Plays, movies, haunted mysteries and other creepy events are planned in the days leading up to Halloween, with several special activities on the day itself.
• Haunted Histories and Mysteries of Port Townsend will offer events all over town Friday and Saturday.
The festival explores historic Port Townsend’s haunted past in downtown Port Townsend, Manresa Castle and Fort Worden State Park.
Experiences will include paranormal investigations at Manresa Castle, the Mount Baker Block Building and four Fort Worden sites. In addition, Haunted Walks in Downtown Port Townsend are set “Connecting with the Other Side” presentations with psychic medium Ankhasha Amenti, tours of the historic Hastings Building, and a chance to share one’s own paranormal experiences.
The “Boo’s & Spirits” Mixer will take place at the Green Room Bar at Manresa Castle.
“Tell Your Tales” will be hosted by Taps at the Haunted Guardhouse at Fort Worden at 6 p.m. Saturday and will stay open until 10 p.m. The event is free. Taps is donating a percentage of proceeds to the nonprofit Main Street Program.
Ticket/event information is available at ptmainstreet.org. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.com (search Haunted Histories and Mysteries of Port Townsend). Ticket prices range from $20 to $75.
The event information center will be at The Cotton Building in downtown Port Townsend on both days at 11 a.m.
Haunted Histories & Mysteries is open to ticket-holders 16 and older. The two free events for ticket holders (Boo’s & Spirits Mixer and Tell Your Tales) are held in bars; guests must be 21 or older to enter the bars.
• Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch in Laurel Grove Cemetery at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The group will meet inside the gate on Discovery Road between 22nd and 25th streets.
The historic cemetery has monuments, mature trees and shrubs, wildlife and scenic views.
The group will reconvene at the gate at noon to share their work and take a photo.
The event is free and open to sketchers of all skill levels.
For more information, visit urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com.
• Horror Pop-Culture and Movies Trivia Night will be hosted by the North Olympic Library System at the Port Angeles Public Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
The questions for this month’s online trivia contest will test your knowledge of horror movies and pop culture.
For more information or to register for the free event, visit www.nols.org.
Paint & Pour: Paint Your Own Jack ’o’ Lantern will be offered at 1 of a Kind Art Gallery in the Port Angeles Wharf, 115 E. Railroad Ave., at 5 p.m. Saturday.
• Rain of Terror: Haunted Hangar at 5144 Quillayute Road in Forks is open Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Halloween on Monday.
Admission is $10 per person.
• “Night of the Living Dead” is performed Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Tickets are $20, with students charged $15 at olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326 between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Night of the Living Dead is based on the classic film that is credited with creating the modern image of the zombie. Four families hold up in a farmhouse debating the best way to fight off the horde of zombies surrounding them outside.
In OTA’s production, the story begins once you enter the grounds and does not end until you are in your car and safe on your way home. This production will be OTA’s largest feat in makeup techniques and special effects.
• Pumpkin carving is set at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Pumpkin carving, decorated trunks and candy are planned in a walk-through behind the grange hall in the outdoor kitchen area.
For more information, contact Dave McDaniels 360-797-4777.
• Trick or Treat Trail at Extreme Sports Park from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday will benefit the Port Angeles swim team.
The event will offer 20 booths. This year, it will add a fire truck, ambulance, police car, dump truck and excavator for kids to check out.
Organizers are asking for candy donations from local businesses. Businesses can sponsor a booth for $300 or donate up to $100 worth of candy. If interested, people can call 360-460-2601 or 260-461-0426.
• Pipe Screams is a Halloween pops concert featuring organists in costume from across the North Olympic Peninsula playing music from movies, video games, pop songs and television shows at 6 p.m. Monday.
The concert will be presented by the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the American Guild of Organists at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., Port Angeles. Costumes are urged.
Admission is free with donations accepted.
• White Crane Martial Arts Haunted House, at 129 W. First St.,will be open from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
Admission is free.
Downtown Trick or Treat outings are planned on Halloween afternoon in Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend.
• In Port Angeles, participating businesses will offer tricks and mostly treats to costumed children from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
Street-crossing guards will be provided by volunteers from the Olympic Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles to help keep the streets safe.
In addition, participating businesses will compete in a decorating contest next week with the winning business receiving 100 skate tickets for the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village, opening Nov. 18. Second prize will be 50 skating tickets.
• In Sequim, participating merchants on Washington Street will offer treats to costumed young people from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
Staff with the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce will be on hand to help keep youngsters safe.
• Port Townsend will put on a parade prior to trick-or-treating Monday.
Participants in the costume parade will assemble at 3:45 p.m. at 1st Security Bank Plaza at Adams and Water streets.
The parade will leave at 4 p.m. Parade participants will march down Water Street to Polk Street.
Trick or Treat will follow immediately at participating businesses on Water Street, Washington Street and in between.
