By Stephanie DeBalko Weekender Intern
Looking for a terrifying experience that doesn?t involve walking in on your parents while they re-enact your conception?
Then try out one of the following haunted experiences, none of which will blind you (at least we don?t think they will) but they just might make you go running home to Mommy.
Annual Haunted Hay Ride
Thornhurst Vol. Fire & Rescue Co. Oct. 6-8, 13-14, 20-21, 7-10 p.m.
Brokenharts Asylum
Presented by Screamin Demons Haunted Attractions, located at the old Hansons Amusement park, Harveys Lake. Open every weekend in Oct., at 7 p.m. A professional walk-through haunted house that features high tech effects and in your face scares. Admission $10 all ages, group rates available and benefits the Harveys Lake Fire Department. For more info visit www.screamindemonshaunts.com
Candlelight Ghost Tours of the Old Jail Museum
(128 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe) Sat. nights in Oct. 6:30 p.m. to last tour at 9 p.m. Wander the jail in the dark and hear about unexplained voices, hands, sounds and invisible walls. Are there spirits in the Old Jail? $8 adults, $6 students. Please no children under 12. Call 570.325.5259 or 570.325.3309 for info.
Dracula?s Forest Haunted Hayride and Shockwalk
Every Thurs.-Sun., the last night being Oct. 29. We are closed Halloween night. Little Screamers Hayride runs every Sun., 4-6 p.m., children?s admission $5 and adult chaperones $3. Nightly Hayride, $12 for adults, $5 for children. Shockwalk, $7.
Gravestone Manor Theatrical Haunted House
(1095 Hwy. 315, Plains): benefits the United Way through Oct. 28, Fri. & Sat. only, 7-11 p.m. $8. Indoor walking tour through a labyrinth of 9 haunted rooms, connected by dark, twisting passages. Not recommended for children under 8. Info hotline: 570.821.6500. www.gravestonemanor.org
Halloween Lantern Tour and Haunted Wagon Ride
Eckley Miner?s Village (located nine miles east of Hazleton, just off Route 940; 570.636.2070; www.eckleyminers.org ) Oct. 20-22, 27-29, 6:30-10 p.m. (Last tour at 9); Sun. Night, 6:30-9 p.m. (Last tour at 8). Visitors can choose either a guided lantern walking tour or a wagon ride through a restored 19th Century anthracite coal mining village where you will meet the creatures of the night that come during the Halloween season. Adults $8, children $3.
The Haunted Woods
Behind The Woodlands Inn and Resort off Route 315. Open dusk-11 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. through Oct. 21, as well as Oct. 8 and Oct. 25-31. Open dusk-10 p.m. Oct. 15, 22. NEPA?s #1 haunted attraction, more live actors, free parking, hot and cold refreshments. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for children under 12 and senior citizens above 55. Groups of 15 or more, $9 per person. This year?s event features more scary creatures haunting the heavily wooded hills leading to the eerie cemetery. For more information call 570.824.9831 or visit www.hauntedwoodlands.com.
Heights Manor
Fri., Sat., Sun. nights starting Oct. 13 through Mon. Oct. 30, 5:30-10-30 p.m. $7 adults, $5 children 12 and under. Directions: from RT 309 in Wilkes-Barre turn on to Coal Street, go approx. .25 mile and turn onto Wilkes Lane (across from Rider?s World). From 81 take the Highland Blvd. Exit (Arena exit) turn left at right go through the intersection of 309 and Highland Park Blvd. go approx. .25 mile and turn onto Wilkes Lane across from Rider?s World. Contact Gerri Jacson at 570.814.3203 or Kara Taylor at 570.332.1888
Horror Hall
(11 E. Poplar St., W. Nanticoke, www.horrorhall.com, 735.7899) NEPA?s Biggest & Best All Indoor Haunted Attraction, open every Fri., Sat. & Sun. in Oct. Fri. & Sat. 6-11 p.m., Sun. 6-10 p.m.
?Murder, Mayhem and History: A Chilling Tour of Downtown Wilkes-Barre,?
Oct. 6-7, 7 p.m. each night. The one and a half hour tour will begin in front of the LCHS Museum (69 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre). Admission $5 for members of LCHS and $7 for non-members. The historical tour will focus on a different side of Wilkes-Barre showing haunted houses, lost cemeteries, stories of executions, suicides, battles and other bizarre tragedies that have all occurred in the area. Space is limited and advance reservations are required. Please call 570.823.6244, ext. 2.
Night Terrors
Where stirrings in the grave are just the beginning at 508 Delaware Ave., West Pittston. Open weekends through Oct. 29. Fri. & Sat., 6-11 p.m. Sun., 6-10 p.m. $10 per person. Visit www.niteterrors.com, email info@niteterrors.com or call 570.237.5062.
Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch
(Rt. 29, Noxen) Free hayrides to pick-your-own pumpkins, corn maze, hay fort, group outings through Oct. 29, Sat./Sun. noon to dusk. Call 570.298.0962 or visit www.WhistlePigPumpkin.com
Spooky Ballroom Dancing
With USA Dance Chapter 3016 , Oct. 21 at the Firelight Banquet Hall (Main St., Dupont). Wear your spookiest costume as there will be prizes. Doors open 6:30 p.m., with a Night Club Two Step lesson 6:45 p.m. by Vince Brust. Buffet dinner/ballroom dancing until 11 p.m. $23 members/$26 nonmembers. Reservations to Daniel Wolfe at 570.853.4611 or Josie Roman at 570.342.5614. Advanced payment requested to USA Dance, Inc c/o Josie Roman, 822 Throop Street, Dunmore, PA 18512. RSVP by Oct. 16.
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