Cedar Point is preparing to unleash a new season of Halloween screams as their annual HalloWeekends event returns for its 26th year on select dates from Sept. 14 through Oct. 29 (get tickets here).

Cedar Point is currently hiring Screamsters for the 2024 Halloween season as their annual HalloWeekends haunted attractions open September 12 through October 27. ... 🎃 You LOVE Halloween.

In his 2018 book, “Always Cedar Point,” Hildebrandt credited Monty Jasper, recently retired vice president of safety and engineering at Cedar Fair, with coming up with the term HalloWeekends.

Midnight Syndicate, which has become a spooky staple of HalloWeekends at Cedar Point, announced they will not be returning to the park for the 2024 Halloween season.

That grew into a small departure with “Dungeons & Dragons” -- a deal to create the first-ever official role-playing soundtrack, in 2003. (The two musicians are big fans of the role-playing game.) ...