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2024 Update: After three seasons at the Whittier Museum, The Haunted Rose returns to home haunting at its original location. This year’s theme is Mausoleum of Madness.

Dates & Hours: Halloween Night Only, 6pm-11pm

Location: 12116 Groveland Avenue, Whittier, CA 90604

Website: thehauntedrosehaunt.weebly.com

Admission: Free!

HG Assessment: With amazing sets and creatures, The Haunted Rose is a horror fan’s dream come true, offering an esoteric form of horror that mainstream haunts eschew in the quest for a mass audience.

 

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Haunted Rose Articles: Check our reviews and videos in our Haunted Rose Archive:

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Haunted Rose History
Haunted Rose 2017 two monsters
The Haunted Rose 2017

The Haunted Rose made its debut in 2016 to immediate acclaim and followed up in 2017 with “Maritime Horror,” a wonderfully creepy walk through a fishing village suggesting “Shadow Over Innsmouth.” After going on hiatus in 2018, the Haunted Rose returned in 2019, in a new location with a new theme, Carter’s Crypt, inspired by “The Statement of Randolph Carter.”

During 2020 pandemic lockdown, Haunted Rose converted to a show instead of a walkthrough. Continuing with its penchant for Lovecraft-inspired themes, the theme was “The Colour Out of Space,” described as a “live theatrical display of Cosmic Horror,” presented in a “fun, socially distanced” manner, in consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic. That Christmas, there was a Krampus Night and Hearse Show for the winter season, reusing the display from its Halloween 2020 presentation.

Haunted Rose
Haunted Rose at Whittier Musuem 2023

In need of a new location, The Haunted Rose gave up home haunting and joined forces with the Whittier Museum in 2021, charging for admission as a non-profit fund-raiser. The relationship proved fruitful, and Haunted Rose ended spending three Halloweens there: Realm of the Supernatural in 2021, another example of cosmic horror in the Lovecraft mode; Gates of Hell in 2022, based on alleged paranormal activity in nearby Turnball Canyon; and  Threshold of Darkness, featuring Dr. Macabro’s Collection of Curiosities in 2023. Afterward, Haunted Rose and Whittier parted ways: the former returned to home haunting; the museum put on their own Halloween fundraiser in 2024.

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Haunted Rose Photo Galleries

Haunted Rose 2023

Gilman Hotel, located in Innsmouth
Demon demands sacrifice
Demonic Vampire
Whittier Museum Halloween 2023
Haunted Rose at Whittier Museum Halloween 2023
Posters outside museum for kids trick or treating and vendors market
Dr Macabro’s Collection of Curiosities
Dr Macabro introduces his Collection of Curiosities
Some of Dr Macabro’s Collection
Mausoleum Decor
Picture of Dorian Gray
Human Sacrifice
Who knows what lurks in the laser fog?
Of course there are roses at Haunted Rose.
Vampire’s Victim
Watch out for spiders!
Hallways of Horror
Hallways of Horror
Maritime horror
Mad Love
Invisible Man – inmate at the asylum
Hidden Hills Asylum
Frankenstein’s spare parts
Frankenstein’s Monster
Frankenstein’s lab
Supernatural seductress (posing as an actress in a Halloween haunt) lures gullible visitors into the Museum of Horrors.
Screaming Mimi
Souls of the Damned
Queen of the Damned
Werewolf
Werewolf by full moon
Werewolf Transformation begins.
Werewolf Transformation completed.
Human Sacrifice
Graveyard backdrop behind museum

Haunted Rose 2022

Electrodome unleashing supernatural entities into Whittier Museum
Possessed woman
Indigenous American Spirit?
Atrocity in a barn
Mad doctor of Turnball Asylum
Inmate of Turnball Asylum
A ghoulish soul
Bat-like creature in a barn
Press preview of Beyond the Gates of Turnball
The history of the Esoteric Order of the Haunted Rose
Realm of Supernatural
The mysterious crash of Flight 416
Gates of Hell
Simulated horrors foreshadow the real horrors to follow.
An “actor” creates fibrous confectionary.
Gates of Turball

Haunted Rose Photos 2021

A demon from beyond
A monstrous visage
Demented Student
The mad scientist responsible for the chaos
School’s Out!
Demented Ventriloquist?
Evil Preacher
The mad scientist responsible for the chaos
Lurking in darkness
The device that opened the rift
Arachnid above the entrance

Haunted Rose Photos 2017-2020

The Haunted Rose 2017 in Whittier.
The Haunted Rose 2017 in Whittier. Photo by Warren So
The Haunted Rose 2017 in Whittier.
Haunted Rose 2019
Haunted Rose 2020
Haunted Rose 2020 Christmas