Time to get spooky

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HURON — Opening tonight, and for a limited time, it’s the 2021 Huron Haunted House, where the spooky crew are ready to scare with a few new tricks up their sleeves this season.

“There is a lot of new stuff this year,” owner Jessica Wagner noted. “New rooms, new displays, new scares.”

The Haunted House is open tonight and tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m., as well as Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22 and 23, at 154 3rd Street SW. For Halloween weekend the creepy attraction is set to open from 7 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28, through Saturday, Oct. 30, while kids day will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31. Admission fees apply.

Owners Wagner, Logan Johnson, Josee Johnson and Dillon Peterson mark the fifth year of operating the Haunted House at a new location downtown.

“This year we are in what used to be the pride high building, years ago it used to be a telephone company,” explained Wagner. “Norm and Lois Ferguson — they own Ferguson Electric in Huron — we can’t thank them enough for allowing us to use their building.”

Proceeds this year will go to Rydder Pomerico to assist the family in medical costs. Pomerico was diagnosed with SCID (Severe Combined Immuno Deficiency) and is undergoing a bone marrow transplant, which will take a minimum of four months in Omaha, Neb.

“My great-nephew Rydder had to have a bone marrow transplant, there were three donors but the morning before his transplant the donor was supposed to be at the hospital at 6 a.m. and on the way there he was killed in a car accident. The two others couldn’t be the donors because of COVID. It was very time sensitive because Rydder had already done all the chemo to kill all the cells.”

Huron Girl Scout Troop No. 46282 will also be receiving a portion of the proceeds for helping build, run and tear down the Haunted House.

Along with the Girl Scouts, the crew this year consists of many people throughout the community including some of Pomerico’s family.

“We have Rydder’s brothers and dad, plus a lot of his friends, several of the girls have helped from the Huron Volleyball Team,” Wagner said.

“This year we incorporated drug court,” she continued. “People who are on drug court have community service hours so I reached out to the program and that has worked out really good - they enjoy it and it keeps them busy and sober.”

The haunted attraction will host different themes for the various rooms including some new surprises and “clown activity,” while maintaining some of the original scary action. Wagner notes this year is full of “new and exciting scares.”

More information may be found online at the Huron Haunted House Facebook page.