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🌵 Succulent Pumpkin Workshop
Bring a big fairytale pumpkin and turn it into a succulent centerpiece at Potocki.
Tue, Oct 6 | 6–8 pm | Potocki Center for the Arts, Mission Viejo

🪦 Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy Inside a Cemetery
Actors bring four of Poe’s darkest tales to life inside a historic cemetery chapel, with each performance paired with a themed cocktail.
Thu–Sat, Oct 8–10 | Sessions from 2–8 pm | Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary, Santa Ana

👻 Spirits & Legends of Bowers Museum
Explore Bowers after dark while hearing eerie stories and paranormal encounters reported inside its historic galleries.
Thurs, Oct 8, 15, 22 & 29; Fri, Oct 30 | 7:30–9 pm | Bowers Museum, Santa Ana

👻 Haunted Escape Room
Work through spooky puzzles and hidden clues in 30-minute escape-room sessions inside the library. Ages 8+.
Fri–Sun, Oct 9–11 | Mission Viejo Library, Mission Viejo

🎬 Fall Flicks: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington takes over the big screen for an outdoor October movie night.
Fri, Oct 9 | Laguna Niguel

🍂 Harvest in the Hills
Crafts, games, face painting, food and a magic show take over Town Green, plus Polly’s apple pie eating contest.
Sat, Oct 10 | 4–6 pm | Town Green, 25555 Alicia Pkwy, Laguna Hills

🛹 Haunted Skate Contest
Skaters take on Halloween-themed best-trick contests while costumes, giveaways and food turn the skate park into a party.
Sat, Oct 10 | 5–9 pm | Laguna Niguel Skate & Soccer Park, Laguna Niguel

🐶 Fur-Ever Friends Fall Festival
More than a dozen rescue groups bring adoptable dogs, cats, bunnies and reptiles, along with animal meet-and-greets and wildlife activities.
Sat, Oct 10 | 11 am–2 pm | Mission Viejo Animal Services Center, Mission Viejo

🧙‍♀️ Whimsical Witchcore Market
Spooky sips, brunch bites, vintage Halloween finds, live music and witchy crafts take over Giracci.
Sun, Oct 11 | 10 am–2 pm | Giracci Vineyards & Farms, Silverado

🧛 Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Bram Stoker gets the Mel Brooks treatment in this fast, funny vampire romp packed with wordplay, quick changes and a very dramatic Count Dracula.
Oct 16–Nov 1 | Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano

🎃 Fall-O-Ween at Heritage Hill
Heritage Hill gets a Halloween makeover with festive decorations, a straw maze, scavenger hunt, photo ops and family activities.
Oct 16–18 & 23–25 | 4:30–8:30 pm | Heritage Hill Historical Park, Lake Forest

🩸 A Nightmare on Strip Street: A Burlesque Horror Parody
Horror gets a raunchy makeover with burlesque, aerial acrobatics, contortionists and sword swallowers taking aim at scary-movie tropes.
Fri–Sun, Oct 16–18 | The Montalbán Theatre, Hollywood

🎃 Pumpkin Rescue
Dive into a floating pumpkin patch, rescue your pumpkin, decorate it on dry land and stick around for slides and open diving boards.
Sat, Oct 17 | 2–4 pm | Laguna Niguel Aquatics Center, Laguna Niguel

🎃 Fall Harvest Festival
Bounce houses, community booths and a costume parade headline this family-friendly Halloween celebration.
Sat, Oct 17 | 4 pm | Grand Park, Aliso Viejo

💀 Día de los Muertos Night Market
Food, local vendors, a beer garden, games and a kids play area fill North Paseo for a family-friendly night market.
Sat, Oct 17 | 5–9 pm | North Paseo at Los Osos, Mission Viejo

🎃 Lake Eerie
Lake Mission Viejo’s annual Halloween celebration returns to the waterfront. LMVA members and invited guests only.
Sat, Oct 17 | 5–8:30 pm | Lake Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo

🎃 Halloween-Themed Taste of Santa Ana
Taste local restaurants, then stick around for live music, shopping, local makers and Halloween fun.
Sat, Oct 17 | 5–9 pm | MainPlace Mall, Santa Ana

🧙 Witch & Warlock Ball
Party inside an 1889 Victorian mansion with dinner, a fortune teller, games, raffles and prizes.
Sat, Oct 17 | 6–10 pm | Howe-Waffle House, Santa Ana

🎃 Haunted Halloween at the Inn
Trick-or-treating, pumpkin decorating, a makers market, live music and a costume contest take over the resort, plus a Spookeasy Bar for grown-ups.
Sun, Oct 18 | 4–8 pm | Inn at the Mission, San Juan Capistrano

