Warning: this article might be a little too spooky for the little ones. ~Aidan
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All Spirit Halloween themes from 2015 to 2024!
Have you ever remembered the different settings every year at this store had but you never paid attention to it? Well Aidan (me) here will look into it for you! Prepare for some scary goodness!
2015: The themes for 2015 were Spirit Swamp Tours and Spirit Station-Z!
Spirit Swamp Tours: This setting features a swamp with green and blue lighting. In the middle, there is an abandoned cabin saying Spirit Swamp Tours up top. On the sides, there are giant, dead trees. In the windows, there is fire burning a reddish color. The animatronics in this theme are Little Skelly Bones, Flaming Black Widow, Moonshine Barrel Zombie, Creepy Rising Doll, Werewolf Rug, Swinging Swamp Hag, Incinerator, Black Jumping Spider, Pumpkin Guardian of the Grave, and Cerberus.
Spirit-Station-Z: This theme shows a subway with a mini entrance with two risers on the side. The sign above holds the titular name. Through the entrance, there is a broken subway with multiple open doors and a couple live wires scattered around. The animatronics in this theme are, Roaming Blue Antique Doll, Lunging Lily, Grave Grabber, Grave Grabbing Girl, Roaming Red Antique Doll, Twitching Banshee, Hung Up Zombie, and Smoldering Zombie.
2016: This year was two more themes! They were The Clock Tower and The Haunted Hotel.
The Clock Tower: This theme showcases a Clock Tower. There are two doors in front, two dead plant holders, two dead trees, two windows on the side, a giant broken wall at the back, stone floors and lots of dead leaves. The animatronics in this theme are Escape from the Grave Tombstone, Swinging Scarecrow, Haunted Shovel Tombstone, Smoldering Zombie Groundbreaker, Howling Werewolf, Reaching Arm Tombstone, Black and White, Hay Bale Popper, and Grave Grabbing Doll.
The Haunted Hotel: This setting featured a hotel with the Hotel Letters on top, a key section, checkered floor, and four elevators in the back.
The animatronics in this theme are the Boogie Man, Floating Ghost Girl, Roaming Antique Clown, Terror TV, Evil Clown, Spider Portrait, and Rising Reaper Death.
2017: This year is the last year Spirit Halloween had two other themes too! It’s also the last year two have two that aren’t related to each other. We’ll mention this later.
Spirit Hollow: The theme featured two, pine needle trees, two broken boards featuring its name on the walk-through bridge, more trees on the side, and a mini sewer on the very bottom.
The animatronics in this theme are Menacing Molly, Tricycle Doll, Deadly Roots, Creepy Towering Clown, and Sitting Scarecrow.
Area 31: This setting featured two, with metal cages. It then featured a metal archway leading to 4 sections in the back. The animatronics in this theme are Fenced in High Voltage Zombie, Fogging Basement Doors, Brown Jumping Spider, Electrified Corpse, and Levitator Girl.
2018: This is the very first time Spirit Halloween made the two themes actually related to each other. Kind of like one big theme.
Spirit Acre Farms: This setting showed a wooden beam entrance, crates, multiple orange pumpkins, corns stalks, and then as you walk into the theme there is a mini entrance with a silo a windmill, and multiple stacks of hay spread all around. The animatronics in this theme are Looming Strawman, Michael Myers, Flying Vulture, Cocooned Corpse, Nightmare Harvester, Hugz the Clown, Pumpkin Patch Prowler, and Sitting Scarecrow.
Dead Harvest Farmhouse: This theme featured a haunted house. On the top was three windows with some characters; on the bottom is porch with 4 more windows and some wooden poles with the sign enter in the entrance. Inside you can walk through with multiple bloody hands and spoopy messages. The animatronics featured in this theme are Double Trouble, Rocking Horse Dolly, Menacing Molly, Crawling Dead, Sitting Scare Witch, Lost Her Way, and Bubba.
2019: This year is pretty similar from last year with two different themes, but both are connected.
S.S Riptide: This setting showed a wooden entrance with wooden poles, more wooden poles holding up the sign of its name. As you walk through, there is a massive ship with Jack the Reaper steering the boat. There is a mini walkthrough inside the ship with windows you can look out to see the animatronics. At the very end, there are barrels, wooden boxes and a mini crane holding up a bag all of it is also held up by wooden poles. There are vines scattered everywhere too. The animatronics inside this theme are Pennywise, Rusty, The Collector, Jack Straw, Crouchy, Arctic Dragon and Sam.
Reapers Wharf: This theme showed four buildings named Boat Repair, Fishing Charters, Saltwater Inn, and Live Bait. There is a wooden textured riser with a fence with wooden crates scattered around. A sign is at the front saying “Spirit Aquarium” with Jack the Reaper Peeking out of a black circle on the very top there is a giant, broken lighthouse. Inside, there are more vines with digital screens and signs displaying multiple sea creatures. The animatronics here are Graveyard Ghoul, Bloodthirsty Betty, Experimental Eddie, Headless Help, and Waving Wally.
2020: This is the last year that there are two different themes but are still related to each other. This is the year of… Y’know what I mean.
Reaper’s Island Village: This theme featured two risers covered with moss with two stone pillars and skulls with fire on top holding a sign saying, “Reaper’s Island”. Behind it showcases two bamboo sections. As you go through, there is red lights and flaming fire with a tiny wood section holding a sign saying, “Watch Your Head”. there is two more bamboo sections at the very end. The animatronics in this theme are The Butcher, The Hauntress, Peek-A-Boo Clown, Fright in the Box, Uncle Charlie, and Black and Red Jumping Spider.
