Eclectic Extras - Truly Different & Off the Wall Events

OK... there's some events even we don't know how to categorize... there are fun and a different way to celebrate Halloween.... or follow the real thing.

Please suggest events for this category including I'm looking for information events from "real" para-phyc groups.

Halloween Horrors Crime Bus Tour

 "The 1947project debuts Halloween Horrors, its most disturbing Crime Bus tour yet. This five-hour jaunt spans downtown, Hollywood, Echo Park and the Eastern San Fernando Valley while offering a grimly hilarious look at more than two dozen peculiar and long-forgotten crimes, including several with a Halloween theme. Vintage crime scene photos are featured, with passengers urged to BYOBB (bring your own barf bag), always a smart idea when Crimebo the Crime Clown is in attendance."

A Faery Hunt

 In this interactive play, the children are apart of the action as the faeries take the children on a quest for the Faery Queen. For ages 2-10 and the young at heart.  Most children come in costume.  This is purrrrrfect for Halloween, every though we try not to be scary.

Ghost Train in Travel Town

Playful Spooks invade the mini-trains ( 1/8 scale) at Griffith Park.  Evening rides feature 30 display around the track. Come ride a train!

 The Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum has been demonstrates railroads in miniature, 3 different gages, for almost 50 Years.  It has been haunting since 2001.  Checkout pictures from other years.

Celebrating Halloween on the Rails: Fillmore & Western Railway Company - Specialty Trains

Ride a vintage train to their pumpkin patch.  Children's museum, jumps, carousel, hay maze, arts and crafts, food and fun.   See the home of the Hollywood Trains!  There are 3 different themed events, see below for details.  Check out their site for previous years pictures.

Punkinliners

Ride a vintage train to "Ichabog", our private pumpkin patch to pick the perfect jack-o-lantern.  Activists and attractions include:   Jolly Jumps, Carousel, Haunted Hay Maze, arts and crafts, BBQ sandwiches and other edible "goodies"

Headless Horseman Family Dinner Trains

If you dare, creep onboard a hauntingly ancient vintage train for a spooktacular adventure searching for the Headless Horseman with "Ichabog" as your destination for a pumpkin patch and a BBQ dinner.

Fright Night - Dinner Train  & Theater

Scare yourself silly with monsters and murderers on an evening of spooky entertainment. You never know what may happen or who it may happen to! Your hair will stand on end as you split your sides laughing at this motley crew.

Enjoy an evening train ride with a 3 course dinner and less-than-serious sleuthing.  Join in or sit back and watch.

Irvine Park Railroad & Pumpkin Patch

Their miniature train circles the pumpkin patch giving you a perfect chance to scope out the whole field.  There are pony rides, moonbouce, haystacks, good "county fair" food and on the weekend face painting.  The Orange County Zoo is just minutes away for a combined experience.

Also, there's a costume contest on the final Saturday and the costumed kids get a free train ride at the end of the parade.

Costume Ball - LA County Museum of Art

 'Celebrate the sexy and the spooky... the glamorous and the ghoulish... the chic and the chilling... at this year`s LACMA Muse Costume Ball! Wear your wildest costume and join Muse for a Halloween celebration like no other.

This year's theme is "Looks to Die For" with a special late-night viewing of Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection and Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture-Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Then, once possessed by the spirits of fashion and masquerade, strike a pose to win jaw-dropping prizes in our annual costume contest or work it on the dance floor to slammin' DJ beats and an entrancing live performance!'

Fools' Guild Halloween - Space Pirates of the Universe

Space Pirates of the Universe returning from their vacation at Burning Man on Halloween Night!

Be the Pirate from outer space, from the Sahara, from the bottom of the sea... From the Other Side... Come and Glow with us...

Ghost Expeditions

Since 1994, ISPR’s GHOST EXPEDITIONS have provided ghosthunters, psychics and paranormal enthusiasts with the opportunity to participate in an actual Paranormal Field Investigation...

Tours combine both scientific instrumentation and methodologies with Psi abilities and Psychic Enhancement Exercises, inside a validated, actively haunted property.  Tour under the direction of ISPR psychic investigator, Daena Smoller.

Dance Macabre

Welcome to a night of scary bedtime stories your parents told you to make you behave... as performed as some of California's most imaginative belly dancers.

Dark Shadows 4th Anniversary Haunted Halloween Party

Join the stars of Dark Shadows for a night of spooky fun .  Meet the Dark Shadows stars in person and celebrate Halloween all in one night!  In keeping with the Halloween theme, a first-ever Barnabas Collins Look-alike Contest will be held.

