THE HAUNTED HOUSE

Calling All Haunt Operators and Home Haunters -
We’re looking for talented individuals and teams to come together for an extraordinary collaborative haunted house event!

Whether you specialize in jump scares, eerie decor, or immersive storytelling, we want YOU to be part of this exciting collaboration. Let’s combine our talents to create the ultimate haunted experience!

Are you passionate about creating spine-tingling scares and unforgettable thrills? Do you run a haunted house or pride yourself on crafting a home haunt that leaves visitors terrified?

Whether you specialize in jump scares, eerie decor, or immersive storytelling, we want YOU to be part of this exciting collaboration. Let’s combine our talents to create the ultimate haunted experience!

What’s in it for you?

Showcase Your Creativity: Work with other talented haunters to bring your visions to life.

Network and Collaborate: Connect with amazing local haunts and share ideas, techniques, and inspiration.

Community Impact: Be part of an event that creates a memorable experience for our community while celebrating the artistry of haunting.

Event Details:
Date: May 7 & 8, 2026
Location: 5055 Ann Arbor Saline Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Interested in Joining?
Applications link below.

https://www.eventeny.com/events/vendor/?id=51405

Applications need to be completed by April 1, 2027. You will be contacted by Halfway To Halloween organizers. If you have questions or want more information email us at INFO@halfwayTOhalloweenmi.com. We can’t wait to work with you and bring this spooky vision to life!

Let’s make this haunted walk-through unforgettable

For 2027 we are going back….. way back to Summer Camp 1985!

Cabins, campers, canoes, and carnage!

Will you survive the summer of 1985?

Got an idea that will fit the theme? Reach out…. We love communication and new ideas!

Want to be part of Halfway To Halloween but don't have the time, crew, or resources to build a full haunt display? Bring your monsters instead!

For 2027, we're inviting haunted attractions, home haunts, acting groups, and independent scare actors to join us at Camp Dibik as actor-only participants.

You don't need to build a room. You don't need to bring walls. You don't need to haul a trailer full of props.

Just bring your characters, your energy, and your love of scaring people. We'll provide the playground.

Where We Need You

Actor-only participants may be placed throughout the event based on experience, character style, and event needs, including:

• Collaborative Haunt Actors — Join another participating haunt's section of our collaborative haunted attraction and help bring their creation to life.

• Scare Area Actors — Work dedicated scare zones designed for actors who aren't attached to a specific haunt build.

• The Woods — Camp Dibik's wooded areas need creatures lurking between the trees, lost counselors, escaped campers, cryptids, killers, and whatever else has been living out there.

• Roaming Characters — Wander designated areas of Camp Dibik, interact with guests, pose for photos, improvise, entertain and help make the entire event feel alive.

• Queue Line Actors — The experience shouldn't begin at the haunt entrance. Keep guests entertained, uncomfortable and wondering whether getting in line was a good decision.

• Camp Characters — Become counselors, campers, groundskeepers, rangers, camp nurses, cooks, maintenance workers or other characters that help tell the story of Camp Dibik.

• And Much More — We have plenty of places for talented monsters, characters and performers. We'll work to find a role that fits your character and abilities.

Represent Your Haunt

This isn't just an opportunity to act—it's an opportunity to represent your haunted attraction.

Bring your established characters, interact with guests and show them what they'll experience when haunt season arrives. Professional attractions, home haunts and independent actors are all welcome to apply.

You can send one actor or an entire crew. If you're participating in another area of Halfway To Halloween, you can also send additional actors to join the fun.

New Actors Welcome, Too

You don't have to be a seasoned scare actor.

If you've always wanted to try haunt acting, Camp Dibik may be the perfect place to start. Experienced haunt professionals will be working throughout the event, giving newer actors an opportunity to learn, experiment with characters and experience the haunt community firsthand.

Come ready to listen, learn, interact and have fun.

Welcome to Camp Dibik

This year's summer-camp theme gives actors a ridiculous amount of room to create.

Lost campers. Deranged counselors. Camp nurses. Groundskeepers. Lake creatures. Cryptids. Slashers. Ghosts. Undead campers. Things that definitely weren't on the camp registration form...

If it wandered out of the woods, we'll probably find somewhere to put it.

So gather your monsters. Pack the masks. Dirty up the camp clothes. Grab the fake blood.

COME SCARE WITH US!

