Category: Haunted House Stories

Tomorrow is Halloween and you probably have it all ready. You have your costume. You have your perfect trick-or-treat course set out. You have your awesome party. You know all the tricks about how to use dry ice to make the party even better. You’ve got your Boo Berry Punch and your spider cookies and your white chocolate banana ghosts! You’ve carved the perfect pumpkin. You have as much party trivia about Halloween as you could possibly handle. You’re ready. You can hardly wait! It’s here in just one day!

If you’re like us, you’ve planned this month out completely, all in anticipation of Halloween night. Every movie, every craft session, every scare, was all leading up to this. And if you’re like us, you’re probably already thinking about next year’s costumes, about how you can go bigger, get scarier, go to even greater lengths than ever before, all for the sake of Halloween. Enjoy it! We sure have! Remember it’s not over quite yet!

Watch out for the ghouls in the Witching Hour, don’t crash too hard off of that sugar high. And join us at Thrillvania!

Do you have a name for the night before Halloween? You know, it’s like, tomorrow? Most people don’t have a special term for the night before Halloween. But in the past, it was almost as big as Halloween itself.

(Way) back in the day, probably in the 1940s, it became a day for playing “tricks” while Halloween itself was reserved for gathering “treats.”

Sometimes known as mischief night, or cabbage night...or gate night, trick night, goosy night or mat night. Which name you use depends on where you live. The tradition started in Britain, so these have even more names for it: tick-tack night, corn night, trick night or micky night.

And then depending on your name for it, or where you live, mischief night has even very particular kinds of mischief that goes on:

Cabbage Night in parts of the northeastern United States, where rotten vegetables are collected and left on porch stoops or smeared on doors and windows.

Mat Night  where kids steal doormats and switch them with the neighbors’. (!)

Gate Night, in the Midwest, where farmer’s gates are opened, leaving livestock to roam free.

Other popular pranks include the toilet-papering of homes and trees, soaping cars and windows and pumpkin smashing.

Join us this weekend at Thrillvania Haunted House Park  at 2330 County Rd 138, Terrell, Tx 75161.  We’ll see you there…..

Halloween is the greatest time of the year, if you ask us, but how big a fan are you, really? If you agree with any of the questions below, you might just be a Halloween Fanatic. Tally your scores and see!

1) You don’t understand why candy corn isn’t always available.

2) You started planning your Halloween costume on Halloween… a whole year ago.

3) You have a Pinterest board devoted to your Halloween finds, and it’s always too big to accomplish everything.

4) You have multiple plans for parties, trick-or-treating, costume contests, and anything else you can think of!

5) You have a Halloween playlist, and you’ve been listening to it all month long.

6) You have a collection of Halloween decorations that you put out every year, and for some reason, they’re growing…

7) You had multiple pumpkin carving sessions this month, because you were so excited, you carved too early, and your first pumpkin died before Halloween.

8) You couldn’t possibly wear the same costume twice, but you have a collection of them, because they’re too awesome to throw away.

9) You know that Hocus Pocus is the best movie, ever.

10) You love haunted houses, and you’re planning on joining us at Thrillvania!!