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Halloween in the Bay Area

Archive of articles about Bay Area Halloween Events, including San Francisco and the surrounding areas, San Jose: San Francisco Dungeon, Winchester Mystery House, Candelighters Ghost House, Pirates of Emerson, and more.

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The Summoning stakes a claim to greatness

October 14, 2022November 22, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2022, Halloween in the Bay Area, Halloween on Stage, Halloween Recommendations, Reviews, Terror Vault, Vampires

The Summoning enlists audiences into a human-vs-vampire conflict staged in the depths of the San Francisco Mint, where the undead

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Unhinged: Nightshade's Curse Review
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Unhinged: Nightshade’s Curse (review)

October 13, 2022November 22, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Ghosts and the Supernatural, Halloween 2022, Halloween in the Bay Area, Halloween Recommendations, Reviews, Winchester Mystery House

Winchester Mystery House resurrects its Unhinged Halloween show, restoring the scares and adding a few new ones Unhinged: Nightshade’s Curse,

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Paranormal Activity in the Bay Area

October 10, 2022October 14, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween in the Bay Area, Paranormal Cirque

After enjoying Halloween events Winchester Mystery House and the San Francisco Mint, we managed to squeeze in a visit to

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Miniature Mystery House

October 10, 2022October 14, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween in the Bay Area, Winchester Mystery House

Looking down at this miniature of the Winchester Mystery House makes me feel like Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980).

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San Francisco Smackdown

October 9, 2022October 14, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2022, Halloween in the Bay Area, Terror Vault

Talk about interactive experiences – I got smacked so hard I did not realize my glasses were gone for five

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Hollywood Gothique goes Unhinged

October 7, 2022October 14, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween in the Bay Area, Winchester Mystery House

Sorry, Los Angeles – we have abandoned you this weekend, heading north to the Bay Area to visit Unhinged: Nighshade’s

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Review: Winchester’s All Hallow’s Eve gets lost in the Mystery House

September 15, 2021November 22, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Ghosts and the Supernatural, Halloween 2021, Halloween in the Bay Area, Reviews, Winchester Mystery House

Lighting & visual effects fill the venerable tourist attraction with the spirit of Halloween, but this new production is no

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Pirates of Emerson: read the review, see the scenery

November 3, 2020 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2020, Halloween in the Bay Area, Pirates of Emerson

So now when it’s too late to do anything about it, people are suddenly reading my review of the Pirates

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Pirates of Emerson 2020 Review
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Review: Pirates of Emerson Drive-Through Haunt

October 29, 2020June 19, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2020, Halloween in the Bay Area, Pirates of Emerson

Can a drive-through haunt truly terrify? The results in Los Angeles have been checkered, so Hollywood Gothique decided to trek

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Visiting Pirates in Pleasanton

October 25, 2020 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2020, Halloween in the Bay Area

While our faithful minion continues to review haunts in Southern California, we have trekked up north for a visit to

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Video & Review: An “Unhinged” Halloween at Winchester Mystery House

October 11, 2019August 18, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2019, Halloween in the Bay Area, Halloween Recommendations, Winchester Mystery House

Wondering what “unhinged” secrets reside within the Winchester Mystery House? Then come along with us…if you dare! After a six-year

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Winchester Mystery House: Unhinged Missing
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M.I.A. at Winchester Mystery House

September 24, 2019October 13, 2022 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween in the Bay Area, Winchester Mystery House

The last time the Winchester Mystery House put on a full-blown Halloween haunt was in 2012, and for a while it

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Winchester Mystery House New Candelight Tours for Halloween 2016

October 12, 2016June 14, 2019 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Halloween 2016, Halloween in the Bay Area, Winchester Mystery House

With the demise of so many Los Angeles Halloween haunts this year, ghost-addicts may be looking elsewhere to get their ectoplasmic

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