Halloween Market on Fleetwood Seaside on Pangea Grid. (Picture courtesy Mike Fleetwood.)
OpenSim grids are filling up with haunted hunts, costume events, and Halloween freebie markets this October.
Right here’s the place to go and what to do in-world earlier than the candles burn out on October 31. All occasions are grid time — Pacific — except famous.
AutumnFest returns to Alternate Metaverse for six days
Alternate Metaverse is holding its annual AutumnFest from Tuesday, October 27, by way of Sunday, November 1, throughout 9 areas, AMV occasions supervisor Debbie Phoenix informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV AutumnFest
The primary touchdown area is house to the Crescent Moon AI Halloween and autumn artwork gallery, a cabin by the lake, Halloween castles, the Naked Lilies spooky graveyard stage, and a music venue known as Beneath the Graveyard, Phoenix mentioned. Teleporters there result in the opposite AutumnFest areas.
The six-day schedule has reside singers, DJs, karaoke, open mic, stomach dancing, storytelling, chakra consciousness and guided meditation lessons, bingo and grasping socials, a Freak Night time occasion, and free outfits for all, Phoenix mentioned. “Costumes are welcome and even inspired at any of the occasions.”
The Halloween highlights are on the final two days. On Saturday, October 31, there’s a Halloween occasion at Cranium Fortress on the AMV AutumnFest Halloween area, and DJ Tom Southmoor performs Halloween City Corridor from 4 to six p.m. On Sunday, November 1, DJ Dragon Woman hosts a Halloween occasion at Halloween City Corridor from 8 to 10 a.m., adopted by trick or deal with at Sleepy Hole from 10 a.m. to midday and a Halloween grasping social at midday.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Halloween City
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV AutumnFest Halloween
Every day begins with a morning breakfast present at 6 a.m. on the grid’s welcome area, with reside performers and DJs by way of the early afternoon on the Pumpkin Stage in Halloween City and on the AMV AutumnFest Stage, in keeping with the schedule. Stay acts embrace Clan Escotia and his band, Zoree Jupiter, Casaenia Baxton, Mavenn Stay, Joao Frazao, Khiron Ametza, and Mr M and the All Nighters.
Different stops embrace the Surreal AutumnFest area, with reside DJs, Freak Night time and energy trance exhibits, and “a complete bunch of Aliens,” Phoenix mentioned; October Park on the AMV AutumnFest October area, with Clan’s Haunted Dollhouse and the storytelling and meditation classes; a tribute present on the AutumnFest InTribute area; and a “Spooktacular” open mic night time on the Open Mic Arts area hosted by Dave King, Winter King, and Whisper Carfield. There’s no fall vogue present this 12 months, however the Meow Vogue area has earlier years’ fall fashions free for the taking.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Surreal AutumnFest
Employees photographer Zelle Mist might be taking autumn and Halloween portraits all through the occasions, and there’s a cosplay retailer on the AMV Freebies Mall for anybody who wants a fancy dress, Phoenix mentioned. The complete schedule is on the grid’s occasions calendar, and occasions are topic to modifications, additions, and cancellations.
The construct crew was Cataplexia Numbers, Chris McCracken, Clifford Hanger, Lilie Finesmith, and Webby Merlin, Phoenix mentioned.
Halloween freebie markets
On Alternate Metaverse, DragonLady Shinobiaa opened her Halloween Market 2026 on October 15 at Carpe Noctem 2, with “plenty of deco so much in full perm some textures and extra,” she mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Carpe Noctem 2
On Pangea Grid, Mike Fleetwood’s Halloween Market on the Inexperienced Market on Fleetwood Seaside is open by way of October 31, Fleetwood mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld. “Halloween season has begun on Fleetwood — and my Halloween Market is now open for you till October thirty first.”
Hypergrid handle: pangeagrid.de:8002:Fleetwood Seaside
Holoneon has an adult-rated Halloween mall known as Hella Spooky, which Fiona Candy, who is understood in-world as Aeris Irides, introduced on OpenSimWorld in late September: “come have enjoyable with us and kick off Halloween month.”
