NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 23.
Horrors and haunts will tempt brave souls from the dark moss-hung woods of Forks to the Victorian macabre in Port Townsend.
North Olympic Peninsula haunted houses — dungeons, cellars and antique hangars — will offer All Hallow’s frights tonight, Saturday and Halloween weekend.
Some of the haunted houses are family-friendly, while others are adults-only, but all seek to put the fear of Halloween into those who cross their thresholds.
Haunt Town
Boys and ghouls ages 10 and older are invited to the depths of the newest haunt in Port Townsend, Haunt Town, where the doors first creaked open Thursday and will be open again from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today and Saturday, then again Oct. 29-30 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, said David Crozier, a Haunt Town organizer.
There will be nothing jumping out at visitors, but plenty of gruesome, blood-curdling scenes of horror, Crozier said.
On Halloween, night hours will be extended into the witching hours — 7 p.m. to midnight.
The cost of entry will be $10 per person.
A $1 donation will be given to the Associated Student Body government for each student who shows a student body card, Crosier said.
Donations will be sent to Port Angeles or other regional schools if students from those schools show up, he said.
Children younger than 10 are not recommended to enter Haunt Town.
In addition to high schools, Haunt Town will benefit the Port Townsend Kiwanis Club’s children’s projects and Elks Lodge 317.
The Fifth Floor
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.
Since 2008, the lodge has offered child-friendly and adult-terrifying Halloween season entertainment.
The adult-orientated, scream-inducing nights will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and Saturday and Oct. 29-31.
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.
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
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, as well as Oct. 30 and Halloween night.
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, and emergency medical technicians are on-site.
Proceeds will benefit Sarge’s Place, the Forks Salmon Coalition and the Forks Old Fashioned Fourth of July.
Troll Dungeon
Troll Haven will introduce the Haunted Dungeon tonight at the castle, 950 Gardiner Beach Road, on the western shore of Discovery Bay.
The Haunted Dungeon is open from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and Saturday, and will not be open for Halloween weekend.
The castle’s living area will not be open to the public.
Admission to the dungeon is $10 for adults and teens, $5 for children ages 8 to 12.
Children ages 8 and younger are not recommended in the dungeon, which is scarier than last year’s haunted house, organizers said.
A free children’s autumn season barn scare will be held in the antique barn for children 7 and younger, with treat bags, hot apple cider, hot cocoa and other children’s activities.
For more information, phone 559-577-3067 or visit www.trollhaven.org.
Adult audiences only
Port Townsend’s 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. Oct. 30-31.
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.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arice@peninsuladailynews.com.
