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Philip Hernandez

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Journalist covering themed entertainment and attractions | CEO, Gantom Lighting | Publisher, Haunted Attraction Network | 600K Audience | Los Angeles, CA linktr.ee/hauntedattractionnetwork

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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 5h
Haunted Mansion Holiday turns 25 this year, and Disneyland made a commemorative cup with Jack, Sally, and the gingerbread Mansion. It comes with Dole Whip, with or without rum, and it's sold only at the Trader Sam's patio bar at the Disneyland Hotel. No price listed. #Disneyland #HauntedMansion
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 9h
Evil Dead Burn is streaming on HBO Max, and it's also a haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Hollywood. Movie first or house first? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/evil-dead-b... #EvilDead
A Deadite hand grips a screaming woman's face in key art for Evil Dead Burn
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 11h
Home Depot made a Christmas version of its Halloween bucket: white, $2.98, with Santa's sleigh over a Home Depot store on one side. Online since Oct. 1, in stores mid-October. What are you putting in yours? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/home-depot-...
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Home Depot Christmas Bucket: The First $2.98 Holiday Bucket Is Online Now, in Stores Mid-October
Home Depot's first Christmas bucket is a white 2-gallon pail printed with Santa and a fireplace. It's $2.98 online, in stores mid-October.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 12h
Blood Manor is open at 359 Broadway in Tribeca, 22 nights through Nov. 7, from $50. For $350 you work the night as one of its scare actors. Would you? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/blood-manor... #Halloween #BloodManor
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Blood Manor Opens October 2 in Tribeca, and for $350 You Can Be One of the Monsters
Blood Manor opens Oct. 2 at 359 Broadway in Tribeca. All 22 nights, hours, ticket prices, and the $350 ticket to work as a scare actor.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 13h
Disneyland has four new Halloween popcorn buckets for 2026, from the Headless Horseman (now sold all day) to Vampire Mickey, plus a 25th-anniversary Haunted Mansion Holiday cup. Prices and where to find each one: hauntedattractionnetwork.com/disneyland-...
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Disneyland's New Halloween Popcorn Buckets and Sippers for 2026
Disneyland's four new Halloween popcorn buckets for 2026, plus new cups, glow cubes and straw clips, with prices and where to buy each.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 14h
Spirit Halloween named its 11 costume trends for 2026: Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters, Spider-Man and Power Rangers, varsity jackets, Greek armor, Fortnite and Halo, and a Dungeon Crawler Carl look built around boxers and Crocs. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spirit-hall... #Halloween
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 14h
$4.99 Halloween glasses are at Aldi through October 6: ghosts, candy corn, or an iridescent one with cats. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/aldi-hallow...
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Aldi Halloween 2026 Finds: A Disney Collection, $7.99 Crashing Witches, and $3.65 Candy
New Aldi Halloween Finds, Sept. 30 to Oct. 6: $4.99 drinking glasses and $3.99 mugs, plus the Disney collection, decor, and cheap candy.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Edge of Hell and The Beast open tonight in Kansas City, the first of just 13 nights this season after skipping September for the heat. Who's going? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/edge-of-hel...
Edge of Hell and The Beast haunted attractions in Kansas City's West Bottoms, with Rat Man and the Queen of Haunts, for the 52nd season in 2026
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Nightmare Before Christmas is back in theaters today, and AMC is selling the light-up Jack Skellington popcorn bucket while supplies last. Are you grabbing one? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/nightmare-b... #NightmareBeforeChristmas #Halloween2026
The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington popcorn bucket lit up, shown open with popcorn and closed in its Santa hat
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Worlds of Fun Halloween Haunt has six haunted mazes, three new scare zones, and a new show, all included with admission. Two tickets are $69.99 through October 4. Which maze first? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/worlds-of-f... #HalloweenHaunt #WorldsOfFun
A person in a bloody pig mask, overalls, and a stained tank top holds up a bloody cleaver under red and blue lights
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fright Nights opens today at Thorpe Park. Its first fully pitch-black maze, Tenement, leads the 25th-anniversary lineup, running select nights to Nov 1. More: hauntedattractionnetwork.com/thorpe-park... #ThorpePark #FrightNights #Halloween2026
Thorpe Park Fright Nights 2026, the Tenement maze
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Round two tonight: the Brach's Ode to Candy Corn perfume drops again at 7 p.m. ET, online only at CandyCornSeason.com, while supplies last. Would you wear candy corn? #Halloween2026 #CandyCorn hauntedattractionnetwork.com/brachs-cand...
