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

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 [39]
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 [40]
Happy Halloween Fantasiana Erlebnispark Strasswaldchen
Happy Halloween Skyline Park [41]
Halloween auf Schloss Thurn Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn [42]
Klotti's schaurige Tage Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten
Filippos verfluchte Zauberwelt Familypark [43]
Höllowum Fegefeuer der Sorgenkobolde Die geheime Welt von Turisede
Halloween in Wiener Prater Wiener Prater

Defunct attractions

Attraction Location Open Date Closed Source Notes
Geisterschloß Wiener Prater 1933 1945 Year-round; destroyed in WW2
Schloss Schreckenstein Phantasialand 1972 2008 [44][45] Year-round
Baron William's Mystery Hall Europa-Park 1991 2007 [46] 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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