Nightmare on Main is a theatrical tour event where visitors are guided past staged scenes with actors portraying characters in haunting stories from history. This year's theme is "Nightmares" which will explore mostly true stories that have caused anxiety, terror, frightening dreams, and sleepless nights. “Nightmares” themes will be based on horrible railroad incidents, insanity, entrapment, evil spirits, disease, murder, and death.
Take a dark journey with this creative volunteer-run production held annually in eastern Connecticut.
Tours will run rain or shine and will start every 20 minutes between 7:00 and 9:40pm.
2025 Location: The Railroad Museum - 55 Bridge Street in Willimantic, CT.
Admission:
All tickets are $18.
The event is moderately scary, but not unduly bloody or violent. Content is appropriate for ages 12 and up.
Nightmare on Main
The Nightmare on Main project is a group of volunteers who love to build sets, research, and write scripts, wear costumes and act out creepy stories that happened more than a century ago. Each year there are returning actors and some new recruits who put on the theatrical skits.
The money raised is given to a local nonprofit. Over $55,000 has been raised that has benefitted the Mill Museum, the Eastern CT Veteran Community Center and the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum. This beneficiary of the Nightmare 2025 funds is the Railroad Museum which is an all-volunteer organization that preserves eastern Connecticut’s railroad history located on the original site of the Columbia Junction freight yard.
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