Here's the ones I can find. Anyone have a favorite?

Haunted Forrest at Panic Point
http://www.raleighhauntedhouse.com/

Fear Farm
http://www.claytonfearfarm.com/home/

Woods of Terror (Greensboro)
http://www.woodsofterror.com/flash/index.html#/home

Dark Side Haunted House
http://www.darksidehauntedestates.com/

9/26/2012 12:49:57 PM

Dorthea Dix

9/26/2012 1:03:05 PM

There's a Living Social deal for that one in Youngsville: http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/45-raleigh/deals/396270-haunted-forest-admission

I went to Spookywoods a couple years ago and it was pretty good: http://www.spookywoods.com/ It's out near High Point.

9/26/2012 1:13:02 PM

i didnt think the woods of terror was very good

please recommend haunted events where they can actually come within 2 feet of you and they take smaller groups at a time.

[Edited on September 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM. Reason : s]

9/26/2012 1:29:26 PM

^ At Spookywoods they came pretty close. We had one guy get right up into the face of one of the girls in our group that was terrified. It was hilarious. It was about 8 people in a group but the only crappy thing was we went on a busy weekend night so they weren't allowing a whole lot of time between groups. It seems like these places are always best if you go in the beginning of the month on a weekday when no one else is there.

9/26/2012 1:34:13 PM

Coming really close isn't a good definition of a good place. When we went to the Woods of Terror, they told us that they would not get within 5 feet, but some of the actors still did and very poorly I might add.
They would jump out then just walk up to you and stare at you as if that was their only trick. Two even got so close they got all their excessive metal junk stuck in my gf's hair. It was . . . just awful.

9/26/2012 1:54:56 PM

Drive down to Wilmington.

This haunt is worth the $20 entry fee.

http://www.panicattackhaunt.com/

9/26/2012 9:23:25 PM

My place. A spider just crawled over my face while i was in bed.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on September 27, 2012 at 6:15 AM. Reason : literally over my eye.]

9/27/2012 6:15:36 AM

The Original Hollywood Horror Show in Snow Camp was great. It's closer than Spookywoods or Woods of Terror (Alamance County). The guy who runs it was a film maker and a make-up artist or something in Hollywood.
http://originalhollywoodhorrorshow.com/

Also, and this could be completely bullshit, but they say the actual house it's in is haunted. Apparently it's over 100 years old and had some bad stuff happen in there (one of the workers died once, supposedly). Definitely a creepy vibe.

9/27/2012 11:00:42 PM

Quote :

"Also, and this could be is completely bullshit, but they say the actual house it's in is haunted."

Fixed it for you.

9/28/2012 12:57:18 AM

Yeah, well, it's still a creepy place. Out in the middle of absolutely nowhere too.

The best one I went to was in Winston-Salem, right behind SciWorks, in this abandoned psychiatric ward. Dozens of people died in there, and others were left for dead. At one point, they turn you loose in a "maze" that's completely dark. Random people with night vision were hiding in the maze and would reach and grab you when you walked by; some had chainsaws. As a 10-year-old, it was damn near traumatizing.

I think they tore the building down a few years ago.

9/28/2012 10:51:40 AM

I never realized that Hollywood one was only an hour from here. That may be what I go send my house guests to do next month the night I have class

[Edited on September 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM. Reason : d]

9/28/2012 11:08:24 AM

Woods of Terror is lame, unless they have stepped it up this year.

9/28/2012 11:27:37 AM

Are there any in Raleigh that are decent?

9/28/2012 10:26:14 PM

I can't vouch for it, but if you wanna check one out nearby, Clayton Fear Farm might be your best bet. (Terrifying name ... I know.)

http://www.claytonfearfarm.com/

10/1/2012 4:38:31 PM

Didn't Spookywoods get robbed a couple of years ago?

10/1/2012 4:49:54 PM

WWW.goldsborohauntedhouse.com

10/2/2012 10:26:30 PM

Has anybody been to any?

I went to Clayton Fear Farm a few years ago. It was pretty good, had several haunted houses and a haunted hay ride.

10/4/2012 1:49:05 PM

I'm kind of annoyed Clayton Fear Farm isn't open on the 22nd. That's the only day my visiting friends can go to one of these places and that's a faster drive from my place than the one in Snow Camp. I always figured these places stayed open daily the week before Halloween.

10/4/2012 2:11:43 PM

lets go to a real haunted house

who is that user that does the ghost hunting?

10/8/2012 9:25:00 AM

Im actually the one running the Goldsborohauntedhouse.com

I will say ive been to most of these others throughout the state and the nightmare factory in havelock is the only one I really like.

Clayton fear farm is way overrated. its quite terrible actually.

We dont have all the multiple houses/trails like other haunts but we try and do a dern good job of making you piss your pants.

10/8/2012 11:21:35 AM

This may be a good place to start a discussion that is relevant to my interest.

What defines a good scare versus a bad one in regards to haunted attractions? In essence, what makes you say "ohhh that place sucked" compared to "omg that was so good!"

10/8/2012 3:28:10 PM

cheese is bad

10/8/2012 3:44:14 PM

With the Woods of Terror, aside from my earlier complaints, a big concern was their group sizes and lack of distributed scares. For instance, they made everyone in the group stay in an essentially straight line of 15 people. All the "scares" happened at the front of the line and by our turn the people had already started getting ready for the next group.

