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Smile, it's a brand new episode and we've got the incredible Gerry Cannell. You'll know Gerry from his roles in Nocturnal and Soul Seekers Live at Screamfest Burton, Secrets Beneath and his iconic role as the fiendish mastermind Doctor Kelman in the Sanctuary at Alton Towers Scarefest.

As well as talking about what it was like playing Kelman, we find out how he got into acting, who inspires him and find out his advice for any budding actors out there.

The show is also jam packed with news from Twisted Attractions, Snuffhouse at Scare Kingdom, Tulley's Shocktoberfest, Farmaggedon, Scarecon, Horrorcon, Screamvention and The Zombie School.

We end the show with some listener feedback giving our views on home haunting, some of our favourite Scare Maze documentaries and give a bit more advice with regards to visiting Florida (even if Sean's views are wrong .... sleeping in .... pah !). We also talk Minecraft after listener Owen Norman sent in some of his designs for a Scaremaze dedicated server that he's working on.

As always music for the show is provided by Sam Haynes of hauntmusic.co.uk with additional additional music and sound effects by Incompetech and freesfx.co.uk

Get in contact with the show by searching out Scaretrack across social media and by emailing [email protected] and we'd really appreciate you helping us out by leaving a review on iTunes and Stitcher where you can also subscribe to be sure you never miss a show.

The team are back once again with another brilliant guest - this time it's Kate Monroe's turn in the hot seat you'll know her from Sceamfest Burton and her awesome artwork at http://www.misskatemonroe.co.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAYVDqU5WA&feature=youtu.be . The award winning body painting artist  joins us to talk all things artistic, scare acting and how she rediscovered her love of artwork after a long break. We go on to talk about how it all started and how this incredible skill differs from scare attraction make up.

After a quiet month for news, this show is jam packed full of it including Thorpe Park's new 21st Ghost Train which Derren Brown has had a part in creating, Scarecon, Scare Kingdom's full line up of events for 2016, Dr Hades Fear Theatre by Twisted Attractions and Mikey reveals on April 16th he'll be taking part in Cracked  (if you want to join him check out survivecracked.com) and a doing a skydive later in the year - the christmas break has obviously taken it's toll! If you'd like to sponsor Mikey for the sky die in aid of MS you can do so by texting MSJJ89 £3 to 70070 (changing the amount to what you want to donate)/ Get your bets into Mikey versus cracked by contacting us in the usual ways.

We do our usual listener feedback as well as posing a question from friend of the show Andy Longmore - got a suggestion for him - get in touch! We go off on a tangent discussing do we prefer IP based mazes or original concepts - again we'd love to hear your thoughts.     

We also mentioned The Haunting Of House review which can be found at :  http://www.scaretouruk.com/review-haunting-of-hill-house.html

You can interact with us via facebook, twitter, instagram and periscope by searching out Scaretrack and if you want to find Mikey on periscope you 'll find him under krikeymikey.

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Finally, music for the show is provided by Sam Haynes of haunt music.co.uk with additional music by Incompetech.

Our next show will be with you on the 13th of February.

The team are back with their own blend of humour and welcome our good friend Cookie back to the studio. At the start of October we'll be taking the team plus a group of Scare fans over to Florida to experience as much as we possibly can from both the big attractions as well as the lesser known ones. 

We tease Mikey with what he can expect from the trip as well as giving out some of our tips.

We speculate which IP's we might see at Halloween Horror Nights 26 as well as the possibility of an icon returning before talking about the differences between Howl O Scream and if the hour drive is worth while. 

Carnival Of Carnage Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoEIWTM8QQ

We talk about Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party as well as Legends Old Town, Terror On The Lake, Haunt Nights, The Shallow Grave and Scream a Geddon.

Finally we welcome back Return Of The Living Podcast onto the show  where we talk hooded mazes, room escape games including Panic! by Twisted Attractions and Hell In A Cell Bristol our favourite Icons from the UK shores including Dr Kelman, Frank from Fear at Avon Valley, Lockjaw from Scare Kingdom and of course the notorious Esmerelda from Tulley's Shocktoberfest.

Hell In A Cell trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5tNyQ1QM0

If you've got a tip or some speculation that we may have missed feel free to contact us on Facebook or twitter and of course via our [email protected] email address.

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Happy New Year to each and every one of our listeners! 

Audio quality is a bit on the dodgy side in places once again this episode but this should be rectified by epsiode 14 so stick with us

This special new year episode may help you or your friends take the plunge and have a go through their first Scare Attraction.

We have Chris on the show talking about his first experience at the UUOP Haunted Hangout where he took on PUP Events attractions Evac and The Pit and even feature some off the audio from the experience as well as talking about our first attractions.

Huge thanks to the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast for providing some of the audio and even bigger thanks go to both Chris and Claire for being such good sports.

We present a list of tips which we found useful for getting through our first attractions.

As always music is supplied by Sam Haynes of hauntmusic.co.uk with additional music and sound effects by Incompetech and Freesfx.co.uk

2015 has been such a big year for us and we're incredibly proud and honoured to have been so welcomed. We have even bigger plans for 2016 so if you thought 2015 was fun, you've not seen anything yet!

