FRIGHTENING, FUN FACTS

....about the Ghost Train® Halloween Festival at Tweetsie!

• Halloween Festival History
  Ghost Train® made its first run in 1990
• Honors
  Named one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society
• Time it takes to prepare for the chills and thrills
  6 months
• Number of employees required to frighten guests
  200
• Number of haunting trips made by the Ghost Train nightly
  5 to 10
• Time it takes to clean up each night after ghosts and goblins
  4 hours
• How long the Ghost Train trip takes
  15 to 20 minutes
• Tons of coal used each night on the Ghost Train
  2 tons
• Number of rooms in the haunted house
  13
• Miles of drop cord used for such a scary event 
  7
• Special Halloween delicacies served at the festival
  Candied apples, hot cider, creepy candies and cookies
• How employees transform into Halloween haunters
  Professional makeup artists
• Most elaborate creepy costume
  The Ultra Zombie, made by Ex-Mortis of California
• Most memorable costumes of past Trick-or-Treaters
  Elvis, Tweetsie Engine, Candy Hershey Kisses, Herd of Cows
• 2011 Schedule 
  Friday and Saturday nights September 30 - October 29. Gates open at 7:30 each night

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