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Jennifer shares random thoughts, news and information on various Halloween goodies including tv shows, cartoons, shopping and more.
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Perhaps you are a Wiccan preparing to celebrate the New Year, bless the Guardians of the Watchtowers in a Samhain rite and give thanks for the harvest... Perhaps you're a haunt fan preparing for ...
UPDATE (2010-02-20): This feature is temporarily disabled.
Do you like Haunted Wisconsin but wish it traveled with you everywhere? Well, now it does.
Send a text message with a city name or event name from ...
After three days and 385 miles I have attended my four assigned haunts for the 2009 Review Crew. Please keep an eye out for them as they should be posted early this week. As a ...
I want to extend a belated thank you to a few haunts for the hospitatlity and good times given to myself, my friends and family:
Spooky Stalks was great again this year. We went on ...
The Halloween classic, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown will be on ABC next week Wednesday, October 28th at 7pm.
AMC's website is now updated with Fear Fest '09 info! Check it out:
http://www.amctv.com/fearfest/
Check out the full schedule for the ABC Family's "13 Nights of Halloween" now posted:
http://abcfamily.go.com/abcfamily/path/section_Specials+13-Nights-Halloween/page_Schedule
The giant pumpkin at the state fair grounds off of highway 94 was taken down by high winds last night. The clip I just saw on TMJ4 said they will try to get that Halloween ...
Win tickets for you and a guest to see an advance screening of "The Stepfather" on Thursday, October 15 starring Penn Badgley, Sela Ward, Dylan Walsh and Amber Heard. Select grand prize winners will also ...
We finally got to get out to some haunts this season! The staff of HauntedWisconsin.com along with our Biggest Fan contest winner and guest headed out for a night of haunting. Our first stop ...
I'm sure you will be hearing more details from Johnny shortly but here is a quick summary of tonight.
Our biggest fan contest winner, Teri, may actually travel farther and to more haunts than ...
I just refreshed the reviews page and noticed four new reviews. Thanks everybody!
We will be heading out to meet the contest winner in a few minutes. I hope there will be a ton of ...
Ever want to see reviews from previous years? Well now you can without digging through our archives. Event operators have been asking for this feature for quite a while and we finally made it happen ...
This is just a quick note to anyone who missed Hubertus House of Horror last year. The haunt season is just starting so now is a great time to visit those big name haunts that ...
Okay, it's time for a rant. What is wrong with some communities in Wisconsin (and elsewhere)? Do they not know when Halloween is? It's on the calendar! October 31st, always. Even so, some ...
Stay tuned; Big Daddy has a very exciting contest coming soon. . .
BD
Halloween Express is NOW open at the State Fair Park grounds. Actually opened yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised to see the throngs of people parked outside, going in and out.
Makes me feel that I ...
Big Daddy here - Thanks and mad props go out to those of you that have
submitted your ghost stories! I will be posting some of the stories I
have received shortly.
Please feel free to ...
We're working hard on My Fright Finder and hopefully we can make it a useful tool for remembering haunts you want to visit and planning scary nights out.
I added some basic functionality tonight ...
I just got the email that Caribou Coffee now has NEW Fall Wild Drinks available.
The flavors are:
Hot Wild Pumpkin
Wild Pumpkin Cooler
Hot Wild Caramel Apple
Wild Caramel Apple Cooler
Hopefully the pumpkin ...
Wifey, Mrs. Big Daddy, just told me that the pumpkin is now up at the fair grounds. Seeing that she has me on house arrest for being naughty, I have not yet seen it - but ...
Just visited the website for Hauntfest - the haunted house, located on the state fair park grounds. The first thing that caught my eye; this year's theme (and I quote):
"Hauntfest welcomes Never Land: (a ...
The website for Harvest Fair 2009 is now up and running! Check it out - and if you have the chance, please visit Harvest Fair, located at the state fair park grounds.
Fun, food, pumpkins, and ...
Johnny here - just wanted to officially say thank you to the staff of HW.com for making me one of their own!
I am truly humbled and excited to be a member of the family ...
I want to take a minute to welcome the HauntedWisconsin staff's newest team member, Johnny "Big Daddy" Ramos.
Johnny is an RC OG, meaning he's one of the four original founding members of ...
Attention Pumpkin Spice Latte lovers! Today is September 1st which means pumpkin spice latte's are now back at Starbucks. Yum!
Never had a pumpkin spice latte? What's wrong with you?
