The Path of Mystery Premium Add-on
Not included with either the Early or VIP Experiences, but available with both.
Purchased as a premium add-on tradition when you buy your ticket or you can purchase at the venue.
($10, but you get two for one when you solve The Path of Mystery)
Would you dare to go to a party you were invited to attend if you...didn't know who invited you?
What if you didn't know where the party was?
What if you had to decipher clues to meet your unknown host & wouldn't be able if you failed?
How determined would you be?
Path of Mystery¹: $10
The Path of Mystery¹: $10.
This add-on has you solve escape room- style clues to decipher local macabre history (hauntings, urban legends, dark or fabled histories). If you successfully solve your Path of Mystery (but not if you do not) clue path, you will unveil a FREE ticket to the After Dark Candlelit Halloween Superstitions Walk ($10 value). Thus, if you successfully complete your tasks, you ALSO get the other add-on premium tradition.
Thus, you get two for one and get both premium add-ons for the price of one when you choose & successfully complete your Path of Mystery (if you're unsuccessful or run out of time, you can still buy an After Dark Candlelit Halloween Superstition Walk for $10 at the venue).
Thus you might consider taking your chances to buy a $10 Path of Mystery add-on ticket when you buy your ticket, and try your metal at solving some real puzzles. If your determination pays off, you'll unlock the second premium tradition at no additional cost
¹The Halloween Party invitation tradition to which this premium add-on experience pays homage is here described:
Late in September or early October, after dark, you'd answer a knock at your door to find a candle burning on your doorstep with an invitation to a Halloween Party. Not only was no one at your door when you answered it, but who invited you and where the party was were mysteries.Inside your invitation, you'd find riddles, puzzles or clues you'd have no choice but to solve if you wanted to attend the party. If you didn't, you couldn't go! Your success, however, would bring you to a secret summoning location from which your masked host would greet you in silence in mask. You still might not even know yet who your host was who had invited you!
They'd non-verbally swear you to silence with a finger to their lips and guide you in candlelit procession to the haunted halls where the revelry would take place, in silence by candlelight, while they instructed you about superstitions peculiar to Hallow's Eve. And for all you knew, unless you could make out by size, or voice, your masked host was still unbeknownst to you but could be your nextdoor neighbor, boss, secret admirer, or rival. They were awfully trusting not so very long ago.
For example, if you successfully catch a falling leaf on Halloween, it's an omen of good luck. There are dozens more!
Another related tradition was that of a Halloween parade in which the participants at a party would parade around the block or the entire neighborhood of the party in costume by candlelight.