Then on the final portion (the haunted hay ride), we made sure to get to the middle-front portion of the ride because we assumed that would be where the first scares would occur. But then they just did stuff to the people on the very very back and ignored all others.

So I would say smaller groups and making sure to scare all sections of a group is a good thing to look for. Simply going after the front for every scare is lazy and loses appeal. They just didn't get that sometimes scares from areas that some people have already walked past can be just as good (or even better).

In terms of the actual scares I like, I did enjoy their section where you walked through a bus and cornfield that reminded me of scenes from Jeepers Creepers.

[Edited on October 8, 2012 at 4:48 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2012 4:46:34 PM

ok we need ideas for help in one of our rooms

we have a little girl walking around with a jack in the box and a large jack in the box in the corner...from behind an evil clown comes out and scares...but it hasnt had the best reaction yet...i guess only certain people are afraid of clowns?

any ideas to make it creepier/scarier?

10/16/2012 2:19:14 PM

Sounds like an issue of timing. Also, everyone expects someone to jump out from the jack in the box so it's not really a surprise. It'd probably freak people out more if they walk past the jack in the box, think they're in the clear, and the dude suddenly jumps out from a dark corner near the exit or something.

10/16/2012 2:51:53 PM

So I'm going to the Spookywoods thing this year and ended up getting the livingsocial deal posted above..


So, buy through my link!
https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/486526?ref=conf-jp&rpi=88029798

10/17/2012 8:49:40 AM

just go to ken's korny corn maze in garner

10/18/2012 12:56:13 AM

Bump

10/13/2013 10:44:38 PM

I thought there was one near Garner that was pretty good a year or two ago. A few haunted houses, a pretty extensive hay ride with a bunch of buildings, an un-haunted corn maze, and this disorienting tube thing you walked through. That ring any bells?

10/13/2013 11:02:35 PM

I want to try the haunted prison in Philly sometime, but it won't be this year.

10/14/2013 9:15:58 AM

^^perhaps you are thinking about the clayton fear farm?

10/14/2013 8:11:33 PM

^ that's the one I think, but they had a corn maze when I did it, so the cotton thing threw me off. i'm guessing they're trying cotton now and it's not working out.

10/14/2013 8:39:07 PM

Looks like they're not doing the ghost ship thing in Wilmington this year: http://www.battleshipnc.com/Events/GhostShip

So maybe the panic attack thing would be good for after beerfest this time.

10/14/2013 9:35:40 PM

So are there no haunted houses in Raleigh? I remember they used to be ones in empty stores, etc.

10/17/2013 3:55:17 PM

^ None that I can tell, the Jaycees aren't doing one this year, not sure if they have the past few...

10/17/2013 4:10:39 PM

doesn't Oakwood Cemetery do ghost tours? I can't find any info.

10/17/2013 5:04:20 PM

Mordecai always has haunted tours

10/17/2013 5:22:22 PM

Has anyone else been to the Hollywood Horror Show one? Trying to figure out of it's worth the drive or not...

http://originalhollywoodhorrorshow.com/

10/19/2013 11:47:57 AM

corner of Oakwood and East St.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/27/3318273/oakwoods-spooky-madhouse-draws.html

Dude played football for State in the 80s and went to the Peach Bowl

10/28/2013 10:56:08 AM

I realize that this thread is meant for attractions local to Raleigh but if any of you guys happen to find yourself in Louisville, KY anytime in the future I highly encourage you to check out Waverly Hill Sanitarium. It's an actual old insane asylum that was shut down in 1962 and is allegedly haunted (if you believe in ghosts and all that crap). It's been on all those ghost hunter shows and stuff. I was in Louisville this weekend and my friends went on a ghost tour of this place at about 1am and it was way scarier than any of the "traditional" haunted houses with actors in makeup, props, etc. Something like 60,000 people died there. One of my friends was so creeped out that he was reciting the Lord's Prayer over and over again.

10/28/2013 11:57:23 AM

^^is that a haunted house? Or just his front yard?

10/28/2013 12:50:15 PM

front yard...

there's also a really cool decorated house on Nottingham Dr near Lake Boone Trail. Dozens of manequins and dummies

10/28/2013 12:55:11 PM

anyone ever gone to this place?

http://www.raleighhauntedhouse.com/

10/28/2013 2:52:54 PM

^ We took my friend's nephews to this on Saturday night, and I was totally pumped to be scared.

The whole thing is super lame- waited an hour to go through the main attraction (Haunted Forest), and only spooked once at a door slamming. Gore, bloody children, etc. don't creep me out, so I need loud noises and surprises to do the trick.

I want my $15 back.

10/28/2013 11:12:01 PM

is the Fear Farm any good this year?

10/29/2013 1:30:20 AM

^^thanks. I'm like you, not that easy to scare.

10/29/2013 8:15:21 AM

the fear farm may or may not be goot this year, but at this point you pretty much need to be there hours before it opens to get in. too many loud high schoolers as well. you can't be scared if you hear people screaming just ahead of you.

10/31/2013 2:01:31 PM

I plan to go to the house in Oakwood (not a haunted house, but lots of people dressed up wondering around outside and tons of outside decorations

10/20/2014 12:12:52 PM

http://raleighhauntedhouses.com/

10/20/2014 12:23:04 PM