{"id":3485,"date":"2018-10-30T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2018-10-30T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:56:25","slug":"haunted-house-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"Haunted House Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<p>Halloween-themed haunted houses first emerged during the Great Depression as ways to distract young tricksters.\u00a0Groups of families would deck out their basements with home made scary decorations. Then they would hold\u00a0\u201chouse-to-house\u201d parties, where the children would travel from basement to basement, experiencing different scary scenes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<h2>Trails Of Terror<\/h2>\n<p>A 1937 party pamphlet is quoted in\u00a0Lisa Morton&#8217;s book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Jb9RPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween&#8221;<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which describes how parents\u00a0 designed \u201ctrails of terror\u201d to spook the children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\"><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><em>An outside entrance leads to a rendezvous with ghosts and witches in the cellar or attic. Hang old fur, strips of raw liver on walls, where one feels his way to dark steps&#8230;.Weird moans and howls come from dark corners, damp sponges and hair nets hung from the ceiling touch his face&#8230;.Doorways are blockaded so that guests must crawl through a long dark tunnel&#8230;.At the end he hears a plaintive \u2018meow\u2019 and sees a black cardboard cat outlined in luminous paint&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3530\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3530\" src=\"https:\/\/invitation2events.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/41agyypxtml-_sl250_.jpg\" alt=\"Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trick or Treat examines the origins and history of Halloween as well as exploring its current global popularity. 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