According to Starbucks ...
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Just checked the Wisconsin State Fair Park website and saw two exciting things:
1. Halloween Express will be open on September 15th;
2. Harvest Fair is September 25th -27th
Check it out: http://www.wistatefair ...
My son just celebrated his first birthday! He was born at the end of July. Last year, he was way too young to appreciate the Halloween season (even though I still took him trick-or-treating! I ...
I journeyed over to Bartz's today on highway 100. They are starting to put out their Halloween stuff, but only had about a half of an aisle out. Literally, as I looked, the clerk ...
The word on the streets, and by streets I mean from an employee at the local Waukesha Starbucks, says the nectar of Autumn gods will make its triumphant return on September 1st. Pumpkin Spice Latte ...
Hey Halloween freaks, Big Daddy here! Halloween is in the air - especially after today's high is only in the upper 60's. . .MMM can almost smell the scent of cooking pumpkin seeds. . .
Been making ...
So I wanted to let everyone know that the Yankee Candle store in Brookfield Square has an assortment of limited edition Halloween candles and accessories in stock. The on-hand stock is quickly depleting and the ...
This is my first blog entry in quite some time and for good reason: I've lost my creative edge lately. However, I practice makes better. I just wanted to say that your favorite Halloween ...
Today we upgraded the sites underlying framework to Django 1.1 and fixed the various bugs that cropped up. Let me know if you run in to any zombies caused by the upgrade.
I made ...
It's that time of year! Over the past week, I received two email ad's from Grandin Road and The Lakeside Collection letting me know that Halloween merchandise was now available on their websites ...
We've added zombies somewhere on the site...
Also, we're experimenting with an iPhone interface located at http://www.hauntedwisconsin.com/mobile/.
Jenny and I made lots of small updates to the site this weekend. Some of the changes are:
October is only three months away, so now is the time to start getting ready for Halloween. No, it's not too early! According to employees at several local Michaels craft stores, shipments of Halloween ...
According to The Muppet Newsflash, Disney is developing the idea of a Muppet Halloween special to air on TV this fall! You may also be able to dress up as your favorite Muppets character for ...
I came across a great site today, Design Bliss, which has over 150 links to free clipart, spooky photoshop tips and other Halloween design resources. Even if you don't have a website, the clipart ...
Wow, I'm not sure how I managed to go through the entire haunt season without updating! I guess it's been a pretty busy month! I missed out on Haunts this past weekend as ...
There have been a few requests to put comments back on reviews. The feature is now back.
Comment away!
One of my favorite Halloween cartoons, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown will air on ABC Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. CST. Afterwards, ABC will also be showing a ...
On Friday, October 10th Andy, Dan, Sarah and I headed north and went to the following haunts:
There is something creepy going on in Wisconsin and you don't want to miss it. I've been to seven events so far and I can tell you each one is worth whatever it ...
I've been meaning to write a follow-up to the haunts Andy, Dan and I have traveled to so far this season and will do my best now. My memory has never been that great ...
If you are using IE7, you may have noticed the text in reviews can disappear. I put in a workaround for that rendering bug today. It's the same workaround I put in for IE6 ...
Andy, Dan and I will be checking out haunts again this Friday. We'll also be dragging Johnny along again if he's not stuck working on Saturday morning.
This week we'll be visiting ...
Sorry about the intermittent errors throughout the day. I was making a bunch of changes throughout the site and I cringed every time an error log flashed by as one of you attempted to load ...
Halloween Haunts will be back this year on TODAY's TMJ 4. Submit your Halloween decorated house or one you've seen by sending an email to halloweenhaunts@todaystmj4.com or send pictures or a ...
With October here, the changes have become more noticeable. The leaves turn colors, peoples moods change, the temperature changes, and all the buildings that sit dormant 11 months out of the year begin emitting sounds ...
We made a whole bunch of updates today:
We will be at the Wisconsin Feargrounds located at the Waukesha Expo Center tonight. Come on out and say "Hi."
This is a great time of the season to see this haunt because of the ...
Dunkin' Donuts Pumpkin Lattes, muffins and donuts are now available along with their festive Fall Decorated Donuts. Unfortunately there aren't any Dunkin Donuts near me anymore, but I'm sure they're pretty tasty ...
It's that time again! Time for jack-o-lantern and pumpkin spice cake doughnuts at Krispy Kreme. Yum! The jack-o-lantern doughnuts will be available through the end of October and the pumpkin spice cake will be ...
