Many of the yearly Halloween haunting extravaganzas are starting to gather & organize this year’s ghoulish shenanigans. Here are two opportunities to get your spook on, if that sort of thing floats your boat.

From Baron Von Goolo’s Museum of Horrors (at Fright Town, beneath the Memorial Coliseum at the Rose Quarter):

At 7pm on Wednesday, September 5, we’re going to have our first get-together of the season in the FrightTown space at the Coliseum. If you’re a new volunteer, this will be a great chance to see FrightTown in its most raw state, get a chance to meet your fellow haunters and get a lot of your burning questions answered. We will be going over the nature of all three of the haunted houses, talking about the parts there are to play, the projects that need to happen before opening, and how you can help us get the word out to everyone and their dog that FrightTown is the best place to go for scares in this sleepy burg.

From Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery:

On Halloween night Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery presents the third annual Tour of Untimely Departures! The Tour walks guests through time for a visit with some of the people who were laid to rest in the cemetery over 100 years ago.

To do this, each year people are chosen to play the roles of the selected characters for the tour. Groups of guests are led by a guide through the cemetery on a candle lit path where they meet the “ghosts” of the past who tell the tale of the life and time from which they came, and how they came to rest in the cemetery.

We are in need of volunteers for this year’s event. Volunteer Positions include but are not limited to: Set up/Break down, Actors/Actresses (amateurs welcome), Guides, and Security. Lone Fir Cemetery is on the corner of SE 20th and SE Morison, Halloween is on Wed. this year, and the event goes from 6-9pm. I will be holding the first volunteer orientation on Saturday September 22nd, 10am at the cemetery.