List of haunted attractions

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This is a list of haunted attractions, which are live entertainment venues that simulate the experience of visiting haunted locations or storylines typical of horror fiction.

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Simulated haunted houses/mansions/castles

Year-round

AttractionLocationOpen DateStatusSourceNotes
The Haunted Mansion Disneyland Resort Disneyland Park (New Orleans Square)August 9, 1969operatingseminal attraction
The Haunted Mansion Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom (Liberty Square)October 1, 1971operating [1]
The Haunted Mansion Tokyo Disneyland (Fantasyland)April 15, 1983operating [2]
Phantom Manor Disneyland Paris Disneyland Park (Frontierland)April 12, 1992operating [3]
Mystic Manor Hong Kong Disneyland (Mystic Point)May 17, 2013operating [4]
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios (Sunset Boulevard)July 22, 1994operating [5]
Tower of Terror Tokyo DisneySea (American Waterfront)September 22, 2006operating [6]
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Walt Disney Studios Park (Production Courtyard)December 22, 2007operating [7]
The London Bridge Experience London, United KingdomFebruary 12, 2008operating [8] UK's Best Year round attraction 12 years
Ripley's Haunted Adventure Gatlinburg, Tennessee1999operating [9]
Ripley's Haunted Adventure Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 2001operating [10]
Ripley's Haunted Adventure San Antonio, Texas March 22, 2002operating [11]
Ripley's Haunted Adventure Pattaya, Thailand October 30, 2004operating [12]
Dr. Frankenstein's Haunted Castle Indiana Beach 1983operating[ citation needed ]
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill Carowinds (Crosswinds)March 27, 2010operating[ citation needed ]
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill Kings Dominion (Planet Snoopy)April 2, 2010operating[ citation needed ]
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill Kings Island (International Street)April 17, 2010operating[ citation needed ]
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill Canada's Wonderland (Planet Snoopy)May 2, 2010operating[ citation needed ]
Spook-a-Rama Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park 1955operating[ citation needed ]
Mysterious Mansion Gatlinburg, Tennessee 1980operating [13]
Ghost Castle Europa-Park 1982operating[ citation needed ]
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back! Alton Towers 1992operating[ citation needed ]redesigned 2003
Trimper's Haunted House Trimper's Rides 1964operating[ citation needed ]expanded 1988
Haunted Mansion Knoebels Amusement Resort 1973operating[ citation needed ]3 minute dark ride
Spookslot Efteling 1978operating [14] animatronic show
Geister Rikscha Phantasialand 1981operating [15] dark ride themed to Chinese mythology
Mystery Castle Phantasialand 1998operating [16] drop tower with a haunted-castle-like queue line
Geisterschloss Wiener Prater 1955operating
Ghost Train Blackpool Pleasure Beach 1930operatingfirst ghost train

Seasonal

AttractionLocationOpen DateStatusSourceNotes
Nightmare on 13th Haunted House Salt Lake City, Utah 1990operating [17] permanent location run seasonally
Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2003operating [18] replaced Phantoms in the Park at same location
Terror Behind the Walls Eastern State Penitentiary 1995operating [19]
Shocktoberfest Reading, Pennsylvania 1990operating [20]
Headless Horseman Hayrides Kingston, New York 1992operating [21] includes 5 haunted houses, corn maze & hayride
Cutting Edge Haunted House Fort Worth, Texas 1991operating [22]
Spider Hill Three Sisters Park, Illinois1997operating [23]
Spook Hollow Marquette Heights, Illinois1979operating [24] [25]
The ScareHouse Etna, Pennsylvania 1999operating [26]
The Thirteenth Hour Haunted Attraction Indianapolis,Indiana 2017operating [27] Permanent location on 25 acres, operating for seasonal events
Erebus haunted attraction Pontiac, Michigan 2000operating [28] Guinness World Record 2005~2009
Everhaunt Haunted Attraction Angola, New York 2018operating [29] [30] includes 10 different Halloween attractions.
Circle of Ash haunted attraction Central City, IA 2000operating [31] formerly Frightmare Forest
Netherworld Haunted House Norcross, GA 1997operating [32]
Pure Terror Screampark Monroe, New York 2010operating [33] 2015 Guinness World Record Holder
Longest Outdoor Haunted Attraction
The Terrortorium Oxford, Alabama 2010operating [34] [35] formerly the "Haunted Castle" dark ride at Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City Beach, Florida.
The Nevermore Haunt Baltimore, MD 2016operating [32]
Shattered Screams Haunt Jefferson City, Missouri 2019operating [36] Formerly known as 13th Door Haunted House, located in Beaverton, Oregon from 2002 to 2018 due to K-Mart closing.
The Darkness Haunted House St. Louis, Missouri 1993operating [37]
13th Gate Haunted House Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2002operating [38]

