Adrienne and I were very happy to hear that Old Tucson would bring back the 30 year running Nightfall halloween event. But this year was a nice twist… the actors were now apart of an interactive show. The outer areas of the town were the haunted scary mazes and the town square was a small town people worried about the new mayor elect taking over the 1872 mining town with the prospect of water and electricity being brought into their homes and businesses.

Every interaction with the actors could bring more clues to the missing folks of the small town. Going into each building, saloon, school house, town hall, you can find clues and try to solve little puzzles to direct you to who might be behind the missing people. I was very happy to see how well all of the interactive stuff, actors and event shows, turned the night into a very fun and scary event.

We rode the carousel, the train, we made it too all of the haunted buildings except for the chapel which first required you to go on a very long line ride, then to a very long nightmare walk (because it is soo long of a walk in the dirt, at night, with a guide, so you don’t get lost, turning it into a real nightmare), to get to the chapel… to hear a sermon about an evil spirit taking over the town of Nightfall.

I did however become one of the few who talked with the talented Less Blue, she asked if I was any good at poker after our conversation switched to the deck of playing cards in her hand. She took me to a private room for a hand of poker… which was surely stacked in her favor, as she told us… “I have nver lossed a hand”, only to give me the side eye after i turned in only 1 card as I kept an Ace, two 3’s and a 5 which looked very close to a 3 card, in the dimly lit poker room… a cheat catching me cheating.

As we bet, the cards were turned over… I proudly stated 3, threes with an ace high… Adrienne had two 6 cards and an Ace, our friend had two 8 cars and an Ace and of course our dealer the famous Less Blue had two 10s with an Ace… surely she had to inspect my cards closure… only to find I had tried to pass a 5 as a three… she forgave me quickly as she raked in the chips she had so cleverly won. Upon leaving the the room, she handed me a chip as a souvenir, but i thought to myself, there might be more to this chip. Could I trade or buy something to help in our search for information to help find and solve the matters that were afoot in this small desert town.

I must have had my intuition in high gear because I thought one of the shows was an “electrocution” but i had misread in the dark night “election” as the two main characters, the current major and major elect were battling it out to see who would become the next major of Nightfall… the evil major did in fact get Electrocuted! Only to find out that the evil powers he possessed he was able to turn back time and bring us back to the start of the election … with the curtain closed we all knew leaving this small town of Nightfall that no one was safe anymore, and that nothing could be done to save IT or the unaware kind people of this town.

A few fun photos of our night.

Above is the map of the event locations and attractions.

We will go to nightfall again next year and the year after for as long as they keep this event going. They did a great job changing up the interactive level and really they did an excellent job. The shoot outs, the fighting scenes, the scary haunts and the plot twist made for a very enjoyable evening. Thanks Old Tucson and if you are ever in Tucson during October, you should mosey on over to the little town of Nightfall.