The 30th edition of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights will take your emotions to the limit!

One of the things that all horror lovers enjoy is to sit down watch an amazing horror movie, feeling the exaltation of all the jumpscares and in certain occasions, these movies are so extraordinary that we would like to transport ourselves to the universe where the protagonist lives… well Universal Studios can make this fantasy come true.

The Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights (HHN), will be celebrating its 30th anniversary and it’s combining stories and visions from the world’s most famous creators of horror to Universal Studios Florida, it will be like living in a horror movie!

But what makes it so special? one of the main reasons why everyone is excited to attend this HHN’s event is because there will be spooky haunted houses inspired by the biggest names in horror. On past editions, some of the most popular haunted houses include Ghostbusters, Stranger Things, House of 1000 Corpses and Killer Klowns among others.

Also, you will be able to take your emotions to the limit at the many sinister scare zones, the outrageous live entertainment and some of Universal Studio’s most breathtaking attractions. The dates for this year will be September 10-November 1 so get ready and save your spot at one of the world’s best horror events!

According to rumors spread all over the internet, another reason why fans are so excited about this 30th edition of the HHN is that one of the biggest icons from this event might be returning… the Terra Queen. In case you didn’t know, back in 2005 the Terra Queen was the main icon of the whole event. However, she was “sacrificed” at the end of a show but it was foretold that she would be coming back, in 15 years, hence the big expectations for her to return for this 30th anniversary!

So what do you say, are you ready to have a chilling experience like no other?

Soon spring will arrive and with it, the most enchanting and spooky festival ever! Witchfest 2020

The city of Austin is getting ready to welcome hundreds of people, or more like hundreds of witches for their Witchfest 2020 and it is looking promising for all the magic seekers out there.

There is a particular reason why such an event is held in Austin since this city is home to a large community with people that have affinities for all sorts of mystical subjects.

Our goal is to bring together witches and like-minded individuals to facilitate growth, awareness, fun and networking opportunities for the Austin community and surrounding areas.” Austin Witchfest.

The Witchfest 2020 offers an entertaining environment with loads of activities to do starting from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm on Saturday, March 07 taking place in the outdoor spaces of the Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms.

People will be able to enjoy all types of “witchy” stuff from workshops, rituals, raffle prizes, and shopping for magical artifacts from different vendors. The general admission price for the event is $5.00 and tickets can be purchased both online and on the day of the event.

On their official event, Austin Witschfest has announced some of the vendors participating in this magical event like Anam Cara Apothecary and Artistry with their medicinal products for health and wellness, Purple Finch Caravans offering all kinds of handmade goods like amulets/talismans, spell poppets and altar decoration and Cardinal Temptations creating handcrafted wands and other woodworking such as boxes and journals.

Would you assist to the festival?

This 300-year-old haunted house is offering couples a thrilling experience for Valentines Day

When someone mentions Valentines Day, what traditionally pops up into people’s minds are red roses or romantic dinners, but what would you say if you had the chance to spend this holiday on a haunted mansion? Now that’s a new one.

Right in Pennsylvania, there is a 300-year-old mansion called the Brinton Lodge mansion and rumor has it that this property is haunted. Over the past five years, the Brinton Lodge mansion has opened its doors to paranormal fans and even hosted a special Valentine’s Day event where couples could spend a spooky evening together.

This event is popularly known as the Brinton Lodge’s Candle Light Tour, which seems to be quite popular since it is one of the top ten most haunted houses in Pennsylvania. On its Valentine’s edition: Saints or Sinners Valentine’s Ghost Tour, the mansion offers a couple of activities for everyone to enjoy.

For couples who want to try different things during valentine’s the Candle Light Tour includes a series of both delightful and chilling activities such as ghostly love stories and some tragic haunting stories, a candlelight tour, and a sweet nightcap including chocolate, wine, and beer.

Anyone brave enough to spend an unusual, fun valentine’s evening with their significant other must attend to this event on the 14 and 15 of February from 9:30 pm-11:00 pm, the tickets can be easily purchased on the Brinton Lodge website.

