Halloween is NOT Just for Kids!
When: Saturday October 5, 2019
8:00 pm until Midnight
*Doors open at 7:30 pm, the fun begins at 8:00
Parking: Behind WCHM= Street Parking in front of museum, Parking Lot (S. 11th behind museum), Fenced Parking on Grass across B Street
Admission: $15.00 per person/$10.00 Members, advanced reservations are encouraged by stopping into the museum or by phone. *Must be 18 or over with valid ID
*We do not take advanced reservations for the activities. Doors open at 7:30 for people to come in and sign up. First come, first served
Description: Come visit YOUR Wayne County Historical Museum for a night of Spooktacular fun. Test your survival skills in our two all-new escape rooms, discover your future with a Tarot reading from Marina Raven in her Gypsy Wagon, get a Spirit Portrait drawn in the Victorian Parlor by Sonitina Reed! Have some hair-raising fun with our Mad Scientist, participate in our Halloween Scavenger Hunt, or go on our Historic Ghost Walk and learn about spooky places in Wayne County! Visitors can indulge in spooky treats from Fecher’s Panache Food Truck and learn how to make your own Halloween Potions courtesy of Old Richmond Inn 21+ with Valid ID Only Costumes are encouraged but not required. Silent Auction, Treats, Halloween photo ops, and more!
Background: Back by popular demand, this is YOUR Museum’s second year of a fun night out for grown-ups. We offer fun activities in the spirit of the Halloween season, and those 18+ can come enjoy the Museum decorated for Halloween as well as several Spooktacular activities to choose from! Last year’s Fright Night was such a success, we decided to make it bigger and better this year! We have renamed the event Spells and Spirits and plan to continue the tradition for years to come.
We will offer visitors two escape rooms to choose from. We will also have a scary scavenger hunt with prizes, and a Haunted History ghost walk around the neighborhood where visitors will learn all about supernatural happenings in the area and around Wayne County. Also new this year guests can choose to have a Spirit Portrait drawn by artist Sontina Reid, or have a Tarot reading with Marina Raven in a Gypsy wagon! Both practices were performed by mystics and spiritualists historically and are a fun way to explore the unseen during the Halloween season. (for entertainment purposes only)
We will have all new Mad Science experiments to dazzle you and that you may try, if you dare!
Halloween Potions Mixology (21+ with valid ID) is a fun way to interact with a different type of spirits and visitors can purchase and learn to make various Halloween themed drinks.
The WCHM would like to thank all of our partners, granters and donors who helped make this year’s Spells and Spirits program possible:
Stamm Koechlein Foundation
Wayne County Foundation
Ronald L. McDaniel Foundation
Muddy Monkey
Old Richmond Inn
Comic Relief:Comics & Collectables
Paragon Casket Company
Pam Frazier Designs
Paint the Town
Timepiece Theater
Fecher’s Panache Food Truck
Model T Museum
Underdog Tattoo Studio Ullery’s Ice Cream
Marina Raven
Sontina Reid Kathy Morgan