$ | 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.
$ | 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!
$ | Select Sunday and Thursday nights, 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.
$ | Oct. 6-7, 13-15, 20-22, & 27-29 / Times Vary
This family-friendly Halloween train ride will get your fall started off right! The Halloween Eerie Express will take you on a spooky vintage ride to the Funhouse Station where you will enjoy games, blacklight mini golf, a costume contest, gentle thrills, and more.
$ | 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.
$ | Thurs.-Sun., Sept. 30-Oct. 29 & Halloween Night / 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.
$ | Oct. 6 & 19
Score a Date Night package ticket and you and a special someone can venture through Dread Hollow. Afterwards, get R.I.P. treatment in the Date Night lounge, including a character meet & greet, gourmet treats, coupons to local business, and a professional printed photo with custom-themed background.
$ | Oct. 12
Get the R.I.P. treatment in Dread Hollow's Girls Night Out lounge, including a Dread Hollow character meet & greet before screaming your way through three haunted houses. If you survive all the tricks, take home a Dread Hollow sweet treat and a printed GNO professional photo to remember such a drop dead gore-geous night.
$ | Oct. 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, & 28 / 4-8 pm
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!
$ | Oct. 19 / 6-9 pm
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!
$ | Oct. 20 / 6-8:30 pm
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!
FREE/$ | Oct. 21 / 10 am-2 pm
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.
$ | 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!
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!
$ | Oct. 27 / 7-10 pm
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.
FREE | Oct. 27
Noontunes is going out with a spooky bang and ending the 2023 season with a Halloween bash! The party will feature live music by the Bohannons, local food trucks, an artist market, and a costume contest. Noontunes is free and open for the public to attend.
FREE | Oct. 28
The Halloween EEKstravaganza brings you an old-fashioned festival, complete with a chili cook-off, a trunk or treat, games and crafts, a costume contest, a petting zoo, and more! The family-friendly festival will end all the spooktacular fun, with a showing of the movie Goosebumps.
$ | Oct. 28 \ 4-10 pm
If you love a themed drink and a spooky atmosphere, this bar crawl is for you! Come dressed in your best costume to enjoy exclusive spooktacular food and drink specials, dance to all the themed songs, and celebrate Halloween at some of your favorite local bars.
$ | Oct. 28 / 5 pm
Join us for an unforgettable Halloween Bar Car adventure, filled with wicked brews and spine-chilling cocktails! Prepare to be spellbound by the extraordinary atmosphere of our participating bars, indulge in magical cocktails, and sample devilishly delicious treats.
$ | Oct. 27 / 4-8 pm
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!
$ | Oct. 28 / 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.
FREE | Sunday, Oct. 29 / 11 am-4 pm
Named one of the “Top 10 Public Markets in America” by Frommers, Chattanooga Market features over 50 farms bringing a variety of produce, meats and cheeses to the market each week, and over 130 artisans offering their unique crafts, arts, farm-fresh goods, and so many other locally made specialties. When the market turns haunted, bring your little ghosts and goblins for our annual Haunted Market. Kids can trick-or-treat and be part of our costume parade at the Lodge Cast Iron Sizzle stage at 1pm!
$ | 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?
