ABOUT HAUNTED AMERICA
Haunted America is a collection of the best, scariest, and most amazing Halloween Experiences. Haunted America features attractions all across America including in cities like Cincinnati, Baltimore, Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Detroit, Orlando, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Baton Rouge, Seattle, Greensboro, Chicago, and New York City area. Haunted America is a road map to find the best haunted attraction, which open every Halloween season. Haunt seekers travel the country trying to find the elusive best haunted houses. Haunted America was created to help those who seek the scariest Halloween experiences find them all in one place. One of the biggest phenomenon's each October is travel haunting, which is means fans of Halloween pack their backs in search of SCREAMS! Each member of Haunted America is the single best, top rated haunted attraction in their area and one of the best 13 haunts in America.
The Darkness Haunted House - St.Louis, Missouri
Halloween Attraction Industry Facts
Each year the Halloween attraction industry holds a tradeshow every March in St Louis. Learn more at haashow.com. This tradeshow attracts over 10,000 buyers from nearly every country in the World.
Halloween is now the 2nd biggest retail holiday in the United States. America’s spend an estimated 10 billion dollars between home décor, costumes and amusement attractions.
Across the World Halloween has been accepted for the SCARY ATTRACTIONS season. America is the only country where Halloween is about trick or treating whereas every other country its about getting SCARED inside haunted houses. Interesting fact: Halloween retail is a 100% imported industry, while building scary props, animations, masks, costumes, and complete haunted mazes is a 110% EXPORTED industry. Major theme parks across the World buy from American companies who sell monsters, animations, masks and more. We estimate over 75 million dollars worth of Haunted House equipment is shipped to countries World Wide which are MADE IN AMERICA.
The Darkness Haunted House - St.Louis, Missouri
Haunted Attractions Featured on Major Media
Members of Haunted America alone have been featured on nearly every type of television show, YouTube channel to major media outlets. Haunted Attractions are very visual and are popular to feature to gain clicks and views. Major YouTube Content providers traditionally have the most views on their haunted maze tours than anything else they feature, which brings them back again and again! America is interested to learn more about how haunted houses are created, operated and how they build the screams. Our members have been featured on Shipping Wars, Modern Marvels, Travel Channel, National Geo, Discovery, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Washington Post, NFL Films, Yahoo, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News to Myth Busters to you name it.
Fast Facts about the haunted attraction industry
Number of Haunted Houses: There are over 4,000 haunted houses operating across America each Halloween according to hauntworld.com, Most haunted attractions are charity based, operated as a fund raiser. Professional for profit attractions we estimate 600 to 800 attractions. Most theme parks are now operating a Halloween event.
Types of Attractions: Screamparks are outdoor and indoor haunts typically with a hayride. Several of Haunted America attractions are considered a SCREAMPARK: Creepyworld, Headless Horseman, Spookywoods, and Haunted Acre Manor. Most haunts across America are indoor haunted attractions typically based in an old warehouse, or creepy building like Pennhurst which is located inside a REAL Asylum. Lemp Haunted House is located underground in an old brewery, Dent is located inside an old schoolhouse and Eloise near Detroit is also located in a real abandoned Asylum. Haunts like 13th Gate, Darkness, Factory of Terror are located inside an old warehouse while Fear Factory is another unique location an old abandoned concrete factory.
Attendance Figures: A typical haunted attraction averages around 3 to 5,000 guests, these figures make up about 70% of haunted houses which open each Halloween. About 20% of professional haunted attractions average between 15,000 and 20,000 guests while only 10% of haunts across America attract over 25,000 paying customers. Members of Haunted America yearly attendance ranges from 40,000 to 100,000 guests per season. Haunts who average over 40,000 guests make up only about 3% of all haunted houses open each Halloween.