Sometimes, a little bit of terror is a whole lot of fun.
If getting scared out of your wits is your idea of a good time, this is your time of year. Along with colder weather, shorter days, and colorful leaves, October means Halloween… and Hauntworld.com’s annual list of America’s 13 Scariest Haunted Houses.
Larry Kirchner, founder of Hauntworld.com, recently shared this year’s highly anticipated haunted Halloween roundup of the 13 Scariest Haunted Houses in the country:
1. Headless Horseman’s Hayrides and Haunted Houses, Ulster Park, NY
2. Field Of Screams, Mountville, PA
3. The Dent Schoolhouse, Cincinnati, OH
4. The 13th Gate, Baton Rouge, LA
5. Netherworld, Atlanta, GA
6. Nightmare on 13th, Salt Lake City, UT
7. Haunted Schoolhouse & Haunted Laboratory, Akron, OH
8. Bennett’s Curse, Baltimore, MD
9. Haunted Overload, Lee, NH
10. Erebus, Pontiac, MI
11. Hell’s Gate, Lockport, IL
12. The Darkness, St. Louis, MO
13. Bayville Screampark, Bayville, NY
Kirchner and his staff have reviewed over 300 haunted houses. Each year after exhaustive reviews, they ask the best of the best, the scariest of the scary haunted attractions to join their list of the best haunted houses in America. Hauntworld.com produced its first top 10 scariest haunts list beginning in 2006, and have published a new list each year.
Kirchner is also president of Halloween Productions, Inc., where he has designed, fabricated, and installed custom Halloween attractions for major amusement parks worldwide for more than 25 years.