With the evening still young, we headed to visit the USS Nightmare Haunted House in Newport, KY where they promise to “Scare the Ship out of you!”  The USS Nightmare is very unique in that it is actually on an actual old steamboat. It provides for a great atmosphere being down on the river and then walking past all the authentic metal gears and equipment. (read more)

After visiting the Chambers of Horror in Middletown we drove south to visit one of my favorite Haunted Houses, The Dent SchoolHouse. Yes, I am a total homer when it comes to this Haunt, but trust me, you don’t have to be from Cincinnati to like this Haunt. (read more)

A week into the season, a few more Haunts opened up and we decided to visit The Chambers of Horrors Haunted House in Middletown, Ohio on Sept 18th. We got there a little before opening so we talked with some of the people in line and we talked about the old urban legend of the Haunted House that gives your money back if you can complete it. (read more)

After hitting Nightmare Haunted House in Lexington, I drove over to Louisville to visit the Baxter Avenue Morgue Haunted House on September 12th and it was worth the drive.

The haunted house was a little hard to find thanks to the street festival that blocked off the street I wanted to go down (apparently my GPS was not notified). When I got to the event, I saw the ground was littered with decaying corpses. Not sure if they were props, people or a combination I stepped gingerly over them. Shortly after that, Thriller began to play and at the appropriate part of the song, the corpses rose to their feet and began to do a great rendition of the Thriller Dance. Performed by the Terpsichore Dance Company, the show livened up the line as the crowd got into it. (read more)

On Sept 12th, I took advantage of the opening of Nightmare Haunted House for ScareFest (a Horror and Paranormal Convention).

I enjoyed meeting the owners and got to talk to Dean Stephens and his wife about the event they have been running for several years. Located in a light industrial park, Nightmare is contained in an old warehouse and is approximately 7,500 sq feet for the actual walkthrough. There is also a dark maze that is open during the regular season but wasn’t open tonight. (read more)

This Halloween season, Haunted Attraction Magazine will be traveling through 24 different states to visit over 70 Haunted Houses, Hayrides and Haunted Trails across the country. In an effort to bring coverage of the ever expanding variety of Haunts and Haunt activity to the Haunt community we have dedicated ourselves to touring the country and checking out every Haunt we can get to. (read more)