Brach's Ode to Candy Corn eau de parfum box and bottle with a bag of Brach's Classic Candy Corn and fall leaves on an orange background
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nightmare Wharf opens tomorrow in Buffalo, with a haunted house inside a real Navy warship. 17 nights through Nov. 1, from $29.99. Would you board after dark? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/buffalo-nav...
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Nightmare Wharf 2026: Dates, Tickets, and the Haunted Navy Ship in Buffalo
Nightmare Wharf opens Oct. 2 at the Buffalo Naval Park. All 17 nights, ticket prices by date, entry times, parking, and what's inside.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy October 1st! #halloween
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting tonight, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party adds a 7:35 p.m. Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular to the 9:05, 10:35, and midnight shows, through Oct. 31. Early show or midnight? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/halloween-a... #MNSSHP #HocusPocus
Winifred Sanderson on stage in the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
12 New York haunted houses for 2026, from Blood Manor in Tribeca to Long Island and Buffalo, with dates and prices. Which one's your pick? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/haunted-hou... #Halloween #NYC
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Haunted Houses in New York 2026: NYC, Long Island, and Upstate's Best Haunts
New York's 2026 haunted houses, from Blood Manor in Tribeca to Long Island and Buffalo, with dates, prices, and age rules.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Paris Baguette's ghost pepper mochi donut and iced hot chocolate are out today, next to the returning spider donuts and dirt-and-worms cake. Sweet heat, or a hard pass? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/paris-bague... #ParisBaguette #Halloween2026
Paris Baguette's Ghost Pepper Chocolate Marble Mochi Donuts striped with white icing and red sugar, beside a Ghost Pepper Iced Hot Chocolate and red chili peppers
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
HHN Hollywood's $11.99 Clown Cafe Cauliflower Bites were the most disappointing thing I ate. Universal's photo vs. mine. Would you risk it? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/every-food-... #HHN #HalloweenHorrorNights
Clown Cafe Cauliflower Bites at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood: Universal's marketing photo next to HAN's photo of the real dish
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cannibal Creek opens Friday, Oct. 2, at Black Casket in Yucaipa, where a backwoods family is a little too welcoming. It runs 19 nights through Nov. 1, from $28. Would you knock? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/black-caske... #HauntedHouse #InlandEmpire
Black Casket Productions Cannibal Creek 2026 haunted attraction in Yucaipa, CA
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Crypt Keeper is hosting AMC's FearFest, starting today on AMC and AMC+ with a Halloween marathon at 11 a.m. ET. Greg Nicotero rebuilt the puppet, and John Kassir is back as the voice. The full day-by-day schedule: hauntedattractionnetwork.com/amc-fearfes...
The new Crypt Keeper puppet in a red tracksuit at a DJ booth, promoting AMC's FearFest 2026
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heidi Klum has a Butterfinger pizza. Crazy Pizza, the NYC restaurant where she's a partner, is serving a Butterfinger dessert pizza through Oct. 31 at its SoHo location. It's tied to Butterfinger's third year sponsoring her Halloween party, now in its 25th year. #Butterfinger #Halloween2026
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tim Hortons' Halloween menu is out today, and it includes a trick-or-treat bucket filled with 31 Timbits for $11.99, with $6 refills. Also: a TWIX and Treat Hot Chocolate and Iced Capp, an OREO croissant, and Mummy and Frankenstein donuts. #TimHortons #Halloween2026
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dunkin's Halloween menu is out today, and it's purple. New Purple Marshmallow Cold Foam tops five drinks, including a Terror-misu latte and a Franki Matcha, and a new Green Apple Dunkin' Zero comes in four flavors. #Dunkin #Halloween2026 hauntedattractionnetwork.com/dunkin-fall...
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A vintage store in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, built a walk-through Beetlejuice movie set: the Afterlife waiting room, the sandworm, even the shrimp cocktail hands. And it's free on weekends through Nov. 1. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/lucky-rabbi...
