Haunted Village

Halloween at the CAE

From the very year it opened, the CAE has sponsored Halloween events for the entire family. Unlike traditional haunted houses, the aim was to bring the community together for a spooky, but not scary, festival where kids were safe pretend and the entire family could joined in on the fun. Halloweeners can roam about an expansive village where their imaginations take flight -- a place where they can learn the science behind magic and optical illusions -- while being entranced with the mysteries of Halloween.

And so Haunted Village was born. Each Halloween, one corner of the WCC campus gets transformed in an decorative village where visitors can roam and engage in various activities. Each Haunted Village features a Dr. Frankenstein Physics Lab of hands on science experiments, a planetarium show produced by the Imaginarium called Nightwalk, josting with knights on the lawn, a pumpkin carving patch, a custom contest, face painting, a storytelling corner, a monster movie theater and many other activities. The village gets elaborately decorated with large Halloween inflatables, luminaries, torch lanterns, a cemetery scene, colorful banners and many other attractions.

Haunted Village Scenes

Spooky Storytelling Corner	Face Painting
Josting with Knights from the Society for Creative Anachronism	Paliku Theatre Actors
Dr. Frankenstein's Phantom Physics Lab	Under the Black Light in Dr. Frankenstein's Lab
Resting in the Cemetery	Luminaries and Torches Lighting Up the Village
Pumpkin Patch	Jack-o'-Lanterns
Haunted Snow Globe	It's Alive and Big!
Kids Duck Pond Game	A Stroll through the Haunted Village Cemetery
Waiting for Nightwalk Planetarium Show	Inside the Imaginarium Ticket Booth
Signing up for the Costume Contest	Costume Contestant
Costume Contestants	Costume Contestant
Costume Contestants	Sleepy Hallow Hearst
Scarecrow Patch	Pumpkins Galore
Cafe-o'-Horrors (aka Food Booth)	Kids Halloween Theater
Pirates Cove	Haunted Village Crew (Makana, Joe and Nainoa)