(HOLLYWOOD PRESS CORPS) — Los Angeles, California — These live stories are an extension of the Terrifying True Stories podcast about haunted places, creepy events, and plenty of ghost stories.
All photos by Ellen Zuckerman
The first installment this season took place at Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles, which is a unique blend of an actual historically haunted venue and immersive theater where you become part of the story while professional actors create a spine-chilling narrative around you. It took place in and abandoned church and different Victorian mansions and the grounds that surround them.
They will continue scaring you throughout the month in Hollywood (October 17th, 18th, and 31st) and Oxnard (October 24 th and 25 th).
The first experience of the truly terrifying season, Salem’s Circle!
Step into the shadows, where your mysterious host Salem lures you into forbidden Victorian rites. Thirteen flickering torches mark a circle of arcane power—part performance, part otherworldly ritual. Within, secrets whisper through ancient incantations, some demanding more than mere observation. The circle protects you from what prowls beyond… but what you learn may haunt you long after the flames die out. Enter the darkness… if you dare.
The second haunt season experience across ALL THREE locations: DOCTOR WAX.
Step into a decaying Victorian parlor where young Eliza, a ghostly child in a tattered nightdress, desperately seeks your help to escape the sinister master of the house. As flickering candlelight reveals rooms filled with unnaturally perfect porcelain figures, you’ll discover the horrifying truth about the gentle-voiced collector who transforms the pure into his eternal masterpieces.
Navigate through shadowy halls where the line between the living and the preserved grows dangerously thin, in a bone-chilling encounter that will leave you questioning what price some pay for perfection.
The Final Prophecy is coming… The third experience of Terrifying True Stories by Candlelight is at all three locations this haunt season:
Enter Franz Anton Mesmer’s candlelit dining room, where the father of hypnosis and master of animal magnetism demonstrates how mysterious artifacts pulse with supernatural energy and knowledge of the living. Through his pioneering understanding of the invisible forces that connect all beings, witness impossible revelations of personal secrets as objects reveal what should be unknowable. Watch as he rewrites the rules of what’s possible.
Experience a mind-bending encounter with the otherworldly, where written words become vessels for messages from beyond.. and some communications from the spirit realm prove far more personal and immediate than anyone could imagine.
Prepare to have your mind challenged… if you dare.
The Nest of Spiders is the fourth immersive experience of Terrifying True Stories by Candlelight this haunt season and will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the natural world.
Enter Dr. Eliza Fanny Staveley’s Victorian home laboratory, where the pioneering British arachnologist and author of British Spiders reveals discoveries that challenge your understanding of coordination, intelligence, and the creatures that drop from above. What begins as scientific fascination quickly transforms into something far more sinister.
Navigate through darkness where nature’s most efficient predators demonstrate hunting techniques that will redefine what lurks in the shadows and webs above. Dare to step inside… if you’re brave enough.
The Resurrection of Marjorie McCall…the fifth immersive experience of Terrifying True Stories by Candlelight this season will test your courage like never before.
Meet the woman history claims lived once but was buried twice—Marjorie McCall, whose impossible return from an Irish grave in 1705 defied all-natural law and unleashed something far darker than a miracle. Follow her through rooms where desperate scratching echoes from beyond the windows as she reveals the terrible price of cheating fate itself.
Experience a relentless encounter where the boundary between salvation and damnation blurs, and discover why some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
The last story joining Terrifying True Stories by Candlelight this season is Exorcista.
Enter the abandoned sanctuary where the desperate Father Kane battles ancient evil as malevolent forces expose your darkest secrets and supernatural phenomena erupt around you in a terrifying clash between divine faith and something much darker.
Experience otherworldly entities seeking new vessels among witnesses while discovering why some sacred rituals should never be attempted, and why the greatest danger lurks not in the battle itself, but in the false peace that follows.
A harrowing finale where salvation and damnation balance on a razor’s edge, forcing you to question whether any soul will escape unmarked by forces that refuse to be banished.
“What you fear shows up here.”
