These haunted houses have been known to scare people to death, one with a heart attack victim in 2007. Do you live close to any of theses haunts?
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Erebus – This haunted house in “Haunted Pontiac, Michigan” has a running total of almost 1,000 “wetters, pukers, and fainters” so far.
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McKamey Manor – You’ve got to be at least 21 and willing to sign a waiver to experience this four-to-six-hour bondage and torture session in San Diego. Fun!
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The House of Shock – New Orleans is one of the most haunted cities in the world, so it figures it would also be home to one of the most intense haunted houses.
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Fear Overload Scream Park – The centerpiece of this haunted attraction in San Leandro, CA is “7 Deadly Sins,” a Se7en-inspired murder-maze navigated with a flashlight in otherwise complete darkness.
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Blood Manor – It’s called “Blood Manor” but the theme of this massive 5,000-square-foot maze in New York City is “insane asylum,” albeit a bloody one.
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Terror Behind the Walls – A former prison complex in Philadelphia is now Terror Behind the Walls, a prison-escape-themed haunted attraction with “Touch” and “No Touch” variants
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Fear Experience – Cleveland’s premiere haunted attraction started as “zombie laser tag,” but has expanded to include myriad other varieties of shock and horror.
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The 13th Gate – This Baton Rouge frightfest puts an even higher premium on realism and believability than usual for the form, which might make it a good choice for anyone on the fence about going to medical school.
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The Hex House – Tulsa, OK’s Hex House borrows its storyline from one of Oklahoma’s most notorious criminals: Carolann Smith, who kept two women as hypnotized slaves back in the 1940s.
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The Dent Schoolhouse – Another haunted house that borrows from real life is The Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, which is purportedly located in an actual old haunted schoolhouse.
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Cutting Edge Haunted House – One tagline for Cutting Edge in Fort Worth is an experience you can only hope to forget, which might be difficult since it takes at least an hour to experience fully.
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House of Torment – Chicago’s House of Torment is known and franchised throughout the country for its cinematic and psychologically engineered shocks.
