The Casper Heritage Harvest Festival
The second part of A Folk Halloween Experience's mission (exhuming creativity is the first) is to restore community to our celebration of a more authentic Halloween.
To this end, the 2nd Annual Casper Heritage Harvest Festival seeks to benefit local community, youth, and non-profit organizations and worthy causes in order to restore community to our celebration of Halloween and to promote historical awareness and public will for local historic preservation. Just like we hope to de-commercialize Halloween by reviving our older traditions, we hope the Casper Heritage Harvest Festival rekindles community in the Casper region and beyond.
On this page, you'll find information about the separate activities of our affiliated community partners who share our vision and are willing collaborators and partners who share our aims.
I want to bundle & save 20% off each ticket by going to A Folk Halloween Experience AND one or both of these events!
If you're doing:
A Folk Halloween Experience
AND
The Platte Bridge Company Ghost Tours of the Old West (Wyoming)* *
*Unfortunately, due to a family medical emergency, Ghosts of Old Wyoming has been cancelled (10/16/24).
AND/OR
A Casper Ghostbusters Elks Club Ghost Hunt*
*💯% of the proceeds from these Casper Heritage Harvest Festival allied events go to support the National Historic Trails Center Foundation
You must purchase tickets separately as these are three two different events (old west ghost tours happen at the same place & times as A Folk Halloween Experience making it easiest to do both) but the Elks Club Ghost Hunt takes place off-site at different times (details below).
A fundraiser for the National Historic Trails Center Foundation & Sponsored by the Casper Elks Lodge
*IF a cast member asked you to buy a ticket through them, please use the instructions in the email you received instead when you bundle and save.
Ghost Tours of the Old West with the Platte Bridge Company👈
A fundraiser for the National Historic Trails Center Foundation
I want to pick and choose one single item and not get 20% off of both by not bundling a ghost hunt or old west ghost tour
(À la carte or by itself menu, I want just one of these things and don't want 20% off)
Join the list at the top of any page on our website!
Ghost Tours of the Old West with the Platte Bridge Company👈
More information about the following events appear after this section.
Here's a MAP about where to park and check in for A Folk Halloween Experience's Casper Heritage Harvest Festival events where the:
1) FREE Trunk-or-Treat CAR SHOW with the Casper Ghostbusters (canned good admission, or free if you can't) on Fri 10/18 (4:30-8:30 PM, weather-permitting) will be,
2) Where to park regularly or where to park if you're mobility impaired.
3) Where to check in for A Folk Halloween Experience (10/18, 10/19, 10/25, 10/26, 6-7 Early Experience $20, 9-10 VIP Experience $30 w/ Voyage into Victorian Spiritualism Premiums)
4) Where to check in for Ghosts of Old Wyoming: Haunted Tales of the Wild West (10/18, 10/19, 10/25, 10/26 6:30-10:30, 1 H, tours start every 15 $25). 100% of proceeds support the National Historic Trail Interpretive Center.
5) The Casper Ghostbusters Elks Club Ghost Hunt is Thurs 10/24, Sat 10/26, & Sun 10/27 at 6 PM or 9 PM is OFF-SITE at the Casper Elks Club (108. E. 7th St.) with a special drink hour after your 6 PM hunt, or before your 9 PM hunt from 8-9 PM and we urge our guests to purchase a beverage from the Elks Club to thank them for opening their doors.
To 👆bundle & save 20%👆, purchase your tickets through the above links.👆
SCHEDULE OF COMMUNITY PARTNER
EVENTS
In order of our partnership in 2024
We humbly implore you to support A Folk Halloween Experience by choosing us for your Halloween shenanigans this year for a more authentic Halloween.
A thank you to our sponsors for The 2nd Annual Casper Heritage Harvest Festival
We'd like to thank Mountain West Technologies for sponsoring WIFI at the lodge and providing connection for The Platte Bridge Company's Ghost Tours of WY for walk-up ticket buyers so that we can have our guests VOTE for BEST, SCARIEST, & MOST ORIGINAL COSTUME in the contest AND vote for each show's murderers!
Remember, to accuse someone you suspect as a murderer, please see Azriel at the ticket check-in table, and we'll video record your accusation as proof you were FIRST (remember there are prizes!).
We'd also like to thank Barry Jones and Glam Slam Pizza, Inc.,/DBA Little Caesar's for feeding cast, crew, and volunteers who have to come straight from work or school for this production to happen. We encourage our guests, allies, and supporters to please patronize these businesses for their contributions to making this event happen.
