Are you prepared to get scared?

Frightmares is the name of Lagoon’s Halloween event that occurs at the end of the park’s operating season. This even lasts for about 5 weeks and includes haunted houses, live entertainment, a children’s trick-or-treat house, ghouls wandering the midway, and the usual lineup of rides. On top of that, Lagoon dresses up the park with plenty of decorations, has haunting music throughout the entire park except the kids ride area, and places fog machines throughout the park. The transformation from the normal Lagoon midway to the Frightmares midway is something to behold and enjoy.

The main focus of Frightmares is of course the haunted houses. Currently Lagoon operates three haunted houses: Deception, Hal O. Ween High, and the Fun House of Fear. Each house offers a collection of interesting rooms and scary characters. You can find these haunted houses by heading back into the pavilions next to the Bat and Jet Star. Also by Jet Star is Psycho Dave’s junkyard which houses a fantastic collection of stuff from Lagoon’s past as well as some not so friendly junkyard employees.

Lagoon also offers a trick-or-treat house known as Spook-A-Boo for the kids. This attraction is located where Scamper ( children’s bumper cars) sits. There are a variety of friendly characters waiting to meet your kids and give them some candy as a reward for visiting. Children must be under 54” in height to participate in this attraction.

Live entertainment is also a big part of Frightmares. The Carousel Theater and the Game Time Stage both receive Frightmares makeovers and each offers a different type of show. The Carousel Theater usually has the more modern songs that the cast sing and dance to while the Game Time Stage cast sing and dance to oldies. There is also a dance group known as Hackenslash that usually performs just before one of the other groups does and is probably the more popular part of the entertainment offered during Frightmares.

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