{"id":464837,"date":"2026-09-15T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:12:09","slug":"frights-in-the-foam-the-haunted-carwash-to-eek-up-four-socal-carwashes-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464837\/","title":{"rendered":"Frights in the foam: The Haunted Carwash to eek-up four SoCal carwashes \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowHaunted CarwashOct. 2 through 31 (select nights)Big Wave Car Wash in Anaheim, Carwood Car Wash in Lakewood, Splash N Go Car Wash in Montclair, and Eco Friendly Auto Spa in Carlsbad$30 and up per vehicle<\/p>\n<p>Popping a vintage cassette into your car stereo in order to hear a bunch of haunted house sounds, the atmospheric rattles and wind of autumn, is one way to connect with Halloween while on the roll.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you may no longer have a tape or CD player in your car, nor the haunted house sounds cassette you played a million times. But there is a wicked way to experience an eerie outing while sitting in the driver&#8217;s seat, or as a passenger, this sudsy season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sudsy&#8221; is the ghoulish giveaway here, for it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehauntedcarwash.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haunted Carwash<\/a> we&#8217;re cautiously turning our headlights upon.<\/p>\n<p>The offbeat soaks-and-shrieks event began in 2020, when activities built around distance abounded during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Haunted Carwash stayed around into the early 2020s, growing from a single spot to encompass a frightful total of four carwashes in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>These locations stretch from Montclair to Carlsbad, with Lakewood and Anaheim in the monstrous mix.<\/p>\n<p>One ticket covers your entire vehicle and passengers, and there are a few details to know before you arrive and enter the tunnel of terror. A tunnel that, indeed, has an assortment of freaky figures that may be lurking just beyond the brushers and sprayers.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the drenched and devious setting? Lighting that lends a sense of dread will play a role, and a foreboding fog makes it difficult to detect what might be just outside your window.<\/p>\n<p>Guests remain in their vehicles throughout the Haunted Carwash, which means you won&#8217;t leave the experience in both a sopping and scared state.<\/p>\n<p>It all begins in Anaheim on Oct. 2, with the carwash chaos visiting all four participating locations on select October nights.<\/p>\n<p>Southern California is hauntingly home to a caboodle of creative fall attractions, those scream-it-out spectaculars that deftly use a variety of unusual locations to tell a spooky and surprising story.<\/p>\n<p>But the Haunted Carwash is truly a stand-out among strange venues, making it a draw for Halloween fans seeking an unusual and unusually damp experience. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever You Do&#8230; Don&#8217;t Unlock the Doors&#8221; is the quiver-filled warning every guest seeking a fresh wash and misty monsters should heed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowHaunted CarwashOct. 2 through 31 (select nights)Big Wave Car Wash in Anaheim, Carwood Car Wash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,3886,585],"class_list":["post-464837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-autos","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}