ALL-STAR HALL OF FAME
A virtual monument to L.A.’s departed haunts, scare zones, and seasonal horror shows.
Every Halloween season, while we drink deeply of the delightfully dreary ambiance that new haunts and old favorites have to offer, we also suffer a pang of wistful nostalgia as we cast our mournful eyes back through the hazy clouds of time and recall those Halloween Events that have gone to the grave, leaving a vast gap in our annual enjoyment of all things macabre.
The following list memorializes our favorite Los Angeles haunted attractions that have shuffled off this mortal coil. Although they are gone, their legacy lives on in the hearts and minds of all those who visited them, and so we offer this tribute to the terrors they evoked and the shudders they sent down the spines of countless trick-or-treaters.
And lest despair deaden your soul, recall that, when it comes to Halloween, nothing ever truly dies. Haunts once thought dead forever, sometimes are resurrected or reincarnated in another guise. Who knows? Perhaps some of these will return sometime in the future, in some form or another.
This page contains only the best of the best (in our humble opinion). Other defunct Halloween events, some quite worthy, can be found in the Graveyard of Halloween Haunts.
These, then, are some of our favorite haunted house attractions from the past. More will be added as occasion demands…
Backwoods Maze
Status: On Hiatus Since 2019 In September 2019, The Backwoods Maze announced that it was going on hiatus that Halloween. The announcement, made via the home haunt's Facebook page, was ambiguous about a possible return: "The Backwoods Maze will not be open for the 2019 ...
Blumhouse of Horrors
Despite an inauspicious debut, the Blumhouse of Horrors quickly transformed itself into one of the best Halloween Haunts in Los Angeles by the end of its one and only season in 2012. It was an early example of a lengthy, immersive experience with more character ...
Bones Gulch Haunted Attraction
Status: Closed. This fund-raising haunt ran for one spectacular Halloween season in 2022. Location: Jack Bones Equestrian Center - 26983 Tapia Canyon Road, Castaic 91384 Website: Bonesgulch.com Quick Take: Makings its debut for Halloween 2022, this walk-through attraction combined efforts from home haunters Beware the ...
Eek! at the Greek
Those looking for family-friendly Halloween fun in Los Angeles had no need to look no further than this annual Halloween concert of chilling classical music! Haunting the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles since 2011, Eek at the Greek offered Halloween treats for the whole family, ...
Evil Twin Studios Haunted House
Twitter: click here. After three years of Halloween haunting, this excellent attraction went on hiatus for Halloween 2016, when a suitable location could be be obtained. Beginning in 2013, Evil Twins Studios provided a remarkable and distinctive addition to the the list of fine Halloween haunters ...
Forest of Mirrors
NO LONGER IN OPERATION Halloween Home Haunt 6124 Lederer Avenue Woodland Hills, CA 91367-1329 Website: www.forestofmirrors.com After Halloween 2013, this unique amateur home haunt faded into the mists of time (though we heard second-hand that it lived on one more year, as smaller event for friends and neighbors ...
Fright Fair Screampark
Fright Fair Scream Park History With a history stretching back to the 1990s, Fright Fair Screampark was the longest running, non-theme park Halloween haunt in Los Angeles, until it lost is location after the 2014 season. Last we heard, efforts were underway to either reopen ...
Fright Gallery
* NO LONGER IN OPERATION Halloween Yard Haunt 454 South Lamer Street Burbank, CA NOTE: This haunt's website has been down since 2009, indicating that Fright Gallery has gone to the grave forever. FRIGHT GALLERY HISTORY: Describing itself as a "terrifyingly hilarious experience in suburban ...
Grimmstone Cemetery Yard Haunt
NO LONGER IN OPERATION 6706 Blewett Avenue Van Nuys, CA E-Mail: Grimmstone13@aol.com Website: www.grimmstonecemetery.com This was one of the must-see amateur haunts in Los Angeles. Basically, Grimmstone Cemetery was a circular driveway loaded with elaborate mechanical effects (moving tombstones, creaking coffins, a talking skeleton, a floating ghost, etc) ...
Hallowed Haunting Grounds
* Halloween Home Haunt Formerly at: 4343 Babcock Avenue, Studio City, CA www.hauntinggrounds.org This decorated yard haunt lasted until its thirty-third year, and people kept coming back - because it was the best in Los Angeles. Each year, it just grew bigger and better, until 2005, ...
Haunted Shack Home Haunt
Status: Permanently Retired. The Haunted Shack closed its doors after one last hurrah for Halloween 2022, offering a sort of greatest hits reprise of their most memorable moments. The proprietor is launching a professional haunt out of state. Hollywood Gothique wishes him great success! The ...
Haunted Vineyard
NO LONGER IN OPERATION 3099 Guasti Road Ontario, CA 562-801-2221 Website: www.thehauntedvineyard.com Having opened in 2002, The Haunted Vineyard had been going strong for two years before we discovered it in 2004. Unfortunately, it closed its doors after 2005. Although it is no longer in ...
Heritage Haunt
Halloween Attraction Hart Park - Heritage Junction 24101 San Fernando Road, Newhall, CA 91322 The Heritage Haunt was a non-profit Halloween fundraiser, set in an allegedly haunted house at Heritage Junction in Hart Park. It benefited from the authentic feel of the old Newhall Ranch House and other historical buildings ...
Hollywood Haunter
1547 Garden St., Glendale 91201 www.hollywoodhaunter.com This home haunt went on hiatus for 2015 because the proprietors were moving from their old location. Since then, the creators have been busy on other projects, but they still post how-to-haunt videos on their YouTube channel. Formerly known ...