Toluca Lake Halloween Stuntacular

Stuntacular is a theme park caliber live-action stunt entertainment show (parody) produced by a group of 50 professional Hollywood stuntmen and stuntwomen. Complete with staging, lighting, music, costumes and special effects, these pros hold back nothing, giving both children and parents alike jaw-dropping stunt sequences replete with duels, jumps, falls and other high-flying thrills and chills. Stuntacular is also a wonderful family-friendly Halloween venue, offering a great alternative to West Hollywood.  Stuntacular is  a “comedic stunty spoof” of kids’ favorite characters of past years.  The audience will enjoy “tricks and treats” such as High Falls, Martial Art Stunt Fighting, Theatrical Sword Fighting, Slides for Life, Repels, Ratchets (where a person gets jerked back by a wire) and air rams (a catapult system based on compressed air)

This year, Stuntacular has teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles to make the show “for kids to help kids.”  As an extra special “treat” for the children, each Stuntacular performance will feature a Make-A-Wish child, allowing them the chance to perform on stage with the stunt professionals. 

Escape Reality - Magicopolis

  Magic is fun anytime... but more enchanting at Halloween. Magic and comedy sketches from Magician Steven Spill and his wife, Bozena. Dangerous escapes, Houdini style.

Two hour evening stores geared towards adults, 1 1/2 hour matinee geared towards family.

Underwater Jacques-O-Lantern Carving Contest

Yup, seriously.  Carve a pumpkin  under water!  Lots of fun and help clean up Two Harbors, Catalina.

 Two Harbors Underwater Cleanup. Meal, raffle, prizes.   "Join us for an end of the summer clean-up dive at Two Harbors. Afterward, gather around to survey the booty while we draw raffle prize winners and present the awards for outrageous categories. This fun fund raising event is in support of the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber located at Big Fisherman's Cove" 

Harleyween

 Ghoulish Entertainment, Haunted House, Monster Poker Run, and a Biker Costume Contest.

(Checking to see if these two events are the same.)
 

HarleyWeen - LAFD FireHogs

(details pending)

Annual Haunted Skate Contest (Laguna Niguel)

  Costumed skate.  Rolling chills.    Haunting since 2003.

Galactic Playground

Well, you knew this was coming....

Crossroads, who runs a number of renaissance festivals, has decided to give the fantasy and galactic folks a place to play faire.  "Grab your shuttle, spaceships, and transporters".  We're assuming that means that Klingons and Jedi's are the norm.  Does that mean the ren folks will be the time travelers?  Should be an interesting first year.

Lucha va Voom 13 - Halloween

Sexo y Violencia!  Mexican masked wrestling in an over the top show.  Return of the Chupacabra!  Goats and children beware.   Yup, watch wresting at Spook-tacular striptease, burlesque dancing.  Bone-crunching comedians.

Inspired by the original lunchadores, with lots of campy silliness for an adult only audience. Comedy commentary though the show.  More explanation <here>.

Da Graveyard....

Stuff that we can't get current info on, or has been canceled...

Annual Morbid Mystique Beauty Pageant

??? "Did you ever want to be in a pageant where you could be rewarded for being able to wail a horror movie scream?   for black lipstick? unique use of safety pins?  ...   It's dark, the music is hot, and the fashion is deadly.  That's right, this is Miss Morbid Mystique. "

This is not your normal beauty pageant. Miss Understood Royalty (Goth/Punk/Dark ensemble),  Miss Bewitching Princess (fairly/pixy/witch ensemble),  Miss Gothic Queen (best medieval costume), For males: best Goth/Punk Dark ensemble, Medieval Lord.  Extras for all: Blood Curdling Screen (best horror movie scream), Crypt Keeper (best told 3 minute Ghost story), Miss Broken Mirror (most unique, best Morbid Princess look, not ghoul).

Besides the chilling competition, there is a Hypnotics show on Friday.  Saturday evening a masquerade ball and Sunday morning the pumpkins carving is judged.

Categories for Teen girl (13-15), Miss (16-21), Male (13-21).  Pageant pre-registration deadline: October 1, 2005.  Top winner gets $200 gift certificate to Hot Topic.  These events run in the evening while Star Quest USA runs their regular talent pageants.

Walking Ghost Tour - Old Town Orange

** Canceled **Join Diane Melvin, founder of the San Gabriel Valley Paranormal Researchers, as she takes you on a walking ghost tour through haunted hot spots in Old Town Orange.  The tour will start at the Victorian Manor Tea Room which is said to be one of the most haunted spots in Orange.  From there, Diane will lead the group on an authentic ghost hunt to various landmarks where ghosts have been sighted.

Cameras and equipment welcome.  Tour will not take place if raining.

Head over to Boo News for more sources for even more events.

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This page last updated 01/18/08

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