The After Dark Candlelit Superstition Walk
Premium Add-on
Premium Add-on Tradition is not included as part of an Early or VIP Experience, but available with both.
Purchased as an add-on when you buy your ticket or at the venue.
($10, but you get two for one if you dare to solve The Path of Mystery)
Candlelit After Dark Superstition Walk¹: $10
Did you know black cats weren't originally bad luck, but rather omens of good luck?
Did you know catching a falling leave on Halloween brings good luck?
Or that to summon a witch on Halloween, you should put your clothes on backwards and walk backwards at midnight?
After Dark Candlelit Halloween Superstitions Walk¹: $10.
This add-on (free to those who complete the Path of Mystery, but it can be purchased in advance or at the venue) pays homage to an old Halloween Party invitation tradition¹ as well as the tradition of costumed Halloween Parades by candlelight.
A tutelary spirit (spirit guide) will take you on a mystical meandering by candlelight whilst instructing you about superstitions that are peculiar to Hallow's Eve.
Included with your purchase (so you can participate in the mystical meandering by candlelight):
an LED flicker votive candle,
a beeswax candle to enjoy at home
an amber jar
It takes place at 8:30 PM for the Early Experience and 10:30 PM for the VIP Experience.
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. For example, if you successfully catch a falling leaf on Halloween, it's an omen of good luck. There are dozens more!
And for all you knew, unless you could make out by size, 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.
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.