Haunted Palouse net estimated highest ever

Numbers are coming in for the 17th annual Haunted Palouse, held the weekends of Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27 in Palouse.

Total paid attendance was 4,006, the fourth-highest total in the event’s history, with the final night this year bringing in 1,572 people, the second highest single-night ever.

Palouse Chamber of Commerce treasurer Janet Barstow estimates the net profit will be between $69,000 and $70,000, the highest ever.

Last year’s $59,477 net profit was the previous high, on an attendance of 3,547.

In 2014, looking to control the length of lines/wait times from the previous year’s high att...