The devil’s in the detailing at haunted Halloween car washes

Forget haunted houses—2025’s spookiest thrill is buckling up for a “Tunnel of Terror” where your Prius gets possessed by foam, fog, and a chainsaw-wielding clown tapping your window like a deranged Uber driver. Chains like Tommy’s Express black out lights, crank strobes, and deploy ghouls to jiggle doors while giant brushes slap suds on your screaming sedan. Childhood car wash trauma? Amplified with hockey masks and cackling skeletons in trucker hats. From Detroit’s Fast Splash to Utah’s Wiggy Wash, these bubbly nightmares double business, charging $25-30 for vehicular vertigo. Origins murky (Virginia? Florida? Who cares?), but in car-crazy SoCal, it’s peak Halloween: clean ride, primal panic, zero walking. As one manager ghouls it up himself, remember: the real horror is realizing your undercarriage needed this exorcism all along.