“Who is Edgar Krawly?” Win $10,000 Telling Us!

Spook House Logistics Ltd. needs your brains and creativity to help create “Edgar Krawly”, the creepy horror host of their major, under construction, haunted house attraction.

The Grand Prize Winner will take home $10,000 and Thirteen Finalists win an amazing prize package with a retail value exceeding $650 dollars!

HOW IT WORKS: Write an essay (500 words or less) answering the following questions:

“Who is Edgar Krawly? Where did he come from? What diabolical deed does he do with all the brains he steals? How does this strange man, circa 1900 – 1920, step into a modern day “haunted” building? Why do people who enter the “haunted” building see mind-numbing scenes of horror, of every variety? What is the significance of the cryptic number sequence “29.11”?

ELIGIBILITY: Contestants must be at least 18 years or older at time of Essay submission. Essays submitted by Contestants under 18 must be co-signed by a Legal Guardian. Contestants must submit a completed, legible entry form, a 500 words or less Essay and pay a $29.11 US entry fee either electronically, by money order or bank check for each Essay submitted.

DEADLINES: Contest is open from 09:59:33 p.m. January 16th, 2010, Eastern Time and will continue until 09:59:33 p.m June 16th, 2010 Eastern Time. Essays postmarked on or before June 16th, 2010 will be accepted after June 16th, 2010.

PRIZES: They’ve put together an exciting line-up of prizes to be awarded to the 1st Place Winner, 2nd Place Winner, 13 Finalists, Top 50 Entrants, and even a $100 “Golden Stinker” Prize for the “worst, best effort”.

CELEBRITY JUDGES: Bram Stoker Award winning authors Brian Keene and Jonathan Maberry, actress and screenwriter Brinke Stevens, actress Brooke Lewis, actress Kelli Maroney, macabre music masters Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka from “Midnight Syndicate”, director and FX artist Robert Kurtzman, “Rue Morgue” magazine creator and movie director Rodrigo Gudino, director and screen-writer Harry Bromley-Davenport, “Haunt Hottie” Jackie Steinert and Rotting Flesh Radio creator Jonathan “The Mortician” Johnson, and “Haunted Attraction” magazine creator and haunt guru, Leonard Pickel.

For more information, to register, read guidelines and more visit the official site at: www.KreepyKrawlys.com

MHC Offers 18 Haunted Attractions in 2010 Haunt Tours!

Release: The Midwest Haunters Convention has been offering pre-convention bus tours of haunted attractions for six years. This year the tours have been expanded to include 7 haunts with 18 total attractions. Tours include a two day overnight bus trip to Northern Ohio and a Friday evening shuttle bus excursion to haunts in the Columbus area. This will be the best year yet for MHC Haunt Tours!

Wednesday afternoon, June 2 buses will depart from the Hyatt Regency Columbus for the Cleveland area. We’ll tour attractions throughout the evening, spending the night in Hudson, Ohio. The next morning we’ll tour haunts in Northern Ohio; including returning to attractions toured the previous night for Lights-on tours. The Lights-on tours will give attendees an opportunity to see all the scene details and what goes on behind the scenes. The evening wraps up with additional haunt tours and a return trip to Columbus on Thursday late night.

Ticket prices for the two day tour start at $199 which includes all attractions, bus transportation, meals, snacks and hotel room. There will be five haunts with 14 total attractions.

Friday night the tours resume with shuttle buses transporting attendees to two haunts with four total haunted attractions in the Columbus area. Buses will start departing from the Hyatt Regency Columbus at 6:45 pm. Dinner stops are planned with special discounted meal options starting at just $3.99 and the haunt tours with a shuttle bus package for just $49. Buses return to the Hyatt for a Scary-Oke show starting at 11:30 pm.

The Midwest Haunters Convention offers fantastic haunt tours, outstanding educational seminars, exciting contests and an amazing costume party. The free weekend Halloween industry trade show is one of the largest in the country.

To Register and to Learn More Visit: www.MidwestHaunters.com or call Kelly at 614-203-4626.

