Spooky Season Haunts

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Spooky season is here 🎃💀🧛🏽‍♀️!

If you are a scaredy cat like me and get really scared but also absolutely enjoy the thrill of the fright, let me know some of your favorite activities for this time of year!

For me, it's haunted houses and haunted trails! Woods of Terror in NC is an absolute fav of mine. I get scared really easily (how scared: I used to make my roomies in undergrad announce their presence before rounding a corner 😅🙈) and the actors seem to get a kick out of messing with me which is then entertaining for other folks 😂.

What are your favorite haunts or what would you recommend 👂🏽

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  • IronicMaidenIronicMaiden

    I haven't been there myself, but there's an Edgar Allen Poe cafe, The Raven, in Port Huron, MI. I've heard it's pretty good.

    And in Hamtramck, MI, is The Black Salt, which serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and spells. I was only there once, but I liked it.

    The Mad Hatter Bistro, an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant in Birmingham, MI was okay when I went there. They were changing the menu when I was there, so they were out of several things.

  • HappyHikesHappyHikes

    I leave near Sleepy Hollow, NY ... home of the Headless Horseman!

  • disneysamuraidisneysamurai

    St Augustine is great for Halloween. Would love to visit Savannah possibly

  • BlessedEnergy4UBlessedEnergy4U

    My 20’s!! It’s not a place but randomly still haunts my dreams 🫠🫣🤣🤣🤣

  • softopensoftopen

    @IronicMaiden (awesome username 😅) that mad hatter place sounds amazing if they have little tiny foods and really big foods 😆

    @HappyHikes I didn't realize that was a real place 😱

    @disneysamurai Savannah is hauntingly beautiful- I hope you make it

    @BlessedEnergy4U 😂😭😭 If I could forget them- them damn Facebook memories don't help

  • GroundingLightGroundingLight

    I love all things horror! When I lived in Michigan there was a spot over by Grand Rapids out in the country where they set up this zombie paintball thing where you were running through the woods shooting zombies AND IT WAS AWESOME!!! However, they were able to catch you! Which freaked me out and made it that much better!

    Now that I’m in Florida I went to scream a geddon last year and it was pretty great and there were many different attractions to go through, guys with chain saws coming at you kind of thing…

    This year going to universal and I hope it’s sweet!
    Curious to see how the Resident Evil attraction is.

  • softopensoftopen

    @GroundingLight zombie paintball manhunt sounds absolutely amazing 😂

  • KatotaKatota

    some of your favorite activities for this time of year!

    Aside from putting out spooky decor, I enjoy watching horror movies...Well, I watch horror movies nonstop anyway! Lol 🤣🎃

    But during the month of October, watching horror movies/tv shows a lot more appropriate and fun for me. 😁👻

    I enjoy attending a Halloween theme party whenever I life permits me to. And then there's just the excitement of seeing Halloween 👻🎃 making it's appearance yet again.

    Which means trick r treaters! YAY! 😁🎃🍭🍫🍬

  • BearCraftBearCraft

    I love Halloween, haunted houses and what not. Unfortunately my kids don't care for them and to me haunted houses are more fun when in a group than by yourself. I love seeing other peoples reactions. There is an amusement park near Coeur D'alene Idaho, Silverwood, that converts the whole park to a haunted park every year. I thought it was fun but the kids have no interest in going again

  • softopensoftopen

    @Katota yay 🙌🏽 you seem like you fit well will spooky season 😊 Any special treats planned for the trick or treaters? I'm my neighborhood, I'm also going to be putting in food items (individually packaged things like fruit squeezies or cereal bars...I might even put small books 🤭).

    @BearCraft you sound like the cool parent! Your kids might come back around to spooky season as they get older 😊🤞🏽

  • BearCraftBearCraft

    @softopen well they are now 21 and 19 now. My daughter doesn't like anything scary and my son doesn't like the sudden loud noises. I can't even get them to sit down and watch horror movies with me on Halloween. I do hope one day they will come around.

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    @BearCraft
    Sounds like a prime time to make some spooky friends who share the interest! If it's any consolation, I was straight-up opposed to anything in that realm until my mid-20's, but in my mid-30's, I gained the interest. Now, I look forward to watching Halloween movies all month with my boyfriend. Your kids' taste or trauma responses may shift, over time, if you're respectfully patient. 😊

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • KatotaKatota

    @Katota yay 🙌🏽 you seem like you fit well will spooky season 😊

    @softopen HA! I do, don't I? Lol 🎃🎃🎃

    Too bad Werewolves don't think so, but I'm not giving up! 💪🐺♥️

    Any special treats planned for the trick or treaters?

    Just the usual, candy and a few little mini toys to pass out. Nothing homemade, all store bought. Children have been told never accept homemade treats these days, so I don't bother putting in the baking effort. 😏

    However, I do put in effort of baking and cooking a little bit for my son and myself. Lol 🤣

    Simply because I enjoy festive decorating my kitchen table with food stuff! 🎃😋🎃😁

  • KatotaKatota
    edited October 17

    My daughter doesn't like anything scary and my son doesn't like the sudden loud noises.

    @BearCraft Lol. I know your pain, when my son was a little boy he too felt the same way...And then one day he stumbled into MY dvd movie book and finds a horror movie gem called CARRIE. Lol 😆

    And he slowly opened up to horror movies because of her. Lol 😆

    Sometimes it takes a certain horror movie to open children up to it... Again, SOMETIMES!

    😆😆😆

  • BearCraftBearCraft

    @Katota with my DVD collection alone I can do a horror movie marathon a week long or longer. There is no shortage of exposure and opportunity, just cant get them to sit down and enjoy any of them

  • KatotaKatota

    @BearCraft Ahh, I understand. 😊👍