The team are back with a festive edition of this bimonthly thing we call Scaretrack. Huge thanks to everyone who recorded us a christmas message.

We start the show as always with the usual news and rumors

Scare Kingdom are following up the success of their Christmas FestEVIL - Krampusnight with a Valentines event - for more details check out: http://scarekingdom.com/events/valenterror/

Promotion is full steam ahead for the brand new attraction currently being built at Thorpe Park which has had Derren Brown working as a consultant and will be the face of the ride.

Twisted Attractions have had to cancel their Christmas event for this year due to extreme weather conditions. Full  refunds will be issued in the coming days and the team have vowed to come bcak stronger and even more terrifying in 2016. Make sure you're following http://twistedattractions.co.uk/ for details as and when they become available.

Zombie Survival Weekender have an amazing offer which would make the ultimate christmas gift for any Zombie fan. Check out www.zombiesw.co.uk and if you book before the 1st of January you'll get a whopping 50% off at only £55 per person.

RL Stine's Goosebumps series is coming to London in the form of an interactive theatre show based at London's The Vaults venue for full details and to book check out http://goosebumpstheshow.com .

If you'd like news featured in our show get in contact via [email protected]

As our main feature, Jade and Seb join us from Unlocked Vision Entertainment craetors of some wonderfully themed events such as Fear at Avon Valley and the Hidden House. If you'd like to work with them drop them a message at [email protected] and you'll also find them across a multitude of social media platforms. We also do a rather festive That'll Never Work.

We close the show with our listener feedback and announce the winner of our competition which will see one of our listeners taking over a show in the near future.

As always music for the show is provided by Sam Haynes of http://hauntmusic.co.uk

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You can show your appreciation not with cash, gold, frankinscense, or myrrh but with an iTunes review ... go on  you know you want to ;)

We'll be back on January 31st to bring in the new year with our beginners guide to Scare Attractions.

The team are back and well rested after a brilliant halloween season and that can only mean one thing. It's time to start planning next year already. 

Colin, Mikey and Sean discuss their own Scare Attractions that they ran over Halloween and tease some information for next year and Mikey brings up to speed with his trip to Europa Park's Horror Nights event. http://www.horror-nights.de/

Then, it's into the usual news and rumours which has a certain christmassy vibe. The team reveal the plans for Scaretrack going forward before providing an important safety announcement for Halloween 2016. Then we, go on to talk about Christmas events from Twisted Attractions http://twistedattractions.co.uk/ Scare Kingdom http://scarekingdom.com/ and House of the dead http://houseofthedead.com/.

More details are revealed about Andy Cookie Rawling's book 'Through The Dead Eye https://www.facebook.com/Throughthedeadeye/?fref=ts - A Eulogy to the art of Scare Acting' which will be released in time for Christmas via amazon and Kindle - we'll keep you up to speed with all the latest.

Finally, the team talk about what's new for Zed Events with a new format and new high tech weapons exclusive to them. https://www.zedevents.co.uk/

Our friends from Return Of The Living Podcast http://www.returnofthelivingpodcast.com/ take over the show to tell us what Halloween was like this year in the US whilst providing their own unique brand of humor. Huge thanks to them for taking the time to record the section for us.

Then it's on to our special guest for the show - Michael Bolton (no not that one ...) the man behind http://scaretouruk.com/ and http://www.scarecon.org/ to talk about Scarecon Aftershock, details about the main Scarecon event being held on Friday May 13th at Screamland Margate and talk about what Halloween season was like here in the UK what we want to see more of next year and what we'd like to see less of. 

We do some listener feedback before revealing this months #scelfiesunday winner and provide details of how you can come and take over the show for an episode with us as well as giving you an extra chance to win that elusive Scaretrack mug!

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Join the team for our second of our Halloween specials and we're once again bringing you the very best in UK Scare Attractions.

We start at the London Bridge Experience and Tombs for Phobophobia where we find out a few shocking truths.

https://www.thelondonbridgeexperience.com/

Next, we head to Screamland Margate - this brand new Scream Park sent shivers down our spine and impressed us with it's stunning attention to detail. Please note in the the excitement for the event we managed to get one of the attractions wrong. Festino's Forbidden Funhouse should've been Festino's Forgotten Funhouse - our apologies go out to Screamland and to Atmosfear for the mix up.

http://www.dreamland.co.uk/screamland

Hellgate Winter Garden's was just a short walk away and impressed us also. Some very inventive scares and one scene which had Colin refusing to go any further - but why ? 

http://www.margatewintergardens.co.uk/event/hellgate/

We had a few problems at Fort Amherst which were out of their control and which were handled well but it goes to show how the group that you're going through with can impact the experience massively.

http://www.fortamherst.com/index.php/events/halloween-horrors-at-fort-amherst

Next is a familiar voice as we join Sean at the Undead Haunted House - his very own event which went down a storm ... literally!

