Christmas-themed Haunted Basement opens this weekend at Rosedale Center in Twin Cities

Ho-ho-haunted basement? Your yuletide just got spookier.

December 5, 2019 at 11:01PM
"The Workshop" by Haunted Basement
“The Workshop” at Haunted Basement (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Say goodbye to the jolly "ho, ho, ho."

Christmas is now scarier than Halloween.

That's the terrifying news from "The Workshop," a series of artist-created environments at the Haunted Basement in the Rosedale Center.

Visitors are likely to catch wind of some reindeer at this holiday-themed show, playing off Santa's workshop. Once a part of the now-closed Soap Factory, the Haunted Basement lives on in a deserted Herberger's at the Roseville mall. (No matter what season, that's spooky.) Holiday scariness awaits visitors who are 18 years and older. (6:30-10 p.m. Dec. 6-7 and 13-14. Haunted Basement, Rosedale Center, Roseville. $20, hauntedbasement.org)

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Alicia Eler is the Minnesota Star Tribune's visual art reporter and critic, and author of the book “The Selfie Generation. | Pronouns: she/they ”

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