Time to Start Thinking about Listing Your Haunt: Haunted Illinois Haunt Directory

So all you haunt owners out there. Now is the time to start thinking about getting your event listed in the Haunt Directories. Now there are many to choose from and many within a local region. Haunt Directories help you expose your event to potential customers, help them find directions and promote your event by positive reviews and feedback from previous customers.

Now as I said there are a variety of Haunt Directories and we will discuss them over time, but many like Haunt RI, HauntedHouses.com, MD Haunts, Haunted Wisconsin and many others help you promote your event in your specific region. Right now we will discuss just one for now, but the others will come soon too with more info. But let’s take a moment and discuss Haunted Illinois

HauntedIllinois.com is a regional haunt directory. This means that they only list haunted attractions within the state borders of Illinois. In getting your event listed some points of interest to you as an owner are:

Every year the directory is reset to zero events in the June-July timeframe, accepting submissions and slowly being re-built from the ground up (to ensure that haunt listings in the directory are the most up-to-date and current that they can be).

The directory allows users to sort the event list by Event Name, City, Region and Last Updated Date.

The directory allows users to search by event type, region, dates of operation or any combination of those three criteria.

Users can also enter a zip code and distance, to find attractions near them.

Events can enter detailed information about their attraction, including their event name, location, address, city, state, zip code, description, phone number, web address, email address, event type, appropriate age range, etc.

Events also have the choice to upload their logos, pictures and youtube videos for their attraction.

Visitors of the website are given the option to write reviews of events they have visited.

Many of the other Directories I listed offer this as well for their areas, but for more and to get your event listed in the Illinois area visit: www.HauntedIllinois.com

Obake-Yashiki Haunted Attraction in Japan Closing Forever

In a world that loves all things spooky, horror, and haunted, many Haunted Attractions open throughout the United States and around the world. Many famed attractions exist in Canada, All over Europe, let’s not forget Disneyland Paris’ Phantom Manor and even at Hanayashiki, Japan’s Oldest Amusement Park.

Well it seems that the dark night and curtain is closed now on the famed Obake-Yashiki Haunted Attraction has now closed forever on January 11, 2010. This past year marked its’ 30th Anniversary.

It was a prize attraction for many to attend and get their scare on in Japan. We are sure it will be missed.

ABOUT THE ATTRACTION:
(courtesy of: BrickMcBurly.com/Kyoto
“I’m sure most of you have seen Ringu or Ju-on. Everythin’ in them is true. This house is infested with spirits just like them. Terrible, terrible things happen here. A group of young ladies found themselves mercilessly hounded by a droolin’, gibberin’ monster that hungrily pawed every inch of their bodies-and that’s just while they were waitin’ outside in line with me. Once inside, the skilled actors and artisans of Toei recreate a sengoku era village that’s been overrun by hungry ghosts, restless spirits, and even zombie ashigaru. Heads fly around, roofs collapse, and the interior of a daimyo mansion is littered with ripped up corpses and blood stained tatami mats. It’s a lot like ‘All You Can Eat’ night at the Sizzler back in the USA.”

Need a Walk Through, Simulator, or Dark Ride? Try The Attraction Factory!

Planning your Haunt for the upcoming season? Maybe you are in need of some Simulators, a Walk Through Attraction perhaps. Or maybe a Dark Ride like no other? Well The Attraction Factory is the place to get all those and more.

The Attraction Factory uses state-of-the-art technology in conjunction with tried-and-true designs to bring you amazingly cost-effective attractions. To begin try their Dark Rides. From this classic attraction that still amuses and awes customers since they first began. The Attraction Factory will be able to help you create the best Dark Ride to fit your needs this haunt season. A variety of styles are available for you from: Throwback Design (classic or historic reproduction), Traditional Guided Track, Wire Guide System (no exposed track), Water Based, Fog Ride or Interactive. Dark Rides continue to be a favorite and a great side attraction to compliment you existing Haunted Attraction to gain more revenue.

