New Halloween Yard Haunt Recommendation: Cats & Bats in Glendale
Cats and Bats Haunt in Glendale offers a walkthrough a haunted nightclub.
The Verdugos region of Los Angeles (including Glendale, Pasadena, Altadena and a few other areas) is home to myriad yard haunts, but this year there are only one or two we want to single out for the first time.
If you are looking for others, we will provide suggestions and links below.
Cats and Bats Haunt
Walk-Through
October 31 & November 1, 7-10pm
3000 E Chevy Chase Drive, Glendale
Located on winding road in a hill section of Glendale, Cats and Bats Haunt consists of large display and a fairly extensive walkthrough. The former is filled with enough lighted gravestones, plastic skeletons, and animatronic figures to be worth a visit on its own, but the main attraction here is its scary journey (in a family-safe way) to an amusingly spooky nightclub.
On the sidewalk is a ticket booth (manned by a cigarette-smoking skeleton) with a marquee promoting such acts as “Ghoul and the Gang,” which initially seems like just a cool joke but which actually hints at what’s inside. The walkthrough has two sections, one at street level and one up a flight of stairs. The first begins with a fairly typical but quite colorful home-haunt section, featuring masked monsters haunting a path glowing with fluorescent signage (“Punk’s Not Dead”).
This leads to an entrance where you get your hand stamped before entering a nightclub pumping out Goth-inflected dance music. Most of the patrons seem to be plastic skeletons except for one mannequin in a Joy Division jacket. A skeletal animatronic bartender complains about the clientele, and a black-clad “singer” with glowing red eyes works the microphone to the beat (we want to say he’s lip-synching but you can’t see his lips). It’s a short scene in a single room, but it’s very clever.
After emerging from the nightclub, you head an outside staircase for the second scene. After passing an animatronic bear, your path leads to the front of what looks like a small screening room. The joke is that there is no way to avoid blocking the screen, and the creepy patrons are not happy, yelling, “Down in front!” and pursuing you as you apologetically try to escape.
There are many popular haunt themes that we find over used (can you say “clowns”?), so it’s always nice to see a home haunter do something different. The five-minute walkthrough is more jokey than terrifying, but there are some jump-scares in the dark, and thanks to the split-level layout of the hillside house, Cats and Bats feels big. You really want to check this one out.
Cats and Bats Haunt Photo Gallery
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Happy Halloween
Yard Display
1165 N. Hill Avenue, Pasadena
About fifteen minutes east of Cats and Bats Haunt is a Pasadena yard display we have not previously encountered. We have not seen it listed anywhere, so our best guess as to its name is the large “Happy Halloween” sign on the lawn. This is an example of a property that takes advantage of a large yard, filling it brightly lit inflatables and topping those off with even more on the roof. Probably not worth a trip all on its own but worth swinging by if you’re in the neighborhood to see other favorites.
Happy Halloween Photo Gallery
Other Halloween 2025 Yard Haunt Recommendations: Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena
Several long-time favorites are haunting again this year. Pasadena has Ghostwood Manor at 2001 N. Raymond Avenue. South Pasadena has Diamond Avenue Haunts. on the 1100 block of Diamond Avenue. In Altadena there are Forgotten Hallows at 1602 N. Roosevelt Avenue and the Garden Path of Doom on Pepper Drive (good for trick-or-treating on Halloween Night. Forever Present Cemetery and The Spooky Strip are practically side by side in Glendale: the first is at 700 Arden Avenue; the second is a block away on the corner of Glenoaks and Concord. This Halloween also sees the return of the Opechee Haunt yard display, offering a “Spooky Soirée” theme this year at 1307 Opechee Way in Glendale.
You can learn more about these haunts in our 2024 Halloween Yard Haunts Recommendations article. For up-to-date information on hours and dates, check out the SoCal Haunt List.
Note: Glendale’s excellent Nightmare on Whiting Woods is on hiatus this year.
