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Maine Top Haunt: Haunted Grandview Manor Be prepared to want to leave. Stephen King’s horrors aren’t the only scare in Maine. Haunted Grandview Manor in Lebanon is the New England area’s answer to those seeking hellish haunted attraction scares of epic proportions. Grandview Manor is to be considered a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to serving up horror stories. While most haunted attractions will create a single story or theme, the twisted haunted attraction runners at Grandview Manor have tapped into humanity’s deepest fears and brought them to life. Mangled rotting corpses, Pumpkinheaded (see what we did there) scarecrows, wandering blood-soaked… Read more »

Delaware Top Haunt: Frightland Eight Levels of Pure Hell! Frightland is Delaware’s best when it comes to haunted attractions, even being acclaimed as one of the scariest in the nation by such publications as Forbes and The Travel Channel!  Paired alongside amusement park rides, Frightland spares no expense when it comes to thrilling and terrifying horror park fans.  Top-level horror special effects have you screaming as you enter The Attic as you hear the laughs of the damned from the darkest shadows.  Try to escape Zombie Prison as you witness the bloody lengths the undead will use to escape their cells.  Ticket… Read more »

Florida Top Haunt: House of Horror Haunted Carnival Clowns, corn dogs, carnival rides, and probably murder. Within the Miami area of Southern Florida, there lies the House of Horror: Haunted Carnival which is scaring up not one, not two, but four totally unique, totally frightening haunted horror attractions to choose from! Tiptoe through the Silent Mall where a hideous specter crawls about the shadows waiting to unleash her hellish wrath upon you. Welcome to Drown Town where previously submerged monsters and other undead creatures have been vomited up by the ocean itself and are prowling about for their next victims. Insanitorium… Read more »

California Top Haunt: 17th Door You will be begging for mercy! Upon entering Perpetual Penitentiary you discover a vile and soulless AI entity is remotely controlling sadistic and foul experiments upon the guilty. Driven insane, the prisoners look to prey upon any suspecting visitors inside their hellish prison. The 17th Door is Fullerton, California’s (greater L.A. area) hottest attraction for 2022. The attraction runners have instituted an audible “mercy” rule for any visitors who cannot handle the experience because according to their site, there is a high likelihood of being grabbed and even getting wet while trying to escape. Waiver… Read more »

Alaska Top Haunt: Fright Night Manor Anchorage’s Oldest Haunted House Anchorage’s Fright Night Manor takes top honors in the state of Alaska for the 4th straight year!  Founded in 1985, this mostly family-friendly haunt is looking to secure a new location currently but it will be up and running. If you like clowns, clowns, and more clowns, this is the place for you.  The plan is for a large clown room, separate Nightmare on Elm Street and Zombie areas, and huge spiders.  Expect scary 3D effects with your $15 ticket.  Great scares around every corner, but not recommended for the very young…. Read more »

Arkansas Top Haunt: Carpenter’s Mortuary Undertakers, Morticians and Grave Diggers, oh my! Charlie Bookout tells us that Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House is unique in that it occupies a historic 1929 building that once actually served as the Funeral Home for Gentry, Arkansas. The haunt as it is known today has been successfully scaring thrill-seekers since it opened in 2014, but the artists who run Mortuary Studios have been sharing their passion for the paranormal at this location for over 30 years. “We only use real ghosts . . . Just kidding,” says Bookout. “There are from 20 to 25 talented actors roaming the… Read more »

Arizona Top Haunt: Mount Mayhem Homemade horror at its finest!  What started out as a simple family spook house has grown into one of Phoenix’s most best-kept horror secrets!  Sets and themes are all homemade and authentic as Mount Mayhem is confined to a frightening backyard thus giving you little places to run and hide. Each year the themes are terrifying and different in their haunted capacities.  For 2021, prepare yourself for an onslaught of phobias! FrightFind It: Mount Mathem in Phoenix, AZ Runner Up: Sanctum of Horror in Phoenix, AZ More Top Haunts in Arizona Sanctum of Horror Welcome to… Read more »

Wyoming Top Haunt: Nightmare on 17th St Elm Street Has Nothing On Them! For more than thirty years, the Nightmare on 17th Street has been scaring the resident of Cheyenne senseless and this Halloween season it will be no different!  The building used as this modern-day house of horrors is an actual haunted location with a sinister past. Claustrophobia is the name of the horror game here as you and your friends muster up all the courage you can to brave over fifteen different blood-drenched, gore-filled, and spooktacular scenarios of demonic proportions.  As one emotionally scarred haunt goer said, “I was so… Read more »

