List of haunted attractions

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.

Simulated haunted houses/mansions/castles

Year-round

Attraction	Location	Open Date	Source	Notes
The Haunted Mansion	Disneyland Resort Disneyland Park (New Orleans Square)	August 9, 1969		seminal attraction
	Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom (Liberty Square)	October 1, 1971	[1]
	Tokyo Disneyland (Fantasyland)	April 15, 1983	[2]
Phantom Manor	Disneyland Paris Disneyland Park (Frontierland)	April 12, 1992	[3]
Mystic Manor	Hong Kong Disneyland (Mystic Point)	May 17, 2013	[4]
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror	Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios (Sunset Boulevard)	July 22, 1994	[5]
	Walt Disney Studios Park (Production Courtyard)	December 22, 2007	[6]
Tower of Terror	Tokyo DisneySea (American Waterfront)	September 22, 2006	[7]
The London Bridge Experience	London, United Kingdom	February 12, 2008	[8]	UK's Best Year round attraction 12 years
Ripley's Haunted Adventure	Gatlinburg, Tennessee	1999	[9]
	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	2001	[10]
	San Antonio, Texas	March 22, 2002	[11]
	Pattaya, Thailand	October 30, 2004	[12]
Dr. Frankenstein's Haunted Castle	Indiana Beach	1983	[ citation needed ]
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill	Carowinds (Crosswinds)	March 27, 2010	[ citation needed ]
	Kings Dominion (Planet Snoopy)	April 2, 2010	[ citation needed ]
	Kings Island (International Street)	April 17, 2010	[ citation needed ]
	Canada's Wonderland (Planet Snoopy)	May 2, 2010	[ citation needed ]
Spook-a-Rama	Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park	1955	[ citation needed ]
Mysterious Mansion	Gatlinburg, Tennessee	1980	[13]
Ghost Castle	Europa-Park	1982	[ citation needed ]
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back!	Alton Towers	1992	[ citation needed ]	redesigned 2003
Trimper's Haunted House	Trimper's Rides	1964	[ citation needed ]	expanded 1988
Haunted Mansion	Knoebels Amusement Resort	1973	[ citation needed ]	3 minute dark ride
Spookslot	Efteling	1978	[14]	animatronic show
Geister Rikscha	Phantasialand	1981	[15]	dark ride themed to Chinese mythology
Mystery Castle	Phantasialand	1998	[16]	drop tower with a haunted-castle-like queue line
Geisterschloss	Wiener Prater	1955
Ghost Train	Blackpool Pleasure Beach	1930		first ghost train

Seasonal

Attraction	Location	Open Date	Source	Notes
Edge of Hell	Kansas City, Missouri	1975	[17]
Nightmare on 13th Haunted House	Salt Lake City, Utah	1990	[18]	permanent location run seasonally
Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	2003	[19]	replaced Phantoms in the Park at same location
Terror Behind the Walls	Eastern State Penitentiary	1995	[20]
Shocktoberfest	Reading, Pennsylvania	1990	[21]
The Haunted Hotel	San Diego, California	1993	[22]
Headless Horseman Hayrides	Kingston, New York	1992	[23]	includes 5 haunted houses, corn maze & hayride
Cutting Edge Haunted House	Fort Worth, Texas	1991	[24]
Spider Hill	Three Sisters Park, Illinois	1997	[25]
Spook Hollow	Marquette Heights, Illinois	1979	[26] [27]
The ScareHouse	Etna, Pennsylvania	1999	[28]
The Thirteenth Hour Haunted Attraction	Indianapolis, Indiana	2017	[29]	Permanent location on 25 acres, operating for seasonal events
Erebus haunted attraction	Pontiac, Michigan	2000	[30]	Guinness World Record 2005~2009
Everhaunt Haunted Attraction	Angola, New York	2018	[31] [32]	includes 10 different Halloween attractions.
Circle of Ash haunted attraction	Central City, IA	2000	[33]	formerly Frightmare Forest
Netherworld Haunted House	Norcross, GA	1997	[34]
Pure Terror Screampark	Monroe, New York	2010	[35]	2015 Guinness World Record Holder Longest Outdoor Haunted Attraction
The Terrortorium	Oxford, Alabama	2010	[36] [37]	formerly the "Haunted Castle" dark ride at Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City Beach, Florida.
The Nevermore Haunt	Baltimore, MD	2016	[34] [38]	An historically themed attraction featuring sideshow performers
Shattered Screams Haunt	Jefferson City, Missouri	2019	[39]	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	1993	[40]
13th Gate Haunted House	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	2002	[41]

