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I have two confessions:
- Paranormal Day was among the days that inspired me to create the listings on the Weird Holidays & Observances page.
- I’m insanely fascinated with these newfangled, short term, limited engagement interactive events called “pop-ups.” Especially the ones with great Instagram potential.
Pop-ups
It Experience
The first one that caught my eye was when the IT movie came out in 2017. One of the promotional activities was the It Experience at a house they made to look like one from the movie.
Georgie led you inside and you could take photos and “tour” the house. It sounded like so much fun. (Although it didn’t get super reviews. At least on Yelp. It apparently only lasted 10 minutes total and cost like $25, so a lot of people felt it wasn’t much bang for that amount of buck.)
OtherWorld Encounter
There may have been more than one come through Nashville so far, but the one I heard about in time to experience was the OtherWorld Encounter. The lighting was challenging to get many good shots, but here’s some of the best I was able to post both on Haunt Jaunts’s Instagram and my personal account:
I Like Scary Movies Immersive Experience
Recently opened in April 2019, the I Like Scary Movies experience is touring in California until June 16, 2019.
Are you a horror movie lover? You know I am.
This pop-up looks freaking amazing. Especially for Instagram photo ops. Which I haven’t had a lot of time for lately, but, yep. I sure do like trying to capture fun, Instagrammable shots.
Pop-up Dream
I would love to collaborate with locals artists to create a pop-up here in Nashville. It’d be fun to have a scary one for Halloween. However, I can totally envision something more tame along the lines of the Ice Cream Museum one in San Francisco –except Nashville-centered.
Besides country music artist and instrument-themed rooms, I’d have rooms with photo ops galore to honor other well-known Nashville and Tennessee related institutions, such as:
- A Jack Daniels room
- A Moon Pie room
- A Pancake Pantry pancake room
- A Loveless Cafe room
- A Batman Building room
It’d be fun to work with the companies. Great promo for them and another fun thing for Nashville tourists and residents alike to partake in.
Until either someone else makes that dream come true or I get off my keister and get the ball rolling, all that has to wait.
But then earlier this week I got a bright to create an online pop-up.
Paranormal Day
For a few months now I’ve been logging ideas for some fun stuff to do on Paranormal Day.
But then this week it hit me: I could bring my pop-up dream to life for Paranormal Day!
How am I going to do that? By making it all online!
It seems like a good idea. We’ll see if it is. Wish I’d had it sooner to give me more time to pull it all together. But I have to work with the inspiration and run with it as it hits.
Anyway, I’ve created the following:
- Paranormal Day Online Pop-Up Event on Facebook
- Paranormal Day page here on HJ
Check them out.
Even if you read this after May 3rd, you’ll still be able to participate in some of it. You’ll be able to play the games and take the polls anytime. And if you’re lucky, you may even be in time to enter the giveaway. (Or giveaways if there ends up being more than one.)
Hope to do some paranormal partying with you for Paranormal Day!
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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