Orlando theme parks are in full Halloween mode this time of the month. We have got Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando Resort and Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. For the kiddies there are two great events in the Orlando area. We have Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party over at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Magic Kingdom and SeaWorld’s Halloween Spooktacular over at the SeaWorld park. No matter what style of Halloween fun you prefer, there’s something for you to check out. OrlandoFunTickets.com has been giving you all of the inside scoop on what’s going on in the parks, but we’re here to tell you about all of the great special appearances that have been going on throughout the month of October.

It seems no matter which Halloween event you go to you’re bound to run into someone famous checking out the parks for themselves! Over at Halloween Horror Nights, some real ghostbusters showed up for a meet and greet with paranormal fans. Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango of Syfy’s Ghost Hunters showed up to check out the award-winning event earlier this month. They weren’t the first celebrities to stop by however! John C. Reilly (Stepbrothers, Talladega Nights) stopped in at Universal Orlando with the cast of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assisant to promote the movie, which has its own Scare Zone at the Halloween Horror Nights event. Just last weekend, horror icon Hitchcock muse Tippi Hedren (The Birds) was photographed with a few of Dracula’s brides in the Dracula house at HHN, still looking classic years after the popular Hitchcock film.

Over at Busch Gardens, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ cheerleaders decided to stop by the Halloween event and go through the haunted houses, getting their own fair share of thrills and scares at the popular adult-focused event. Howl-O-Scream is one of the few theme parks that feature 21 and older events to let adults have fun as well. October still has a couple of weeks left to go and Halloween isn’t even here yet. We’re sure there will be more celebrities and special appearances happening and OrlandoFunTickets.com will bring you the scoop.

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Howl-O-Scream event is celebrating its 10th year of scares. The popular Halloween event is one of the only Halloween events within the Orlando theme parks that have activities specifically catered toward adults. There are sexy dance shows and “scareactors” in racy costumes. At this year’s event, guests can visit Club Envy. Hosted by Ms. Vayne and her vampire models, Club Envy is a 21+ dance club that will be serving alcohol, hors d’ oeuvres and will allow guests to meet with the different characters featured in the haunted houses. To get everyone in the mood for the Halloween event, Orlando Attractions Magazine picked two of its readers to be some of the first people to try out one of the houses at Howl-O-Scream.

Dannie Kleszczowski and Aurora Moore, both Orlando natives, visited Howl-O-Scream and were outfitted with scream cams. The scream cams are attached to backpacks that carry the rest of the equipment. Mounted on the victims’ chest, the scream cam captures every scream and jump the victims make as they go through the house. Dannie and Aurora were sent through the Delta Epsilon Delta (DED, get it?) sorority house with the scream cam.

Both girls were interviewed by Howl-O-Scream Creative Director Scott Swenson on their apprehensions about entering the haunted houses. Dannie admitted she had never attended a Halloween event of Howl-O-Scream’s caliber and admitted to being the kind of victim that talks to herself rather than screams. Dannie went through the DED house as sorority girls clawed at her and called her name. At one point she passed a tanning booth and turned down the DED girl’s request for a tan. “I like being pale,” she said comically.

Aurora Moore admitted to putting up a front when faced with a scary haunted house. Aurora admitted to Scott Swenson she was “75% 25%” on the apprehension versus excitement scale and then proceeded through the DED house, shouting “Go DED!” at the scareactors as she ran away to escape them. Both Aurora and Dannie gave fans a great preview of what’s to come at Howl-O-Scream. It’s obvious that Busch Gardens is stepping it up and ready to give guests some great scares this Halloween season!

Every fall the Orlando theme parks go into full swing Halloween mode. There is Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Walt Disney World Resort Magic Kingdom, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando and numerous other haunted house events. It’s always great to head to your favorite parks at night and get scared while taking in the incredible detail these Orlando attractions put into their Halloween events. Not only do you get the haunted house experience, but many parks will leave their most popular rides open for guests to go on and that’s a treat in and of itself. These events are usually a bigger draw for the adult crowd, as many of the attractions are too gory for children and alcohol is often served. But one of the hottest Halloween events in Central Florida has to be Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.

This year will be Howl-O-Scream’s tenth year scaring Busch Gardens visitors. This year Busch Gardens turns to vampires and fashion with their theme: House of Vayne. Led by the lead vampiress Ms. Vayne and her horde of vampire models, the House of Vayne “women” will travel the parks scaring you at every corner of the massive Busch Gardens park. Before we get to the haunted houses, Busch Gardens features two shows guests can attend. With Fiends, “Dr. Freakenstein” and his sexy nurses (clad in hot pink nurse outfits) dance and perform to a variety of musical numbers. Magician Jason Byrne is also on hand for Full Moon Cabaret: The Magic of Jason Byrne, a dark-themed illusion show any magic fan would love.

As for the haunted houses, there are a number of ways to get your horror fix. If you’re into college slasher films, check out the “Delta Epsilon Delta: Pledge Week.” This house is all about a sorority gone wrong and the horrors that happen inside the DED house. Vampire fans will love” Taste of Blood” as vampires run wild in the sewers looking for fresh blood to feed on. Other haunted house themes include motorcycle gangs, death row and a nightmare toy factory.

Along with the haunted houses there are various scare zones across the park where freaky characters wander around trying to scare you. Werewolves, banshees and even a carnival of “Day of the Dead" - like characters roam around looking for unwilling victims - so watch your back! Howl-O-Scream runs from September 25th to October 31st.