Help us turn Halfway To Halloween 2027 into one enormous gathering of Michigan's haunt community—and show our guests what happens when all of our monsters are let out to play at the same time.

HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN 2027
CAMP DIBIK
Same Lake. Different Nightmares.

No build required. No booth required. Just bring the scares.

Why You Should Join Us:

Boost Your Visibility: Showcase your food truck to a diverse and enthusiastic audience.

Increase Your Sales: Guests will be eager to try creative, themed menu items that match the spooky vibe.

Be Part of the Fun: Participate in an unforgettable event that stands out from the usual spring activities.

Event Highlights:

A lively horror and Halloween theme with costumes, decorations, and entertainment.

Activities like a haunted walk, costume contest, and live performances.

A dedicated food truck zone designed to maximize foot traffic and exposure.

How You Can Get Involved:

Create a Themed Menu (Optional): We encourage food trucks to join the fun with spooky menu items like “Monster Burgers,” “Ghostly Tacos,” or “Vampire Smoothies.” Guests love themed foods, and it’s a great way to increase sales and social media buzz.

Decorate Your Truck (Optional): Add a touch of Halloween flair to your setup to draw even more attention.

Parking and Setup

Food Truck Parking: Food vendors with trailers must unhook their trailers and park vehicles in the designated vendor parking area. This is to ensure safety and efficient use of space.

Setup Times:

Early setup is available on Thursday, May 6th, and Friday May 8, times will be announced.

On the event day, all food vendors must be ready to serve customers by show opening.

Food trucks must arrive 2 hours prior to the show opening. Food trucks arriving after designated times will not be permitted entry, and no refunds will be provided unless prior arrangements are made.

Stay Duration: Vendors are expected to remain for the entire duration of the event unless prior arrangements have been made with the organizers.

Feedback and Issues: Event organizers will check in with you throughout the day to address any concerns. If an issue arises that cannot be resolved on the day of the event, we will consider improvements for future events.

Early Departure: Vendors who leave the event without notifying organizers or due to dissatisfaction (e.g., low sales) will not be invited to future events.

Weather Policy

The event will proceed rain or shine. No refunds will be issued for vendors who do not attend due to weather or other reasons.

Complimentary Meals for Volunteers: Each food truck is required to provide up to 10 complimentary meals for our volunteers. Volunteers will present a ticket to redeem their meal.

Ticket Collection: Please collect all tickets redeemed by volunteers and return them to the event staff at the end of the event.

Additional Meals: If more than 10 tickets are redeemed at your food truck, you will be compensated at a rate of $15.00 per additional ticket redeemed.

By applying for participation, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. If you have questions or need clarification, please reach out to one of the Halfway To Halloween organizers via email or phone. Contact information is listed below. If you experience delays or issues on the day of the event, please notify us immediately by phone and leave a voicemail if necessary.

Application and Fee Details:

Application Fee: A submission fee of $5.00 will apply for each application submitted (you are able to edit your application, even after it has been juried).

Participation Fee: A non-refundable participation fee of $150 to $250 is required. This fee helps cover venue costs and secures your spot. Metal folding chairs are available.

Application Deadline: November 1, 2026.

Jury Process:

Applications will be reviewed to ensure alignment with the event’s theme and quality standards.

Businesses will be notified of their acceptance via email.

Previous participation does not guarantee future participation.

How to Apply:

1. Fill out the online application form

https://www.eventeny.com/events/halfwaytohalloweenexpo2027-31787/?action=vendor

Please keep in mind the title of your submission will be used in the interactive vendor map for the public, so please title your submission with your business or product name.

Please submit your food truck license and proof of insurance along with your application or via email.

One of the photos submitted must contain your brand / business logo, please submit this as the first photo of your application.  If you do not have a logo please place the photo you would like used for media as the first photo in your application. 

Submit photos of your booth setup, food truck, and menu.

Provide a description of your business, or food offerings.

Pay the vendor fee once your application is approved.

Join the Vendor Facebook page for updates and information, link included in acceptance email. 

Why Volunteer?

You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how Halfway To Halloween comes together, meet people from throughout the haunt and horror community, learn new skills, make new connections, and help create an experience thousands of guests get to enjoy.

Most importantly, you'll become part of the crew that makes the madness possible.

It takes a whole lot of wonderfully weird people to bring Halfway To Halloween to life—and we couldn't do it without our volunteers!

