Spooky sites slated

Palouse, Rosalia, Tekoa to host haunted houses

Palouse

Haunted Palouse will come alive with all the hauntings of a scare-fest recommended for spook fans 12 and older. Date for the annual haunt in Palouse will be Oct. 23, 24, 30, and 31, starting at 7 p.m.

“This is a really good scare,” promised Annie Pillers with a laugh.

Two haunted houses will be screaming all night; the Boomerang Museum on Main Street and the historic Palouse jail on Whitman Street.

Tickets into the chilling festival are $15 and will be sold at a booth on Whitman Street.

New to the festival this year is the Haunted Hayride, a scary trip through Palouse riding on hay bales in a trailer pulled by a four-wheeler.

“It’s really kind of a stitch,” said Pillers. “It’s fun.”

The trailer will be loading all night, starting and ending on Main Street.

Fortune telling will be in the heated library. Pillers said that after the repeated shock of being on the evil-ridden streets, the library presents a safe, warm place for people to recover and have their future told.

“You’d be surprised the kind of turnout we get for that. Particularly the college girls,” Pillers said. “It’s so much fun. It’s a good time with your friend, just visiting in line.”

Rosalia

Ghosts, goblins and ghouls will haunt Rosalia’s Old Lumberyard on S. Whitman for the next two weekends, as the Chamber of Commerce puts on its second annual haunted house.

This year’s version offers an “a-maze-ing twist,” as haunted tourists will have to choose which path to walk through the old lumber building. Those who choose the right path will be treated to room after room of Halloween horrors. Those who choose wrong door will end up with an abbreviated tour and end up being escorted out a side doors.

Designers of the haunted house were sworn to an oath of secrecy, said co-organizer Linda Pritchett, so only a select few know the terror in store inside the old lumber yard.

Pritchett assured that the event would be family-friendly and attractions would feature fears over senseless carnage.

The Haunted House runs Oct. 24, 30 and 31 from sunset to 10 p.m. Those 12 and under must have parent permission or accompaniment. Admission is $3.

Tekoa

Downtown streets of Tekoa will not be so safe this Halloween as Haunted House 2009 manifests itself. Oct. 23, 24, 30 and 31, starting at 7 p.m. the town will be taken over by a regular rigmarole of ghoulish festivities.

Admission for the haunted house will be $10 per person and children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

The event is the city’s sixth annual event at the old Brotherton Elevator at 111 Ramsey Street.

New to the festival this year is the “Safe Scare,” for younger children who may not be able to handle the full atrocities of the larger event. Safe Scare will be Oct. 25 and 31, from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $3.