
“Haunting elements seem to linger in hotels, where tortured souls met their unfortunate deaths,” states in the article. I knew we had a few, but having six haunted hotels makes Pennsylvania the perfect state to celebrate Halloween. I did some digging and found a great article via that names six haunted hotels in the Mitten. Of course, there are plenty of great haunted houses and haunts in Michigan, but what about some actual haunted hotels? We have those, too.
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Not only does this keep groups socially distanced and separated from each other, it affords everyone a good line of sight for the show.Īs someone who has believed that everyone shares the responsibility of taking mitigating steps to limit the spread of the novel Coronavirus, I really commend the Prism Haunt folks for having an organized and streamlined plan for how to deal with COVID precautions.Welcome to the spooky season.

There, chalk-lined circles on the ground have been marked out on the street and across the front of the Fefferman residence, laying out over a dozen spaces spread out away from each other. The waiting spots are spaciously allotted to allow each group of guests to be well beyond 6 ft apart, and when the moment arrives, guests are sent down the street along Chamelea to the viewing area in front of the house. From there, guests line up on the sidewalk at the corner of Tarrasa Lane and Chamelea Drive, literally a whole block away from Prism Haunt’s actual location where Chamelea turns a corner. Guests who arrive are encouraged to park up the street from the actual haunt, on Tarrasa Lane or Montilla. Tickets must be reserved online in advance as a way to manage capacity. The Feffermans have admirably taken the novel Coronavirus pandemic very seriously in arranging the presentation of their haunt this year and have implemented steps to control audience turnout, staging, and viewing.

I’d also like to speak a bit to the commendably robust COVID policies that Prism Haunt has instituted. This year’s haunted show feels like a progression of the tools that Prism Haunt has been assembling over the past couple of years to continually build on their haunt, and David has already started envisioning how the high tech features of the show might be incorporated into a future walk-through maze to bring elements of interactivity and storyline progression triggers.
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It goes to show that the level between professional and non-pro really isn’t that clear, and more often than not, it’s the passion and commitment placed into a haunt that highlights the resulting quality. That level of dedication and creativity really must be commended, because it presents a level of sophistication and endeavor that even many commercial haunts don’t attempt, let alone amateur haunters. He also worked in the special effects editing and video composition all from scratch on his own, relying on zero commercial-bought content.


Creator David Fefferman started working on the haunted show back in June and filmed all the scenes with home-built custom sets. But the level of synchronization of lighting and fog effects, timed triggers, audio-visual media, and sprinkling of live actor encounters really makes this home haunt production a fun and honestly astounding presentation. The show itself is a little over five minutes long, with showings recurring about every 15 minutes, and the plot is relatively straightforward and foreseeable. Prism’s Nightmares Manifest haunted show impresses with its high tech incorporation of cinematic scenes mixed with a few live action moments played out across the entire front yard property of the house.
