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Bonnie Screams - Bonnie Springs Ranch Turns Scary During Halloween Season

With the advent of Halloween season, haunted houses become popular entertainment, and what better place to have a haunted house than a place that is rumored to be haunted itself?  Bonnie Springs Ranch was built on top of an old Spanish trail that was a stopover for settlers heading West to make their fortunes in California on a trail that was fraught with peril, disease and Indian attacks.

Travellers endured physical, mental and emotional strife, which gives energy to the supernatural, according to Bonnie Springs visitors and employees. Recent visitors and investigators have reported hearing voices, odd feelings and one woman even left with large scratches down her back. One man, who has worked at the ranch for 30 years, claims to have seen the merry-go-round on the playground spinning on its own and when he approached it, the merry-go-round suddenly came to a dead stop.

Bonnie Springs changes its name to Bonnie Screams to host its annual haunted houses, which are located throughout the Old West ghost town.  This year boasts not only the haunted attractions, but a magic show by the popular Las Vegas magician, Steven Best, and his lovely assistant Cassandra and an intensely hot fire-blowing show by the group Brotherhood of Flame.

The haunted events start upon parking your car and your ride to the town on its haunted train, where you are greeted by the station master who informs you what to expect once you pass through the gates. The spooky music plays at the entrance and there are several ghouls that will scare you throughout your walk to the haunted houses.  They have added a character this week that was not here last week: Jason Voorhees. The man behind the hockey mask plays his role perfectly and is one of the biggest humans ever seen! He moves through the park scaring everyone that gets near him and makes people uncomfortable with the way that he moves and steadfastly stands and stares at people.

There are three haunts located in the park and a trail of doom that you must pass through to get back to your vehicle. The Maze of Mayhem features a group of clowns that were tragically killed while performing for the residents of Bonnie Springs in 1812. On the anniversary of their deaths, there were reports of scary events that reoccur in the maze and now people must tour through the maze in order to find out what those events might be.

The ghost of Dr. Sprinkle welcomes people to tour his Wicked Wax Museum, a museum he perished in when he was locked in by pranksters and suffocated. When Halloween nears, so does Dr. Sprinkle; he carries a lantern and leads people through his museum of which the rumors say only one out of ten make it through.