Whether you love haunted houses, enjoy working behind the scenes, want to learn more about the haunt industry, or simply want to spend the weekend surrounded by monsters and other Halloween-loving people, there's a place for you at Halfway To Halloween.

No haunt experience? That's okay! Many volunteer positions require no previous experience. Bring a positive attitude, a willingness to help, and clothes you don't mind getting a little dirty.

Volunteer Opportunities Include:

• Haunt Builders — Help participating haunts transform an empty space into our massive collaborative haunted attraction. Assist with walls, props, decorating, lighting, scenic work, cleanup, and more.

• Haunt Actors — Become part of the nightmare! Experienced and first-time scare actors are welcome to help bring the collaborative haunt to life.

• Roaming Actors — Entertain, interact with, and occasionally terrorize guests throughout the event.

• Setup & Tear-Down Crew — Help us build Camp Dibik before the gates open and make it disappear when the weekend is over.

• Camp Registration / Ticketing — Welcome guests, assist with check-in, answer basic questions, and help keep the entrance moving.

• Guest Services — Help campers find their way around the event and provide information throughout the grounds.

• Vendor & Participant Assistance — Help our vendors, performers, haunts, hearse owners, and other participants get where they need to be.

• Parking & Traffic Assistance — Help direct vehicles and keep arrivals and departures organized.

• Event Runners — Be one of the people who somehow ends up knowing where everything is and gets things where they need to go.

• Cleanup & Grounds Crew — Help keep Camp Dibik looking appropriately creepy—but not actually trashed.

• And Much More! — If you're willing to help, chances are we can find something for you to do.

As a thank-you for helping bring Halfway To Halloween to life, approved volunteers will receive free entry to the event, an exclusive volunteer T-shirt, and one complimentary meal during their volunteer shift. It’s our small way of showing appreciation for the time, energy, and hard work our volunteers put into making the event possible.

Give us your time. We’ll give you a shirt, feed you, and let you into Camp Dibik for free. Seems like a pretty good deal… assuming you make it back out.

CAMP DIBIK IS HIRING.

The pay is terrible. Mostly because there isn't any.

The memories, monsters, questionable decisions, and bragging rights are free.

Come build with us. Come work with us. Come scare with us.
Welcome to the Halfway To Halloween crew.

You Don't Have to Volunteer All Weekend

Volunteer opportunities are available during setup, event days, and tear-down, with different jobs and shifts available throughout the week. Let us know your availability, interests, abilities, and comfort level when you apply, and we'll work to find a position that's a good fit.

Some positions may have additional age, physical ability, training, safety, or scheduling requirements.

VOLUNTEER APPLICATION:

The Camp Dibik Motor Pool Is Calling…

Calling all hearse owners, funeral car enthusiasts, spooky vehicle builders, and lovers of the wonderfully unusual!

The Hearse Zone is one of the most unique parts of Halfway To Halloween, and for 2027 we're taking it straight to summer camp.

Welcome to the Camp Dibik Motor Pool—where campers check in…and hearses check out.

Whether your hearse is beautifully preserved, completely customized, horror-themed, rusty and creepy, elegant and traditional, or unlike anything else on the road, we'd love to have you join us.

Event Details:

Date: May 7, 2026 Time: 6 PM - 10PM

Friday is 18+, limited tickets available.

May 8, 2026 Time: 12PM - 6PM

Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds

5055 Ann Arbor - Saline Rd, Ann Arbor, MI

We're looking for hearses, funeral coaches, flower cars, limousines and other funeral-service vehicles, as well as unique spooky, horror-themed, Halloween-inspired, or unusual custom vehicles.

Your vehicle does not need to be a show car.

We love pristine classics—but we also love weird builds, works in progress, daily-driven hearses, ratty old coaches, monster machines, and vehicles that look like they probably shouldn't have made it out of Camp Dibik.

If it's creepy, unusual, funeral-related, or makes people stop and say, "What the hell is THAT?"—we want to see it.

Participation is subject available space. Vehicles must be safe to park on the event grounds.

Owners must follow event staff instructions regarding arrival, staging, parking, vehicle movement, emergency lanes, and departure. Once parked in the designated show area, vehicles should remain stationary during public event hours unless directed otherwise by event staff or in an emergency.

Vehicle engines should remain off while displayed except when specifically authorized.

Owners are responsible for their vehicles, displays, props, and personal belongings.

Additional arrival, staging, departure, and show instructions will be provided to accepted participants before the event.