Reaper’s Island Cave: This setting featured a cave a bamboo fence with skulls on them, six cave sections, vines, and a giant skull on top with many other skulls spread around the ISE. The animatronics in this theme are Angeline, Miserable Marie, Nightcrawler, Sewer Varmint, Harvester of Souls, and Mommy’s Favorite.
2021: This year was the first year to have two themes related to each other in the same setting now even more as one big theme. I’ll be combining them so it’s easier to read.
Halloween Factory Assembly Line, Factory Floor, and Factory Showroom: This theme showed a factory with an arch way. On the top was a sign with the theme’s name on it and Jack the Reaper appearing on top. On the next part, there is a walkway with the sides filled with bricks and rubble.. On the left side, there is a Carve-O-Matic with pumpkins coming out blank and going into a mini section to be carved. In the actual walkway, there is chains on the ceiling and squishable, orange squares that is supposed to look like pumpkin guts. For a good scare, there is an occasional horn sound blaring from the top. XD The animatronics in this theme are Mr. Howle, Ghostface, Beetlejuice, Henry Hustle, Harriet Hustle, Buzzsaw, Pennywise Sewer Grate, and Grim.
This next part features more debris. First, the left side has blueprints of animatronics, crates, maps, and more signs like nuclear hazard, Research and Development, and a photo booth one to above a skeleton. On the right side there is more signs with pictures of past animatronics. In the middle part of the theme, there are coffin-like doorways, hard-hat and production signs, and two digital screens. In the waaaaay back there’s another photo booth with a couple skeletons and some pumpkins. The animatronics in this section are Mr. Dark, Experiment 4, Night Stalker, The Caretaker, Wacky Mole, Ophelia, and Eveyln Leech.
This last tiny section looks like a little hut made out of metal and bricks containing a little itsy-bitsy light inside that flickers from time to time. On the front and top are signs that say, “Factory Showroom” and “Horror”.
2022: This year is similar from last year but let me tell you a secret. Yea come in closer… This is the year that Spirit Halloween released its own movie! Shh! It’s a secret between us… Kapish?
Reaper’s Monster Laboratory, Specimen Testing Lab, and Monty Section: This setting showed an archway made out of pipes. On the top of the pipes has a sign that reads” Dr. J Reaper Monster Laboratory.” As you walk further, there’s 4 sections on all corners with two mini sides. Throughout the corners of this theme are hanging skulls, plasma tubes, and chain fences. When you walk inside, there is 4 bubble tubes in all the corners, and a digital screen on top. On the very top of the theme, there is a mini tower with Jack the Reaper poking out of it. The animatronics in this theme are Possessed Pumpkin, Lord Raven, Bog Zombie, Tombstone of Terror, Mr. Punchy, Young Crouchy, and Barry.
The second part of the theme featured two stone sections, electrical equipment on top, two lights on the sides, crates, a sign that read “Specimen Testing Lab”, green fencing, two screens in the back and two bubble tubes. In the walkway portion, there’s wires, buzzing floorboards, two more digital screens, and a backdrop to past themes! The animatronics in this theme are Betty Sharpe, Bag O’ Bones, Jumping Lil’ Skelly Bones,
This finally section doesn’t actually go with the theme! It’s special! This theme shows a mini, Circus section with a tent. The ONLY animatronic in this theme is Monty… Yea… That’s it… Shoo now.
2023: Guess what? I have another secret… Come in closer… Come on you can come in closer… Just a little bit… Done! This is actually Spirit Halloween’s 40th anniversary! Excited, aren’t you? 🙂
Spirit Hallows Cemetery and Mausoleum Row: The theme featured an archway with stone pillars, gargoyles, and a sign representing the theme. On the sides are autumn leaves, tombstones, and dead trees with some extra lighting. As you go, there is a crypt with four sections with torches on the sides. Throughout all the theme, there is also dead vines. On the inside there’s, glass windows, candles, and a digital screen on the top. At the very top of the theme, it’s another mini tower with Jack the Reaper peeking out. The animatronics in this theme are Stilts, Leatherface, Martian Warrior, The Widow, Slim, Dagger Mike, and Scary Sitting Scarecrow.
The next part of the setting showed a crypt archway with the sides were more dead bushes, tombstones, and dead trees. Further up, there are two more crypts; one featuring a jumping spider section. And one last section featuring a broken wall leading to a tombstone backdrop. The animatronics in this theme are Eternal Rest, Darling Dolly Gourdo, Howling Spirit, Black Heart, Grave Watcher, and… DESMODOUS!!!!!
2024: This year sounds oddly familiar; doesn’t it? Anyways, we have finally reached our last theme. Alas, out ten minutes together.
Spirit CarnEvil: This theme featured an archway with red and yellow colors and lights lining it. Above the archway, has its special title featuring Jack the Reaper with a red light in his eye. Keep going in, you’ll find on the left side there’s a plushie tent with actual plushies with a shiny blue flag adorning it. On the right side, there are some wooden risers with red and blue flags lining it. Up ahead, there is a down the ducky game with actual moving ducks! Animatronics in this them are The Ringmaster, Ghostface, Mack Straw, Dark Princess, Towering Tallulah, and Art the Clown. 
Funhouse of Terror: The right side of the theme featured a sign called “World Famous Sideshow”. With a mini stage and 2, warped mirrors beside it. O the other side, there is a ticket booth with a moving clown right above it. Going in, you’ll see the Funhouse of Terror sign right above you. Inside the actual funhouse, there is two digital screens and a cotton candy smell as you go in. The animatronics in this theme are Emily and Victor, Barnaby the Bear, Bobby Strings, Gray Jumping Spider, Cotton Candy Dan, Nibbles, and Wanda Webworth.
Thank You for joining me on this Horrifying journey! Happy Halloween!