In addition, the money raised from the Saints or Sinners Valentine’s Ghost Tour is invested in the preservation of this beautiful and peculiar mansion, which remains a relic since early 1900s.

The Brinton Lodge encourages couples to attend their event and “discover the love stories behind the mansion’s notorious hauntings!”

Would you dare to go?

The true story of “The Haunting in Connecticut”

Know the story of the horror movie “The Haunting in Connecticut”.

In 1986 it´s the year in which the darkness begins that a New York family was about to face, Philip the eldest son of the Snedeker family is diagnosed with cancer so the family decides to move to Connecticut where the right hospital for him is located. The new house was the worst part of this story.

When renting the house it came with a condition, not throwing any object that is in the basement and that were memories, which were made up of all the stuff that a coroner needs to embalm. The basement was a funeral home from 1936 to 1980.

The basement where Philip and his brother’s room would be, was next to the old funeral home, only sliding doors separated them. Philip from the beginning began to say that there was an evil presence in the house, constantly listening to a voice of a man in the basement that said: “Philip come here”. His mother Carmen thought they were hallucinations, but he wasn´t the only one who saw things, the younger sister saw spirits in the mirror.

In an early morning Philip and his brother saw three sinister men in the darkness, who stared at them and whispered something awful, then the entities began to laugh and one of them threw one of his toys against the wall, breaking it into a thousand pieces. On another occasion, Philip came to see a boy dressed as Superman, then they learned that this boy was embalmed in the house and in his funeral he was using the superhero costume.

One of the most horrible episodes was, when under the influence of a dark entity, Philip tried to make evil things to a cousin who lived with them, so Philip was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for 45 days.

Time passed and unfortunately for its economic situation, the family couldn´t leave the house, even if the paranormal manifestations became stronger and stronger; things moved by themselves, there were inexplicable noises and the beds vibrated; It was then that they had to resort to help the Warren’s couple.

While the paranormal investigators arrived at the house, Lorraine visited the basement alone, and had a vision of a large man who was manipulating and moving the bodies. Lorraine realized that not only did they face a tormented spirit, but a demon, so she and her husband Edward called Priest Timothy Conlan, who performed an exorcism to end that diabolical entity.

After all that torment, the Snedeker family found calm, Philip found himself defeating cancer and they moved out of the house.

Have you seen The Haunting in Connecticut?

The haunted Stanley Hotel … The true story of “The Shining”

Get to know the true story of “The Shining”, one of the most memorable horror movies of all times.

It all started with a dream … during a Halloween night in 1974, Stephen King dreamed his son was screaming, with a deep horror on his face as he was chased by a fire hose, along the hall of a hotel.

When Stephen King woke up, he went to the window of the hotel where he was staying and began to admire the rocky mountains that adjoined a black sky, and this was the moment where he was inspired to write one of the greatest horror stories: “The Shining”.

The hotel where this crucial episode happened in the life of Stephen King and many of us, horror fans, is the Stanley Hotel, located in Colorado, United States, where not only King had a dream, but he experienced paranormal events with his wife.

The hotel is known for being one of the most haunted in North America; This place was another element that inspired the writer to create his creepy novel.

During the stay of King and his wife, who accompanied him, they slept in room 217, and although it seems difficult to believe, they were the only guests inside the sinister hotel, since the tourist complex only opened its doors a few months in the year, and closed shortly before winter came, by October 30 when the couple arrived, it was already the end of the season.

The first mysterious event that the couple lived, was when they returned to the room shortly after dinner in the desolate dining room, because upon entering, all their belongings were messy, as if someone had shaken their bags, but not someone human, because the employees said that nobody entered.

Another paranormal incident happened during the morning when King walked by himself along the corridors of the hotel, he saw how the carpet moved as if by it was being controlled with magic.

This is the information that Stephen King shared with the media, however, the dark legend tells that he also had an encounter with ghost children wandering in the hotel, in addition to attending a party, where the other guests were spirits from beyond.