https://www.facebook.com/Undeadhauntedhouse/

From here we brave the M25 at rush hour to visit Cursed in Essex which impressed us with it's lively actors and well thought out experiences.

http://www.thecursed.co.uk/

We travel home to visit Lockdown the brand new event by Jailhouse Tours at HMP Shrewsbury (The Dana) - on paper it sounded like the perfect event but how would it translate into a full blown zombie chase experience ? 

http://www.jailhousetours.com/

Finally we spend halloween at Alton Towers Scarefest to experience the evolution of this amazing event. How do the new mazes hold up and how will the extreme runs compare to last years epic 40 minutes inside Terror Of The Towers ? 

https://www.altontowers.com/things-to-do/scarefest/

We end the show with our usual listener feedback plus the details of a new competition where you can win not only a limited edition Scaretrack mug but can also join us to present a future episode of Scaretrack!

As always music for the show comes from Sam Haynes oof hauntmusic.co.uk with additional music and sound effects by Incompetech and freesfx.co.uk.

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Well see you on the 30th of November with our Scarecon Aftershock special!

Happy Halloween everyone ! Included on the show are FearFest Frightmare Hell In A Cell - Horror Escape Experience Bristol Fear at Avon Valley Dr. Fright's Halloween Nights The Creep Presents FORT FEAR Scare Kingdom Scream Park andScreamfest Burton plus we'll be announcing the winner of our‪#‎scelfiesunday‬ mug !

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Colin, Mikey and Sean return for a second dose of Scaretrack this month in the first of three Halloween Specials. Over the next three show's we'll be documenting our halloween adventures as we travel the UK visiting various attractions. We start off with legendary Farmaggedon in Liverpool which we attended on their press night way back during September - we experience their three awesome mazes as well as their new Zombie Outlaw paintball attraction.http://farmaggedon.co..ukNext up Colin head's to HMP Shrewsbury otherwise known as The Dana where Jailhouse tours are running Outbreak - a zombie chase experience for three nights over halloween. Colin interviews Joel Campbell about what we can expect and what's lined up for the future. http://www.jailhousetours.com/Sarah and Colin head to Haunted Hangout the UK Meetup by the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast which had a particularly spooky theme. We experienced the acclaimed Pit and Evac by Primrose Unknown Projects (http://pupevents.co.uk/} and head out on a ghost walk with Steel City Ghost Tours with Mr P Dreadful (http://www.steelcityghosttours.co.uk/). You can also listen to the UUOP live show that went out at: http://uuopodcast.libsyn.com/webpage/2015/09The team head to Birmingham to experience Twisted Attractions preview night for Hellfest the brand new Scream Park where we have screams in abundance - don't forget we had James and Matthew from Twisted Attractions on Episode 7 so if you've not already done so check it out as there's even more stories from behind the scenes in there.http://twistedattractions.co.uk/Over at Screamfest Burton, it's a bright sunny day as we arrive to see how construction is taking shape at one of the staple attractions of Halloween. Ivor Robinson and Andrew Porter take us through the plans for this year and hint as to what we can expect from the two brand new mazes which take the lineup to 5 Scaremazes. We also discover some information about the future of two of our favourite attractions. http://www.screamfest.co.uk/Then, it's down to Tulleys Farm for Shocktoberfest where Esmerelda is off on her honeymoon sadly but there's still plenty of creatures to make us feel unwelcome. The park has grown once again with three brand new mazes so be sure to listen out to our reactions to The Volt, The Colony and Chop Shop.http://www.halloweenattractions.co.uk/locations/crawley/shocktoberfestFinally Tulley's have been really busy this year setting up another Screampark at Leighton Buzzard in the form of The Howl. We help break a world record with the help of Esmerelda who makes a surprise appearance. We're wowed by the park who've gone all out in creating a fully immersive event which is no easy task in it's first year and we really have to hand it to them.http://www.halloweenattractions.co.uk/locations/leighton-buzzard/the-howlDon't forget you can get get in contact with us via Facebook Twitter and Instagram by searching for scaretrack. You can also email us directly via @[email protected] your #scelfiesunday entries coming in - we'll announce the winner of this months Scaretrack mug on the 31st of October show where we'll have even more attractions for you to sink your teeth into.Music for the show is provided by Sam Haynes of hauntmusic.co.uk with additional sound by Incompetech and FreeSFX.co.uk.Finally don't forget you can subscribe to us on iTunes, Windows and Android platforms but please if you enjoy the show you can help us by leaving a review as it helps us promote the amazing Scare Industry to the UK and overseas. Have an amazing Halloween and we'll see you on October 31st !

Welcome to your monthly dose of ScareTrack. We have yet another full episode for you where we welcome on Michael Bolton from Scarecon and ScareTOUR to talk about Scarecon The Aftershock and which events he's most looking forward to this Halloween. We get James and Matthew from Twisted Attractions talking about what happens when you lock a few podcasters in a room escape game together and Jac and Ollie Cook from Evilution Events and Terror Mountain talking about what they've got cooking for the season ahead as well as Scare Room 7 and a Kickstarter idea that we're very much getting behind :DAdditional notes to follow shortly.