Mirabilandia will be more terrifying than ever: Halloween is coming!
Mirabilandia will be more terrifying than ever
Zombies, pumpkins, monsters, witches, tricks and treats, horror and magic: these are some of the ingredients of the famous Halloween of Mirabilandia which will start on Saturday 1st October in the famous Italian amusement park. For the little ones, fairy tunnels and animations with Nickelodeon's most loved characters. For the bravest tunnels with monstrous creatures in flesh and blood and the Halloween Horror Festival with new horror zones that are only active at night.
Halloween of Mirabilandia 2022: the program and attractions
For the stronger emotions, 5 adult tunnels available: the terrifying descent into the underworld of Malabolgia, the monstrous creatures of Acid Rain always looking for… fresh visitors; the eternal weeping of Llorona; the sadistic jokes and laughter of Psycho Circus. To these is added the new entry 2022 The Walking Dead, the new house of horrors of Mirabilandia, set in the main places of the homonymous series: the hospital, the church, the mine, the sanctuary, Del Arno Foods, the landfill and of course Terminus, the final goal. Will the guests be able to join the survivors to escape?
Sabrina Mangia, Director of Sales and Marketing of Mirabilandia, commented:
“This is the thirteenth edition of the biggest Halloween in Italy. For years it has been one of the most anticipated moments of the season with days that are sold out. We immediately believed in this appointment, which Mirabilandia was able to modulate to satisfy both the little ones and the bravest adults. This year we have also decided to add an extra weekend, November 5th and 6th, to experience another two days of great fun with horror atmospheres. But the surprises don't end there: we are working on a great event that will leave everyone speechless! ”.
Fear arrives in Mirabilandia from the first weekend of October and until November 6, the last day of the Park's seasonal opening. Tickets can be purchased online from € 24.90. If you abandon yourself to the 2023 season, starting from € 59.90, Halloween 2022 is free!
The scariest Alabama spiders that can’t actually hurt you
In Alabama, there are really only two kinds of spiders that are likely to cause serious problems for people if they get bitten; the black widow and the brown recluse.
Experts tell me the black widow is very easy to recognize, with its bulbous body and red hourglass marking on the abdomen. I take their word for it because I don’t want to go anywhere near one.
The brown recluse, or fiddleback spider is a little trickier, but they’re a pretty dull light brown color and they spin their webs on the ground to catch walking insects, so any spider that has bright colors or is hanging from a web is not a brown recluse.
So the good news is most of the spiders you come across in Alabama fall under the creepy but not dangerous category. And while most spiders are technically venomous, those are the only two species that have a rap sheet for biting people and causing major problems.
“A lot of [spiders] don’t have strong enough jaws to even pierce your skin,” said Katelyn Kesheimer, an entomologist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. “So they have fangs, and they have venom, but there’s really no way for it to get into you.”
In fact, there are more than 58 species of spiders common to Alabama that you might encounter and most of them couldn’t hurt you if they wanted to...even though some of them look like they really want to.
So we’ll take you on a tour of some of the mostly harmless, super freaky spiders you might see in Alabama, with photos by W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book “Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide,” and commentary by me, a guy who’s spent a lot of time outdoors in Alabama but still gets irrationally freaked out by large, weird-looking bugs.
Here we go.
Common house spider
Courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.' (Courtesy)
Gross, look at that body. And I’m guessing by the name that these are all over the place and probably in my house right now. Relocating to the library, be right back.
Neil Young’s Trapdoor Spider
Photo courtesy W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
This one is making me not like Neil Young. Also, I don’t know why it’s called a trapdoor spider, but if Neil Young ever wanted to start making folksy horror movies, just add a trapdoor and a couple hundred of these spiders and “The Needle and the Damage Done” playing endlessly on a loop...that’s instant nightmare fuel.
Spitting spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Oh, cool. It spits. Fun. And look it has babies. Just a few hundred more spitting spiders. No big deal. Cool, cool. I am feeling very cool about this.
Woodlouse spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Intellectually, my brain knows that a red spider in Alabama probably will not harm me. So I will just keep repeating that to myself over and over again while curled in the fetal position. It can’t hurt me. It can’t hurt me. It can’t hurt me...
Scarlet sheetweaver
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Oh, come on! This one’s even more red. And look at the fangs! And the spikey little hairs on its legs. Pass. Hard Pass. I never thought I’d say this, but bring back the woodlouse spider.
Golden silk spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'bn
OK, this one is not actually that bad. Except it looks big. It’s probably big, isn’t it? Up to 3 inches? Dang it.
Orchard spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Great, this one looks like a bean grew legs and started crawling. Definitely won’t be thinking about that next time I go to a meat-and-three. Good thing most of them count cobbler as a vegetable.
Lichenmarked orbweaver
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
This is from that nightmare where you’re asleep against a tree and the tree starts to eat you.
Triangulate cobweb spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Nope.
Marbled orbweaver
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
From director Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Nope.
Spinybacked orbweaver
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins
The Nope, the Nope and the Ugly.
Basilica orbweaver
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
I’m assuming this one was named because the markings on its back look like a stained glass window and not because people see one and immediately begin repenting their sins.
Arrow-shaped Micrathena
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Rounding out the trilogy, “For a Few Nopes More.”
Carolina wolf spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Carolina can keep this spider and all vinegar-based barbecue products.
No common name wolf spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
So I guess science has just given up on naming these for common people?
No common name fishing spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
I think fishing spider is a common enough name. Let’s make it official.
Green lynx spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
I think I saw this growing on a loaf of bread once. I threw it out.
Grass spider
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
This one has hands?!?! Why does this one have hands? Are they evolving? Are they turning into people?!! I need to know more.
Dimorphic jumper
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Oh, great. A jumper. We’ve got a jumper.
Magnolia green jumper
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Even better. Jumpers. We’ve got multiple jumping spiders. So pumped about that.
Red velvet jumper
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
Another jumper, but this one looks like your grandmother’s couch that you weren’t allowed to sit on.
No common name jumper
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
This spider is out here jumping on people and we didn’t even bother giving it a common name? Do better, science.
No common name
Photo courtesy of W. Mike Howell and Ronald Jenkins, from their 2004 book 'Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide.'
I guess they decided people who don’t speak Latin don’t need a name for this spider at all. Okay, how about “Hairy-bodied octopus monster”? Does that work for you?
And one to grow on... the Joro spider
The Joro spider, an Asian import that is spreading quickly across the Southeast United States.
This one hasn’t actually been confirmed in Alabama yet, but experts say that starting next year you may start seeing these massive Asian spiders across Alabama.
“At their current rate of spread, I suspect it will be next year [when the spiders get to Alabama],” said Andy Davis and entomologist at the University of Georgia who studies the Joro spider and tracks its spread across the eastern United States.
These things can colonize areas in large numbers and weave giant, three-dimensional tunnel-shaped webs that can be 10 feet deep.
If all these spiders before aren’t enough, we also have that to look forward to. So, sleep well, remember that creepy looking spiders probably won’t hurt you, and don’t shoot the messenger.
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