Hollywood Hell House
Hollywood Hell House was not a typical haunted house but rather a satirical theatrical production, based on the infamous fundamentalist alternative to traditional Halloween haunts, designed to teach “young people that they can go to hell for abortion, adultery, homosexuality, drinking, and other things unless ...
Horror Made Here: A Festival of Frights
Status: Inactive. After going on hiatus in 2019, Horror Made Here remained closed in 2020 the Covid-19 lockdown. For some time afterward, the Warner Bros Studios Tours website indicated that the event would be revived in the future; since then, the page has been deleted, ...
HorrorWorld
Status: Closed Permanently: After going dark during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, HorrorWorld returned in 2021, but their Halloween show's final dates were cancelled because of permit problems, and plans were announced to sell off the haunt. As one of the best professional haunts Hollywood Gothique ...
House of Restless Spirits
NO LONGER IN OPERATION 1008 Euclid Street Santa Monica, CA Contact: ericmfx@gmail.com Website: www.houseofrestlessspirits.com House of Restless Spirits - which for many years offered some of the most amazing and imaginative effects ever seen at a Halloween haunt in Los Angeles - has been on ...
Huntington Haunt Experience
Newland House Museum 19820 Beach Boulevard, Huntington Beach, 92648 www.huntingtonhaunt.org (714) 960-0055 This excellent Halloween walk-through haunted for one season only but left an indelible impression, combining indoor and outdoor settings with story elements to create an early example of what we would now call an ...
Los Angeles Live Steamers Ghost Train
Status: Closed. The annual Halloween event came to an end with an announcement in September of 2019 that the Los Angeles Live Steamers board of directors had "decided to not host" the Ghost Train that year because of "negative politics" that left the "future...unknown." Since ...
Mabel’s 6 Feet Under Haunted Motel
Mabel's 6 Feet Under Haunted Motel (formerly Motel 6 Feet Under) Anaheim Business Expo Center 1960 South Anaheim Way, Anaheim 92805 www.mabelsfeetunder.org No Vacancies: On February 4, 2019, Mable's announced that it was closing permanently. Check out Mable's 6 Feet Under Archive: [add_posts tag=mables-6-feet-under-articles show=5] Mabel's ...
October Shadows: Halloween Art Show
Creature Features www.creaturefeatures.com This once-annual celebration of Halloween art has been on hiatus since 2016 (though other horror-themed art shows took place). With Creature Features having moved from its Burbank brick-and-mortar store in April 2018, October Shadows will not likely return until a new location ...
Old Town Haunt Halloween Attraction
NO LONGER IN OPERATION! Alas, no more! Sadly, Old Town Haunt retired after giving its final performance in 2013. This page is archived for historical reference. OLD TOWN HAUNT LEGEND: Starting in 2005, Old Town Haunt in Pasadena was one of the best Halloween Mazes ...
Revenge of the Ninja Block Party
Status: Closed. The last time we heard from the proprietors, they were seeking a new, permanent location for their maze while continuing their annual Halloween block party. Since then, the event went dark during the 2020 pandemic, and their website is down. Revenge of the ...
Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns
Website: therise.org After haunting Los Angeles for a few years, Rise of the Jack O'Lanterns went on hiatus as a branded event, though it sometimes lends a hand to other haunts and it continues to present annual Halloween events in New York. It has been replaced ...
Seaside Haunt
NO LONGER IN OPERATION Seaside Park Ventura County Fairgrounds 10 Harbor Blvd (corner of Figueroa) Ventura, CA 93001 This once great Halloween attraction, with its foggy seaside atmosphere, suffered from diminishing returns when it expanding to two mazes in 2008. Since the death of owner ...
Sherwood Scare Home Haunt
8856 Encino Avenue Northridge www.sherwoodscare.com Since going dark in 2015, Sherwood Scare remains on indefinite hiatus. A permanent retirement was never announced, but the message on the official website leaves little hope for a resurrection: "Unfortunately, we will once again not be opening for the ...
Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction
2022 Status: Sinister Pointe has not presented a walk-through Halloween haunt of its own since 2018. Instead, the company is currently offering overnight stays in a motel room modeled after Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. The room tends to book up well in advance, but dates are ...
Spooky House Halloween Haunt
No Longer in Operation Professional Haunted House 21512 Nordhoff Street Chatsworth, CA Website: spookyhouse.com (down) Until the death of owner Bob Koritzki in July of 2009, Spooky House was of the most successful Halloween attractions in Los Angeles. Spooky House was an early example of a ...
Theatre 68 Haunted House
Theatre 68 5112 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood, CA 91601 www.68centcrew.com Theatre 68's Haunted House was a forerunner of today's interactive haunts. Though Theatre 68 remains active, they have not presented their haunted house since 2012. THEATRE 68 HAUNTED HOUSE HISTORY Last for seven years (2006 ...
Turbidite Manor Haunted House
* NO LONGER IN LOS ANGLES turbiditemanor.com This genuinely spooky simulation of a haunted house, presented as a self-guided tour that gets out of hand when ghosts break loose from the containment grid, offered truly unnerving effects. After appearing as part of Spooky in 2006, ...
West Hollywood Haunted Pub Crawl
NO LONGER IN OPERATION The official website (wehopubcrawl.com) for the West Hollywood Haunted Pub Crawl expired in September 2018, and our inquiries to the proprietor have gone unanswered. Sadly, we do not expect this excellent event to return. West Hollywood Haunted Pub Crawl Overview The ...