A Betelgeuse Betelgeuse marquee sign pointing at a here lies Betelgeuse tombstone, with a Beetlejuice figure in a striped suit, at The Lucky Rabbit in HattiesburgA black-and-white striped sandworm bursting out of a blue wall beside a white door at The Lucky RabbitA red monster-face arch lettered Inferno with Girls signs and a green-lit Beetlejuice figure beside itA dinner table with hands rising out of the bowls beside pale sculptures, recreating the Beetlejuice dinner party
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love meeting the characters at Disneyland, and every Halloween they have new festive attire. This year's looks share a harlequin theme in orange, yellow, and black, with diamonds, stripes, and ruffles. Have you met them all? Times are posted in the app. #Disneyland #MickeyMouse
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This year's Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house is a music box over 10 feet tall, with a skeleton ballerina rising from the lid. I shot it from the ride. Best one yet? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/haunted-man... #HauntedMansionHoliday #Disneyland
The 2026 Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house, a music box with a skeleton ballerina, on the ballroom table
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tickets are on sale for A Petrified Forest's 19th season. Chaos Reigns opens Oct. 2 in Altamonte Springs with three new scare trails, an escape ride, and Psychosis, an 85-foot track ride into the dark. $38. Which first? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/a-petrified...
A scareactor reaches for guests at A Petrified Forest scream park in Altamonte Springs, Florida
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those of you heading to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party this year, here's my pick for the best dessert: the $6.99 Headless Horseman Treat at Casey's Corner. #MNSSHP #DisneyWorld hauntedattractionnetwork.com/mnsshp-2026...
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Walt Disney World adds 10 Halloween treats on Thursday, Oct. 1, seven of them new, from a Maleficent Funnel Cake with chocolate horns to a Mummy Twist. Which one are you trying first? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/disney-worl... #DisneyWorld
Maleficent Funnel Cake with purple and green icing, vanilla soft-serve and chocolate hornsBoneyard Cookies and Scream Sundae in a waffle bowl with a tombstone cookie, sugar bone and pumpkin candyCandy Corn Pop, a candy corn shaped cheesecake bar on a stickMummy Twist, a chocolate pastry twist wrapped in icing with candy eyes
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
31 days until Halloween! Photo from Creep It Real OC ; photo by me. #Halloween
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spirit Christmas has a singing Snow Miser and Heat Miser this year, $349.99 each, and they interact when connected. Snow Miser or Heat Miser? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spirit-chri... #SpiritChristmas #SnowMiser
A Snow Miser animatronic in a blue suit beside a Heat Miser animatronic with flaming orange hair, both on snowy front lawns
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can rent the haunted Ohio mansion from HGTV's A Very Haunted Renovation for a paranormal investigation, starting at $175 a night for up to five people. Would you spend the night? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/a-very-haun... #AVeryHauntedRenovation #HGTV
Host Anna Camp stands in front of Bihl Manor for HGTV's A Very Haunted Renovation
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TransWorld is launching an Escape Room Summit: one day in St. Louis on February 22, 2027, for up to 100 established escape room owners and operators. Would you go? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/transworld-... #EscapeRoom #TransWorld
Three large trade show banners hanging above the glass entrance of a brick convention center, seen from above
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jason Universe: Survive the Night, the officially licensed Friday the 13th haunted house, is at nine haunts this Halloween #FridayThe13th #HauntedHouse
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
32 days until #halloween Photo from the Queen Mary's Dark Harbor in Long Beach, California. Photo by me. #darkharbor
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haunted Soiree's 2026 Halloween party in Glendale is built on a real 1928 murder over a book of spells. Every toast is part of a ritual. Would you go? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/haunted-soi... #HauntedSoiree #LAHalloween
A performer with pale contact lenses, glitter eye makeup, and a red feathered headdress smirks under warm red light
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dairy Queen's purple Halloween Blizzard is out today! The Enchanted OREO Blizzard blends Oreo cookies and a sweet ube-flavored base with DQ soft serve, topped with a purple shimmer. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/dairy-queen... #DairyQueen
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A $25 Demon Slayer mask and a $1,199 Mandalorian suit are both 2026 Spooky Awards finalists. So is an inflatable Wienermobile. Fans vote Oct. 1 to 15. Which gets your vote? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spooky-awar... #Halloween2026 #HalloweenCostumes
The gold skull medallion of the 2026 Halloween & Costume Association Awards beside the word FinalistsA man in a full Mandalorian costume with silver armor plating, a helmet, and a brown capeA gray boar head mask with blue eyes, a pink snout, and white tusksA smiling man wearing an inflatable Oscar Mayer Wienermobile around his waist
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is your Spirit Halloween turning into Spirit Christmas? 38 of them are. Spirit's Christmas locator lists 43 stores in 15 states, and 38 of them close as Spirit Halloween on October 31 and reopen for the holidays on November 6. Is yours on the list? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spirit-chri...
