Halloween

East Passyunk Ave Fall Fest

80+ craft vendors and trick-or-treating coming to East Passyunk Fall Fest on Halloween

Laurel Hill’s Soul Crawl returns with flashlight cemetery tours on Halloween night

Soul Crawl at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Boo at the Zoo will bring pumpkin-eating hippos, giant skeletons and 10-story views of the Zoo’s fall foliage

Boo at the Zoo - Hippo Pumpkins

Lambertville’s legendary Halloween house is spreading its elaborate displays across downtown

Lambertville Trail of Magic

Spend the night inside Fort Mifflin for an overnight ghost investigation behind locked gates

Fort Mifflin Paranormal Night

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Franklin Square will turn Philly Mini Golf spooky for October, with a Boo-zy Bar after dark

Spooky Mini Golf at Franklin Square

The Franklin Institute is throwing an adults-only Halloween party on Oct. 16

Fright Nite - Franklin Institute

Family-Friendly

A waterfront pumpkin patch with 10,000 pumpkins, a smashing zone and scarecrow archery is returning to Philly

Cityside Pumpkin Patch

Thousands of candles will cover the stage of a historic Delco theater for a Halloween concert

Candlelight coming to Media PA

Ride a ghost train through Salem County’s dark countryside and hear live ghost stories and local legends

Woodstown Central’s Salem Ghost Train

Mütter Museum's Halloween party will recreate a medieval 'dancing plague' with DJs, cocktails and immersive theater

2025 Mutter Choreomania

Inside Halloween Nights at Eastern State: What’s new for 2026 and how to plan your night

Eastern State Halloween Nights

Trick-or-treat inside Eastern State Penitentiary at a free fall festival

Eastern State Fall Festival for Familes

Family-Friendly

Pumpkins, potions and bats are coming to Morris Arboretum & Gardens this October

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‘The Addams Family’ musical to run at Walnut Street Theatre through Nov. 1

Addams Family Promo Shoo

Hocus Pocus Speakeasy to take over Montgomery Mall’s former Hot Topic

Hocus Pocus Speakeasy at Montgomery Mall

Masked man accused of terrorizing people in Center City is arrested in Las Vegas

Halloween mask arrest

Man who allegedly wore Halloween mask to terrorize people near City Hall identified by police

halloween mask suspect

Man in Halloween mask chased people near City Hall, police say

Halloween Masked Man

Third Eye Blind returning to The Fillmore for another Halloween show

Third Eye Blind

Solve a Halloween mystery aboard the world's oldest floating steel warship

The Secret of the Olympia Promotional Artwork

New horror and thriller bookshop in Manayunk eyes Halloween opening

Thrillerdelphia outside

‘ER at the MET’ to bring community together for free Halloween-night event

ER at The MET

How pumpkins became America's fall obsession spans thousands of years

In West Philly, there's a 'Fright Registry' for homes that decorated for Halloween

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Opera Philadelphia to host week of free silent horror films with live organ music

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Halloween meets history at Pennsbury Manor’s Tricks & Treats celebration

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Halloween takes to the rooftop at the Free Library on Oct. 30

Ravens on the Rooftop - Free Library

Spooky Seaport returns to the waterfront with family fun and an eerie after-hours experience

Spooky Seaport Event

A Halloween dance party takes over Peddler’s Village with a spooky silent disco

Peddler's Village Deadly Disco

Callowhill bar Doom is holding a beauty pageant for vampires on Oct. 24

Vampire contest Doom

Experience Lincoln Mill Haunted House in Manayunk this fall

Lincoln Mill Haunted House

Hocus Pocus Speakeasy blends witchy cocktails and mystery theater at the Curtis Center

Hocus Pocus Speakeasy

Mütter Museum's next Halloween party nods to unexplained medieval 'dancing plagues'

Dancing plague Mutter Museum

Riverbend’s Shiverfest returns Oct. 4 with fall fun for families

Shiverfest 2025 at Riverbend

Boo at the Zoo returns for three weekends of Halloween fun

Philadelphia Zoo - Boo at hte Zoo 2025

Craftsman Row Saloon is serving candy corn martinis at its Halloween pop-up

Candy corn martini

Halloween Nights returns Sept. 19 at Eastern State Penitentiary with new attractions

ESP - Halloween Nights 2025

Philly’s haunted history comes alive after dark on the Ghost Tour of Philadelphia

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Skulls, taxidermy and other stuff of nightmares head to Oddities & Curiosities Expo

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Manayunk's Christmas-themed haunted house returns for two scary nights

lincoln mill haunted house christmas

Children's Health

At Halloween, CHOP helps families of hospitalized infants celebrate by dressing them in costume

CHOP Halloween Baby

M&M's Rescue Squad adds 'BOOth' in South Philly to free service that restocks candy supplies

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