As Lady Macbeth says, “Screw your courage to the sticking place.” You might have to do just that if you head to the Haunted House Terror on Main Street. This 43rd annual event, created by the Sebastian River Junior Women’s Club, is a pretty spooky experience, says Haunted House coordinator Teddy Hulse. “This is intense,” she says. “This is not a kiddie haunted house. We do not have grapes and spaghetti … We’ve come a long way from that first one. Now there’s animatronics, illusions, a lot more sophisticated stuff.” Hulse says the yearly haunted house is a walking tour through 22 rooms, each one filled with a different theme and each one with characters who will happily interact with the guests. She says that “screaming teenagers” usually spend about 15 minutes in it as they run through. Older people, though, like to amble through and interact with the zombies, clowns, grave robbers, Harry Potter characters, magicians and more that inhabit those haunted house rooms. The haunted house takes more than a month to build from the ground up. It’s situated on four vacant lots owned by the Sebastian United Methodist Church. The event usually raises about $20,000, which funds the club’s projects. Those projects include those for schools, the police department, high school bands and so much more. “The church graciously lets us use their property,” Hulse says. She adds that it turns into a great location for the church’s “Trunk or Treat” (2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28) where children can go trick-or-treating and enjoy games, prizes, free hot dogs, popcorn and Kona Ice snow cones. Haunted House “Terror on Main Street” runs 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 13 to Oct. 31, at 1036 Main St., Sebastian. Admission is $10. For more information, call 772-925-9235 or look for them on Facebook. (Organizers expect their website to be up eventually: SebastianHauntedHouse.org.)
The 42nd Annual Crown Jewel Marching Band Festival runs this Saturday at Vero Beach High School. This is one of the state’s oldest continuous marching band festivals. It features about two dozen bands competing in five different classes. And this is not just for band members and their doting parents. The public is welcome to attend to enjoy the energy, music and precision of these marching bands. There will be food and beverages for sale. The festival begins at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Vero Beach High School Citrus Bowl, 1707 16th St., Vero Beach. Admission is $15 general, $6 youth 6 to 18 years of age, and free for those 5 years and younger. For more information, visit Crown
JewelVB.com.
If you have been considering heading to the Vero Beach Theatre Guild to see “The Addams Family: The Musical,” best get hopping on that right away. Tickets are getting hard to come by. The show runs through Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $30. The Vero Beach Theatre Guild is at 2020 San Juan Ave., Vero Beach. Call 772-562-8300 or visit VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com.
