Manteo’s Halloween Island is frightfully good fun

Event runs on weekends through October

By Abigail Ali | Outer Banks Voice

Halloween Island in Manteo has returned for a second year of haunted fun featuring “13 spooky shops, 13 themed bars and 13 eerie inns” participating each weekend in October from Thursday through Saturday, leading up to Halloween.

Spearheaded by Geno Seay, co-owner of Lost Colony Tavern, the idea for Halloween Island emerged once downtown Manteo became a state-sanctioned social district in 2023, an area where patrons can carry alcoholic beverages between bars, Seay said.

“We’ve been doing that since our first year,” Seay said. “With the social district, we were like, ‘What a great opportunity to start some bar crawls.’ You can grab a beer at Lost Colony Tavern, th

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