On Brighton Ave. in Passaic, NJ, there’s a big row of very old industrial buildings. They go back a hundred years or more. It’s a mix of warehouses, studio spaces, commercial buildings, and empty shells now. The usual kind of thing you’d expect from aging brick in the old part of a town like Passaic. […]
Chi-Town is a metro area that’s infamous for a lot of things. Everyone knows the history of organized crime back in the day, with folks like Capone leaving the joint carpeted with corpses. It’s been known in recent decades for being, shall we say, more than a little prone to political shenanigans. In the land […]
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is famous. Only word for it. We’ve all seen it. It’s been in movies, TV shows, documentaries, you name it. It might be the most famous prison in the nation not named Alcatraz. Wherever you may know it from, the reality is darker. Bad men were housed here. Bad […]
The Haunted Attraction Association is the only association in the haunt industry. They’re it. The only official “voice” of the haunted attraction world. Lead by long-time veterans of the haunt industry, the organization’s members represent the cream of the crop of haunted attractions of every kind around the world. That includes haunted houses, haunted hayrides, […]
Halloween is approaching, and that means HAUNT season is here! Haunted attractions across the country are opening, and I’m here to tell you about a very unique experience over in Ohio. In Lewisburg, between Dayton and the Indiana border, lies a limestone Cavern where things aren’t quite right. This is Lewisburg Haunted Cave, a haunted […]
Between Baltimore and Philadelphia, near where the Susquehanna River empties into the Chesapeake Bay, there’s a farm. In the Fall, that farm gets covered with thick fog most nights, often so thick you can’t see far in front of you. Nobody knows why, not even the owners. That farm and that fog are the location […]
Aura: The distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place. The aura emanating from the Pollak Hospital Building of the Old Peoria State Hospital District in Peoria, Illinois: ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. Aura Haunted House is a relatively new attraction built inside that building that is part of […]
San Francisco. The city by the Bay. The place that guy left his heart. Then there’s the Zodiac, the Church of Satan, Jim Jones, and a few other assorted cults. Now, there’s Insight. They’ll open ALL your eyes…if you survive their Initiation. Few do. That, my friends, is the brand new show at the legendary […]
If you’re like us then you LOVE everything about the Halloween season. A big part of that love is visiting all the amazing haunted houses and getting the crap scared out of us…sometimes literally. What a lot of people don’t know is that around this time of year all those fun, weird haunted house people […]