October Halloween Happenings 2010

Hello There, I believe this will be a banner year for my Halloween happenings. Its amazing that October has 5 weekends within it this year.

FIRST! The first weekend of Oct. 1st-3rd brings me to a VIP pre-opening party for the new Hauntsburg Haunted house in Brownsburg Indiana.

It was a ticketed event with beer and food and music.  My wife and I walked though the haunted house with the lights on and no one jumping out to scare us and that scared her so much she didn't want to give the scary version a go.  I give Hauntsburg a ****0 4 stars of 5 because they have some obvious "out-of-character"  points of their haunted house.  What I mean is if you are scared during their haunted house all you need to do is look up and see the building infrastructure and the effect is lost.  The city made them place clearly visible emergency exits and this also ruins the effect.  The high points of this place is the diverse theming of each scare station.  I remember one being themed as an old wagon train pioneer type setting and one being a town hall with the angry mayor letting the guests know that mortals are not welcome.  I should post a video of my trip to hauntsburg soon.  I would not recommend Hauntsburg for young children or anyone who is easily scared   For more info visit www.HAUNTSBURG.com

NEXT! Oct. 2nd The Brownsburg Haunted Chili Cookoff ("Try my stew AH AH AH!")

I loved this, there is something about campy Halloween events that always find a special place in my zombified heart especially ones that revolve around food.  I have had Halloween themed fondue parties in the past and they have always been fun.  The Haunted Chili cookoff used to be ran by the Haunts of Hidden River Hayride group which is now the Hauntsburg group (BTW which is all non-profit) and is now ran by the Brownsburg Parks and Recreation department.  This is my second year and all is well at the event with the new administrators.  What happens is a big event tent is outlined by Chili Chefs and their helpers all dressed and decorated with the Halloween theme.  Some even turned their chili booth into a micro-Haunted House.  The event costs $5 per person and I believe children under 6 are free. ("don't quote me on this because you might want to suck my blood")  Each booth gives you a dixie cup size sample of their chili, now this doesn't sound like much, but after 14 of them and revisiting your favorites for a few more cups of chili I was full.  Some were burnt, some were sweet, some were salty, and some were from another planet.  I voted for my favorite and hitched a ride on the Hayride to enjoy the fall colors. Over all this really got me into the Halloween spirit and was quite cozy with all the food/chili available.  I give this event a ****0 of 5 stars because it is family friendly and very good for bringing out that Halloween spirit earlier on in the month.

NEXT! Oct. 9th KD Entertainment Haunted Hayride and Barn (Uhh I think the fog machine is possessed)

This place was very fun and quite haunted.  I read that they had 40 workers scaring you along the haunted hayride trail and it showed.  It was so well staffed that they had two scare stations of zombies all dancing to Thriller and Jump in the Line from the movie Beetlejuice as well as acrobatics and a real headless horseman!!!!  The headless horseman was just plain ICONIC and CLASSIC all at the same time.  Their hayride vehicles had a soundtrack playing which is a thoughtful touch and something I wish more haunted hayrides would do.  You can certainly tell this places's designers are big Halloween/ Movie fans and their passion comes out in the attractions.  There is too much to list here but, if you like exciting, not TOOOO scary but just enough, explosions, and acrobatics in your haunted attraction you have to check this place out.  This place gets a ****0 4.5 of 5 stars from me.  The Hayride is better than the barn in my opinion.  The Barn is very creative having an entire school bus inside that you walk through for a scene.   They have 2 rooms where I swear the fog machined was demoniacally possessed it was so thick that anyone with asthma would have an instant attack.  I don't have asthma and I thought it was an interesting effect, but it was pretty rough.  I think distributing "gas masks" to the guests would be a good touch and theme that room like it was toxic waste.  I will post a video soon on this!  Check out http://www.kdentertainment.net/ for more information.

NEXT! Oct. 17th Next weekend will be Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party DISNEY WORLD!

Stay posted report will be posted after the trip......