Hypergrid handle: hg.holoneon.com:80:Hella Spooky
The Chubelz grid additionally opened a small Halloween purchasing area at the beginning of the month, in keeping with its OpenSimWorld itemizing.
Hypergrid handle: chubelz.de:8002:Chubelz-Halloween
Candle hunt on Three Hills Grid
The Wednesday at Midnight area on Three Hills Grid reopened on October 7 with a hunt that runs by way of the top of the month, grid proprietor Marianna Monentes mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: three.hills.grid.outworldz.internet:8002:Wednesday at Midnight
“Comply with the candlelight. Discover the candles. Acquire the items,” Monentes mentioned. Every hidden candle holds Halloween decor, “spooky treasures,” or a Halloween avatar.
The construct mixes the Addams Household, Beetlejuice, and the Sanderson Sisters, with new traps by Outworldz developer Fred Beckhusen, who is understood in-world as Ferd Frederix, she added in a later submit. “Enter for those who dare… however beware!”
Halloween Shack Sundays on Equinox Grid
Equinox Grid is working its Halloween Shack events on Sundays from 4 to six p.m. on its EQG Particular Occasions area, with the final one this Sunday, October 25, in keeping with the grid’s occasion calendar.
Hypergrid handle: equinoxgrid.com:8002:EQG Particular Occasions
“Starting in the present day, Halloween Shack returns,” organizer Xaria Aubrey mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld on October 11.
The area is adult-rated and group-access solely, so guests arriving exterior occasion hours want a customer tag from the EQG Cornfield area first.
Haunted Halloween Isles are again on Buddies Grid
Buddies Grid has reopened its Haunted Halloween Isles, an adult-rated area with a zombie hunt, a haunted forest, a ghost city, witchy woods, a cemetery, and a family-friendly pumpkin patch, co-creator Safine Mahoe mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: login.friends-grid.com:8002:Haunted Halloween Isles
“Come go to, however understand you could not depart alive,” mentioned Mahoe.
New this 12 months is a Day of the Lifeless space constructed with supplies from Kimm Starr and Cooper Swizzle, Mahoe mentioned. The area was constructed by Mahoe and Zuzu Bahro.
Trick or deal with all month on the October area on Digital Worlds Zone
Digital Worlds Zone opened a area known as October at the beginning of the month, the place guests stroll a suburban neighborhood, knock on doorways, and click on on sweet bowls for items, in keeping with the area’s OpenSimWorld itemizing.
Hypergrid handle: grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002:October
The area is owned by 9, who is understood in-world as ParadigmSeasonal, and opened on October 3 with a four-DJ occasion, in keeping with the itemizing.
A second occasion, billed as Trick or Deal with: Halloween Night time, will run from 10 a.m. to three p.m. with DJ Gentle Ray, DJ ChiChi, DJ Minxy, and Adrian Moon, in keeping with a submit on OpenSimWorld. “If the lights exit, RUN.”
Zombies and Day of the Lifeless at OSFest 2026
OSFest 2026, which runs October 12 by way of 26, opened a House Alien Zombie Quest on its first day, Kimm Starr mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld. The competition put its theme to a group vote this previous spring.
Hypergrid handle: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:OSF_Event
The competition can be working a tour known as Día de los Muertos: A Journey Past, hosted by Starr and Cooper Swizzle on The Zones grid, which began on October 16, in keeping with the occasion itemizing on OpenSimWorld. “The journey begins October sixteenth,” the itemizing mentioned.
Hypergrid handle: login.thezones.icu:8002:Day of the Lifeless
Guests are requested to take away HUDs, animation overriders, and scripted attachments earlier than arriving, in keeping with the itemizing.
