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Halloween
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Haunted Houses for Halloween
Editor’s Note: The North Coast Journal’s editorial staff would like to thank haunted house enthusiast Amber Saba for touring and scoring the local scare scene so we could cower in the safety of our newsroom. Below are her findings. Griffin Loch’s Scream-a-torium at the Scaregrounds Humboldt County Fairgrounds Thursday, Oct. 30, andFriday, Oct. 31, from […]
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Spooky and Spookier Fairgrounds Fun
The Humboldt County Fairgrounds have you covered this Halloween. One venue, two vibes: scream or stroll. By night, the fairgrounds turn into Griffin Loch’s Scaregrounds, a full-blown fright fest with three haunted mazes, roaming haunters, Marie Laveau’s Voodoo Lounge, food trucks and the eerie glow of Frightdale’s Symphony of Lights. The scary action starts Friday, […]
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Halloween Fun in Ferndale
Ferndale rolls out the orange carpet for a full month of spine-tingling, family friendly festivities with its Frightfully Fun town-wide Halloween celebration. Things kick off Friday, Oct. 3, with free Artisan Pumpkin Carving on Main Street from 3 to 6 p.m. with carving stations along the street before the jack o’ lanterns light up in […]
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An ’80s Horror Fest
Despite my whole “whatever it is,” I am not, in fact, immune to the spirit of the season. I don’t have a costume lined up, but there are voluminous bags of candy to be deployed, John Carpenter’s themes remain in heavy rotation on the turntable and I’ve been steadily making my way through a stack […]
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Mike Craghead Carves Out his Spot on Halloween Wars: All Stars
Mike Craghead says he has a condition — one that makes him obsessively enjoy pumpkin carving. Like many, he would carve pumpkins with his family for Halloween as a child. However, as the years passed, so did the level of complexity in Craghead’s carving. “It probably really started going off the rails when I was […]
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Stories of Poverty, Sculpture and Halloween Fun
A listening tour focusing on poverty came to Humboldt; we’ll share what folks struggling locally told them and how it bumps up against prevalent ideas about poverty. We’re also looking at the connections in Robert Benson’s sculpture show at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Gallery. And we’ve got some Halloween humor to kick off the holiday. […]
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The Monsters are Here
Halloween aficionados, pace yourselves. This year, Griffin Loch’s Scream-A-Torium takes things to a whole new level of frightful and delightful as it claws out of last year’s confines to take over the Humboldt County Fairgrounds, turning it into a festival-filled Scaregrounds. The spine-tingling fun, which includes three haunted mazes, live music, roaming haunters, food trucks, […]
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Journal Flashback: Candy Corn Doesn’t Care if You Hate It
Editor’s note: In the spirit of Halloween, here’s a look back at an October of 2021 column on the potential joy of loving the much reviled treat of the season: candy corn. Enjoy! Candy corn is trash. Say it all you want; post it on every platform. Candy corn doesn’t give a giant gummy rat’s […]
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Halloween Forecast: Light Rain and Sneaker Waves
Halloween is almost here and rain is in the forecast. According to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, a cold front will push through on the spookiest night of the year, bringing rain and nighttime temperatures in the 40s on the coast and inland, so bundle up. Sunset is set for 6:14 p.m. […]
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NCJ Preview: CPH’s Title IX Trouble and a Busy Halloween
This week, we’re talking about Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr.’s stunning comments about Title IX, the federal law requiring equal access to education. Those comments come as a former CPH student athlete is going through a Title IX process regarding her claim of sexual assault by her coach’s husband. We’ve also got the review […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
Witch-raft on the Bay
Despite a windy, rainy forecast again for this year’s third annual Witches Paddle on Humboldt Bay, an energetic coven of witches showed up with stand-up boards and paddles in hand to enjoy what turned out to be a breezy, sunny day. In addition, a quartet of witches showed up at the put-in boat ramp to […]