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The Horrorland is back at Miami's Jungle Island for its seventh season, bringing a new collection of haunted houses, scare zones and live entertainment to the 18-acre property through November 1.
September 26, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
HellsGate Haunted House marks its 10th anniversary in Lockport, Illinois, with more than 150 live actors, anniversary surprises and a towering new 19-foot Clown Carousel.
September 26, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The 53rd annual Village Halloween Parade returns to Greenwich Village on Halloween night with a 2026 theme exploring the connection between physical expression, imagination and the human spirit.
September 19, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The locally operated horror convention returns Sept. 26 with celebrity guests, independent artists, gaming and a horror marketplace at Durham’s Millennium Hotel.
September 19, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The adults-oriented production blends circus, theater and cabaret beneath the big top at the Carlisle Fairgrounds October 9–12.
September 15, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Peacock has released the official trailer and new images for Crystal Lake, the A24-produced Friday the 13th prequel starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees. The eight-episode series arrives October 15.
September 14, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Na Hong-jin returns with a creature thriller that begins with a mysterious predator and quickly becomes something much larger.
September 14, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
A government-released video accompanies witness reports of two luminous objects over the northeastern United States in July 2025. The account does not establish what they were.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The Sacramento celebration introduces Sendero de las Almas Luminosas, with artist-created altars throughout the galleries, live performances and a community space for remembrance.
September 12, 2026 · GSR StaffREAD MORE →
The Philadelphia festival runs October 2–November 7, with five haunted houses, a new After Dark VIP tour and a holiday-themed closing weekend.
September 12, 2026 · GSR StaffREAD MORE →
The Cincinnati attraction opens September 11 with a new audio system, a transformed finale and a new character called Mr. Shady.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Planet Pumpkin: A Glo-bal Adventure brings the illuminated trail into the park’s wider fall celebration for 2026.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The Blowing Rock event pairs its nighttime train ride with a haunted house, trick-or-treating and live entertainment.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The October 31 celebration combines a costumed ride, park activities and a skydiving finale while supporting NorCal Trykers.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The San Antonio park’s September 11–November 1 season adds two scare zones and more lantern interactions, while Tricks and Treats offers separate daytime family programming.
September 12, 2026 · GSR StaffREAD MORE →
Two new mazes, two shows and a revised CarnEVIL scare zone join the Buena Park event’s ten-maze lineup on select nights September 17–October 31.
September 12, 2026 · GSR StaffREAD MORE →
The Illinois attraction pairs its October run with a daytime Family Frights event and an evening without actors.
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The official digital guide has arrived, with printed copies expected around Salem at the end of September.
September 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio Community DeskREAD MORE →
The Spanish-founded haunt marks its fifth season with a circus-themed production at La Loma Ranch.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
A haunted museum theme anchors the North Charleston attraction’s 2026 season, with special lights-out and family events.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The festival’s fifth edition runs October 8–18 at CoHo Theatre, with live productions, storytelling, cabaret and installations.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Newburgh Civitan and Henderson Haunts are rebuilding the attraction for a September 25 opening.
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Sherman Theater’s all-ages event lists seven guest speakers and an afternoon of paranormal presentations.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Return to Hellville opens October 1 with an interactive mystery inspired by 1980s horror cinema.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
An expanded prison-yard entertainment area and artist-led behind-the-scenes tours accompany the September 25 return.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The new Louisiana convention is planning vendors, authors, celebrity panels and fan photo opportunities.
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The Utah haunt will operate on selected nights through November 1 at its multi-building industrial site.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The Wabash attraction combines five haunted experiences, roaming characters and several ticket tiers.
September 8, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Founded by filmmakers Megan Wynd and Stephanie Salales, the nonprofit festival was created around a shared enthusiasm for filmmaking, storytelling and the eerie.
September 5, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
This fall, those halls become a haunted attraction once again.
September 5, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Terror in the Corn returns September 25 for the 2026 Halloween season, bringing its mile-long haunted experience back to Erie, Colorado, for select nights through October 31.
September 5, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Field of Screams will open its 34th season on Friday, September 11, bringing all four of its haunted attractions back to the Schopf family farm in Mountville and introducing a new experience inside one of the property’s signature haunts.
September 5, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Howl-O-Scream runs Fridays through Sundays from September 11 through November 1, transforming the park for 24 nights with five haunted houses, eight scare zones—known at the event as terror-tories—three Halloween shows and themed bars.
September 4, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
A new 2026 consumer survey from HalloweenCostumes.com found that comfort and fit have overtaken quality as the top consideration when choosing a costume. Thirty percent of respondents ranked comfort first, compared with 20% in 2024.
September 2, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
An independent Illinois crew is turning river country, backroads and abandoned places into the landscape of a character-driven post-apocalyptic horror-western headed toward a 2027 festival run.
August 31, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Scarefest Scream Park is celebrating its 20th anniversary season in Lenox Township, Michigan. The family-owned Halloween park returns with four haunted attractions, its midway entertainment and two special-event weekends scheduled ahead of…
August 25, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Supernatural horror series Revival arrives on Netflix today, following a Wisconsin deputy investigating the unexplained return of the recently dead—including her own sister.
August 24, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Fanta is moving beyond seasonal packaging and licensed horror characters with a new Haunted Fanta Universe built around original monsters, interactive promotions and a Halloween campaign designed to return year after year.