Now when it comes to Walk Throughs, these are your guys as well. Walk Through Attractions are a nice self guided tour to get some scares. The Attraction Factory has created many attraction such as the Jaws Encounter and they can do the same for you and push it even further with a Ride Simulator.

Simulators continue to be a draw, and have even been used on a smaller scale such as the case with the “Ride in a Hearse”. In addition to all they have to offer, they have also joined a working partnership with one of the staples in the Haunt Industry, Creative Visions.

The Attraction Factory is proud to be partnering with Creative Visions, ETF Ride Systems and Haunt Visions for cutting edge animatronics and ride car systems to push your Haunted Attractions to the next level in 2010 and beyond.

For more information on the Attraction Factory and to get your orders in ahead of the season be sure to visit: www.TheAttractionFactory.com

The work of The Attraction Factory has been featured in The New York Times, InPark Magazine, The Post Dispatch, St. Louis Magazine, Tourist Attractions & Parks, 13th Hour Magazine and HauntWorld.

Transworld Haunt and Attractions Show is Coming…

For more information about the Transworld Haunt and Attraction Show visit the full write up HERE and to see their official site visit: www.HauntShow.com

Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern Calls It a Season

The Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern 2009 season had the most successful haunt yet, exceeding visitor and attendance goals. After investment in the product, the hiring of top producers and increased scares, it paid off!

“Once again we were met by record crowds and capacity nights,” said Hugh Morrow, president of Ruby Falls. “Our team took the uniqueness of our cavern, creativity of our storyline, and the realness of our actors and actresses and brought to life the true eeriness of The Wyrmwood Asylum! Nobody left undisturbed!”

“Nothing short of pure terror can be said about the work Ruby Falls has put into the haunts every year,” said Josh Lang with the Chattanooga Pulse. “Bit by bit, they whittle down your last thoughts of disbelief as you enter thinking this is actually a pleasure cruise, filled with candy and chocolate bubble gum kisses. Chuck E. Cheese is the other way folks.”

HauntWorld.com, the world’s leading haunted attraction website, ranked the Haunted Cavern in the top three Tennessee haunts for the best monsters/actors and most views on the site. The Haunted Cavern was also selected as a Top 20 Event by the Southeast Tourism Society for September 2009. In addition, the attraction received great reviews on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and blogs, with standard quotes from guests like “This was awesome, I can’t wait till next year!!!”

“Wyrmwood Asylum at the Haunted Cavern will go down in history as one of the best haunted attractions in the southeast if not one of the best in the country,” said Todd Patton with Fear Connection. “Our team outdid themselves as we passionately wove a web of insanity and fear for everyone.”

Todd Patton and Tim Green with Fear Connection began working as a team for Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern in 2006 and this was their fourth year developing, designing and managing the event. They have also helped with a few small independent films and assisting with other haunts in the US. Go to www.ConNooga.com for more info.

You can see many of this year’s Videos at: www.HauntedCavern.com – Videos.

Ruby Falls is a Chattanooga, TN attraction that is home to the tallest and deepest underground waterfall accessible to the public in the United States. Ruby Falls is the first US attraction to have joined the dual Green Globe/Green Certifications Program by Green Globe International, Inc.

For more on the entire event, photos and more visit: www.HauntedCavern.com

Catch One Last Haunted House on Friday the 13th

This Friday is your Last chance to see the Award Winning Cutting Edge Haunted House. This Friday the 13th! The Cutting Edge Haunted House was declared the Largest Walkthrough Haunted House by Guinness Book this year. (See the footage..CLICK HERE )

Well this Friday you can still get one last Haunt On from 8PM to 10PM at the Cutting Edge. You can also Save $4.00 OFF NOW THRU FRIDAY if you purchase your tickets online before 5 PM on November 13th. All you have to do is Enter the Promo Code – 13 following this link..Purchase Cutting Edge Haunted House Tickets Online The Code expires at 5 PM on Friday.

