Episodes

*BRAND NEW BOOK FOR HAUNTERS* - 'Follow the Story' - Written by Scott Swenson Mikey interviews Scott about his brand new book, his time with Busch Gardens, his Immersive Theatre work plus much much more! Buy the book here:...

Scott Swenson joins us on the podcast to discuss the impact Story has in marketing your attraction. Scott has a new book out: Follow the Story: The Foundation of Every Great Attraction Follow the Story’s synopsis reads, “An attraction is …

Banshee Manor Haunted Attraction is in Fayetteville, Arkansas is located inside a family fun park called Lokomotion. Buying Ghosts is a audio drama series in the form of a podcast available everywhere you find podcasts. Jonna Summers is the one...

*This is from the Archive of A Scott in the Dark. This episode is on the care and feeding of haunt actors.

Mikey interviews Lee and Sarah from Faceless Ventures, the team behind the UK's most extreme haunt 'Cracked'. The FV team also deliver fantastic Immersive Theatre, Scare Attractions and more. We discuss all the Faceless Ventures shows throughout 2019....

When Midwest Haunters Convention left Ohio to head to Chicago, the Ohio Haunters Association found themselves without a conference in their backyard. So, they had a crazy idea, why not create one. Thus the Ohio Halloween & Haunters Convention was...

Audio completes your haunt environment and makes it real.

A huge thank you to all who were interviewed on this episode: Scare Manager, Scream Camp, Scare Me, Faceless Ventures, Rspace Productions, Dead Reel Films, Twisted Experiences, Parks,Scares & Glitter, Instantly Inverted, Scream effects co, Mad About...

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news and, despite it being in the doldrums of summer we have a surprisingly large amount of news to go through. We have updates about new haunts, new escape rooms, a haunt …

It's halfway to Halloween and the best way to celebrate is with some scare at Scare Kingdom Scream Park! On this episode, Mikey is joined by guest hosts Ryan Nixon (The Inevitable Theme Park Podcast) and Jenna Bulmer (Theme park …

Last week, we talked about what we wished we'd known when we started haunting, this week, we're looking at it as customers and talking about things that big haunts forget to do. However, we're not really focusing on things IN …

In this episode, Scott discusses the elements involved in starting a Haunted Attraction for the first time. He discusses everything from budgets to location to staffing to preparing for the unexpected.

Main Topic: Adapting your attraction to a new target market’s culture Step 1: You should have the demographic and psychographic analysis of this new target market done. Additionally, your team must have decided the new market is worth testing. Step...

Haunting is a learning process and, no matter how much you know, there's always more to learn. However, there are still some things that we really wish we had known before we got started. We made some major blunders simply …

Haunters and often avid games and there's not a genre of games haunters love more than horror games. But can horror games help make us better haunters? What lessons can we learn from them? Well, we're going to list ten …

In this podcast we interview Edward Douglas and Gavin Goska and get these key takeaways: What Type of Haunt Music to Use in Your Haunted Attraction How Midnight Syndicate Got Started in Gothic/Horror Music The Reasons They Keep Playing Live …

It's an episode that's divisible by four and that means it's time to do the news! And we have a doozy of a podcast for you as it has been a very active week for haunted attraction news. We have …

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're wrapping up our room trilogy as we discuss the best room in your haunt. We've done the first room, we've done the last room and now we're doing the best room. But the best …

Last week, we discussed the importance of the first room, the approaches to it and the purposes it can serve. This week, we're doing the bookend and talking about the last room, and the importance of it. The last room, …

The common logic when it comes to building a haunted house is that you put most of your energy, detail and work into the first room and the last room. The idea is that these are the rooms that will …

Content Marketing is one of the most misunderstood tactics, and we explain it all in this episode. “Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and...

This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news and boy do we have a surprisingly stacked show for an episode that's as far away from Halloween as we can get. We have two announcements from Universal Studios, two more …

Another episode based on suggestions from the "A Scott in the Dark Listener's Group" on Facebook.

It's the time of year when haunts are either ramping up their recruitment or are thinking about doing so. It's also the time of the year newbie actors are considering if they want to come on board and, if so, …