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The Best Haunted Houses In St. Louis

Happy FRI-YAYYYY. I hope you’ve been enjoying all my Halloween tutorials — I’ve been LOVING making them for you. It’s totally been a BLAST. Today I wanted to create a guide for all my local St. Louis readers (and anyone looking to visit in the area): The Best Haunted Houses In St. Louis. There are so many awesome activities to do in the St. Louis area during the month of October — and there is still SO much time to do them before the month is over — so let’s dive into it!

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The Best Haunted Houses In St. Louis

1 – THE DARKNESS

The Darkness is one of my all-time favorite Haunted Houses. My mom, dad, Adam and I all went last weekend and it was SO MUCH fun. They really did an amazing job with the attention to detail and I would love to go back. They have the perfect mix of animatronic characters and real characters, and a lot of time they looked the same until they started moving and scared the crap out of you. It was fabulous. The only problem was at the end of the Haunted House, people were moving too slow and it caused a bit of a traffic jam, which ruins the scary a little bit. That may not happen every night, though, it just did on our particular night. 

Age recommendation: 14+

Ticket price: $25 / person

2 – ABYSS AT LEMP BREWERY

This is an underground haunted house – and supposedly, it’s really haunted. Take a lamp and all your friends and excavate the caves yourself…if you dare. 😉 The tag line is “go ahead and scream loud…no one can hear you underground” so if that doesn’t scare you already, nothing will! It’s the only underground haunted house in the St. Louis area and tickets can be bought in a combo pack with The Darkeness + Creepyworld (see below). 

Age recommendation: 14+

Ticket price: $25 / person

3 – FRIGHT FEST AT SIX FLAGS

This is great for all ages! Zombies and monsters take over the park once the sun goes down..so anything goes. There is a wide variety of places to get your scare on including several haunted houses and scare zones located throughout the park. They also feature an illusionist during specific times of the night and you can watch as he performs his magic on the audience. 

Age recommendation: any age

Ticket price: $63.99 / person

4 – HAUNTED PAINTPALL PARK

If you prefer actually shooting all the zombies instead of just being scared by them (aka, my husband), then you will LOVE the haunted paintball park. Paintball is fun by itself but it’s WAY MORE FUN when it involves hitting ghosts and ghouls along the way. Everyone sits on a hayride as zombies attempt to overrun the truck. You’ve just gotta make sure you hit them to keep you and everyone else safe during the ride!! This location also features a haunted zombie laser tag so I’d recommend signing up for both!

Age recommendation: any age

Ticket price: $29 / person (for both paintball + laser tag), $19 / person (for paint ball only)

5 – PHOBIUS HAUNTED HOUSE

This haunted house was voted number one in Missouri for 2017 — so you know it’s a good one.  Phobius is designed to flow like a book, transporting you into the world of Dr. Cyress Fears:  Operator & Doctor of Cirque du Phobius. Mainly circus themed, it revolves around a giant circus tent and the various “circus freaks” one can find there. 

Age recommendation: 14+

Ticket price: $25 / person

6 – RAVENS CURSE

This haunted house is actually an escape room! You are locked in a small room, apparently having been the victim of a serial killer. With only 20 minutes left to live, you have to work out who your killer was based on various clues. 

Raven’s Curse is also home to Slaughter On The Midway, an abandoned carnival-turned-haunted house. Weave your way through carnival rides, the funhouse and an old spook house, and try to escape the killer clowns, if you can! 

Age recommendation: 14+

Ticket price: $15 / person (for the escape room), $23 (or Slaughter on the Midway)

7 – CREEPYWORLD

Creepyworld is Missouri’s largest attraction. It has 13 haunted attractions inside and is over an hour long, start to finish (most haunted houses are about 30-40 minutes in length for reference). It includes a haunted trick or treat hayride, a haunted christmas town, haunted war zone, whispering woods cemetery and MUCH more! 

Age recommendation: any age

Ticket price: $25 / person

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I am SUCH a haunted house junky….I love them. I think they are hilarious and fun and typically spend most of the night screaming and then laughing. My favorite part of haunted houses is looking at the special effects makeup throughout the houses. I try to figure out what they used, techniques they utilized, etc. I think I freak some of the workers out when I stare very intently at their faces LOL. I also think this is why I don’t get very scared — I am such a behind-the-scenes girl, especially with special effects makeup, that it fascinates me more than scares me!!

I hope you try out some of these awesome attractions — and I will have my corn maze / pumpkin patch guide up ASAP!!!