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It’s spooky season! And every horror film buff and Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin lover knows the time for fall flavors on coffee shop menus doesn’t last long. The thrills and chills of Halloween only come once a year, and planning a mortifying event is bound to make it a memorable one, too.  If you’re hoping to fill your attendees’ trick-or-treat bags with happy haunts, the following three historic venues offer both scary stories and opportunities for groups to feel the fright.  

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Nobody could have predicted the cultural impact that Hee Haw would have when the show premiered on June 15, 1969.

Many of us who were inspired into journalism as young people identified with a certain archetype - the newspaper man, the truth-telling, ink-stained wretch who fought the good fight, loved great stories, and took no guff but had a tender heart. I was lucky to work for an editor like that, except that he has about four times the requisite portion of heart. His name’s Tim Ghianni, and after literally walking the streets and working the beats of Nashville for fifty years, he’s told his story an...