Haunting’s 2024 Halloween Guide

Welcome to Haunting’s 2024 Halloween Guide. We love bringing you this yearly guide to help you plan the best Halloween season as possible. How do we do this? Well, it’s by categorizing every spooky event by style and by location. So look below to find local haunted houses, conventions, immersive horror experiences, yard displays,, and other horror experiences.

We are adopting the same format as last year, organizing all events by category (such as Haunted Houses, Immersive Horror, Yard Displays) and also organized by location. Just below this introduction, you’ll find a table of contents so you can quickly navigate this article to find events and experiences that meet your tastes. We also have definitions of what an Immersive Horror Experience is versus a Haunted House. Further, each event in the slider is clickable—so click and you’ll see more information, exact location, and dates of operation.

While the organization here showcases everything we have to offer, our Halloween Event Listings allows even more control in filtering events so you’re only seeing what you want to see.

Happy Hauntings!

Immersive Horror experiences offer a step up from the traditional haunted house, offering participants a more active role in their narrative. Participants can often explore a location, spending more time in rooms, and engage in a strong narrative. Think of this as a personal, intimate, and evocative experience. While the experiences here do offer engage and interaction with actors, this is in service of a narrative and rarely includes actor contact. These are safe, vetted, and are meant to a lasting memory with the audience.

Haunted Houses or “Haunts” are walkthrough mazes in which guests, usually in a single file, walk through a themed set and have actors in costume jump out–“jump scare”–the participants. These are the bread-and-butter of the Halloween season and can be experienced by teens to adults alike. While there are other categories that have innovated on this concept (e.g., immersive horror), these are the best foray into Halloween experiences and offer a wonderful adrenaline experience. Actors here should not touch audiences and the narratives are implied but rarely explored.

Home Haunts offer the same thrill and style of traditional Haunted Houses, but are built in the yard, home, or street of a residential area. These experiences usually run for only the final weekend of October and are free, resulting in long lines – so if you plan on going, get there early or plan on waiting. Further, these experiences are often family friendly as they appeal to the entirety of the community.

Halloween Conventions are a collection of vendors, haunted houses, horror actors, and beyond, who have come together in a single location. Here, Halloween, horror, and monsters are celebrated, allowing guests to peruse aisles, shop, and come home with macabre creations that they will not be able to find anywhere else. From Monsterpalooza, which is focused on the Special Effects and Movie Magic industry, to the Oddities Flea Market, which hosts skeletal remains, medical specimens, and jewelry, these experiences are a perfect way to get in the Halloween mindset and fill out your year-round Halloween decor.

As the popularity of Halloween increased, Theme Parks capitalized on the success of Haunted Houses, integrating these attractions into their Halloween season offerings. In this section, you’ll see the theme parks that offer walkthrough attractions. With the larger budgets, these attractions are usually impressive in scale, incorporating familiar intellectual property (e.g., Stranger Things, Silent Hill, The Exorcist, and Saw at Universal Studios), and numerous scare actors. Yet, this also leads to longer lines and the “conga line effect” in which audiences see a scare happening to the people in front of them, reducing the effect of the jump scare. These are fantastic for a fun night out and often are a staple of anyone’s Halloween season.