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This week on Haunt Weekly, we are doing the news!

We start talking about one haunt that tragically burned down, several haunts that are expanding, and a new experience that an escape room offers.

In short, this is one busy episode despite the summer normally being the quiet season.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Work We Did for the Haunt
3. Question of the Week
4. Conference Reminders
5. Illinois Haunt Destroyed in Fire - https://www.kwqc.com/2024/05/21/barn-collapses-after-fire-rock-falls-crews-say/
6. GoFundMe - https://www.gofundme.com/f/t5hag-support-the-revival-of-haunted-haven?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR08-SlVMOZJ9asE0T3cRNLSGdvxLaW4kL-z1DrlWE3uW-CwLG7SC8CQcQA_aem_AbE3MQk3agBdqXeb__7lb2VHYnh4yvBeewqLmOSNTsO3f_QhdEdUNMydN1zQAqSHlVf6NdCrWvLJ3JThYhBSWK-t
7. Eloise Asylum Hosts Celebrity Ghost Hunt - https://wrif.com/listicle/eloise-asylum-ghost-hunt-with-darren-mccarty/
8. Midsummer Scream Announces Hall of Shadows Theme - https://www.allhallowsgeek.com/midsummer-scream-announces-the-theme-of-this-years-hall-of-shadows/
9. HHN Announces Another Haunted House - https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202405/10239/
10. Disney Announces Dates for Oogie Boogie Bash - https://globelivemedia.com/world/disneyland-announces-dates-for-oogie-boogie-bash-2024/
11. Mall of America Hosts Game Show Attraction - https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/mall-of-america-announces-new-great-big-game-show-attraction
12. Factory of Terror Offers Summer Haunt Experience - https://www.goerie.com/story/entertainment/local/2024/05/21/eeriebyss-factory-of-terror-haunted-house-hosts-mid-year-fear/73706659007/
13. Party City Announces 9 Foot Cthulu - https://www.partycity.com/animatronic-light-up-cthulhu-the-watcher-9ft-978455.html
14. Trimper's Haunted House Celebrates 60 Years - https://www.yahoo.com/news/trimpers-haunted-house-gets-gift-092323540.html
15. Dubai Gets More Fear Attractions - https://whatson.ae/2024/05/haunted-attractions-in-dubai-for-all-the-thrills-and-chills/
16. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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Injuries are a part of haunting, or so that's what many haunters say. 

Sure, we've all had the magic bruise that appears out of nowhere and the random cut that we can't explain, but serious injuries suck. If nothing else, they keep you from haunting.

Fortunately, most haunt injuries can be easily avoided. All you need to do is follow a few simple rules to save your back, your voice and your appendages.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Work We Did on Our Haunt
3. Question of the Week
4. Intro to the Topic
5. 7 Rules to Avoid Haunt Injuries
6. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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This week on Haunt Weekly, we're celebrating the retirement of our longest-running partner, our recorder.

So we've decided to honor the little recorder that could by remembering how and why we started this podcast and looking back at the ideas, plans and visions we had all the way back in 2015.

So take a trip with us down memory lane. Not advised if you have an allergy to cringe.

This Week's Episode Includes: 

1. Intro
2. Work We Did for the Haunt
3. Housekeeping
4. Question of the Week
5. How We Started
6. Our First Episodes
7. Looking Back at Our First Idea List
8. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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If you search the web for haunted attractions, you'll likely get the Wikipedia entry as your first result. So, after 400+ episodes and thousands of searches, we're finally reading it.

So, does the entry do us justice? What did we learn from reading it? What do we disagree with?

We discuss that and much more in this episode.

This Week's Episode Includes: 

1. Intro
2. Question of the Week
3. Reason for Choosing This Topic
4. Section-by-Section Breakdown of the Page
5. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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This week on Haunt Weekly, it's an episode divisible by four, meaning that it is time to do the news!

The news has been surprisingly busy this month, with a haunt scoring a major legal win, the Queen Mary making a comeback, and some haunts getting an early start to the season.

So sit back, relax and enjoy as we go through all the haunted attraction news fit to print.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Work We Did for the Haunt
3. Question of the Week
4. Conference Reminders
5. Judge Rules in Favor of Wilson's Haunted Forests - https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/judge-rules-for-wilsons-haunted-forests/article_0bd4b332-fd15-11ee-97c8-5f1ad3b7bf28.html
6. Ironton Lions Club Celebrates 100 Years - https://www.irontontribune.com/2024/04/13/keeping-busy/
7. Haunt Does May the Forth Celebration - https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/getarticle2.php?titlelink=lincoln-mill-haunted-house-presents-star-wars-inspired-haunted-house-may-the-4th-corrupt-you042024
8. Pennsylvania Haunt Shooting 24 Hours in Hell TV Series - https://www.lehighvalleynews.com/arts-culture/entertainment/a-popular-haunt-attraction-is-investigating-the-paranormal-spending-24-hours-in-hell
9. Hersheypark Announces Early Opening of Haunt - https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2024/04/hersheypark-announces-new-haunted-attraction-to-open-on-friday-the-13th-this-fall.html
10. Queen Mary Dark Harbor to Return this Fall - https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202404/10194/
11. Haunted Mansion Getting Internal Renovations -https://insidethemagic.net/2024/05/original-haunted-mansion-to-undergo-costly-changes-disney-confirms-ld1/
12. Georgia Home Designed Like the Haunted Mansion on Sale - https://ca.news.yahoo.com/georgia-home-designed-look-disneys-172100385.html
13. Band and Haunt Seek Extras for Music Video - https://www.wtrf.com/local/band-looking-for-extras-to-be-in-their-music-video-at-haunted-house/
16. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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The haunted attraction industry is bizarre. In many ways, it more closely resembles a sport than an industry, partly because of the importance of amateur/home/charity haunters for sustained growth.