Haunted theme park attractions

AttractionLocationOpen DateStatusSourceNotes
Halloween Horror Nights Universal Studios Florida October 25, 1991operatinglargest single event worldwide
Halloween Horror Nights Universal Studios Hollywood October 9, 1997operatingtwo earlier attempts not listed (see Article)
Halloween Horror Nights Universal Studios Singapore October 2011operatingnow feature local Singaporean legends
Halloween Horror Nights Universal Studios Japan September 14, 2012operatingcurrently the longest run at 59 days in 2015
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Over Texas 1988operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Great America 1991operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags St. Louis 1988operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Magic Mountain 1993operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags New England 2000operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags over Georgia 1987operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Great Adventure 1992operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Fiesta Texas 1996operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags America 1999operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 1999operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Six Flags Mexico 2012operating
Six Flags Fright Fest Great Escape (amusement park) 1999operating
Six Flags Fright Fest La Ronde (amusement park) 2002operating
Hobb's Grove Sanger California(amusement park with haunted woods and haunted hayride operatingtemporarily called "The Grove" during a divorce rooted ownership dispute that ended when the claimant who owned a competing park called "Raisin Hell Ranch" later died.
Howl-O-Scream (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 1999operating
Howl-O-Scream (Busch Gardens Williamsburg) Busch Gardens Williamsburg 1999operating
Howl-O-Scream Sea World San Antonio 2008operating
Halloween Spooktacular Sea World Orlando 2008operating
Halloween Spooktacular Sea World San Diego 2008operating
Fright Fest Elitch Gardens Theme Park 1999operating
Fright Nights Warner Bros Movie World 2006operatingQueensland, Australia
Knott's Scary Farm Knotts Berry Farm October 26, 1973operating
Fright Nights Thorpe Park 2002operatingSurrey, England
Mickey's Halloween Party Disneyland 2005operating
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom 1995operating
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Disneyland Paris Resort 2008operatingParis, France
SCarowinds Carowinds 2000operating
HalloWeekends Cedar Point 1997operating
Halloween Haunt (California's Great America) California's Great America 2008operating
Halloween Haunt (Canada's Wonderland) Canada's Wonderland 2005operatingoriginally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt (Dorney Park) Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom 1998operatingoriginally Halloweekends
Halloween Haunt (Kings Dominion) Kings Dominion 2001operatingoriginally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt (Kings Island) Kings Island 2000operatingoriginally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt (Worlds of Fun) Worlds of Fun 1999operating
Ocean Park Halloween Bash Ocean Park Hong Kong 2001operating
Halloween Haunt Valleyfair 2006operatingpreviously HalloWeekends, 1998 to 2000
Scarefest Alton Towers 2007Staffordshire, England
Hersheypark in the Dark Hersheypark 1980operatingbegan as "Creatures of the Night" at neighboring ZooAmerica
Halloween in Europa-Park Europa-Park 1998operating
Halloween Horror Festival Movie Park Germany 1996operatinglargest Halloween event in Europe
Halloween Nights Toverland operating
Schaurige Altweibernächte Erlebnispark Tripsdrill 2014operating [39]
Halloween Fright Nights Holiday Park operating
DINOWEEN Holiday Park operating
Halloween Belantis Belantis operating
Halloween Weeks Legoland Deutschland Resort operating
Horrornächte Filmpark Babelsberg operating
Familien-Halloween Eifelpark operating
Halloween Open Air Horror Maze Eifelpark operating
Halloween Party Freizeitpark Plohn operating
Fort Fear Horrorland Fort Fun Abenteuerland 2009operating [40]
Happy Halloween Fantasiana Erlebnispark Strasswaldchen operating
Happy Halloween Skyline Park operating [41]
Halloween auf Schloss Thurn Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn operating [42]
Klotti's schaurige Tage Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten operating
Filippos verfluchte Zauberwelt Familypark operating [43]
Höllowum Fegefeuer der Sorgenkobolde Die geheime Welt von Turisede operating
Halloween in Wiener Prater Wiener Prater operating

Defunct attractions

AttractionLocationOpen DateClosedSourceNotes
Geisterschloß Wiener Prater 19331945Year-round; destroyed in WW2
Schloss Schreckenstein Phantasialand 19722008 [44] [45] Year-round
Baron William's Mystery Hall Europa-Park 19912007 [46] Year-round
Frightmare Forest Cedar Rapids, Iowa 20002009[ citation needed ]Seasonal; became Circle of Ash, Central City, IA
Fright Nights Six Flags Astroworld 19862005Haunted theme park attractions; later renamed SixFlags Fright Fest in 1993
Fright Fest Darien Lake 19982015Haunted theme park attractions; replaced by Harvest Fest in 2016

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