Zoo Man's Attractions

08/30/2024

Ghost Tours of Sleepy Eye Minnesota take our guests back in time. Your tour guide will share the True Stories of yesteryear. Sleepy Eye has many True Crime and Bizarre stories from the past.

Ghost Tours are a fun, educational, and scary at times. Encounter the first hand experience of Ghost Tours. Find out why so many guests have taken a tour over the past 20 years.

We begin our 21st year on September 28, 2024. We will have our Ghost Tour bus parked at 145 Main Street East every Friday and Saturday night until the end of October.

This year we are offering a SPECIAL WALKING TOUR ON OCTOBER 11 & 12 2024. These two nights we will retrace the steps of one of the most BIZARRE STORIES in our City’s History. A story that has many twist and unusual circumstances.

This story has never been told on our tours before. It happened on Main Street and a few of our side streets. There were many people who witnessed this CRIME.

Call to schedule this special walking tour. The group will walk 5-7 blocks. Your tour guide will walk the same path with his guests and the group will relive this event.

Main Street is well lit at night. Your tour guide will have a hand held LED strobe light to enhance the true story. Your tour guide is excited to tell this story.

This tour will be offered at 7:15 pm and 8:30 pm Friday October 11 & October 12, 2024. $15 per person. Limited to 20 guest per tour. Call 507-766-2523. All proceeds go to restore the 1895 Opera House.

Don’t miss this tour. Guests should be able to walk and stand for at least 60 minutes. Dress for the weather. Main Street has cement sidewalks and the alleys that we will walk are paved. Phone flashlights are recommended in the alleys. We request all guests keep up with the group.

Have some fun this spooky season with Ghost Tours Of Sleepy Eye Minnesota. Please share our post. Get a group of friends together and schedule your tour in advance.

No alcohol consumption or smoking allowed during the tour.

08/29/2024

Please like our page and share this post. I hope to see you this Spooky Season!

08/29/2024

Day 2 of vacation
Up very early, 3:30 am to work on my display windows!

Halloween is coming!

Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground

Ghost Tours of Sleepy Eye Minnesota

1895 Opera House Tours
Schedule early
Call 507/766-2523

08/28/2024

We are gearing up for Halloween Fun!

Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground…our haunted basement attraction

The 1895 Opera House Tours

Ghost Tours Of Sleepy Eye Minnesota

All three $10 each until September 1 2024

Then it is $15 per person

Call to schedule your tours in advance. Payment over the phone! 507-766-2523

Our 21st year of spooky fun!

145 Main Street East
Sleepy Eye Minnesota

08/28/2024

7.3 mile hike!
Day 1 Vacation

08/28/2024

Day 1 of Vacation…Cemetery Tour

08/28/2024

I’m taking a few days off. My vacation started at 5 pm Tuesday after I finished work. Today, Wednesday, August 28 I started my vacation.

I was up at 2:30 am. I couldn’t sleep, I was excited to work on my display windows.

It only took me about 40 minutes to prepare and finish my first window. I like the window. I’m looking for a few more animal skeletons to finish off the window. Surfer Boy Jack really wants a pet chicken or duck to sit next to him!
He has a buzzard, snake, rat, turtle, robin, goat, monkey, and his dog!

After doing my windows. I headed to my office to read old newspapers. A great way to start my days off.

Nightmare Underground opens soon for groups. October 12,19, and 26 for General Admission!

08/27/2024

My book, “The Zoo Man Remembers” is going to Australia.
Thanks James for purchasing my book!

James was a neighbor of my family growing up. I bought his Atari Game many years ago. Then he came to Dungeon’s Gym and played it every night. Oh the good ole days.
Thanks for the chat today!

Enjoy your chicken at Carl’s Tonight!

If you would like to purchase a signed copy of my book,The Zoo Man Remembers, Venmo $26 plus your address and I will mail a copy to you!

08/25/2024

Hello Friends

For those followers who don’t know, The Zoo Man has many fun events coming up this fall.