August 24, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest returns in September with daytime family activities and nighttime haunted attractions, giving western Pennsylvania another major fall event on the 2026 calendar.
August 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →Universal Orlando’s Behind the Screams: Unmasking the Horror Tour gives guests a daytime view of selected Halloween Horror Nights houses and the production details normally concealed by darkness.
August 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The date attached to the viral Project Anchor gravity rumor arrived without catastrophe. NASA’s direct denial and the real August 12 eclipse show how an impossible claim borrowed genuine astronomy to sustain an internet mystery.
August 12, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The Pennsylvania attraction is promoting a limited paranormal series beginning September 19, adding investigation-focused programming to a property already known nationally for both its haunted attraction and its reputation within…
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Home Depot's 2026 Halloween collection is moving toward its physical-store rollout after launching online in July, bringing another wave of enormous skeletons, monsters and animated decorations into the increasingly competitive world of…
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Spirit Halloween is rolling out approximately 1,575 seasonal locations for the 2026 season, continuing the company's annual transformation of temporarily available retail space into Halloween stores.
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort begins August 21 and continues through October 31, bringing seasonal entertainment, decorations, food and attraction experiences back to the California parks.
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Halloween Horror Nights returns to Universal Orlando Resort on August 28, beginning the 35th year of an event that has grown from a theme-park Halloween experiment into one of the most recognizable haunted-attraction productions in the…
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Candy companies and major retailers are pushing spooky season deeper into summer, turning “Summerween” from an internet joke into measurable business.
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →SeaWorld announced a new haunted house inspired by Sony Pictures’ I Know What You Did Last Summer, debuting September 11, 2026, at Howl-O-Scream in Orlando, San Diego, and San Antonio.
August 11, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio News DeskREAD MORE →
Dark Horse’s 1,032-page Complete Tales from the Crypt Archive will collect the full original EC run, covers and all, in a single massive hardcover this October.
August 7, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Astronomers tracking near-Earth object 1998 SH₂ found its orbit was not behaving as gravity alone predicted. New observations revealed faint cometary activity, showing the supposed asteroid is actually a weakly active comet.
August 6, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The centuries-old legend of Baba Yaga is leaving the forest for a modern coastal mystery in Yaga, an eight-part series blending Slavic folklore, crime, horror and noir, coming to Crave and AMC+ in October 2026.
August 6, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Scientists have formally described a rare orange-faced colobus monkey from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new species.
August 6, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
A 2026 human study found that exposure to very-low-frequency infrasound was associated with more negative emotional responses and increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol—even though infrasound sits below the conventional range of…
August 6, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Mike Flanagan’s eight-part Prime Video adaptation brings Stephen King’s first novel into the age of viral humiliation while returning to the human tragedy beneath its telekinetic destruction.
August 6, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
Busch Gardens Williamsburg will bring Howl-O-Scream back September 11 through November 1, 2026, with five haunted houses, six Terror-tories, four shows and nighttime coaster rides as the Virginia park begins another fall haunt season
August 5, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio NewsroomREAD MORE →
The American Folklife Center's supernatural-story guide connects listeners with decades of recorded ghost and witch tales.
August 3, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio Folklore DeskREAD MORE →
The attractions industry’s major Orlando gathering will include a themed area for Halloween and haunt professionals.
July 31, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio News DeskREAD MORE →
The Haunted Attraction Association continues to frame safety education as a working concern for seasonal entertainment.
July 31, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio News DeskREAD MORE →
New Mickey and Minnie stop-motion music videos will arrive around the beginning of the Halloween viewing season.
July 31, 2026 · Ghost Signal Radio News DeskREAD MORE →PERMANENT RECORD
Yeon Sang-ho’s acclaimed South Korean zombie thriller returns to select North American theaters in a 4K remaster on August 14, ten years after turning a routine train journey into one of modern horror’s most relentless survival stories.
Disney’s fan club has set its major Anaheim event for August while continuing to feature behind-the-scenes Haunted Mansion material in its programming.
Hopkinsville’s GoblinCon UFO and Paranormal Expo returns August 22–23, connecting contemporary UFO, cryptid and paranormal programming with the region’s long association with the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter.
That do-it-yourself spirit is at the center of CreepyCutOuts, an Etsy shop offering downloadable Halloween and horror designs that can become everything from homemade yard decorations to printable wall art.
Midsummer Scream wrapped its 2026 event in Long Beach on August 9 after three days devoted to haunted attractions, Halloween entertainment, home haunters, artists, makers and fans.
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo brings its marketplace of unusual artists, makers, specimens and strange collectibles to the Philadelphia area August 15–16.
Netflix will release The Whisper Man on August 28, 2026. Adapted from Alex North’s bestselling novel, the thriller follows a widowed crime writer whose son disappears, forcing him to turn to his estranged father—the retired detective who…
Myanmar filmmaker Arkar Soe Oo brings Burmese horror to an international genre audience with The Last Footage, a first-person found-footage feature selected for the 2026 Fantasia International Film Festival.
Long Beach’s three-day horror convention returns August 7–9 with haunted walk-throughs, more than 300 exhibitors, genre guests and a Horror Musicals theme.
A Smithsonian program explores how fairy tales have been adapted, carried, and continually rewritten in the United States.