And although Stephen King’s story ends here and his visit to the haunted place, it´s not where the hotel’s story ends with respect to the paranormal, as both hotel employees and guests, they report having witnessed spooky manifestations. Children’s spirits living inside the hotel, silhouettes of children crossing the walls, the voices and laughter of little ones rumbling between the rooms and the long corridors of the hotel.

Another type of manifestations is that the belongings of the guests are inexplicably moved from the place, noises of invisible presences emanate inside the rooms, the lights blink sinisterly and the sink taps open themselves.

But without a doubt, the paranormal focus of the hotel is room 418, currently closed, because there lives an evil ghost that in the past frightened guests during the early morning to leave, always appearing furious in the corner of the room.

Despite the fact this hotel remains haunted, it is still quite popular and you can even take a tour, if you gather enough bravery to do it. 

Daily tours are incredibly popular, four different types of historical and haunted tours throughout the year. The Historic Stanley Night Tour takes you on a haunting evening through different dark spaces from the hotel, it introduces you to the active phenomena and spirit folklore that embraces this 100+-year-old hotel. 

There is also another, more friendly tour: The Historic Stanley Family Friends Tour with a more fun approach, it is an interactive tour in which kids can participate in very special I-spy games and other activities. 

A third type of tour with a more historical approach is the day tour, where you will be able to explore the hotel while learning about its background story and also its impact on pop culture. 

Due to its high ghostly activity, paranormal tours are held at the hotel, would you dare to go?

New “Silent Hill” movie is announced

After fourteen years of filming the first horror video game movie “Silent Hill”, the french director Christophe Gans said there will be a new movie coming soon.

But he won´t only film Silent Hill, but the Fatal Frame movie as well.

About Silent Hill Christophe said: “The project will always be anchored in this atmosphere of a small American town, ravaged by Puritanism. I think it’s time to make a new one.”

About Fatal Frame the director said: “The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house setting.”

Would you be able to watch the new Silent Hill movie or Fatal Frame?

The dark story of Haunted Byberry Mental Hospital

If there is an asylum or hospital that could have been an inspiration for horror movies, surely Byberry Mental Hospital could be that place.

This is a huge hospital located in Philadelphia, which during its story saw thousands of patients with mental problems enter. And it became famous for the horrible treatments that the patients said they suffered, and if it were not because a worker took numerous photographs of the dark events, it would surely have lasted more years open.

The construction was so big, it took almost half a century for the more than 50 buildings that made up the hospital to be completed. And within them were mixed dormitories, nurseries, kitchens, laundries, a chapel and a mortuary, apart from the administration offices. It was such a large place that within its walls they managed to house a little more than 7,000 patients, at the time with the largest population of the place.

However, it´s curious that in the beginning the place was not a hospital, but a work farm for the mentally ill, it was until after it became an asylum, finally in 1907 it was consolidated as the Byberry Mental Hospital that brought so much horror to the world.

There were so many people who were there, that the conditions for the patients became poor and terrible, just like the treatment of the workers. There are photographs of patients tied with straps on their beds.

It was so much the carelessness, that the workers left the entire areas without any care, leaving the patients of those buildings practically abandoned.

In the 90’s the closing of its operations was declared, when the truth was discovered.

The scary thing is that the neighbors closest to the place (despite being miles away) gathered thousands of signatures so that the building was collapsed, according to them by the strange presence that the dark and abandoned place gave off.

Would you dare to go?

Now you can visit a restaurant-bar inspired by Beetlejuice all year round

Meet this restaurant-bar for Tim Burton fans, you will feel inside one of his films.

There is a bar called Beetle House, where you can enjoy Halloween all year round, a bar inspired mainly by one of our favorite films “Beetlejuice” of 1988.

The restaurant-bar has a twisted and spooky atmosphere of the film, it also presents delicious dishes to delight the palate, different drinks and the most fun is that the place is full of actors dressed as your favorite characters and you can take photos with each from them.

The restaurant-bar has a twisted and spooky atmosphere of the film, it also presents delicious dishes to delight the palate, different drinks and the most fun is that the place is full of actors dressed as your favorite characters and you can take photos with each from them.

