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Crosshairs Columbus

For the first time in quite a while, the haunted highway calls to us with that seductive siren’s song. We’ll head south tonight, leaving the great state of Michigan behind in favor of the October offerings of the Buckeye State.…

Calling All Creeps

Two glorious weekends remain in the splendid month of October, and it seems the open road beckons to me once more. Realistically, what dates remain on the calendar will afford me 2-3 nights out. Where, oh where, shall we venture…

2009 Haunt Awards

In this edition of Hallowblog Flashback, we revisit the best of the best from the 2009 haunt season. This was originally posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010. As you’re about to read, Bowbee’s Nightmare of Haunted Hollows in Armada won the…

Halloween Hopscotch

Halloween was, as it always seems to be, a surreal, mad dash toward that invisible veil that separates our world from the next. My son, Lincoln, and I got an early start on our hunt for candy and made a…

The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be

A long, strange haunt season came to an end Saturday morning when John and I returned from Cincinnati fresh off of a maiden voyage to The Dent Schoolhouse. The Dent Schoolhouse turned out to be an ideal end to a…

Weird October

It’s been several years since I visited so few haunted attractions during the month of October. The season started normal enough on Saturday, October 1 with a trio of stops at Shawhaven Haunted Farm, Awaken and Jackson’s Underworld. A pair…

2016 Haunt Schedule: End of the Line

It’s been a number of years since I approached the haunt season armed with the knowledge that I’d be visiting less haunted attractions than the previous year, but such is the case in 2016. I’m at peace with that. The…

Five Nights Etched in Time

I’m often asked which haunted house is my favorite and the honest answer is that I don’t have just one favorite. Haunted attractions come in all shapes and sizes and employ a wide range of themes, narratives and scare tactics…