Halloween in Balboa Park makes for a really great day!
Look at all the fun pics I captured while randomly wandering around!
Buzz Lightyear emerged on Halloween from the Balboa Park Administration Building. To infinity and beyond!There’s a gremlin inside the Museum of Us! And I thought their Egyptian mummies were disturbing!Looks like the Balboa Park Carousel has been bewitched again.A spooky photo op backdrop in Spanish Village Art Center.Lots of Halloween stuff inside the Senior Lounge.Eek! Who’s this strange character haunting the Senior Lounge?The San Diego Automotive Museum is home to a friendly ghost.A fun Halloween costume exhibit inside the Comic-Con Museum.A spooky jack-o’-scarecrow grins at me in the Comic-Con Museum. I hope a superhero is nearby.Yes, one can find Cheetos inside the Balboa Park Visitors Center.
Not to be overlooked, I also found some fun Día de los Muertos stuff…
Getting ready for a Día de los Muertos event this weekend at the Old Globe.A balloon sugar skull outside the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater!
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Two terrifying guillotines have been placed in a downtown San Diego park! I spotted them this morning at Lane Field Park as I walked along the Embarcadero!
Are heads about to roll?
Turns out these props, and others, are part of a scary event that will take place tomorrow, Halloween day. It’s called the Graveyard Festival!
There will be six stages with lots of music, DJs, dancers and costumes galore. I’m not sure how they’ll fit all that in a relatively small park. Should be interesting. I suppose I’ll have to walk by to check it out!
Very scary monsters were welcomed to Balboa Park today. The terrifying creatures were kindly helped onto the stage of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
Vampire, spiders, skeleton, spooky ghost–all will be entertaining a big crowd this evening.
The fearless humans who take the stage with these monsters will provide a Phantom of the Opera concert at 6:30 pm! (If you read this in time–today is Saturday, October 25th–perhaps you’ll have time to make the concert.)
Just some fun photos that I took during my afternoon walk through Balboa Park.
Enjoy!
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Halloween is destined to arrive in San Diego in merely two weeks!
Are you ready to encounter spooky ghosts, crafty witches, thirsty vampires and undead zombies? Have you stocked up on candy?
Looking around, it seems the entire city is preparing for Halloween. Ominous signs are everywhere. You see omens of the approaching day in shop windows, front yards, public spaces…
For the past couple weeks I’ve been photographing Halloween stuff that I’ve encountered.
Can you identify a few of the places where I took these photos?
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Halloween displays can be found throughout the museum. Spooky scenes can spotted in certain model train layouts and particularly in the amazing Toy Train Gallery. Witches, ghosts, grinning pumpkins, tiny skeletons and even Dracula await!
Watch out for the creepy life-size animatronic engineer!
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum has always been a favorite destination for families and kids, but during Halloween it’s simply awesome!
Some photographs from my visit yesterday…
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Oh my goodness! Why have these old tombs been placed in the southwest corner of San Diego’s Balboa Park? Very spooky!
You’d almost think that Halloween is approaching. Oh, wait. It is less then two months away!
So it isn’t surprising that The Haunted Trail is being set up in its usual Balboa Park location. The annual outdoor “haunted house” attraction is rather large, so putting it all together must take some time.
Imagine walking past those creepy old tombs in the dark of night. Might someone or something pop out unexpectedly?
I’d probably scream.
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The deep space exploration vessel USCSS Maginot has crash landed on Earth. It has broken into pieces on the grass in front of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel!
Workers were busy with the debris this afternoon. They appeared to be extremely cautious. Rumor is, an alien xenomorph might have been lurking aboard the spaceship!
From a careful distance, I observed the operation.
Imagine my relief when I learned the crashed vessel is actually a prop, part of “The Wreckage,” an offsite activation that will thrill visitors during Comic-Con 2025!
The upcoming FX show Alien: Earth is being promoted. The series is set to premiere on FX and FX on Hulu on August 12, 2025.
This offsite looks super cool so far. FX usually promotes several shows with their large outdoor activation, but a worker confirmed the entire space will be devoted to Alien: Earth!
Watch out! A hungry Alien might be ready to jump out!
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Should we all be worried? Many of Doctor Who’s most dangerous adversaries have materialized in San Diego!
Fortunately, most are confined inside the Monster Vault at the Comic-Con Museum. People can safely observe the deadly creatures and robots while moving through the museum’s epic exhibition Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction.
A huge collection of props from Doctor Who, the world’s longest running science fiction television show, is possibly the coolest part of the exhibition.
Today, as I visited the Comic-Con Museum, I noticed many Doctor Who fans entering the Monster Vault and remembering some of the show’s most terrifying episodes. Some of the detailed, life-size props are super scary. I wouldn’t care to meet real-life versions!
There are menacing Daleks–the Doctor’s arch-enemy: a hateful, genetically-modified species bent on conquest. There is mad scientist Davros, creator of the Daleks. There are different versions of the deadly cyborg Cybermen.
There is a mutated Dreg, a Sea Devil and a Silurian (both evolved reptiles), an armored Sontaran warrior, an Ice Warrior, a parasitic Weeping Angel that moves when you’re not looking, a bug-eyed Wrath Warrior, and more!
As a nearby sign explains: When designing monsters, sometimes the show’s creators explore different options that don’t make it to the screen… The possibilities of alien life are only as limited as our imagination.
Have you ever seen a ghost? Or something bizarre and inexplicable that you thought might be a ghost?
I’ve heard stories from various people over the years about ghostly experiences, including weird encounters at San Diego’s Whaley House, said to be the most haunted building in America. (You can read several of those stories, told by Whaley House Museum docents, by clicking here.)
I love to write bits of very short fiction. A couple days ago I published a short story about a possible ghost sighting.
I’ve written four of these “ghost” stories over the years. If you’re someone who enjoys thought-provoking tales and possibly a slight shiver, you might enjoy reading them.
The Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter has an awesome Halloween display inside their lobby!
The hotel’s different departments have each “carved” a pumpkin. Their creative efforts fill a large table, and guests are invited to vote for their favorite. The winning department receives a trophy!
I checked out all the great pumpkins this morning. Some are really scary. Some are pure fun. (I like the pumpkin with a spa facial.)
Here come the photos…
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