Wisconsin Top Haunt: Green Bay Fear Not your typical CheeseHeads In 1894, a sawmill magnate was brutally murdered and mutilated at his rural manor on the shores of Shawano Lake. Nearly a century later, parts of the manor were restored, but efforts were abandoned at the behest of hellish spirits mysteriously prowling the land. The murdered spirits of the past have come back with a bloodthirsty vengeance and manifested into murderous nightmares. Shrieking specters, demons of the woods, chattering clowns with chainsaws with rows of jagged teeth and torn flesh so bloody that it belongs in a Hellraiser film. Green Bay Fear… Read more »

West Virginia Top Haunt: The Asylum Haunted House Real Asylum. Real Fear. All Abomination. Set inside the real Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the Asylum is taking that haunted attraction experience to a whole new and disturbing level.  Legitimately haunted by former asylum patients from its bloody past, the Asylum is ratcheting up the real-life fears to give you, even more, to scream about!  Tour through the tortured hallways of the past and experience firsthand the untold terrors contained within the Asylum!  What’s that clawing sound?  Is it a tortured patient trying to flee?  The real-life Shadow Man coming for his next victim? … Read more »

Washington Top Haunt: Nile Nightmares Haunted House It’s like a nightmare within a nightmare. Nile Nightmares located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington boasts not one, not two, not five, but a staggering eight haunted attractions in one location! Run afoul of hideous mutant creatures in the Swamp of Doom and attempt to escape straight into the Slaughterhouse where a deranged butcher tries to carve up unsuspecting visitors for a bloody cannibal feast. For those craving a more visceral experience, the 3D Circus has come to town with the most sinister and murderous clowns and circus freaks the Pacific Northwest has ever seen…. Read more »

Virginia Top Haunt: Madhaunter’s Madhouse If you haven’t gone mad yet, you will. Awarded Virginia’s “Top Haunt” accolade in five out of six years by FrightFind, terrors being scared up at Madhunter’s Madhouse in Purcellville, Virginia are just about the best around the DC area. While there are some haunts that devolve into black comedy to give the haunted attraction goer a sense of relief….there is no relief to be found at Madhunter’s. The unspeakable and frighteningly real horror visages that stalk every corner here are genuine in their evil as you will be shaken by their bloodcurdling screams.  Wailing and… Read more »

Vermont Top Haunt: Dead North Need Directions To Stay Alive?  Just Dead North! Clocking in at over a mile long, Dead North is the ultimate farmland in terror.  Grim reapers bear down on you with razor-sharp scythes.  Disfigured psychopaths give chase to unsuspecting attraction goers.  Chainsaw-roaring madmen are hellbent on giving you and your friends the scariest night of your life!  And did we mention this is over a mile long?  Fan reviews of this haunted attraction crowd-pleaser have documented that even the most seasoned veteran of such frights have tapped out midway through this march into madness.  Creepy Farm is… Read more »

Utah Top Haunt: Haunted Forest If You Scream In The Forest, Do The Trees Laugh? The only thing scarier than venturing out into a forest late at night is doing it in a haunted one!  Haunted Forest is just south of Salt Lake City and brings about nightmares to unsuspecting attraction goers by the hundreds every night.  Tortured hillbilly redneck clowns and bloodthirsty demonic creatures are the supreme scares here as you and your friends do your best to dodge them in this 1,000,000 square foot haunt!  Celebrating thirty years in the business of scaring you senseless every Halloween season, the Haunted… Read more »

Texas Top Haunt: Thrillvania Shudder.  Scream.  Faint.  Repeat. Chosen by the Travel Channel as one of the Scariest Haunted Attractions in the United States, Thrillvania is certainly bringing the scares to the Dallas area.  Standing and sprawling on over fifty terrifying acres, this eerie attraction features three official haunts combined into one supremely haunting experience. Trail of Torment is a terrifying traipse around in the dead of night where only the crazy brave can survive.  House of Clowns is anything but a happy atmosphere as you try to outmaneuver bloodthirsty clowns with wicked smiles on their faces.  Or as one reviewer… Read more »