NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 30.
North Olympic Peninsula haunted houses will bring the terror of Halloween to those willing to pass through their doors this weekend.
Haunt Town
PORT TOWNSEND — Haunt Town will be open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today and from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the basement of the Elks Lodge at 555 Otto St.
The theme for the dreadful diversion is an underground haunted town, with more than 20 actors portraying all things creepy or disturbing.
The cost of entry will be $10 per person for visitors 10 and older.
It is not recommended that children younger than 10 enter Haunt Town.
A $1 donation will be given to the Associated Student Body of the school represented by each student who shows a student body card at the door.
In addition to high schools, Haunt Town will benefit the Port Townsend Kiwanis Club’s children’s projects and Elks Lodge 317.
Adult audiences only
PORT TOWNSEND — The Haunted Bordello — a haunted house for mature audiences only — will open to the public in the Old Consulate Inn at 313 Walker St. from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. today and Saturday.
Cash-only admission will be $10.
Themes are mature and include strobe lights, artificial smoke, steep stairs and graphic scenes of violence with sexual content.
Proof of age will be required for entry, which will be limited to those 17 and older.
For more information, visit www.hauntedbordello.com.
The Fifth Floor
PORT ANGELES — Specters and ghosts will rise above Port Angeles’ downtown to put fear into the willing on the Fifth Floor — this year’s classic horror house at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St.
Since 2008, the lodge has offered child-friendly and adult-terrifying Halloween season entertainment.
A child-friendly version of the haunted house will be held during a downtown trick-or-treat from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Halloween.
The adult-oriented, scream-inducing nights will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and Saturday.
Admission will be $6 for kids and $9 for adults.
Funds raised by the haunted house benefit Elks projects, including student scholarships, home nursing care and children’s therapy.
Haunt the Hangar
FORKS — The Psycho Social haunted house is this year’s Haunt at the Hangar offering at Quillayute Airport near Forks.
Hours are from 6 p.m. to midnight today and Saturday.
Entry is $8 per person age 12 to adult.
The two-floored haunted house is in an old World War II aircraft hangar.
Children younger than 12 should not enter the haunted house.
Emergency medical technicians are on-site if needed.
Proceeds will benefit Sarge’s Place, the Forks Salmon Coalition and the Forks Old-Fashioned Fourth of July.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arice@peninsuladailynews.com.
