Halloween deadline for state’s newest haunted house in derelict building

Southeast Queensland could become home to a new interactive haunted house attraction, complete with an indoor and outdoor maze, an evil clown, ghosts and its own chainsaw massacre.

An artist’s impression of Haunted Attractions plans for the Pacific Highway site.

A NEW haunted house attraction, complete with an indoor and outdoor maze, an evil clown, ghosts and its own chainsaw massacre, could be opened in southeast Queensland in time for Halloween.

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Get ready for Fright Night Logan style – an application has been put in to lease a derelict house on the side of the Pacific Highway to start a haunted house.

All that stands in the way is some bureaucratic red tape preventing a derelict two-storey building, on the side of the Pacific Highway at Loganholme, from rising as the state’s largest haunted house.

That may change after today’s Logan City Council meeting which decided to call for a report into the use of the council site, which has been left vacant since 2008.

Logan businesswoman Jaye Rose said the former Antiques Market, owned by Logan City Council, was ideal for her spooky venture.

Toilets inside the derelict building.

Ms Rose, who has ploughed nearly $1 million into design and assessment works for her “Fright Night”-themed haunted park, has been asking the council for more than 10 years for the use of the site.

But, up until now, her requests have been denied while the council battled a legal dispute in court with Alma Park Zoo owner John Quinn, who was to set up a zoo at the property.

That court row ended when the state government’s Transport Department stepped in and called for ownership of the site to build its Coomera Connector in March last year.

The state government said the building would be demolished some time after 2026 to make way for a second M1.

Inside the derelict building where there are plans for a Haunted House attraction.

“The council is doing a full report on our proposal, which is great,” Ms Rose said after the meeting.

“We presume with that in progress that the experts on Haunted Attractions and theme parks will have some input or be called upon.

A formal ballroom inside the derelict building could be used as a horror-themed ballroom.

“We feel we are now getting somewhere with the new council and closer than we have been before and hope that, all going to plan, we may be able to open on Saturday, October 31, Halloween night.”

Patrons having fun at a Haunted Attractions fright night out.

No decision on allowing the lease will be made before the report is tabled at next month’s committee meetings.