FORT BRAGG, CA., 10/31/26 — The Fort Bragg Lions Club’s haunted house, the Haunted Hall of Horrors, opens its 2026 show, the Haunted Fishing Village, for the last time this season from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the club’s building at 430 E. Redwood Ave.
This is the haunt’s 20th year, according to the club’s online ticket listing. The season opened Oct. 23 and ran five nights: two Fridays, two Saturdays and the Thursday before Halloween.
On Thursday, a pirate ship with a skeleton at the wheel jutted over the entrance of the blue two-story building downtown, under a skull-and-crossbones flag. A banner beside the door read “Celebrating 20 Years of the Haunted Hall of Horrors.” Pictures covered the upstairs windows, one of them a jellyfish. Along the front wall, foam tombstones carried the names of the haunt’s sponsors under a sign that read “Thank you to all of our Tombstone Sponsors!”
Tickets bought in advance online cost $15 for adults and $8 for youths under 16. At the door, adults pay $20 and youths under 16 pay $10.
The club’s website calls the show “a high-tech, very scary haunted house” and doesn’t recommend it for young children. Children 10 and under must come with an adult. For Thursday’s show, the club scheduled the first hour with the lights on for younger children and let children under 10 in free with a paying adult.
The haunt started in 2005 with the Fort Bragg Leo Club, the Lions’ youth club for ages 12 to 18, according to the club’s website. The Leos wanted a Halloween activity for older teens and adults other than trick-or-treating. They took classes on makeup and special effects at the West Coast Haunters Convention, and the haunt grew each year after that.
Planning for each season starts in November, the website says. Prop building starts in April, the haunt goes up in September and it comes down in November. Lions Club members and parents build it and act in it, and local businesses sponsor it.
The website, written for the haunt’s 18th season in 2024, says the Lions and Leos raised more than $75,000 in the first 17 years. The money has gone to vocational scholarships, the Lions In Sight program, the Lions eyeglass recycling program and youth activities on the Mendocino Coast.
It also paid for an anti-bullying program at Fort Bragg Middle School for three years, until the state took over that funding. In 2015, the club added Shriners Hospitals for Children to the list of beneficiaries. In 2017, the Fort Bragg Footlighters theater group and Three Rivers Charter School joined the haunt to raise money for their own organizations.
The last haunt of the season is Halloween night at 430 E. Redwood Ave., with tickets at the door $20 for adults and $10 for youths under 16.