🎃 Halloween by Candlelight at the Nixon Library
A string quartet performs haunting favorites from The Exorcist, Psycho, Halloween, Beetlejuice and more inside the candlelit Nixon Library.
Thu, Oct 22 & 29 | 6:15 & 8:30 pm | Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda

👻 Dare to Walk Laguna Niguel’s Haunted Trails
Crown Valley Park turns seriously spooky after dark with elaborate haunted scenes, live actors and plenty of jump scares. Recommended for ages 10+.
Thu, Oct 22 & Sun, Oct 25 | 6:30–9 pm; Fri–Sat, Oct 23–24 | 6:30–9:30 pm | Crown Valley Park, Laguna Niguel

🕯️ Halloween Classics by Candlelight
Eerie movie themes and Halloween favorites get the string-quartet treatment surrounded by thousands of candles.
Fri–Sat, Oct 23–24 | Times vary | Neighborhood Congregational Church, Laguna Beach

🎃 Dana Point Halloween Spooktacular
Costumes and family-friendly Halloween fun take over Dana Point.
Sat, Oct 24 | 1:30–5 pm | Dana Point

💀 Día de los Muertos Fiesta
Mariachi, folklórico dancers, community ofrendas, face painting, crafts, food and artisan vendors fill the Murray Center.
Sat, Oct 24 | 2–7 pm | Norman P. Murray Community Center, Mission Viejo

🦉 Halloween Zoo-Tacular
OC Zoo gets into costume with Halloween activities, spooky decorations and animal fun.
Sat, Oct 24 | OC Zoo at Irvine Regional Park, Orange

🧪 Boo at the Bay
Upper Newport Bay turns spooky with Halloween activities and family-friendly nature fun.
Sat, Oct 24 | Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach

🎃 Spooky Seas
Explore haunted tall ships, bioluminescence laser tag and a mad scientist laboratory during the Ocean Institute’s after-dark Halloween takeover.
Sat, Oct 24 | 5:30–9 pm | Ocean Institute, Dana Point

🏃 Monster Dash & Creepy Crawl Fun Run
Costumes are encouraged for a 5K followed by a one-mile fun run, pancake breakfast, live music and community booths.
Sat, Oct 24 | 7:30–11 am | Community Center/Downtown, San Clemente

🎬 Teen Movie Night & Haunted Maze
Ladera teens take on a haunted maze before settling in for a Halloween movie night.
Sat, Oct 24 | 7–10 pm | Ladera Ranch

🎃 Halloween Parties at Patsy’s Irish Pub
Costumes, spooky cocktails, DJ, dancing and festive décor for three late-night Halloween parties.
Sat, Oct 24; Fri, Oct 30 & Sat, Oct 31 | 9 pm–1 am | Patsy’s Irish Pub, Laguna Niguel

👻 Wiggly Ghost Candle Workshop
Make delightfully strange ghost-shaped taper candles.
Mon, Oct 26 | 6–8 pm | Potocki Center for the Arts, Mission Viejo

🎬 Sea Country Cinema: Hocus Pocus
The Sanderson sisters return for a Halloween-week movie night.
Mon, Oct 26 | Laguna Niguel

☕ Pumpkin Spice Latte Candle Workshop
This one is peak October: make a pumpkin-spice-latte-inspired candle instead of drinking another one.
Wed, Oct 28 | 6–8 pm | Potocki Center for the Arts, Mission Viejo

🐴 Wicked Lit: La Llorona + The Headless Horseman
Classic horror becomes immersive theater with La Llorona and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Oct 29–Nov 2 | Anaheim

🍬 Trick or Treat at Sea Country
Costumes, candy and Halloween fun take over Sea Country Senior & Community Center.
Fri, Oct 30 | Sea Country Senior & Community Center, Laguna Niguel

👻 A Candlelit Night of Halloween Music
A live string quartet performs music from Stranger Things, The Addams Family, Ghostbusters, Psycho and other spooky favorites. Save 10% with code SOUTHOC10.
Fri, Oct 30 | 8:30 pm | First United Methodist Church, Costa Mesa

⚡ Spend Halloween Night With David Bowie
David Brighton’s Space Oddity recreates Bowie’s many eras with costumes, theatrical staging and a full live band.
Sat, Oct 31 | 8 pm | The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano

🎪 The Carousel “Freak Show” Halloween Party
Tango transforms into an American Horror Story-inspired circus with live dancers, a four-hour DJ set and costumes taking over the two-level venue.
Sat, Oct 31 | 10 pm–2 am | Tango, Laguna Beach

💀 Día de los Muertos at Hana Field
Celebrate with live mariachi, Folklórico dancers, food, crafts, games, wagon rides, the Cow Train and U-pick flowers.
Sun, Nov 1 | 10 am–6 pm | Hana Field by Tanaka Farms, Costa Mesa

