April Ghouls 2026 Recap and Survey

Spooky greetings, all!

Thank you to everyone who has made this past weekend so wonderful, bringing with it over 50 vendors, special appearances, live classes, hearses, tarot reading, pumpkin painting, a haunted trail, live music, food & drink, psychic magic shows, and much more!

Entertainers such as Sorta Spooky, Greylow, To No Avail, Bad Guru, JQueue, The Geckos, Garden Variety, and Persona Machine KILLED it on stage with the sounds and performances of the dead. Make sure to give them some love! Entertainer links can be found on the Georgia page of our website.

We thank everyone who participated in our free haunted trail this year — while we no longer have the indoor warehouse, HauntFest kept it spooky in the woods for the event! And, of course, it wouldn’t be HauntFest without our roaming ghouls…

Beer was sipped, prizes were won, and screams echoed.

Some even participated in Make-N-Takes and seminars with none other than the #1 Hauntrepreneur, Leonard Pickel!

If you were lucky, you got a 1-on-1 psychic experience with our mentalist, The Joker of New Orleans…

And the costumes were phenomenal! If you came to the event in costume, you truly understood the assignment.

If you attended our April Ghouls 2026 event in Athens, GA, on April 11th and/or 12th, 2026, HauntFest highly encourages you to complete our very short post-event survey! Use the link below to complete. We would also love for you to Yelp us!

• APRIL GHOULS 2026 SURVEY

• Yelp Us!

And, PLEASE. If you took ANY PICTURES at the event, we highly encourage you to post them in the HauntFest Georgia Facebook group! Keep your eyes peeled for our WICKED photo drops from various photographers present last weekend.

Happy Haunting!

Huge shoutout to HauntFest’s wonderful April Ghouls Sponsors!! Happycore Entertainment, Greylow, To No Avail, JQueue, and The Geckos are sponsoring their performances at the event, SUMMIT Historic Properties, LLC, is sponsoring the HauntFest T-shirts, and Terrapin Beer Co. is helping sponsor the event space! Haunting U Podcast, Haunted and Homicidal, and David Allen Voyles have featured us in ads or otherwise in their podcasts/publications, so thank you! The generosity of sponsors like these play a huge part in making premiere events like these possible. Make sure to give them some love! Logos and links to sponsor websites can be found on our Sponsors page at hauntfest.net.