Scary Business - Haunted Houses

Turning yards into haunted houses and haunted cemeteries is a long time tradition in the Los Angeles area, especially with so many kids dreaming of growing up to be special effects artists in Hollywood.

Here we present a mix of yard haunts, and their cousins, the haunted theater, haunted bank, haunted ship, haunted storefront, etc.  Most of the yard haunts are just for a night or two at Halloween, but the bigger haunts give you a chance to explore Los Angeles all October long for a chilling good scare of a time.

Los Angeles Haunted Houses by Area

Scary Burbank, San Fernando Valley (& northeast)

If you're hitting yard haunts on Halloween in the SFV, also check out Stuntacular Stunt Show as part of your haunt crawl!

Spooky House - Haunted Theme Park

 Spooky House features 3 expanded and uniquely haunted attractions including the Spooky House Haunted Mansion, Haunted Forest, and Darkwater Haunted Asylum. Famously large undertaking that setups for Halloween each year in the San Fernando Valley.  One of the biggest in Los Angeles every Halloween.  Nightclub. Haunting since 1990.

Regular attraction recommended for 10 and over.  Rated: very scary. Young children can attend the weekend matinee, Spooky House Adventure.

The Witecliff Road Haunted Manor

  This years updates include an expanded pet cemetery and an electric chair with special effects. Strong strobe lights. Formally "the Van Noord Street Haunted House". Lower key local event for a weekday haunt.

Ghost Train in Travel Town

 Playful Spooks invade the mini-trains ( 1/8 scale) at Griffith Park.  Evening rides feature 30 display around the track. Come ride a train!

  The Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum has been demonstrates railroads in miniature, 3 different gages, for almost 50 Years.  It has been haunting since 2001.  Checkout pictures from other years.

The Witch's Castle

 Mist swirls around the tombstones as thunder and lightning shatter the eerie stillness. You pass through a Gothic archway into the Witch's Realm, where skeletons speak, pumpkins fly, and the Witch herself is greeting visitors with treats....or tricks!

 The people behind The Witch's Castle have been creating yard haunts for over 20 years individually and have now combined their talents and resources to haunt Studio City!

Malice in Wonderland - Rotten Apple 907

 Rotten Apple 907 presents Malice in Wonderland. Come see what has become of Wonderland since Malice moved in.  Meet with Malice, the Dead Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cards, and the infamous Queen of Hearts and see if you get out with your head and your life.

Scare levels are adjustable for our younger guests.  Haunting since 1990.

Scare the Children

On hiatus for this year

A Studio City yard haunt that is mainly a graveyard scene, using props, many borrowed from  the Museum of Death.  Have a real antique Chinese coffin, tombstone, real flame torches and candelabras, fog machines & great lighting, voice processing and sound effects, and a human cast of characters all around the yard and seen thru the windows of the house, including: a gargoyle on the roof, a 6’7” tall “monster”, a ghoul, witches, zombies and various horned ghouls. It is both kinds of scary: eerie looking, and people-jumping-out-at-you shocking.  Haunting since 1998.

Fright Fair ScreamPark & Harvest Festival - Pierce College

 Factory of Nightmares - Four dimensions of fear, 4 haunts in one.  Bring your own flash light to investigate the Haunted Trail in the pitch black.

The Halloween Harvest Festival and Corn maze turns into the Fright Fair Factory of Nightmares.  During the day it's kid friendly with farm animals, hay rides, bungee bounce, bounce house, rock wall, giant slide and pony rides.

After dusk venture through the Adventure Corn Maze, or  take a spooky journey into the Haunted House or discover the Creatures of the Corn Haunted Trail.   After dark gets extremely scary.

HauntsUSA Halloween Haunt

 The Haunt will rise up again out of the ashes to honor the King of Halloween: find your way out of his three haunted mazes, or lose your soul to Dominas and his evil brood.   Over 50,000 square feet of spooky thrills and chills as your worst nightmares appear out of the darkness at our THREE scream filled walk through Haunted Attractions.  And for the whole family, a rockin' great Fall Festival too!

The House on Haunted Hill

 The story WILL come to life.  Created by professional film & TV industry folks. Haunting since 2000.  Yard and house haunt on a spooky hill.

1401 Massacre Manor

 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wander into someone else's backyard?  Only to realize they have me torturing people for years.  Come explore the halls of 1401 Massacre Manor, and discover your truly deepest fears!  A house haunt.

The Jackson Manor

 Yard haunt with elaborate props and decoration.   (Their website also has lots of good instructions for building your own haunted house and yard haunt.) Haunting since 2002.

The Haunt... With No Name Yet

 Yard haunt that chooses to use eerie lighting with an chilling atmosphere to turn a corner lot of suburbia into a haunted graveyard.  Classy, moody haunt, vs. scare.  Haunting since 1992.

Skull Kingdom Haunt Haunted House 

Behind the forbidding castle walls of Skull Kingdom, you’ll find a haunting collection of goblins, ghosts and monsters – all of which are trained to make your every nightmare come true.  Night time mega scary session for adults and the older kids. The family matinee daytime tour combines humor with spooky twists, making it the perfect option for family adventurers.  New for 2008.

