The Farm Haunt

Halloween 2024: Plans to be announced. No word yet on 2024, but we have contacted the proprietor.

Dates & Hours: To Be Announced

Location: 29130 Diablo Place, Castaic, CA 91384

Website: facebook.com/thefarmerfowler

Quick Take: Since their days in Glendale, the Farm Haunt has presented a very impressive facade featuring nice props, effects, and (on occasion) a short walkthrough. Since moving to Castaic for Halloween 2020, the farm theme has morphed into an old west ghost town, named Dr. Diablo’s Caskets and Curiosities or Dr. Diablo’s Haunted Pumpkin Patch.

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The Farm Haunt History

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When it was situated in Glendale, this Halloween home haunt offered a display in the yard with a short walk-through in the garage. As the name suggests, The Farm featured a farming theme, with Jack O’Lanterns and skeletons perched among straw and bales of hay, along with cornstalks and menacing figures out front.

The walk through the barn was short but nicely done. During our first visit (in Halloween 2016), a rather diminutive skeleton guided us through, making sure we fully observed all the grim details, including one or two motion-sensitive gags. Their final year in Glendale, 2018, was even better.

After moving to Castaic, The Farm Haunt scaled back to a yard display named Dr. Diablo’s Caskets and Curiosities. during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, then resurrected its walk-through for Halloween 2021. In 2022, The Farm Haunt went on hiatus while its proprietor collaborated on Bones Gulch in, a fund-raiser for L.A. County Sheriffs’ Museum. The Farm Haunt resurrected its Dr. Diablo theme (renamed Dr. Diablo’s Haunted Pumpkin Patch) in 2023.