We are half way through the month of October but that still leaves plenty of time for some good old fashioned hauntings. Whether you live in a major city in Texas or one of the many small towns across the state, there is sure to be a haunted house near you.
1. Haunted High – Denison, Texas www.hauntdenison.com
Experience the shock and terror of The Denison Haunted High one last time. The building is set to be demolished after the Halloween season. This year they will be using ALL wings of the building, including the infamous auditorium, the most haunted area of the building.The school building site dates to 1873. The current structure dates to 1914. It is over 44,000 square feet, 3 stories tall. It was last used as a school in 1986. They use all 3 stories for the haunted house.
2. Reindeer Manor – Red Oak, Texas www.reindeermanor.com
Reindeer Manor is a Real Haunted House located on the outskirts of Dallas with a truly haunted past which has been open to the public for 30 seasons. They were one of the first and are one of the oldest haunted attractions in the state of Texas.
Take heed, for this is no mere sideshow for the entertainment of the living. It is, in fact, the living night terrors of the dead. Its owner, James Sharp was a collector of all things dark. In his deepening lunacy he gathered to his home an array of guests who’s unspeakable trespasses drove him over the edge until even his family was not safe from his dark deeds. He was the father of many children, both his own and wayward youth whom he ensnared and took under his dark wing. He and his sinister house guests poisoned the children’s minds and warped their souls until they were but cruel caricatures of the innocent beings they once were.
Soon, though the insanity over took him and he was found hanged in the barn and his wife dead in the grand dining room from poison. The demented spawn and the inhuman guests scattered to remote places and the Manor grounds fell silent. However, the memory of those shadows still possess the Great House of the Manor to this day and your trek through its dark halls will awaken all manner of dark remembrances.
You see… this Great House of the Manor is locked in the realm of shadow between wakefulness and fitful nightmare. As you enter, slumber slowly opens your eyes until you experience just the smallest fraction of the sorrow these walls have endured over the past century and the darkness consumes you.
3. Scream World – Houston, Texas www.screamworld.com
This haunted attraction offers you three haunted houses and an outdoor maze that are over-flowing with the most bizarre and morbid visions, both from the past and our future. ScreamWorld is not for the timid or weak of heart.
ScreamWorld’s first haunted house is appropriately named the “Haunted Hotel”, a wonderful example of how to pack over 50 scary faces into just 12 rooms. Talk about wall to wall ghosts. Second in order, but certainly not in fear factor, is the “Edge of Darkness”.
Dark.
Cold.
Endless winding pathways. “Movie Monsters in 3D” houses some of the creepiest artwork on earth. Some say, this haunted house rises to a level of its own. But, I’ll let you be the judge.
And last, but certainly not lagging in appeal is the newest addition, the “Maze of Maniacs” ! Knowing that the indoor attractions will no doubt have you leaving ScreamWorld jumping at even your own shadow, They’ve created a maze of more twists and turns. It may just drive someone insane.
4. Nightmare Factory – Austin, Texas www.nightmarefactory.com
Nightmare Factory is the only haunted house to let you choose the scare! At key points inside the maze the path will fork – YOU choose your scare – into the creepy old mansion? or a terrifying trip through the yard outside? – YOU decide – terror is around the corner either way! Nightmare Factory is like two haunted houses in one!
5. Museum of Horrors & Texas Chainsaw Nightmare – Waco, Texas www.hauntedhousetexas.com
On the afternoon of August 18, 1973 five young people in a Volkswagon van ran out of gas on a farm road in Central Texas. Four of them were never seen again. The next morning the one survivor, Sally Hardesty Enright, was picked up wandering in a roadside rest area on I-35. Blood caked and screaming murder, she said she had broken out of a window in Hell. The girl babbled a mad tale. A cannibal family in a isolated farmhouse… Chain sawed fingers and bones… her brother and her friends hacked up for barbeque… chairs made of human skeletons… Then she sank into catatonia. Texas lawmen mounted a month long manhunt, but could not locate the macabre farmhouse. They could not find the killers or the victims. No facts, no crime. Officially, on the records, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened. However during the last 3 decades, over and over again reports of bizarre, grisly chainsaw mass murders have persisted all along the I-35 corridor. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has not stopped. It haunts Texas. IT SEEMS TO HAVE NO END. This haunted house depicts some of the event that are said to have taken place on that fateful night.
6. Phobia – Houston, Texas www.darke.com
Park includes five attractions.
Asylum – Watch as a mental hospital looses control.
3D Clown Phobia – 2 stories of crazy clowns
Darke Institute- No one can hear you scream in the darke.
Simon Fowler Woods – Terror lurks behind every tree.
Claustrophobia – The floors twist and tilt
7. Asylum of Darkness – Round Rock, Texas www.mansionofterror.com
The Asylum of Darkness is the new extreme of Texas Haunted Houses. Come experience a condemned mental hospital housing the sickest patients of past centuries from blood thirsty cannibals to the most horrifying demons from the inner reaches of your mind. What could be worse? Well, the inmates are also running the asylum! What could be even worse than that? You have to solve a puzzle in order to find your way out!!! When the buzzer rings, the cell doors will unlock. Once that happens the clock starts ticking and the inmates become the hunters. There is no turning back! If you want the ultimate thrill ride this Halloween season, dare to enter The Asylum of Darkness!!! Can you solve the puzzle and escape?!!!
This year, be prepared to experience the Mansion of Terror in a way unlike anything you’ve ever seen before in a completely pitch black haunted house!
8. Mansion of Terror Pitch Dark – Austin, Texas www.mansionofterror.com
This year, be prepared to experience the Mansion of Terror in a way unlike anything you’ve ever seen before in a completely pitch black haunted house!
Come experience a taste of the ultimate adrenaline rush at Mansion of Terror PITCH DARK! You will be given one small flashlight to share between your group. The group is then led inside and left alone to find their way out of the Mansion. Don’t think the flashlight will help you out. Dare to explore the inner reaches of the mansion and see who, or what, is waiting for you!!! What if you’re not the one holding the flashlight? What if you drop the flashlight? What if the flashlight suddenly stops working? Are you afraid of the dark? Come find out this 2006 Halloween Season!!!
9. Hangmans House of Horrors – Ft. Worth, Texas www.hangmans.com
Over 120 live actors in four haunted attractions, repeatedly rated #1 by patrons and local media for over 16 years. Also features three other attractions: Cirque de Fantômes, Hillbillies Revenge, and the 3-D Funhouse.
10. The Undead Asylum – Harlingen, Texas www.livingdeadnightmareproductions.com
Over 25 plus live actors with movie quality costumes, props, and animatronics like you have never seen! You can read the legend behind the asylum on the website.