Be taught to construct a Halloween gazebo with AI instruments
Starr and Swizzle are additionally educating a 90-minute Halloween Gazebo Constructing Class on Tuesday, October 27, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on The Zones’ Studying Zone area, Xenon Darrow mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld for the Digital Worlds Schooling Consortium. The category was moved from an earlier October date.
Hypergrid handle: login.thezones.icu:8002:The Zones
The hands-on session makes use of AI-assisted 3D constructing instruments and comes with a free mesh package of “pumpkins, lanterns, skeletons, and extra,” Darrow mentioned. Members have to put in the required applications forward of time by following the directions within the #learning-zone channel of The Zones Discord. “We is not going to have time throughout the session to obtain or set up applications.”
The category is co-presented by the consortium, The Zones, and WolfTEC, in keeping with the submit.
A Halloween Ball at Fortress Dracula on Wolf Territories
Wolf Territories Grid kicked off its Halloween season with a Halloween Social gathering Bash on October 16 at its Radio DJ Membership, with DJ Eagle, in keeping with the grid’s occasion calendar. “Please have your Costume on,” DJ Eagle, who is understood in-world as Eagle Fang, mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Radio DJ Membership
Subsequent up, on Tuesday, October 27, Garrett Glendale is throwing a Halloween Ball within the Fortress Dracula ballroom on the Glendale Islands, in keeping with the calendar. “The Rely Himself will take the stage for the Halloween Ball,” Glendale mentioned within the itemizing. “Costumes and Masquerade Social gathering Gown is inspired.”
Hypergrid handle: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Glendale Property
A haunted maze on Escape 2 Actuality
The Escape 2 Actuality grid has its Halloween area again up with “virtually a dozen new objects,” together with new props and bounce scares, area proprietor Escaped2Again mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld on October 13.
Hypergrid handle: grid.escape2reality.org:8002:Escape2 Halloween
“Bear in mind the maze begins on the home and there is just one approach to escape the maze are you able to?” the submit mentioned. New items had been to be added on the finish of the maze final weekend, and 4 of final 12 months’s freebies are nonetheless out.
Extra spooky areas to discover
Darkness Falls, a brand new area on the VB Creations grid, went up on October 15 with a pumpkin patch, a 21-and-over graveyard nightclub, a haunted carnival, and a foggy Nineteenth-century haunted city, in keeping with its OpenSimWorld itemizing by DevonSoul. “The place Autumn Magic Meets Nightmarish Thrills.”
Hypergrid handle: vbcreations.outworldz.internet:8002:Spooky Land
Neverworld Grid has a misty walk-through area known as Hocus Pocus by Govega Sachertorte, which warns guests to “watch out for the church graveyard,” in keeping with its OpenSimWorld itemizing.
Hypergrid handle: hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Hocus Pocus
Holoneon additionally picked up Nevermore, Yinni Benelli’s dark-realm area previously on OSgrid, which reopened on October 16. “Come for the darkness. Keep for the thriller. Nevermore awaits,” Benelli mentioned in a submit on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: hg.holoneon.com:80:Nevermore
And on The three Originals, a Brazilian grid, Klaus Mickaelson reopened Noite Eterna, an adult-rated gothic fortress and cemetery, on October 16 after a renovation, in keeping with its OpenSimWorld itemizing. “The shadows have woke up as soon as once more.”
Hypergrid handle: the3originals.com.br:8002:Noite Eterna
Ghost tales from Storylink Radio, on any grid
Storylink Radio is simulcasting its Thursday night time ghost story classes at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to its Storylink Radio property in Kitely from Seanchai’s Bradbury Venture construct in Second Life, in keeping with the Seanchai Library weblog. The remaining classes are tonight, October 22, and subsequent Thursday, October 29.
Hypergrid handle: grid.kitely.com:8002:StorylinkRadio
Venue homeowners on any grid can even pipe in Storylink’s new free 24-hour ghost story stream as parcel audio, as we reported final week.
In case your grid is holding a Halloween occasion that isn’t listed right here, please share it within the feedback beneath or e-mail me at [email protected].
