I know we are over a month away from the actual date, but as I have always believed, Halloween is far more than just one date on a calendar. It is a whole season of dark magic the flows through the cold air. All of the tell tale signs are about and in alignment. We have all sorts of Pumpkin Ales and Octoberfest Lagers hitting the beer shelves. Halloween costume and prop shops are popping up all over the place. The local Haunted Attractions are putting together their final touches to their dark walkthroughs. The night air is cold with mysterious energies from beyond. IT IS TIME!
Of course I changed up the theme of the blog for the Halloween season as I have in past years. You'll also notice a few more small esthetic changes, such as the font of the blog being bigger. The small type was starting to get to me in my old age, so I made it bigger for easier reading.
Now on to more ghoulish delights. Lets go full throttle into one of my all time favorite past times of the Halloween season, which would be Haunted Attractions! I used to visit anywhere from four to eight of them a year and do reviews on them. As time passes, people get married, have families and get mega-busy. These days, I'm lucky if I can drag friends to one a year. This is why I've started virtually visiting them on YouTube. It may sound lame and sad, but desperate times call for desperate measures. A Haunt junkie has gotta do what he's gotta do. I need my Haunt fix and I'll get it anyway I can.
So, during this season of Halloween, I'd like to take you on a few virtual haunt walkthroughs of famous haunts all around the nation through the magic of YouTube.
The first one we'll be traversing through was located at the California theme park, Knottsberry Farm (aptly retitled, Knotts Scary Farms during the Halloween season). The maze is called, VIRUS Z and was run in 2011. It is 1950's kitsch meets zombie apocalypse. ENTER IF YOU DARE!!!!
Now that was a heck of a lot of fun, wasn't it. There isn't anything more nostalgic than fleeing zombies through a town of the 1950's. It's kind of an alternate history walkthrough. Pretty cool!
Since it's still early in the evening and we're already at Knotts Scary Farm, lets visit another haunted maze they have here. This one is based on a twisted doll factory where the ghouls within make their lifelike dolls with very special parts. Bruhahahaha! Let's visit THE DOLL FACTORY!
How'd you like those freaky, doll faced factory workers? Pretty creepy. They also had some pretty interesting furniture in that one room. I wonder if you can get them at Ikea? The background music is wonderfully creepy as well. Sadly, last year was the closing year for this attraction. It will be replaced with something new this year.
Both of these video come from the YouTube channel, Theme Park Adventures, a website that features dark attractions at amusement parks.
Well, kiddos, that it for today. Each of my blogs during Halloween will feature a different haunted Attraction walkthrough or featurette. So you have that to look forward to.
Until next time, take this friendly advise. Always check under the bed and in the bedroom closet before you go to sleep at night. That way you can rule out those two locations for the undead when the inexplicable banging starts up in the middle of the night.
Bruahahahahah!
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