Dear fellow New Yorkers,

Now that Halloween is fast approaching, come and join me scare our brains out.  My friend just introduced me to Nightmare: Bad Dreams Come True.  It was dubbed New York’s most horrifying haunted house.

For its 5th anniversary, Psycho Clan decided that NIGHTMARE should actually be about nightmares so, as in years past, it conducted an online poll about its audience’s recurring bad dreams—and thousands responded! The creative team then selected the most twisted, demented responses, added some iconic recurring nightmares, and created a house that will force audiences to experience awake what few can handle asleep. With more special effects, more elaborate sets, and more evil baddies waiting to get you then ever before, NIGHTMARE: BAD DREAMS COME TRUE will bring your worst night terrors to screaming life.

In celebration of its fifth year at the same venue, a SECOND terrifying haunted attraction has been created: NIGHTMARE LEGENDS, a classic haunted house from back-in-the-day…

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I’m taking John with me.  I’m sure I’m gonna have nightmares when I go to bed.

Forbes Traveler have “assembled an expert panel of underwater adventurers to identify the 10 Best Scuba Spots in the World.”  And guess what.  Coron Island in the Philippines is one of them, with its bountiful shipwrecks.

Here’s the whole list:

• Blue Corner, Palau, Micronesia
• Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize
• Coron Island, Philippines
• Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
• Southern Red Sea, Sudan
• Cocos Island, Costa Rica
• Coral Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
• Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
• Bali, Indonesia
• Dinah’s Beach and Observation Point, Papua New Guinea

My friends and I are having a girls-weekend-out.  We’ve always wanted to do a Murder Mystery weekend and it’s hopefully gonna happen this year .  We’re planning to book rooms at the Harry Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

This will be our first time participating in a murdery mystery weekend and we’re all excited.  If you have done it before, we would be very grateful if you could share pointers or recommendations.

For those who haven’t done it before, here’s an article by Elizabeth Arneson of About.com on how to enjoy a murder mystery weekend.

The beautiful Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY also offers murder mystery weekends.  It is a bit pricey though and offered only once or twice a year I believe.