Year round haunts?

[marcus132]

Hey Haunters!

I'm getting hitched this May! For the honeymoon, the little lady and I will be taking three weeks to drive across America from Los Angeles, CA to Syracuse, NY.

My questions to you, friends, are three:

- Is there a year-round haunt in your area that will be open in May that we should see on our trip?

- Is there a real haunted location in your area that we should visit?

- While we're at it, is there an awesome kitsch tourist attraction in your area that isn't haunt related? (like Stonhenge II, Elvis-A-Rama, the Boll Weevil Monument, etc.)

Thanks, gang! :jol:

(Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Please move it if it is. Thanks.)

[Hauntiholik]

I haven't found any year round haunts in Colorado but we have lots of ghost towns and there's a few haunted tours that you can take.
Care to stay at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park? They do ghost tours too.
Stanley Hotel Tours (http://www.stanleyhotel.com/tours.html)

[Lilly]

I don't know of any year round haunts, but haunt con will be going on in Milw april 30th thru may 4th

[Dark Angel 27]

don't know if your going through San antonio texas, but there is a ripley's haunted adventure here..and the govener's mansion as well as the alamo is supposed to be haunted. oh...and the wax museum is supposed to be haunted too...i swear i felt something staring at me when i was going through there.

oh and i almost forgot! congrats on getting hitched!

[Sickie Ickie]

Hey! Congrats Marcus! Don't know of any places here. Just the boring IL plains.

[DeathTouch]

Wait there is a guy in Ill that does it 365 days a year. DragonLady sue showed me pictures of the place. I can't remember the place though. I think Windfield? Something.

[Revenant]

DT I think you may be thinking of the Raven's Grin Inn (http://www.hauntedravensgrin.com/)in Mt. Carroll, IL. Jim Warfield, the proprietor, is a certified loon and a haunter par excellence with decades of experience. Marcus, I think you'd love the place... Jim Has the sort of warped sense of humor, theatricality, and overriding sense of mischief that you and your lady of all people would totally appreciate. And I've heard it's better to go to in the off season anyway, because the tour can last up to a couple of hours long. Just make a reservation.

I've read enough of Warfield's posts on the pro haunt forums to know that this guy is as nuts as he is dedicated, and no one has a more passionate love of haunt fun than he. No one. The people I've talked to who've gone through it loved it... said it's different from any haunt you've ever experienced. I swear I'm going to get over there either this year or next year.

Oh! I almost forgot... CONGRATULATIONS!!! You two were destined for each other. Definitely a fun couple!

[pyro]

i know of ribleys haunted attraction in gatlinburg tenn and theres an other place in Va. ill have to look for the name

[beelce]

A big fat CONGRATS to you Marcus...If you can swing it, you and the new wife should drop down to New Orleans....It's loaded with haunted old homes with several nationally acclaimed HAUNTED FRENCH QUARTER TOURS...HAUNTED BAYOU TOURS, HAUNTED PLANTATION bed and breakfast, and some of the best Cajun and seafood in the country... I'd love to take you guys out for a delicious po-boy or A Central Grocery Muffaletta sandwich. Yes I know that the city has a rep for being dangerous, but that stuff take place in the hoods ...crime on crime mostly...anyway good luck to the both of you wherever you roam.

[marcus132]

don't know if your going through San antonio texas, but there is a ripley's haunted adventure here..

We actually went through there a few years ago. The haunted Ripley's thing right across from the Alamo was amazing. I can't remember the last time I went through a haunted house with so many legitimate scares (instead of just startle scares).

oh and i almost forgot! congrats on getting hitched!

Thanks! :jol:

[marcus132]

DT I think you may be thinking of the Raven's Grin Inn (http://www.hauntedravensgrin.com/)in Mt. Carroll, IL.

Awesome! That's EXACTLY the sort of thing I was looking for. And it's on the way. We're so there! Thanks!

Oh! I almost forgot... CONGRATULATIONS!!! You two were destined for each other. Definitely a fun couple!

Thanks! It's true. We're a good team, and have been for ten years already. It's time to make it official. :jol:

[Sickie Ickie]

DT I think you may be thinking of the Raven's Grin Inn (http://www.hauntedravensgrin.com/)in Mt. Carroll, IL. Jim Warfield, the proprietor, is a certified loon and a haunter par excellence with decades of experience. ...!

Rev, you know if you send him there he'll wind up in the asylum, right? To say Warfield's strange is kind of like saying Limburger cheese has a little odor!

Of course, you could use this experience to write your sequel to Oblivion!!!!!!! :D

[DeathTouch]

Dragonlady Sue has one listed in Alton as well. Pictures below.

http://www.hambly-funeral.com/Alton%2031May2008/Alton%2031May08/album/index.html

[Don Givens]

There are two or three in Niagra Falls. Not sure how good they are but I think it would be worth visiting the area just to see the Falls if you are going to Syracuse.

I have also heard a lot of good things about Raven's Grin Inn

[scream1973]

Congratulations and as Don mentioned there are a number of year round "haunted houses" in the falls on the Canadian side.

http://www.screamersniagara.com/
http://www.nightmaresfearfactory.com/

Haunted House & House of Frankenstein
Providing new meaning to the word nightmare, Haunted House has the requisite ghost in every corner, and a skeleton in every closet, with virtually every kind of ghoul imaginable. By contrast, House of Frankenstein, a door or so away, shelters monsters back from the deceased, creatures lurking in shadows, not living – and yet – not dead. There’s no turning back after climbing the 13 entry steps, and visitors must find the hidden passageway to finish the journey of terror, or be lost forever in clutching darkness.
Haunted House, 4943 Clifton Hill Niagara Falls, Ontario. (905) 357-4330
House of Frankenstein, 4967 Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Ontario. (905) 357 9660

Fort George just outside of Niagara falls is an 1800s fort which is haunted and they have ghost tours on and off throughout the year


I havent been through any in a number o years but i do go on the haunted hayride put on by screamers at halloween timeframe and its always good for some fun.