ChattaBOOga!
Halloween Fun and Frights in October
Witness the BOO! Hue coloration as Chattanooga transforms into ChattaBOOga!
In October, Chattanooga transforms into ChattaBOOga! The fun and frights to be had are not of the typical haunted city.
For the bravest of souls looking to be scared white as a ghost, test your nerves with an intense haunted experience crawling with terrifying creatures, chilling ghost tours of Chattanooga’s most haunted spots or a race against time to stop a runaway train at an escape room. For more mild experiences, gather the family to enjoy trick-or-treating at the zoo or an aquarium visit on weird creatures with abilities and behaviors that seem stranger than any legend or myth. ChattaBOOga! offers thrilling, chilling adventures you can’t experience anywhere else.
Halloween Fun
These experiences are more kid-friendly.
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Time to Escape
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Rails, Wizards, and Spells
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Spells & Potions Special Tea
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Tennessee Aquarium's Oddtober: When Nature is Stranger Than Fiction
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Chattanooga Zoo's Boo in the Zoo
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Creative Discovery Museum's Monster Bash
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Escape Experience Chattanooga
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Tennessee Aquarium's Aquascarium
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Monster Dash 5K and Kids Candy Dash
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Escape Mission
Halloween Frights
These experiences are more adult-friendly.
Chattanooga Ghost Tours
$ | Nightly Tours / Times and Dates Vary
Named one of the “Top 10 Ghost Tours in the U.S.” by TripAdvisor and USA Today, Chattanooga Ghost Tours take you on a chilling adventure to the city’s most haunted spots. Be prepared to open Pandora’s Box of apparitions, hear stories of the city’s restless dead, spot ghost orbs in your photos, and more.
Time to Escape
$ | Times and Dates Vary
Time to Escape, Chattanooga’s highest-rated escape experience, is the only escape room adventure located in vibrant downtown Chattanooga. Those up for the challenge can race against time in one or all five innovative and realistic escape room experiences. It’s an escape you won’t soon forget!
Ruby Falls’s Lantern Tour: Ghost Walk Edition/Ruby Falls
$ | Select Dates, Sept.-Oct. / Times Vary
On this special edition Lantern Tour, hear ghostly tales from Ruby Falls’ 94-year history and eerie Chattanooga legends, and visit the sites of peculiar encounters, as you journey through the cavern lit only by hand-held lanterns.
Rails, Wizards, & Spells at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
$ | Weekends, Sept.-Oct. / Times Vary
Step into a world of wizarding fun! Journey through the enchanted forest to Wizards Way where you can purchase fun wizardry items such as hand-crafted wands, special charms to hold spells, and tasty treats of the season. Then board the train at platform 4 1/2 for a ride to remember.
Spells & Potions: Special Tea at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
$ | Weekends, Sept.-Oct./Times Vary
This whimsical high tea experience is perfect for families and wizard enthusiasts. Enjoy a delectable array of sweet and savory treats, including our famous fresh-baked scones, all while indulging in the enchanting atmosphere of the Rails, Wizards & Spells fall event.
Tennessee Aquarium’s ODDtober: When Nature is Stranger than Fiction
$ | October 1-31 / Times Vary
Things get wonderfully weird around the Tennessee Aquarium during ODDtober – a month-long celebration of strange creatures from around the world and in our own backyard. Learn odd animal facts, see pumpkins flicker with an eerie glow, and find out why some species are not-so-scary after all.
Dread Hollow
$ | Dates TBA / Times Vary
This fright season unleashes three all-new terrifying haunted houses and three horror-themed escape rooms at Chattanooga’s only nationally ranked haunted attraction. Enter the realm where dark deeds in the shadows and gruesome horrors feed an unquenchable yearning for blood at Dread Hollow.
Chattanooga Zoo’s Boo in the Zoo
$ | Time & Date TBA
The most spooktacular event of the year with some of Chattanooga’s most lovable animals! This family-friendly event will take place almost every weekend in October at the Zoo. Join us for merry-not-scary Halloween decorations, a costume contest, trick-or-treat stations, and more!
Chattanooga Zoo’s Boo’Z in the Zoo
$ | Time & Date TBA
Join the Zoo for a special Boo in the Zoo night - just for the adults! Get ready for trick-or-treat stations, themed enrichment, Halloween decorations, a costume contest, and a haunted carousel ride. Don’t miss out on a scary good night!
Creative Discovery Museum’s Monster Bash
$ | Time & Date TBA
Join us for an exclusive members-only Halloween Bash! Explore Creative Discovery Museum in your kid-friendly costumes and enjoy Halloween-themed activities and games. This family-friendly event will be so much fun, it’s scary!
Witch & Warlock Paddle
FREE/$ | Oct. 19
Come out for a spooktacular paddle, kayak, or canoe adventure on Halloween weekend with River City Company and Outshine Adventures! Gather your coven and call all of your witch, warlock, and wizard friends for a ghoulish good time paddling down the Tennessee River.
Ghost City Tours
$ | Daily / 8 pm
Join Ghost City Tours and dig deep into Chattanooga’s history some of the most haunted locations in Chattanooga including the Read House Hotel and underground Chattanooga, centuries of curses, hidden supernatural history, and share horror stories that will make your skin crawl!
Escape Experience Chattanooga
Times and Dates Vary
Escape Experience in Chattanooga creates a truly immersive experiences designed to stimulate your senses, pull at your emotions, and place you in environments that are believable and, above all, fun. The breakout games look, feel and sound realistic to create a full Escape Experience!
Creative Discovery Museum’s Drink and Discover: Witches Brew
$ | Date and Time TBA
Embrace the night and discover your dark side at the museum’s adults-only event! A spine-tingling immersive experience awaits your mission to unleash Dracula by solving a clever puzzle that will challenge your wits.
Tennessee Aquarium’s AquaScarium
$ | Dates and Times TBA
Come in costume and celebrate a family-friendly night of spooky critters and yummy treats. Make friends with mermaids, lounge with lemurs, Trick-or-Treat at candy stations throughout both buildings, and more!
Monster Dash 5K and Kids Candy Chase
$ | Oct. 19 / 9 am
It's not just a 5K; it's a costume party on the move! All aged participants are encouraged to sport their most creative, spookiest, or most whimsical costumes as they race to the finish line and post-race costume contest, trick-or-treat stations, and more.
Escape Mission
$ | Daily / Times Vary
One mission, one hour, one goal! Escape Mission is located in the North Shore neighborhood by Coolidge Park and is the perfect experience to get your mind racing. Solve puzzles and cipher clues to take down a notorious mob boss in the Speakeasy, escape the clutches of a killer in the Hunted, find a pirate’s treasure in Expedition: Lost Treasure!, and more. Do you have what it takes to complete your mission?
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