Haunt Hunting Virginia 2020

Leesburg, VA - Haunt Hunting Virginia 2020 is broadcasting live on the Haunt Hunters App with Speed by Chuck Mound presented by Blood Manor, NYC.  Some great Haunted Attaractions reside in Virginia and you can start with the famous Shocktober. One of the aspects that boosts Haunts is authenticity and at Shocktober you have it comes off the walls. 

In 1879, Dale Carlheim built Carlheim Manor, in Leesburg, VA, for his family home and estate. Shortly after the family moved into the mansion, Dale was touring the grounds and discovered a series of large caverns, including an underground lake, below the house. During his exploration of the caverns, he stumbled upon a group of unmarked graves and inadvertently disturbed the bodies. Soon afterward, his family began experiencing strange occurrences that became more violent with each passing day. Within a few months, his wife and children had all been killed by unexplained accidents, and Dale himself disappeared, never to be seen again.

Over the course of the following century, Carlheim Manor was used for many purposes. But everyone who lived and worked in the house died of mysterious or unexplained causes, or simply disappeared. Eventually, the mansion and grounds were abandoned, and the grisly stories of murder and horror were forgotten.

Some of the other Haunted Attractions in Virginia Include the great Red Vein Haunt in Richmond, which follows an amazing story line that brings fans from all over the state.

The Haunted Highway Tour 2020 will be broadcasting live on your smartphone on the HauntHuntersApp. 

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Haunting Covid 19

Haunting Covid by Patrick Regan -Trying to operate a haunt under normal circumstances is hard enough. The list of challenges is daunting. Add in the problems of a pandemic and constantly changing local health requirements, and it can appear scarier than your worst nightmare!!

Outdoor haunts face the variability of weather. Haunt actors face the challenges of balancing the close scare with a jump scare or touching vs props. Make-up artists have to nail the look on constantly changing ‘canvases’ under immense time pressures. Security faces the challenges of unruly guests. Production faces the challenge of making all those phenomenal ideas realistic. And owners face ALL these challenges with so many more the list would take up this whole article! Indoor Haunts (or sections) only magnify the problems. Yet, Actors and Production and MUA’s and Owners and Security come back with such passion year after year. Add in this stinking pandemic in, and it’s easy to see how hard it’s going to be to pull it off one more time!

My hope with this forum is to be a place for those still desiring to keep their haunt delivering frights to customers and not infections. With that said, there are two ‘classes’ of challenges I’m hearing – those faced by Indoor Haunts vs Outdoor Haunts. (I know many haunts have both types of sections, but they present different opportunities.) There have been almost universal considerations, so I will present those first. 

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