💀 Día de los Muertos
A large community altar anchors the celebration with entertainment, activities, a Catrina contest, food, beer garden and vendors.
Sun, Nov 1 | 2–6 pm | Max Berg Plaza Park, San Clemente

🌼 Celebrate Día de los Muertos in Dana Point
La Plaza Park fills with live entertainment and mariachi, ofrendas, street chalk art, face painting, crafts, food and drinks.
Sun, Nov 1 | 2–7 pm | La Plaza Park, Dana Point

🧛 Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Bram Stoker gets the Mel Brooks treatment in this fast, funny vampire romp.
Final show Nov 1 | Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano

👻 Dare to Walk Laguna Niguel’s Haunted Trails
Crown Valley Park turns seriously spooky after dark with elaborate haunted scenes, live actors and plenty of jump scares. Recommended for ages 10+.
Thu, Oct 22 & Sun, Oct 25 | 6:30–9 pm; Fri–Sat, Oct 23–24 | 6:30–9:30 pm | Crown Valley Park, Laguna Niguel

☠️ Mausoleum Maze & Haunted Graveyard
Walk-through haunt with mausoleums, fog and jump scares. Opens Sunday Oct 11 and is open every night through Oct. 31
21906 Cosala St, Mission Viejo (not far from lake)

👻 Spook Summit Haunted House
Award-winning Halloween display with a custom light-and-sound show, fog, animatronics, giant skeletons and plenty of effects. Family-friendly and free.
Every Fri–Sun in October | Dusk–9:30 pm | 18 Cameo Dr, Aliso Viejo

💀 Haunted Mansion Haunt
A movie-quality home haunt inspired by Disney’s Haunted Mansion, packed with elaborate sets, animatronics and live actors.
Select nights through Nov 1 | 7–9 pm | 28322 Millwood Rd, Trabuco Canyon

🤡 Sinister in San Clemente
One of San Clemente’s neighborhood haunts returns for another Halloween season.
605 Calle Fierros, San Clemente

👹 The Gershon Dungeon
One of OC’s longest-running home haunts returns for its 34th year with a full walk-through dungeon built around practical effects, hidden doors, moving walls and live monsters. Younger kids can do the special “No Monster” walkthrough before the scares begin. Free, with donations benefiting a local Marine family.
Fri–Sun, Oct 23–25 | No Monster Walkthrough 5:30–6:30 pm; full haunt 7–10 pm | 13861 Gershon Pl, Santa Ana

🎃 Anaheim’s Westmont Halloween Houses
A stretch of Westmont Drive goes all-in for Halloween with elaborate props and multiple decorated homes, making it an easy neighborhood haunt crawl. Go after dark for the full effect.
October evenings after dark | 1320 W Westmont Dr, Anaheim

👺 Ladera “Area 51”
Ladera’s alien-themed neighborhood haunt where the residents are considerably less terrestrial than usual.
Opening date is not yet launched
9 Sutherland Dr, Ladera Ranch

🎪 Nightmare on Loganberry Haunt
Home haunt known for creepy clowns, twisted thrills and neighboring haunts that make this Lake Forest street worth a Halloween detour.
WAITING CONFIRMATION FOR 2026
25561 Loganberry Ln, Lake Forest

😈 Danz Halloween Maze
Home haunt loaded with animatronics, plus a Halloween-night tradition of comics and candy for kids.
WAITING CONFIRMATION FOR 2026
24142 Roma Dr, Mission Viejo

🧟‍♀️ Amy Way Haunted House
Family-friendly walk-through with glowing decorations, eerie surprises and a gentler level of scares.
WAITING CONFIRMATION FOR 2026 DATES/HOURS
64 Amy Way, Ladera Ranch

🎃 Kim Haunted House
Neighborhood yard display throughout October with a full walk-through on select nights. The first hour goes easy on younger visitors before the scares kick in.
Display throughout October; walk-through Oct 25 & 31 | 6–7 pm low/no scare; 7–9 pm full scare | 15081 Lorenat St, Irvine

🤡 Sinister in San Clemente
One of San Clemente’s biggest free walk-through home haunts.
WAITING CONFIRMATION FOR 2026 DATES/HOURS
605 Calle Fierros, San Clemente

🩸 Blood Orange Grove Haunted House
Walk-through home haunt packed with eerie lighting and creepy characters.
WAITING CONFIRMATION FOR 2026
9782 Eastwood Cir, Villa Park

🎢 Knott’s Scary Farm
Mazes, scare zones, shows and hordes of monsters take over Knott’s after dark.
Select nights through Oct 31 | Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park

🚪 The 17th Door
An intense immersive haunted-house experience built around a continuing horror storyline. Definitely not the toddler pumpkin-patch portion of our programming.
Select nights through Nov 1 | Buena Park Downtown, Buena Park