{"id":67907,"date":"2022-11-22T06:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=67907"},"modified":"2022-11-22T06:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:16:43","slug":"the-heart-behind-the-haunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2022\/11\/22\/the-heart-behind-the-haunt\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart behind the haunt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honouring with Haunted Calgary:<\/strong> Haunted walk-through maze at New Horizon Mall’s underground parkade entrance displays a photo honouring Christine Campbell’s mother who passed away in June 2022.\u00a0 (Photo by Jayden Gagnon\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

E<\/span>ntering a haunted house can be tense, terrifying, and spooky; however, behind the scary scenes of Haunted Calgary, you’ll find a warm core.<\/p>\n

T<\/span>he volunteer-run event is nonprofit and offers a variety of scare options, friendly to neurodivergent people.<\/p>\n

The Campbells started Haunted Calgary<\/a> as a fun Halloween family tradition, creating characters and collecting decorations over the years. The haunted house, consisting of a walk-through maze, has evolved into a city-wide attraction, taking place every weekend in October.<\/p>\n

Since 2019, the event is located in the underground parkade of the New Horizon Mall in Balzac. The house offers high-scare, low-scare, and a new sensory-friendly low-scare option.<\/p>\n

This year, Christine Campbell and her family are honouring their mother \u2014 who passed away in June \u2014by expanding on the low- scare option, which was her favourite part.<\/p>\n

People with sensory issues often avoid haunted houses because of things such as strobe lights, loud sounds, and starling scares; and so by creating this option, no one misses out.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of her big things was inclusivity, and just being a friend to all,” Campbell says.<\/p>\n

One of her big things was inclusivity, and just being a friend to all. – Christine Campbell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, the full-care option runs every October on Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n

John Lee, a Calgary resident, brought his family to check out Haunted Calgary in the full-scare option. Although his partner Laura said, \u201cI was scared.\u201d after finishing the walk-through maze, Lee shared that he remained brave and endured the event, \u201cBecause of what they are doing it for.”<\/p>\n

Haunted Calgary donates its profits to local charities such as Alpha House<\/a>, ARTS Senior Animal Rescue<\/a>, Haunters Against Hate<\/a>, Calgary Animal Rescue Society<\/a>, Calgary Wildlife<\/a>, Parachutes For Pets<\/a>, and The\u00a0Calgary Food Bank<\/a>. At the end of the season, volunteers are rewarded with an honorarium to a charity of their choice. Any leftover profit the event has from donations is put into funding for Haunted Calgary for the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entering a haunted house can be tense, terrifying, and spooky; however, behind the scary scenes of Haunted Calgary, you’ll find a huge heart. The volunteer-run event is nonprofit and offers a variety of scare modes, friendly to neurodivergent attendees. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":67961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S2 Haunted Calgary JG","footnotes":""},"categories":[1590,5,1108,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-halloween","10":"category-life"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68397,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67907\/revisions\/68397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}