Cancelled due to family medical emergency
Ghosts of
Old Wyoming:
Haunted Tales of the Wild West
A charitable benefit fundraiser for the
The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center Foundation
Fri 10/18 & Sat 10/19
Fri 10/25 & Sat 10/26
6 PM-11:30 PM, 1 hour tours, every 15 minutes
See Bundle & Save Discount links or Alacarte links at the top of the page to buy tickets.
Izaak Walton Clubhouse (4205 Ft Caspar Rd)
Community Partners:
The Platte Bridge Company (the western cavalry historical reenactment troupe you've seen with The Cowboy Action Shooters, at Caspar Collins Days, and Fort Caspar Ghost Tours)
Beneficiary:
The National Historic Trails Center Foundation
A Trunk-or-Treat
Car Show
Fri 10/18 4:30-7:30 PM (or dark) at Izaak Walton (4205 Ft Caspar Rd)*
*weather-permitting
Community Partners:
The Oil Capitol Auto Club &
The Casper Ghostbusters Ecto Interceptor Project
Beneficiary:
The Food for Thought Project (canned goods)
Rescheduled for Fri 10/25 due to weather
Fri 10/25 4:30-7:30 pm WEATHER-PERMITTING
Location:
Fort Caspar Campground
Admission:
Bring a can of food to support the Food for Thought Project (if you can't afford to, it's still free)
Elks Lodge Ghost Hunt with Casper Ghostbusters
This paranormal investigation (aka ghost hunt) of one of the most notoriously haunted places in downtown Casper, WY, The Casper Elks Lodge, benefits The National Historic Trails Center Foundation as 100% of proceeds go to this worthy cause.
🎃 Join Us for a Spine-Chilling Ghost Hunt Fundraiser! 👻
Where: The Casper Elks Club
When: Thurs 10/24, Sat 10/26, Sun 10/27
What: 2 hour ghost tours at 6 PM & 9 PM*
*There's a special hour in between for you to have drinks with Casper Ghostbusters to share your ghost stories from 8-9 PM, so you can stay after your 6 PM hunt or arrive at 8 PM for your 9 PM hunt and show your appreciation to the Elks for opening their doors (purchasing a soda, cocktail, or beer helps defray their costs in heating, and pays for their bartender to be available).
See Bundle & Save Discount links or Alacarte links at the top of the page.
Are you ready for a paranormal adventure? Help support the The National Historic Trails Center Foundation and uncover the supernatural at the Elk's Lodge in Casper, Wyoming (108 E 7th St, Casper, WY 82601) this Halloween season!
Hosted by The Casper Ghostbusters Ecto Interceptor Project, this thrilling ghost hunt promises to be an experience you won’t forget!
🎃 This event is tied to The Folk Halloween Experience! Azriel and the lead Casper ghostbuster are friends and share an interest in history and educating our community about local history through paranormal investigations to ignite an interest in history in the public interest of historic preservation of our oldest buildings and spaces.
Limited spots available, so grab your tickets now and prepare for a night of ghostly encounters!
Thanks to the generosity of The Casper Elks Lodge, the volunteering of time and energy by The Casper Ghostbusters Ecto-Interceptor Project, and ticketing provided by Theatre of the Poor through the partnership developed by Azriel Anthony, Bruce Berst, Gena Jensen, Nathan Soper, Lodge President Wendy DeGroot, and Connie Thompson, we raised $575 for historic preservation and awareness. Won't you join us, again?
Although it's the same building, it's never the same paranormal investigation.
The Theatre of the Poor 👈 is graciously hosting and sponsoring ticketing for this fundraiser for the second year in a row. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with unique live theatre experiences that leave you thinking they provide.
A Folk Halloween Experience's Casper Heritage Harvest Festival with their community partnerships with the Casper Elks Lodge with The Casper Ghostbusters Ecto-Interceptor Project raised $575 for the Downtown Historic Preservation Commission & National Historic Trails Center Foundation in 2023.
Theatre of the Poor's Director, Dr. William Conte, is the 2024 recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for the Performing Arts. A Folk Halloween Experience's Drew Stratton-Capps and Asheton Stratton-Capps are actors on loan from the GREX who shared Azriel's vision and love of Halloween and became part of our merry band of pirates.