Sept. 2022 | Vol. 32 Iss. 09
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DEAD CITY’S HAUNTING DAYS DECEASED HAUNTED ATTRACTION SHUTS DOWN FOR FAILING TO MEET CITY CODE By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com
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ocal Halloween venue Dead City announced they were shutting down after failing to meet city building code requirements. The burgeoning spook house attraction felt timing and costs associated with bringing their facility up to meet code were impossible to continue. “We have tried almost 100 different solutions and fixes to get on good grounds with the city planning officials, who have been extremely unhelpful ensuring we get answers before the operating season, which has been troublesome. We are now the furthest behind we’ve ever been, and things aren’t looking good while other shows are casting and we can’t open our doors,” Dead City marketing director Josh Sumsion said. HAuNTcon and Haunted Attraction Network recognized Dead City in 2020 as a “Haunters to Watch.” Last year, Murray City Fire Department used Dead City’s sets for its Community Emergency Response Team training. As reported in the Murray Journal in June 2021, Fire Inspector and Safety Education Coordinator George Zboril came up with the idea with the owners of Dead City. He asked their permission to use the facility, and they recruited volunteer “victims” for the training. According to Sumsion, Murray FD used the facility for CERT training last October, in the exact same layout they Continued page 11
Dead City Haunted House attraction has had to shutter its operations permanently. (Shaun Delliskave/City Journals)
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