"MalPractice" - Phobia Productions

  MalPractice - Enter the doors of St. Dymphna's Memorial Hospital; a hospital long forgotten by the living...but not by those who died there. Maze built and run by professional haunters.

Reign of Terror

 Evil is lurking! The Reign Of Terror award winning haunt will be over 2200 square feet (which is 25% larger)  and full of new details and great scares at it's new location at Conejo Recreation Center.  Complex animations and high set detail.   Haunting since 2002.

Molar Manor

 "The House of the Dancing Dead" is not your normal haunted house.  The manor is in a permanent location with rooms filled with scary mechanical props as well as spooky live monsters.  Over 9000 square feet of self-guided tour featuring the spooky prop collection of Dr. Ronald Singer

New location as of 2006.  Haunting since 2001.

Sea Side Haunt

Seaside Haunt is twice as large this year. Two all new attractions: Mutiny to Purgatory - encounter zombie pirates through the corridors of a ghost ship;  Blood Beach Haunted Mansion -a very haunted mansion with 20 rooms of terror along the cliffs of the sea. It's a spooky walk through a haunted house at the Ventura County Fairgrounds.

Family matinees also offered Saturday and Sunday afternoons.  Haunting since 2005.

Frightening San Gabriel Valley (& west)

Old Town Haunt

 Don't let the history scare you!  Explore the dark catacombs of Old Town Pasadena.  Find out the secret of the haunted bank in the Realm of Shadows!  Discover the real reason behind the bank failure, if you dare.

They have less scary children's matinee every Saturday and Sunday afternoon.  By the folks that bring you the San Fernando Valley's Spook House.  Haunting this location since 2005.

Haunted Hike

   “The Circus of Fear”.  15 minuet presentation by docents at the Stough Canyon Nature Center in Burbank.  Events for adults and kids

Altadena's Haunted Jail

  Set in the 1948 jail, scary in of its self, our visitors will walk through different zones where they will encounter our ghoulish ‘prisoners’.  Be prepared to be scarred in 3D."  Haunting since 1998. 

Pomona Fairplex Fearplex information <here>

Ghostly Los Angeles (& south)

Annual Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour

 The stars are waiting for you on this tour of one of Old Hollywood’s most sought after "afterworld" addresses.  This gorgeous old site is the final resting place for a pantheon of performers, including Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Barbara LaMarr, C.B. De Mille,—and other high-flying Angelenos—and as the elegant (and eclectic) collection of monuments and mausoleums attest, our forefathers died as stylishly as they lived.  Tour and tales!

STAR ECO Station  

  The award winning STAR ECO Station is an official wildlife rescue center as well as  an award winning educational center.  The rescued animals are there in a great environment that allows kids (or anyone) to get up close and personal with them. 

Creepy Crawly Creature Feature

Gazillions of Insects, Bunches of Bugs, Scientists, Freaky Creepy Creature Fear Games, Outrageous Edible Insects, Food & Fun for all!

Enchanted Hallow's Eve

Join goblins & ghouls, witches & wizards.  "Live snakes, spiders, alligators and goblins, plus other creatures of the night. Two paths to choose, a real fright for the strong of heart or a safe and magical experience for the little ones." Choose Enchanted Hallow's Eve or the Infamous Haunted Academy for the fearless.

The Haunted Shack

A residential haunt and maze for Halloween Night.  Low on gore, high on startle and tricks.  Haunting since 1997.

Theatre 68's Haunted House

 The 68 Cent Crew Theater Company has transformed its space on Sunset Boulevard into a haven for ghouls, goblins and ghosts.  Anyone who dares is invited to enjoy a chilling tour through a “graveyard” and into a haunted house of otherworldly proportions.   Those who venture through will be met by many not-so-restful souls brought to life by actors from the theater company.  

The Hollywood Hellhouse

 Hollywood mocks it's own evil in the Hell House with comics and guest stars.  After you've learned what happens to you if you sin, please stay and party in the Youth Center for beverages, some snacks and a dance party with the youth groupers and the Snake Handlers. There will be bands, dancing and praising til midnight.

Halloween Special party: Snake Handlers perform. Costume contests and dancing throughout the abandoned Acapulco all night long. Food Drive

Satan's Chop Shop

 A maze to scare the living s*%$ out of you. Satan's chop shop is designed by Hollywood movie artists and actually makes you feel in the environment, from the intestines on the walls to the live chainsaws of Satan's demented minions.

Creepy Hollow

 The haunt is 3,000 square feet of scary scenes, from the scarecrow to leather face sawing the heads off unsuspecting pigs.

 The Karnival of Karnage   

Are you afraid of clowns???  Want to be??  Check out this yard haunt with a tent full of incredibly creepy and demented clowns.  First year of haunting.

An Alien Invasion / Nightmare on Beacon Street

  The annual Haunted House sponsored by the Beacon House Association of San Pedro and produced by the residents and staff of Beacon House. This year an alien ship has crashed into the Beacon House. They will leave you screaming for more.

As well as a maze, the event features a street fair for the entire family.  Food, games, prizes, vendors, contests, dancing, kareoke and other activities