Episodes and Blog Entries
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 194 - Giving a Haunt Talk
Episode | August 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 57 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
With HAuNTcon extending its deadline for speaking, many of you may be thinking about giving a talk. Here's our suggestions for how to pick your topic and write a talk on it that will help the industry.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 193 - CAD in Haunting
Episode | August 12th, 2019 | 57 mins 12 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
This week on Haunt Weekly we're talking about Computer Assisted Design and why you should be using CAD to help you design and build your haunted attraction. Plus we recommend some free CAD programs to do it in!
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 192 - July/August News
Episode | August 5th, 2019 | 59 mins 44 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news including that stupid petition to move Halloween (or at least trick or treating) and some major haunt openings.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 191 - Year-Round Haunting
Episode | July 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
This week on Haunt Weekly, we're sitting down with Shelby Rodwell, the manager of Haunted Mayfield Manor and Pirates! Legends of the Gulf Coast to talk about year-round haunting.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 190 - Gift Shop Blues
Episode | July 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
If your haunt doesn't have at least a merch table, you're missing out. But if all you have is a merch table you may be missing out even more. Here's how to elevate your merch game and get yourself a full-blown gift shop.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 189 - Starting a Haunt Convention
Episode | July 15th, 2019 | 50 mins
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Are you thinking about launching your own haunted attraction conference? Why not? This week on Haunt Weekly Maximus Bryant tells us how he and the others at the Ohio Haunters Association created theirs.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 188 - June/July News
Episode | July 8th, 2019 | 45 mins 58 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
We are in the doldrums of summer but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of news to cover and that's exactly what we're going to do, breaking down the latest happenings in the haunt industry over the past month!
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 187 - 7 Simple Things Haunts Forget
Episode | July 1st, 2019 | 53 mins 28 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Last week we talked about things that we wished we knew when we started haunting, this week we're flipping it around and talking about things we've noticed as customers.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 186 - 7 Things We Wish We Knew When We Started
Episode | June 24th, 2019 | 55 mins 27 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Haunting is a learning process. No one gets it right at first and we made some really bad mistakes early on. So here's your chance to learn from our mistakes and maybe get a head start yourself.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 185 - 10 Horror Video Games for Haunters
Episode | June 17th, 2019 | 55 mins 1 sec
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Haunting and horror video games go hand to hand like lox and bagels. But are there games that can make us better haunters? Here are 10 that definitely can.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 184 - May/June News
Episode | June 10th, 2019 | 46 mins 38 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news! We have stories from all over the country including tales of haunts surviving natural disasters, arsonists and being turned into Minecraft levels.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 183 - The Best Room
Episode | June 3rd, 2019 | 49 mins 20 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Two weeks ago we talked about the first room, last week we talked about the last room, this week we're talking about your best room including what makes for a memorable room and how you can control what your visitors remember.