All my events for The Fall of 2024 are a Fund Raiser for the 1895 Opera House. This venue sits above our building on Main Street East and 2nd Ave. The building is the BIG BUILDING on the corner. The 1895 Opera House was the go to place in the area from 1895 to 1950. Other venues were built in the area and took the mystique away from this Grand Ole Building,

My goal is to restore this venue. We have roofing done, tuck pointing has been started. Many of the rooms have been cleaned out. With many dumpsters filled. There is so much to do yet.

We are asking that if you wish to help restore the 1895 Opera House, please support our events coming up in the fall of 2024.

A very popular event through the years is…
Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground
The Area’s Premier Haunted Attraction
A fun Haunted Basement that will give many thrills and chills.

We have 2 options for everyone.
Option Number 1 :
We will be open for General Admission on Saturday Afternoons. 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, starting October 12, 2024.
Saturday Afternoons are great for families to come through and enjoy the fun of a haunted basement, without scare actors. Families can walk through at your leisure. Take pictures and just enjoy all the decorations and props. Reminder there are stairs to climb up and down. $15 at the door. $10 through Venmo in advance. (Per person) Call 507-766-2523 to save $$

Option Number 2 :
Call to schedule a group of friends to walk through our haunt with actors and a tour guide. $10 in advance through Venmo. $15 through radio promotions and at the door.If you buy off radio you still must schedule for scare nights. You must call to schedule your group. No walk ins. All reservations have to be scheduled 24 hours in advance. We get busy and it is very hard to answer phone calls when we are preforming. Call 507-766-2523.
You can schedule a group on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday nights. Please arrive 10 minutes early of your scheduled time.
There are no refunds.
We can schedule groups starting September 26, 2024.Get a group together, call, and come have some Halloween fun.

Another Event:
Ghost Tours of Sleepy Eye Minnesota will be starting our 21st season. Ghost Tours are True Crime & Bizarre stories from Sleepy Eye’s past. Call to schedule you group. 507-766-2523.
Venmo is preferred payment over the phone, but we do take credit cards.
Ghost Tours are a 45-50 minute tours around Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. You will ride in our cool Ghost Tour Bus. Your bus driver and tour guide will take the group to where the BIZARRE STORY took place so long ago. All stories are true and come from the local newspapers. Of course we toss in the legends and epic stories from what the locals believed.
Ghost Tours are very fun.

We have a special walking tour October 11 and 12, 2024 at 7 pm. This walking tour is planned to walk 4-6 blocks. This true BIZARRE story happened on Main Street so long ago.. A must hear story! Bring a cool battery operated candle light to light your way on a Ghost Tour Walk. This adds to the fun. Call for your group tour 507-766-2523.

Our third Halloween Event is
1895 Opera House Tours
If you like dark and creepy tours of the inside of a possible haunted venue. This tour is for you. Please sign up for a 7 pm , 8 pm , or 9 pm. Tours on Thursday Nights. Tours start the last Thursday in September. $15 per person. A 45-50 minute. We have had Paranormal Investigators do several investigations. We will tell you what they discovered. Then you can discover and decided…is this 1895 Opera House haunted? Bring your EMF Meter and other ghosts busting equipment and have scary fun in the 1895 Opera House. Stairs to climb.

If you don’t like the dark. Tours are offered Saturday Afternoons from 1 pm to 3 pm. Call for your tours.
All tours do fill up fast. Decide on a day and call 507-766-2523.

Thanks in advance for choosing The Zoo Man’s Halloween events. I hope to see everyone this year.

08/24/2024

Pics of the day….Razor with a friend! Fort Belmont Pioneer Days, Jackson Minnesota!

08/24/2024

Many friends liking Surfer Boy Jack, Spikes, the dog, and Lydia Surfer Boy Jack’s Girl Friend!

Fort Belmont Days in Jackson Minnesota!

