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And, of course, for the ultra brave, no Halloween would be complete without a visit to one of the scariest haunted houses. While there's no shortage of kitschy haunted house attractions across the country, some people want to experience real ghosts around Halloween. Lucky for all you thrill seekers out there, the United States is full of historical homes with interesting (and spooky) stories attached to them, and it's not too hard to find "real" haunted houses if you know where to look. At one of the most haunted houses in America, the bad energy allegedly stems from a botched appendectomy—the six-year-old girl who haunts the house died during a desperate procedure without anesthesia at the turn of the century. The home is now vacant, but a popular pick for paranormal researchers, and even regular folks can book the house to stay the night for about $100 per person. Welcome to The Scare Factor’s Halloween Haunted House and Attraction Directory!
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More recently, the front porch was falling in, the electrical didn’t work, the condition was awful, but every original window, door, piece of hardware, and light fixture was still there. But, Judy and Pat Ball weren’t in the door five minutes before Pat turned to his wife and said, “We have to buy this house.” They signed the contract that night. The crew duplicated the original roof, including the spire and crown molding.
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Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is one of the all-time great haunted house stories, and it has given us more than one great adaptation along the way. If you’re looking for the best feature film version, though, look no further than Robert Wise’s psychologically rich, unshakably tense vision from the 1960s. The horror is subtle, but the way Wise’s camera paints with light and shadows will leave you searching every corner for a spirit. Russ Tamblyn, who plays Luke Sannerson—the heir set to inherit Hill House—in the film also appeared in one episode of Netflix's 2018 miniseries, The Haunting of Hill House. ” The haunters repay the favor by specifically going after him like monsters on a mission. Listen, these actors talk behind the scenes and you don’t want to be known as a troublemaker.
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The choreography translates this interior struggle into athletic grace. There are at least 45 sequels to Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 horror drama about a family under siege by supernatural forces inside their home in suburban Amityville, Long Island. That’s more than the “Star Wars,” “Fast and Furious” and “X-Men” franchises combined.
A year after the brutal murders, the Lutz family moved into the house, which still housed much of the original furniture and decor from its previous tenants. Then, just 28 days after moving in with their three young children, the Lutzes fled the house in a panic. Not long after, they worked with author Jay Anson on the best-selling book-turned-hit movie, The Amityville Horror, which tells the dramatic (and controversial) tale of the demonic and "unseen forces" that drove them out. The Lutz's story is widely regarded as fabrication, but plenty of people still vehemently believe it's haunted, and that it was haunted even before the DeFeo family lived and died in it. On June 10, 1912, Josiah and Sarah Moore were horrifyingly killed inside their home in Villisca, Iowa. Their four children—and two friends who were spending the night—were also murdered, and to this day, the crime remains unsolved.
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Massachusetts has no shortage of haunted mansions, it seems, and the SK Pierce Victorian is one of the state's eeriest. The original occupant, Sylvestor Pierce, had just started making his fortune in the furniture business when he built this home for himself, his son, and his wife, Susan. As a man about town, he hosted many notable people in his 7,000-square-foot home throughout the years, including President Calvin Coolidge, Bette Davis, and Norman Rockwell. The full story of the SK Pierce Mansion is featured in an episode of House Beautiful’s haunted house podcast, Dark House. The full story of the Harlow-Bern House is featured in an episode of House Beautiful’s haunted house podcast, Dark House. If the story sounds familiar, it's probably because you recognize it from the bestselling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Each year, they take on a new, multisensory theme– all equally terrifying. Since it’s rare to find a haunted house in Los Angeles where they can touch you, this is a unique experience where you’ll be fully and physically immersed. Throughout the fall, the farm becomes an entirely transformed theme park with haunted mazes and attractions, unique and terrifying live performances, and 1000+ creatures waiting for you in the trees.
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Inside the house, Abigail, a friendly ghost of another era, cautions people to leave the basement whenever there's a bad spirit nearby. Another spirit, Mathew, seems just as interested in today's guests and their strange new technology as they are in him (he died in 1888). The home has hosted tours for those willing to walk among the Winchester ghosts ever since Sarah passed away in 1992.
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If so, you will love Boldt Castle on its heart-shaped island in St. Lawrence Seaway’s 1,000 Islands. Underway as a summer home for a millionaire’s wife, the castle’s construction was not yet complete in 1904 when she died of heart failure. The heartbroken Mr. Boldt walked away and the castle was abandoned until its 1977 rescue. Strange lights are said to come on in the castle, and some have even seen Mrs. Boldt haunting the home that death robbed from her. (Bonus for salad lovers? Mr. Boldt was the proprietor of New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Waldorf salad was invented). This house is the site of a grim murder where in 1974 a son killed his parents and four siblings by gun.
For the price of a bag of dog food — McKamey is an animal lover with five dogs — guests can try to endure the McKamey Manor experience. She also tells us the house is a series of doors that you enter in order, from one to 17. You’re following the journey of Paula, a college freshman at the fictional Gluttire University. Then, we are let loose into a holding room where a woman dressed as a mental hospital escapee who’s also inexplicably in full harlequin face paint greets us. I stand as far away from her as possible before she yells at me to come forward or she’ll make my life a living hell. I have to decide whether to stay or go and it’s Sophie’s Choice, really.
There were no floors downstairs, and the water-damaged plaster was crumbling. The old brick, dating from the 1850s, had wonderful color, the window lintels were solid granite, and the upstairs had heart-pine floors. It's hard to have your car break down on the side of the road and not think about The Changeling.
Full of atmospheric flourishes and foreboding, Dark Water is a masterclass in building suspense, delivering a payoff, and then keeping the scares going even after the story has seemingly resolved. Three years after the film’s release, an English language version starring Jennifer Connelly and John C. Reilly was released. Russ McKamey might accept that he’s created the scariest haunted house in America — maybe even the scariest haunted house in the world. But he’d deny that McKamey Manor is anything but an extreme haunted house. Indeed, a number of people have gone public with their terrifying experiences at McKamey Manor. Laura Hertz Brotherton, who went through McKamey’s San Diego haunted house, claims that the experience sent her to the hospital.
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