Beware The Dark Realm
Halloween 2024: After presenting a small home haunt called “Coven of Witches” in 2023, Beware the Dark Realm returns for two nights this October.
Dates & Hours: October 26, 31, 7-10pm
Location:Â 28621 Sugar Pine Way – Santa Clarita, CA 91390
Website: facebook.com/BewaretheDarkRealm
Our Take:Â With its 2014 debut, this Santa Clarita effort – a castle under a dark spell – immediately jumped on the list of best walk-through Halloween home haunts, then continued growing and expanding, putting itself on par with such perennial yard haunts as The Backwoods Maze and Rotten Apple 907.
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Beware the Dark Realm Home Haunt Overview
Beware the Dark Realm is a Halloween home haunt from the original managers of the Heritage Haunt in Newhall. The amateur attraction features a haunted house walk-through with a Medieval theme. A two-story castle facade leads to a maze of winding corridors, filled with amazing creatures around every corner: ghosts, demons, witches – even a dragon!
The haunted castle made its debut in 2013 and immediately established itself among the best amateur Halloween attractions in Los Angeles, with professional-quality makeup and home-made effects. Beware the Dark Realm earned a mention in Hollywood Gothique’s 2014 Halloween Haunt Award Nominees: Best Amateur Haunted House Walk-Through, going on to take the category in our 2014 Halloween Haunt Awards: Winners.
Like most home haunts and yard haunts, Beware the Dark Realm does not charge for admission; however, it does accept donations for charity (e.g. Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry, the SCV Domestic Violence Center) in exchange for a front-of-the-line pass.
Beware the Dark Realm home haunt ceased doing kid-friendly non-scare tours in 2017.
After shifting to an “immersive visual display” in response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Beware the Dark Realm returned with a full-legnth walk-through maze for Halloween 2021. In 2022, they abandoned home haunting to create Bones Gulch with The Farm Haunt and Restless Souls Manor. The non-profit raised money for the L.A County Sheriff’s museum.
After taking time off in 2022 to collaborating on a fundraiser haunt called Bones Gulch, Beware the Dark Realm presented a small home haunt titled The Coven of Witches in 2023. There were plans to return to Castaic in 2024 with something new.
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