The location of this place is located on East 6th Street New York, With a schedule of 4:00 pm, until 2:00 am.

There is a Bettle House in DC and Los Angeles too, for more information you can enter its official website.

It is a year-round Halloween celebration with an artistic and themed atmosphere inspired by the culture of horror, magic and artistic, literary and cinematographic works of Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe and others more.

“We are kind of like an adult Halloween party with a Burtonesque feel, curated by Alfred Hitchcock, with a 90s goth band on stage and everyone is wearing Weird costumes.:) We are a safe place where every goth, punk, freak, weirdo, artist, and visitor is welcomed and celebrated” Beetle House.

You can also listen music related to Burton movies throughout the day. What else could we ask for?

Music, food, drinks, atmosphere, all excellent, but the best part for many of the visitors are the actors who play the characters of Tim Burton.

So we can´t wait any longer, we want to know Beetle House, would you go?

The Haunting of Hill House will be back and the filming of season 2 is over

The Haunting of Hill House left the audience with a great appetite for more mystery, drama and suspense. After ten exciting episodes, the creator Mike Flanagan decided to give fans another taste of horror by introducing a new story.

The second season will be called “The Haunting of Bly Manor” in which the story will not only incorporate new actors such as the talented Rahul Kohli, T’Nia Miller, Amelia Eve and Benjamin Ainsworth but also maintain part of the original cast like Catherine Parker, Victoria Pedretti, and Henry Thomas among others.

The Haunting of Bly Manor was filmed in Vancouver. they finished this month, in February. However, Netflix will not release the terrifying part two right now, the public will probably enjoy it during the Halloween season.

Flanagan has done tremendous work with The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thriller had everything a horror enthusiast could ask for from storyline all the way to aesthetics, no wonder why people have high expectations for the upcoming season but… what will be the new storyline?

The last episode of season one brings an end to the Crain family story. What follows up is a new fresh story where another family will be haunted in a completely new, frightening house.

“It’s a cool way to expand on some of the things I loved about season 1, but within the framework of a new story, without having to be restrained by the decisions we made last time.” Flanagan

Although there is no actual narrative connection between both seasons, what brings these two together are the small easter eggs in the moments of dialogue and in some of the ideas retrieved from Hill House. No matter how small the easter eggs might seem, they are guaranteed to trigger an emotion rush when you finally make a connection with the story.

Officially The Haunting of Bly Manor is based on Henry Jame’s 1898 gothic horror novel “The Turn of the Scre”which has been previously adapted to the big screen in 1961 as a film called “The Innocents”.

Flanagan shows plenty of enthusiasm for this new season saying “It’s such a treat to play in the world of Henry James” the creator along with the whole crew will unravel Henry Jame’s library of ghosts, introducing to the media world things that have never been seen before.

Would you dare to watch The Haunting of Bly Manor?

Prepare yourselves all horror lovers, a spooky Blue Moon is coming this year on Halloween

This October 2020 will be quite special since its coming with a Blue Moon which promises to add spooky and mysterious vibes all around the place. This unique astronomical phenomenon is popularly known as the Blue Moon and it is one of the most anticipated moon events of 2020.

 

A Blue Moon gets its name basically because, during this phenomenon, the moon appears to be bluish, due to the smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere. The reason why this happening is so unique is that a full moon only occurs every 29 days, but blue moons which happen to be a full blue moon, only occur every 2 and a half to three years based on statistics from NASA.

 

In general, people don’t really pay attention to the full moons that might happen every month, however, the reason why this 2020’s blue moon is so special is that it will be appearing exactly on October 31, perfect timing!

A full moon is a must when searching for Halloween pictures on Google, but the truth is that having such a phenomenon landing on this exact holiday is something that happens 3 or 4 times in a century, pretty rare.

 

According to meteorologists, after 2020’s spectacular Blue Moon the world will have to wait for another 19 years until the phenomenon manifests itself again on Halloween, so better not miss it!

¿Are you ready for this spooky Halloween?