Halloween is reflected throughout the Metro Detroit area in its quantity of haunted houses, corn mazes, Halloween parties, house decorations and spooky legends. Find out all there is to do and see in celebration of the holiday through the 2008 Halloween Guide for Detroit.
The Metro Detroit area is heralded by many as the Haunted House Capital of the nation. Whether Detroit qualifies for the moniker or not, the area certainly knows how to show folk a spooky, scary time. The Detroit area has every size, type and variety of haunted experience.
Candy and costumes make Halloween a favorite holiday for kids. There are several different types of activities around the Metro Detroit area that are appropriate for kids, from trick-or-treating opportunities to special movie presentations.
Special concerts, costume parties and dinner shows cater just to adults for the Halloween season.
Whether cut out of a corn field or built with stacks of hay, corn mazes have gotten bigger and more sophisticated. For instance, several of the corn mazes in the Metro Detroit area create a picture when viewed from the air. Corn mazes can be a unique form of entertainment for families during the day and a place of confusing terror at night. Bring a flashlight!
The new trend in retail is the seasonal Halloween store. In fact, there are now several Halloween chains that offer decorations, frights and costumes with locations throughout the Metro Detroit area.
Detroit has some legendary spooky figures, as well as many other paranormal figures that may not be so well known. There are people in Detroit who are interested in them all. Some folks can communicate directly with the ghosts and apparitions, while others spend time investigating them.
The nation knows of it as a night of arson and mayhem, but Detroiters have more innocent memories of Devil's Night in Detroit. Outside of the arson that played out among the many abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit starting in the 1980s, the night was traditionally filled with pranks and mischief.