You are welcome to leave your car on the grounds overnight, staff will be on the grounds around the clock, and the gates are locked at closing.

Is There a Fee to Participate?

NO! Participation is free, and pre-registration is not required, but it is available!

Park It. Show It Off. Take Home the Hardware.

Bringing your hearse or spooky ride to Halfway To Halloween isn't just about joining the Camp Dibik Motor Pool—you'll also have the chance to compete for trophies and bragging rights!

Throughout the event, participating vehicles will be judged in a variety of contest categories celebrating everything from beautiful funeral coaches and creative custom builds to the wonderfully weird vehicles that make our show so much fun.

Trophies, Swag & a Little Friendly Competition

Trophies will be awarded to the winners of our designated contest categories. Categories and judging information will be announced as we get closer to the event.

There's no need to memorize when and where everything is happening. When you arrive and check in at registration, you'll receive a printed participant schedule with important show information, judging times, activities, and trophy presentation details.

And because showing up with a hearse deserves a reward all by itself...

Every registered participant will receive a SWAG BAG!

That's right—just for bringing your vehicle and being part of the show, you'll receive a participant swag bag filled with Halfway To Halloween and Camp Dibik goodies.

Come for the hearses. Stay for the people. Compete for the trophies. Leave with some swag.

Welcome to the Camp Dibik Motor Pool.

The competition may be stiff... but fortunately, most of our passengers already are.

If you choose to pre-register please Complete our Hearse Zone application and tell us about your vehicle. Include photos if available, along with anything unusual about its history, modifications, theme, or story.

And yes—we absolutely want to know why you own a hearse.

HEARSE & Unusual CAR APPLICATION:

Halfway To Halloween 2027

CAMP DIBIK MOTOR POOL

Same Lake. Different Nightmares.

Bring the hearse. Bring your friends. Bring your questionable life choices.

Campers Check In. Hearses Check Out.

Halfway To Halloween cannot confirm why the Camp Dibik Motor Pool currently has more hearses registered than campers scheduled for pickup.

We don't want our hearse owners parked in a forgotten corner of the event.

You're part of the experience.

Guests love seeing the vehicles, meeting their owners, hearing their stories, taking photographs, and discovering how each vehicle was found, restored, modified, or transformed.

For 2027, participating hearses become part of the fictional Camp Dibik Motor Pool and the strange history surrounding our summer camp.

You may even discover that your hearse has been assigned a former Camp Dibik camper...

Whether that camper ever made it home is another question.

Want to get into the theme?

Please do.

Turn your vehicle into a Camp Dibik transportation vehicle, counselor car, search-and-rescue unit, camp nurse vehicle, groundskeeper's wagon, monster transport, Last Ride shuttle, or create something completely your own.

Camp signs, luggage, trunks, tents, lanterns, skeleton campers, camp equipment, vintage coolers, sleeping bags and other themed props can turn the area into an extension of Camp Dibik.

Theme participation is encouraged, but not required.

Your hearse is already pretty damn cool.

For owners who want to play along with our 2027 storyline, participating hearses may become part of the Camp Dibik Alumni Reunion.

We've created fictional camper and counselor case files spanning decades of unexplained incidents at Camp Dibik. Participating vehicles may be paired with one of these stories, giving guests another reason to explore the Hearse Zone.

Some campers disappeared.

Some came back.

Some apparently never left.

And one of them is still waiting for a ride home.

Participation in the storyline is optional—but highly encouraged for anyone who likes immersive fun.

The Hearse Zone is one of our favorite places for guest and media photography.

Guests will be encouraged to photograph the vehicles while respecting owner boundaries. If your vehicle has specific photography or interaction restrictions, please let us know.

We also encourage owners to create their own photo displays or small themed areas around their vehicles when space and safety allow.

Coming with friends?

Bring the whole funeral procession.

Hearse clubs, funeral-car groups, spooky car clubs, and groups of friends are encouraged to participate together. Let us know on your application if you'd like to be parked with another participant or group, and we'll do our best to accommodate requests when space allows.

One of the best parts of the Hearse Show is the people behind the vehicles.

We encourage owners to spend time with guests, answer questions, share the history of their vehicles, pose for pictures, and meet other hearse enthusiasts.

If guests are permitted to sit inside, look inside, or interact with your vehicle, you decide.

Participation in the show does not mean guests have permission to touch or enter your vehicle.