Haunted amusement park attractions

Attraction	Location	Open Date	Source	Notes
Halloween Horror Nights	Universal Studios Florida	October 25, 1991		largest single event worldwide
	Universal Studios Hollywood	October 9, 1997		two earlier attempts not listed (see Article)
	Universal Studios Singapore	October 2011		now feature local Singaporean legends
	Universal Studios Japan	September 14, 2012		currently the longest run at 59 days in 2015
Six Flags Fright Fest	Six Flags Over Texas	1988
	Six Flags Great America	1991
	Six Flags St. Louis	1988
	Six Flags Magic Mountain	1993
	Six Flags New England	2000
	Six Flags Over Georgia	1987
	Six Flags Great Adventure	1992
	Six Flags Fiesta Texas	1996
	Six Flags America	1999
	Six Flags Discovery Kingdom	1999
	Six Flags Mexico	2012
	Six Flags Great Escape	1999
	La Ronde	2002
	Hurricane Harbor Oaxtepec	2023
Howl-O-Scream & Halloween Spooktacular	Busch Gardens Tampa Bay	1999
	Busch Gardens Williamsburg	1999
	Sea World San Antonio	2008
	Sea World Orlando	2008
	Sea World San Diego	2008
FrightFest	Elitch Gardens Theme Park	1999
Fright Nights	Warner Bros Movie World	2006
Knott's Scary Farm	Knotts Berry Farm	October 26, 1973
Fright Nights	Thorpe Park	2002
Mickey's Halloween Party	Disneyland	2005
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party	Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom	1995
	Disneyland Paris Resort	2008
SCarowinds	Carowinds	2000
HalloWeekends	Cedar Point	1997
Halloween Haunt	California's Great America	2008
Halloween Haunt	Canada's Wonderland	2005		originally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt	Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom	1998		originally HalloWeekends
Halloween Haunt	Kings Dominion	2001		originally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt	Kings Island	2000		originally Fearfest
Halloween Haunt	Worlds of Fun	1999
Halloween Haunt	Valleyfair	2006		previously HalloWeekends, 1998 to 2000
Ocean Park Halloween Bash	Ocean Park Hong Kong	2001
Scarefest	Alton Towers	2007		Staffordshire, England
Hersheypark in the Dark	Hersheypark	1980		began as "Creatures of the Night" at neighboring ZooAmerica
Halloween in Europa-Park	Europa-Park	1998
Halloween Horror Festival	Movie Park Germany	1996		largest Halloween event in Europe
Halloween Nights	Toverland
Schaurige Altweibernächte	Erlebnispark Tripsdrill	2014	[42]
Halloween Fright Nights	Holiday Park
DINOWEEN	Holiday Park
Halloween Belantis	Belantis
Halloween Weeks	Legoland Deutschland Resort
Horrornächte	Filmpark Babelsberg
Familien-Halloween	Eifelpark
Halloween Open Air Horror Maze	Eifelpark
Halloween Party	Freizeitpark Plohn
Fort Fear Horrorland	Fort Fun Abenteuerland	2009	[43]
Happy Halloween	Fantasiana Erlebnispark Strasswaldchen
Happy Halloween	Skyline Park		[44]
Halloween auf Schloss Thurn	Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn		[45]
Klotti's schaurige Tage	Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten
Filippos verfluchte Zauberwelt	Familypark		[46]
Höllowum Fegefeuer der Sorgenkobolde	Die geheime Welt von Turisede
Halloween in Wiener Prater	Wiener Prater
Shocktober Fest	Tulleys Farm	1997

Defunct attractions

Attraction	Location	Open Date	Closed Date	Source	Notes
Geisterschloß	Wiener Prater	1933	1945		Year-round; destroyed in WW2
Schloss Schreckenstein	Phantasialand	1972	2008	[47] [48]	Year-round
Haunted Castle	Six Flags Great Adventure	1978	1984	[49] [50]	Opened in 1978 as Haunted House, then upgraded in the next year as Haunted Castle; destroyed by fire on May 11, 1984.
Baron William's Mystery Hall	Europa-Park	1991	2007	[51]	Year-round
Frightmare Forest	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	2000	2009	[ citation needed ]	Seasonal; became Circle of Ash, Central City, IA
Fright Nights	Six Flags Astroworld	1986	2005		Haunted theme park attractions; later renamed Six Flags Fright Fest in 1993
Fright Fest	Darien Lake	1998	2015		Haunted theme park attractions; replaced by Harvest Fest in 2016

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