The Cutting Edge Haunted House, located in Forth Worth, Texas, is now the Official Title Holder of the “World’s Largest Walk Through Haunted House”. The event itself is an attraction many in the area flock too each season. With great visuals, scare and more, the event has been named as one of the top 13 Haunted Attractions for the year by Haunted House Ratings. It is also named one of the Best Haunted Attractions by Haunt World for 2009.

This year the event is full of scares at every turn! To find out more about the event visit: www.Screams.com

Goatman Hollow: The Interactive Haunt Experience

by John Kennedy

After hearing about Goatman Hollow so much on Rotting Flesh Radio, I knew I wanted to swing by and see this Haunt. When I got there I was treated to a surprise celebrity appearance (well at least a surprise to me).

Fortunately, my Saturday evening was going smoothly so I would be able to visit Goatman Hollow Haunted House. When I got there, I find celebrity Jonathan Johnson from Rotting Flesh Radio there. And that’s me having fun calling him a celebrity and not Jonathan – he’s a humble guy and wouldn’t call himself that. I met the folks that make Goatman possible next, including Jay Wright. I went ahead and jumped in with the next group and what a crazy group it was.

The show is very theatrical with about 3 – 5 minute skits acted out in each scene that advance the story of the Goatman. The actor in the first room introduces himself as an agent and briefs us on the Goatman and our mission. The actor was cast perfectly and if you told me he was a real government agent, I would believe you. The story continues room to room through secret passageways and elevators.

The haunt has solid scenic design that hopefully you can see in some of the pictures below. The actors also did a good job with their dialogue. There is a nice bedroom scene with a ghost, a great looking attic set and a gruesome cannibal kitchen scene. However, the star of the show has got to be Doctor Fletcher who scared the hell out of my group during his skit. I don’t mean screaming scared, I mean running over your friend to get to the other side of the room scared. I hadn’t seen anyone scared like that until Goatman…..

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originally published by Haunted Attraction Magazine

Wyrmwood Asylum at the Haunted Cavern

This past summer, I took the Dark Princess and Prince down to the Haunted Mansion. While on that journey we made many stops. And one of those along the way was at Ruby Falls. Now Ruby Falls is an awesome cave that is miles below the surface. Now, I won’t bore you with a trip report from my time there but you will be happy to know that there is a Haunted House there on October as well!

The Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern reveals new terrors after dark (8 p.m.), back for its sixth year as one of the area’s most intense haunted attractions. This extreme haunt takes place both above and below ground every Friday and Saturday night, Sept. 26th – Oct. 10th, then every Thursday through Sunday Oct. 15th – Oct. 31st.

“Wyrmwood Asylum at the Haunted Cavern will go down in history as one of the best haunted attractions in the southeast if not one of the best in the country,” said Todd Patton with Fear Connection. “Our team has outdone themselves as we have passionately woven a web of insanity and fear for everyone. From the moment you drop 260 feet below the surface, your life at Wyrmwood Asylum will be unforgettable.”

In 1975, Ruby Falls hired Cowin Engineering Company of Birmingham to blast an alternate exit into the Ruby Falls Tourist Attraction. This exit also unsealed the Wyrmwood Asylum ‘Vault,’ a term used by patients who knew once you entered, you never returned. The worst criminals across the country were transferred here. The souls of these ghostly images still linger in the depths of the cave. Dare you enter?

Back by popular demand is the Hellevator and The Last Ride. Go to www.HauntedCavern.com for classified information on characters to watch out for and other critical info.

Todd Patton and Tim Green with Fear Connection began working as a team for Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern in 2006 and this is their fourth year developing, designing and managing the event. They have also helped with a few small independent films and assisting with other haunts in the US. Go to www.ConNooga.com for more info.

Ruby Falls is a Chattanooga, TN attraction that is home to the tallest and deepest underground waterfall accessible to the public in the United States. Ruby Falls is the first US attraction to have joined the dual Green Globe/Green Certifications Program by Green Globe International, Inc.

For more on all the attractions:
www.HauntedCavern.com
www.RubyFalls.com
www.ConNooga.com