Halloween Haunt provides heart-pounding fun at Thiessen’s

Story and photos by Paul Forman

Back by popular demand after a six-year hiatus, Thiessen’s Nighttime Halloween Haunt put a chilling scare into adrenaline-seeking families from all over the county. 

The exclusive Friday, October 25 event featured over 20 live actors and a multitude of frightening animatronics.

Krissy Thiessen, co-owner of The Flower Shop at Thiessen’s and Thiessen Apple Orchards, was thrilled to collaborate on this endeavour with Halloween enthusiast Reggie Wood. 

“Reggie is affectionately known as the Boogie Man and is really the mastermind behind the haunt,” said Thiessen.

Thiessen wanted to also acknowledge Erik Koski, Mandy Stein, family and friends for putting this spooktacular together again for the community to enjoy.

Terror aficionado Liam Duggan was the first to venture out of the haunted house, saying, “The makeup was phenomenal, the animatronics were well placed and I really liked how many references inside related to horror movies.” 

Just as Liam finished his sentence, he and his family had to flee as a chainsaw-wielding maniac came at the family and playfully chased them off the haunted grounds.