08/24/2024

This couple came from Paris, France. They were is Chicago yesterday. Stopped at the festival to see The Zoo Man. They were driving by on I/90, and stopped so glad they did!

I had a great time talking to them. Oui, Oui, qui rampe! Translated…Yes, Yes, Reptiles. The couple raises reptiles in France.

08/24/2024

Charlie came up to The Zoo Man and announced he was my NUMBER ONE FAN!

He came for my book. He told his mom he was selling a popular collectors card to pay for the book!!!

Thanks Charlie, my number 1 fan!!!

08/24/2024

Fort Belmont Days

Many smiles with my animal friends!

08/24/2024

The Zoo Man was Fort Belmont Days in Jackson, Minnesota. A fun place to visit!

08/24/2024

Call to schedule your tour through Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground. $15 at the door. $10 per person group discount. 10 or more guests qualify for the discount. Schedule your time. Tickets will be awaiting you when you arrive. Payment through Venmo or Credit Card over the phone. The Area’s Premier Haunted Attraction.

Tours take 5 individuals at a time. First tour guide starts with 5 individuals. and 10 minutes later the second tour guide starts the other 5 individuals. The tour guide hopes to have all 10 individuals at the end of the tour. The tour guides will try not to lose anyone during the tour, but can not be guaranteed. Depending how fast the tour guide can get his group moving, time for the tour takes 15 minutes to 48 hours.

A few rules.
No touching of any of the actors or actresses
No running
Stay with your group
If you are to scared to go on. We will call your next of kin
No alcohol allowed on the premises
No smoking on the premises
Show up at 10 minutes before your tour starts
Pictures can be taken during the tour
No one under 14 unless with an adult
No refunds

Yes we do birthday parties on any day. Birthday parties are for groups of 10 or more. We take the group in two groups. Parents must accompany the group.
Birthday boy or girl is free. Pictures within the haunt are allowed. Birthday party consists of tour, pictures, and group picture in the haunted attraction.

You can schedule your groups anytime on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday Nights. Times available are from 6 pm to 9 pm
And Saturday afternoons from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

General Public can walk through Nightmare Underground Saturday Afternoons from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Expect waiting for General Admission.
No actors or actresses will be inside the haunt during General Admission times.

145 Main Street East
Sleepy Eye Minnesota 56085

507-766-2523

This is The Zoo Man’s 44th year in promoting haunted attractions.
Our 21st year in Sleepy Eye Minnesota

A cool place to visit…but you wouldn’t want to die here!

08/22/2024

I’m finishing the last few chapters, hopefully soon! Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in a day. To bad we need to sleep a few hours each night.

08/22/2024

08/20/2024

I enjoy doing The Zoo Man programs…

If you would like The Zoo Man to come to your school, festival, library or any event…call 507-766-2523

Reasonable rates!

08/20/2024

Fun Day in Lake Mills Iowa

08/18/2024

Pic of the week!

08/18/2024

Presenting The Colors!

Thanks for your service!

08/18/2024

The Journal Man taking a picture of The Zoo Man while The Zoo Man is taking a picture of The Journal Man!

08/18/2024

David having fun in the parade!

08/18/2024

Hog Days Of Summer Parade

08/18/2024

The Zoo Man with friends at the SE End of the summer parade! (Hog Days Of Summer Festival.)

08/17/2024

I was up early working out.

Then I traveled to my Zoo Man Programs…drove home and worked on my new book…
“True Crimes And Bizarre Stories Of Sleepy Eye Minnesota”

Now off to relax with Jungle Jannie Lea watching another Festival Parade featuring many friends.

I love parades…friends drive down the middle of street waving at friends…while friends sit on the curb waving back at friends driving down the middle of the street!

I think we did that in high school on Saturday nights?

08/17/2024

Busy week ahead for the Zoo Man
Tuesday Lake Mills Iowa
Friday Opera House Tours
Saturday Fort Belmont Jackson MN

08/17/2024

Grandma Lydia was a hit.
Come see her this October at Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground!

507-766-2523