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 reviews waiting when we get back late tonight :)This year we are trying a new system where every review you post goes online automatically (updated hourly). We are leaving the moderation to you, the HauntedWisconsin.com community. Vote up the best reviews with a 'yes' vote and vote down the bad reviews with a 'no' vote. At the hourly update, your votes will be counted and the...
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.Jenny and I over the past couple weeks did quite a bit of sorting through the last seven years of reviews, importing everything to the new site, and connecting the reviews to the correct events. The intent is to make the new URLs permanent so if you link to a review using the new year URLs, that link should keep working for a long time.The historical reviews...
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 fill up past capacity towards the latter half of October.Jenny and I have visited Hubertus House of Horror many years in the past but when we went last year, the event was already sold out at 7pm! The operators took us on a tour of the house and it was easy to see why. They have really stepped up the effects with some big and...
which means more haunts and Halloween are opening this weekend. Over 40 events in fact, and the list grows every week! Don't like big crowds and long lines at haunts? Then this is the weekend for you! Get out and visit your favorite haunts and have a better chance at visiting multiple haunts in one night! Want to meet the staff of HauntedWisconsin.com? C'mon, you know you do! We'll be out with the winner of our 1st ever biggest fan contest this Saturday at Monster Mayhem and Gilly's Haunted House. We may even be scaring YOU! Want to know what...
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 communities have decided that having trick-or-treat is safer on a Sunday before Halloween. This year Halloween falls on a Saturday. So I thought, great! Trick-or-treat will finally be held on Halloween everywhere, right? WRONG! There are still some communities that have decided to hold trick-or-treat the Sunday before the 31st. I think this takes all of the fun out of Halloween. Once trick-or-treating is over, many kids...