Once Upon
a Nightmare
A Haunted Fairy-Tale Walkthrough
Free admission
Spanish Fork, Utah
Once Upon a Nightmare
being a true and terrible account
of what walks the yards at Moonlit Manor
in the year two thousand and twenty-six
Your invitation
Free admission · About 10 minutes
Walk through the front & back yards.
Choose your kind of fright
Live actors, strobes & fog
Expect live actors, flashing strobe lights, and fog effects.
Non-scary tours by request
Prefer a gentler visit? Ask for a non-scary tour.
A little adventure
A few things to know
Accessibility
Tight spaces mean the walkthrough is not wheelchair or stroller accessible.
A ten-minute adventure
Explore both yards on the select opening nights. Please keep neighboring driveways clear.
Beyond the storybook
The kingdom kept its peace a hundred years. Then the dragon came down out of the mountains and would not leave. It sleeps along the battlements now, wings folded over the towers, and the gate below stands open because no one is left inside to close it.
Something is wearing grandmother’s coat
The girl was told to keep to the path, and she did, for a while. What followed her took the shorter way and arrived first. By the time she reached the door the coat was hanging by the fire, and the thing inside it had her grandmother’s voice.
Mind the witch
Two children went into the wood with bread in their pockets and came out with none. They found the house by its smell, sugar and burning both, and the old woman met them at the gate already asking whether they had eaten. The oven has not gone cold since.
The porridge is still warm
She let herself in because the door was open and the house was empty, and she was tired, and nobody had ever told her not to. The bears came home early. In the version you were read, she runs. That version was written for children.
She has more than she started with
The old woman keeps her children in a shoe at the edge of the path, and there are never fewer of them than yesterday. She feeds them broth, sends them to bed early, and counts them at the door each night. If the number comes up short she goes looking, and she has never been particular about whose child she brings back.
It sat down beside her
Miss Muffet had her curds, her whey and her tuffet, and she gave up all three without argument. The thing that sat down beside her has been up in the rafters ever since, patient as weather, waiting for somebody slower to come along.
He is not finished
He came down for the smell of bread and stayed for whatever else the village had. There is a table at the end of the path and he is still sitting at it, working through the last of supper. He will not look up as you pass.
Not every story ends well
They are all buried at the end of the walk — the brave ones, the clever ones, the ones who were promised a happy ending in writing. The stones do not agree with the stories. The stones were carved afterwards, by somebody who was there.
2025 Haunted Carnival
Last October the yard was a carnival, and the carnival was wrong. A striped tent stood open at the far end, the lights swung red and blue across the grass, and the barkers out front were not selling tickets to anything anyone wanted to see.
2024 Halloween Spooks
The year before, the path ran narrow between drums marked CAUTION and the whole yard burned blacklight blue. Something had gotten out of one of them. It was still out there when the last visitor went home.
Until we meet in the moonlight
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801-616-2088Moonlit Manor · Spanish Fork, Utah
Moonlit Manor
Spanish Fork, Utah
Free every October