Kevin Hash is an inspiring young lad at 13 years of age. He went before the Appleton common council and requested that trick-or-treat be held until 8pm instead of the original 7pm to accommodate changes ...
It's that time of year when Halloween programs finally start to pop up on TV.
Listed below are some upcoming shows.
You can also find a list of spooky movies on TCM by checking ...
Well, it HAS BEGUN!
We are about to venture out on our first group outing of the year (and ever, at least for me!) and we are going to hit the Wisconsin Feargrounds THIS Friday ...
I'm posting this evening with a little sad news from the north. One of my favorite haunts of the past few years, Transylmazeia at the Marion Amazement Park in Marion WI, is closed. A ...
As everyone knows, things online can differ greatly from the real world. For example on here I can say that I'm 6'5" 250 lbs, but in reality I'm 6'1" 270 lbs ...
Thanks Carrie for the following information!
Racine will likely be changing their current trick-or-treat day/hours from Friday, October 31, 4-6 p.m. due to numerous complaints. You can vote for your favorite date on ...
Last night I got to meet a few of the review crew members and it turns out they are as extraordinary in real life as they are online.
I don't know much about most ...
I'll admit it. I don't go to the mall very often. I was never really into the whole mall thing. Maybe it's cause I'd end up buying everything I wanted and ...
Yarrrrr! Ahoy ye landlubbers. Today be talk like a pirate day! Celebrate this fine holiday by wearing ye best eye patch and filling up on some grog. Or watch some mighty fine pirate booty tonight ...
Before I go into my first post, I just want to introduce myself. My name is Adam, but I go by pud27 on the message boards and reviews. I'm a member of the Review ...
Hey there! Big Daddy here!
If you freakin' LOVE Halloween as much as I do, and begin your countdown for the next Halloween season on November 1st, hit me up and e-mail me! Just click ...
Oh, it is SO ON! The leaves are beginning to fall, the pumpkins are starting to be sold (my wifey brought me some from the U.P. of Michigan quite a number of days ago ...
Hey all of you Halloween "freaks!" I, just like Jenny, was doing some Halloween TV snooping, and found that ABC will be hosting the annual 13 Nights of Halloween!
One word - AWESOME! I love everything ...
I love watching the many horror movies on AMC as well as TCM (see other post), so after I saw the TCM schedule I checked out the AMC site for their Monsterfest schedule. Their general ...
October is right around the corner which means more Halloween and horror movies on TV! TCM has their October schedule out and as always will be having a marathon of horror movies the day before ...
The review crew application had an annoying limitation of 200 characters for any response (and you got an unhelpful "500 Server Error" if you went over that limit). This is the same bug we had ...
I love coffee. Especially pumpkin flavored coffee. So, I was very happy this morning when I checked my email and saw that I had received a coupon from Caribou Coffee announcing that I could get ...
It's been a while since I posted what we've been working on since I broke the blogs a few weeks ago. Too much has changes for me to remember it all but here ...
Good news for those of us who shopped at the Bartz's in Brookfield. While at the Westbrook Shopping Center (E. Mooreland & Springdale Rd.) Andy and I spotted what looked like the Bartz's logo ...
Between yesterday and today, I implemented the following:
There's a new Bartz's coming soon in Waukesha. The obviously moved the store from Brookfield to Waukesha to be closer to their biggest customer....Jenny.
Exciting times!
Hey Boos and Ghouls! Wifey and I are expecting our newest edition to the family and the youngest member of the Review Crew to date any day now!
This is an exciting time for the ...
Today Jenny and I worked on a few more things:
Jenny and I spent the day on getting Haunted Wisconsin ready for the 2008 season.
Unfortunately, Bartz's closed their Brookfield location this year, so anyone who used to frequent that store (like Andy & I) will now have to travel to Greenfield, Menomonee Falls or Wauwatosa... or just find another ...
OOooooooooooooooooooo!!! Look at Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I have a bllllaaaaaawwwwwwwggggg! I'm special. PUMPKINS!!!!!!
Every year, I wait upon baited breathe, for the arrival of the first Halloween merchandise of the season! And every year, to my surprise, it has arrived earlier and earlier. Last year, I began checking ...
According to the Brown Deer and Brookfield Michaels stores, Halloween merchandise should begin arriving THIS THURSDAY (July 3rd)! Johnny has already seen some Halloween goodies at the Michaels in West Allis!! Check out his blog ...