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Chicago taquería is making tortas on orange, pumpkin-shaped bread, and it's going viral. It's $25, carryout only, through early November. Would you try one? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/tacotlan-pu...
An orange pumpkin-shaped torta bun held up in front of the Tacotlán Express storefront in Chicago
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A hidden Sleepy Hollow and Edgar Allan Poe bar is open in Philadelphia for Halloween, and the door is disguised as a soda vending machine. Inside: walls of books, ravens overhead, a hidden black cat, and a Headless Horseman cocktail served in a smoker. Through Nov. 1. #Philadelphia #sleepyhollow
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
HamiKuma, Universal's gut-spilling teddy bear, is meeting guests in Orlando for the first time, inside the Five & Dime during Halloween Horror Nights 35. Have you met Hamikuma yet? Here's my pic. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/hamikuma-me... #HamiKuma #HHN35
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Americans plan to spend $13.5 billion on Halloween this year, per the National Retail Federation. Costume wearers start first: 57% shop by September. When do you start? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/halloween-s... #Halloween2026 #HalloweenCostumes
A woman watches two young girls look through packaged Halloween costumes on a rack in a store aisle
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
33 days until Halloween! Photo: Madam Leota's swinging wake during Okibuki Bash 2026; photo by me. #halloween #disney
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reese's leads 17 states on DoorDash's Halloween candy map. Seven Southern states picked Sweet Smiles, a Dollar General candy brand. What did your state pick? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/halloween-c... #Halloween #HalloweenCandy
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Reese's Takes 17 States and Sweet Smiles Owns the South: DoorDash's Halloween Candy Map
Reese's leads 17 states on DoorDash's Halloween candy map, and seven Southern states pick Sweet Smiles. See every state's pick and the national top 10.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chimelong Spaceship (Hengqin, China) put 300 robots from Shanghai’s AgiBot into regular service on September 24. The robots work as performers, guides, science tutors, and hotel greeters. #themeparks #tourism seasonalentertainmentsource.com/chimelong-s...
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Chimelong Spaceship Adds 300 AgiBot Robots
Chimelong Spaceship in Hengqin, China, put more than 300 AgiBot robots to work Sept. 24, with 1,000 planned across its resort by year's end.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spirit Christmas opens before Halloween: five stores open Oct. 14-15 in NJ, FL, and OH. The other 38 turn over from Spirit Halloween Nov. 6. Would you shop for Christmas before Halloween? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spirit-chri... #SpiritChristmas #SpiritHalloween
The Spirit Christmas logo, a winking Santa with open arms above the words Spirit Christmas
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Hampshire has more Spirit Halloween stores per person than any state in America — 7.86 per million. California has 142 stores, the most anywhere, and ranks 20th per person. Texas is 21st. Montana is last: one store for 1.1 million people. hauntedattractionnetwork.com/spirit-hall...
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New Hampshire Has More Spirit Halloween Stores Per Person Than Any State
California has the most Spirit Halloween stores. Per person it ranks 20th. New Hampshire leads America at 7.86 stores per million residents.
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
$69 covers every Fright Fest maze at Six Flags Magic Mountain, all season. One night at Knott's Scary Farm starts at $69. A season at Magic Mountain, or one night at Knott's? hauntedattractionnetwork.com/fright-fest... #FrightFest #MagicMountain
Guests scared by monsters at Fright Fest at Six Flags Magic Mountain
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Philip Hernandez @philiphernandez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
34 days until Halloween! Photo: Monte paying homage to SCREAM during the Monte Revolta Show at Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. Photo by me. #scream #halloween
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