👻 Best haunted houses around Pittsburgh

🇺🇸 Trump Returns To Butler, Obama To Visit Pgh

• Former President Barack Obama will stop in the Pittsburgh area on Thursday, Oct. 10 to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris — his first stop on a tour of battleground states. [TribLive]
• And GOP hopeful Donald Trump returned to the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler this weekend. He's spoken publicly about the shooting at rallies but has never mentioned the shooter by name. [USA Today]

💸 Where Should Opioid Settlement Money Go?

Allegheny County will receive around $90 million in legal settlements from opioid manufacturers and distributors through 2038. Give feedback on how it should be spent in the Hill District tomorrow or on the North Side on Oct. 15. [90.5 WESA]

• ➡️ Learn more about where the money could go. [🎧 City Cast Pittsburgh]

🗳️ PA Senate & Attorney General Debates

• U.S. Senate candidates addressed tariffs, the sale of U.S. Steel, immigration, and more in their first debate last week. Incumbent Democratic Bob Casey and is facing Republican challenger David McCormick. [Associated Press]
• PA Attorney General candidates Democrat Eugene DePasquale and Republican Dave Sunday tackled issues like abortion and cannabis in their first debate. [90.5 WESA]
• 🗓️ Mark your calendar for Oct. 15 when candidates in both races meet again.

🎮 Is Pittsburgh the Next Video Game Hub?

Thanks in part to state tax credits, video game developers are flocking to Pittsburgh. Learn how these new studios are capitalizing on nostalgia and bringing retro games back in style. [🎧 City Cast Pittsburgh]

For years, ScareHouse has been a top destination for local fright seekers. Unfortunately, it lost its home at Pittsburgh Mills mall, but the crew is keeping scare season alive with three creepy concepts.

• ⚰️ The Basement, a series of intimate horrors in the lower level of a century-old building in Etna
• 👻 Stalked By A Serial Killer, an escape room in the Strip District
• 🍸 The Chipped Fang, a new vampire-themed mocktail pop-up bar in the Strip

But where else can we get a scare this season? We called in local ScareHouse actors Stacey Federoff and Dave Archer to share their favorite frights and delights around Pittsburgh.

💀 Hard-Core Horror

Explore more than 70,000 square feet of gore at the Chippewa Lake Slaughterhouse, located east of Akron, Ohio, inside an old meat processing plant. The tour starts with an introduction from Grandpa Karver, a fictional namesake based on the Karver family who supplied meat for locals since 1948. Yes, that means you can expect cleavers, blood, and guts!

We’ve all seen a horror movie set in an old, creepy school — you can step inside that real life nightmare on three floors of Crawford School of Terror in Connellsville, Pa. The 1916 building is a complete scare season destination with a thrilling escape room, ax throwing, and a coffee shop.

🕸️ Less Scary, Still Fun!

A Victorian cemetery, a hayride of no return, and chainsaw-wielding killers — find it all at the Fright Farm in Smithfield, Pa. This haunted attraction has been entertaining Halloween junkies in Fayette County for over three decades.

The Factory of Terror in Canton, Ohio has five unique spine-chilling attractions. And if you need a minute to work up some courage, there are a few bars throughout the site: Carnevil, Poison Ivy’s Greenhouse, and French Quarter at the Factory. Shake out all of your fears at the Fear Fair Back Alley dance club, a new addition this year.