That said, a few professional haunters still look down on the home haunt crowd. So, we will talk about why home haunters are important to the industry and how pro haunters can help their home haunt community flourish.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1: Intro
2. Work We Did for the Haunt
3. Question of the Week
4. Intro to the Topic
5. Seven Reasons Home Haunters Are Important
6. How Pro Haunters Can Help Home Haunters
7. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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This week on Haunt Weekly, we're talking about shadowcasts, including what they are, why you should check them out and what haunters can learn from them.

For those who don't know, shadowcasts are when performers pantomime the film while it is being screened. Most commonly associated with Rocky Horror, many other films have been getting the shadowcast treatment, including Repo the Genetic Opera, The Room, Dr. Horrible and more.

So sit down, or rather stand up, as we discuss the art of shadowcasting.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Our Big News
3. Question of the Week
4. Conference Reminders
5. What Are Shadowcasts?
6. What Can Haunters Learn From Them?
7. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss. 

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This week on Haunt Weekly, we're donning our hazmat suits and diving deep into the two lawsuits filed by Russ McKamey of McKamey Manor fame.

What is he suing for? How solid are his arguments? How could these lawsuits impact the haunt industry? We're going to discuss all that and much more.

This Week's Episode Includes: 

1. Intro
2. Work We Did on the Haunt
3. Question of the Week 
4. Disclosures and Background
5. Analysis of AG/Fire Marshal Lawsuit
6. Analysis of the Hulu Lawsuit
7. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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This week on Haunt Weekly it is time to do the news! And we have a LOT of news for you this week including an update on McKamey Manor, an attraction closing at Niles Scream Park, a major Halloween Horror Nights change and much more.

We even have a summer camp for little haunters, a new video game to check out and, perhaps most importantly, a happy ending for the actor who played The Unknown at the terrible "Willy Wonka" event in Glasgow.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Work We Did for the Haunt
3. Explainer About Last Week's Episode
4. Question of the Week
5. Conference Reminders
6. McKamey Manor Sues Tennessee Attorney General - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/04/01/tennessee-attorney-general-sued-by-mckamey-manor/73150089007/
7. Niles Scream Park Closes Hayride - https://www.facebook.com/nilesscreampark/posts/pfbid0GNV2H1mWaGqd2NqX9C825xDEcssbGBciY5Vxhgbj1stG9e7es9VFPBksdv6QjfB9l
8. HHN to Start Earlier - https://collider.com/halloween-horror-nights-2024-start-date/
9. Universal Studios Announces How to Train Your Dragon World - https://media.universalparksusa.com/press-releases/take-to-the-skies-and-soar-with-dragons-universal-orlando-resort-reveals-new-details-about-how-to-train-your-dragon-isle-of-berk-a-larger-than-life-world-of-viking-advent/
10. Old County Jail to Become Museum - https://www.wcjb.com/2024/03/25/trenton-city-commission-hears-plans-convert-old-gilchrist-county-jail-into-museum/
11. NC Haunt Expands with Flea Market and More - https://www.the-dispatch.com/entertainment/thomasvilles-haunted-attraction-expanding-to-offer-bands-food-trucks-and-flea-market/article_31d79f9e-1b32-5a7e-a9d3-41cac94c401c.html
12. Home Depot Bringing Back 12-Foot Skeleton - https://www.fox4news.com/news/home-depot-skelly-halloween
13. Minnesota Town Hosts Summer Camp for Little Haunters - https://wjon.com/youth-haunt-actor-theater-camp/
14. Content Warning is Coop Horror Fun - https://beebom.com/content-warning-co-op-horror-game-viral-spooktube/
15. Haunter's Purchases Cause Police Scare - https://www.facebook.com/groups/164316067069695?multi_permalinks=2698983010269642&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
16. The Unknown Gets a New, Professional Gig - https://www.vulture.com/article/willy-wonka-experience-the-unknown-london-dungeon.html
17. See People Get Pranked with Creepy Dolls
18. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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This week on Haunt Weekly we're flipping the script and reading some happy reviews of haunted houses. This includes reading some 30 reviews from the nation's biggest haunts and a few from our own. 

So let's all join around and have a feel good moment as we share the love from our happiest and most vocal visitors and learn both what they did and did not mention in their reviews.

This Week's Episode Includes:

1. Intro
2. Work We Did on Our Haunt
3. Question of the Week
4. Intro to the Topic
5. 30 Positive Reviews of 5 Haunts
6. 6 Positive Reviews of Ours
7. Conclusions

All in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!

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