of this amazing song in what can only be described as a celebrity-filled interview, that discusses the crazy times in mid-80s Hollywood. Check Out I HATE XMAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PrNn...Also now available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms...This Week's Episode Includes: 1. Intro2. Interview with George Patience3. ClosingAll in all, this is one amazing interview that you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

As per the intro, go check out George Patience's song "I Hate Xmas" here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PrNnVq3CAQ&t=0s ---- Previous Notes ----This week on Haunt Weekly, we're not actually talking much about haunted houses and instead are looking at one of our holiday traditions: The Anti-Christmas PlaylistOur Anti-Christmas playlist is a (nearly) 20-year tradition that started on burned CDs for our car and has grown to a mammoth YouTube playlist with over 80 tracks and 4 hours of music.For the first time ever, we're opening that list up to you and the world, you can view it here: https://tinyurl.com/antixmas2020If you want a guide to that list, well, that's what this episode is all about! This Week's Episode Includes:IntroQuestion of the WeekHousekeeping NotesWhat We've Been Working OnRaven's Grin Inn GoFundMe (https://tinyurl.com/goravensgrin)Why Do We Make the List?What is an Anti-Christmas List?Parodies of Christmas SongsParodies of Mainstream SongsNew

This week on Haunt Weekly we're sitting down with Japes Palles to discuss not only how the Niles Scream Park event went, but also the upcoming event supporting Jim Warfield and Raven's Grin Inn.So, I'm going to skip the usual longer show notes and just encourage you to visit the event's page and get a ticket if you can go or donate if you cannot.https://app.hauntpay.com/events/Forev...Jim is an industry legend that needs to no introduction. However, that's not going to stop the three of us swapping memories about him and the house that he built.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Interview with Japes Palles3. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news! We have all the latest news from the haunted attraction industry, including an update on McKamey Manor, several stories of haunts being robbed and a small-town haunt that is approaching 40 years.In short, we're wrapping up the 2023 haunt season with all the news that is fit to discuss!This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Congrats to Maximus3. Question of the Week4. Conference Reminders4. McKamey Manor Investigated by Tennessee AG - https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/mckamey-manor-tn-ag-looking-into-claims-against-extreme-haunted-attraction/5. Halloween Decorations Cause Controversy - https://abcnews4.com/news/local/halloween-decorations-stir-controversy-in-wagner-terrace-over-alleged-racial-connotations6. Props Stolen from Fresno Home Haunt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZJnMue5847. Props Missing from Michigan Haunt - https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/muskegon/halloween-props-missing-from-popular-comstock-park-at

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're saying it loud and proud: Haunting is for everyone!However, there are numerous people who are intimidated to try. Maybe it's due to a physical issues, a fear of being the new actor in the haunt and so forth.So, if you think you can't be scary, here's why you're wrongThis Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Work We Did on Our Haunt3. Question of the Week4. Brief McKamey Manor Talk5. Why We're Doing This Top6. Reasons People Think They Can't Scare7. Simple Scares That Anyone Can Do8. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one show that you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

This week on Haunt Weekly, it's early November, so that means it's time to talk about how our haunt season went.From a haunt perspective, it was our best season ever with great haunt, amazing visitors and plenty of laughs and smiles shared. That said, there are a few issues that we wanted to go over and improve next year.So sit back and relax as we go through our 2023 season and what we're looking to improve in 2024!This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Conference Reminders3. Question of the Week4. Our Haunt Season by the Numbers5. Audio Walkthrough of Our Haunt6. Front of House Discussion7. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com