YOUNGSTOWN The Penguin City Brewing Company and other businesses in the Mahoning Valley transformed the brewery's Pollock Ballroom space into a Halloween and holiday fusion event space on Friday, November 28, 2025.
The "Holiday Haunt" was put on by Nightmare in Niles, Penguin City Brewing Company, Dead Ink Apparel and Rebel Rescue Ranch, aiming to get community members into a "chillingly festive" mood.
"In recent years, Halloween has been slowly creeping into Christmas, creating a growing fanbase for spooky holiday mashups. With a large-scale Holiday Haunt already drawing crowds in Columbus, we wanted to bring that same eerie festive fun right here to Youngstown," said Aspasia Lyras, Co-Owner of Penguin City Brewing Company, in a release outlining the event.
The event featured a haunt

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