Haunted Houses in KC Open for Business!

Well, it's Halloween time again in Kansas City and can only mean one thing!  The Haunted Houses in KC are open for business. The weather is perfect right now, and there are several great sites to visit around the area.

There is something for everyone here, including children, teens and adults. Kansas City haunted houses have a wide variety of styles and themes and some are aimed at the small children, all the way up to the big kids and adults. Some are clustered together around the lower West side of downtown, and others are up north, and there are also several activities at The Kansas City Zoo.

So wrap up appropriately for the weather just in case you come across a long line. The lines to get in to some of the haunted houses in KC are actually pretty fun themselves! Great conversation and a lot of laughs as everyone anticipates getting the jeepers scared out of them once inside the houses. Thousands and thousands of Kansas Citians will be going out haunted housing during the month of October, and there are several to choose from. Some of them offer a discount to go into more than one haunted house when you buy a multi-house pass.

It's time for some great Halloween fun and some spooky good times, dress up in costume when you go out, or just wear whatever you like, there usually isn't a dress code. There is even a spooky ride you can take through all of the REAL haunted houses in KC including the Savoy Kansas City Haunted Hotel. You can go to World's of Fun, or stay in the downtown area. You can go to The Kansas City Zoo early in the day with the kids and then go out with the older children or just the adults at night to the big haunted houses.

Be sure to check out all of the haunted houses that we have listed for you here at Haunted Houses KC and have a safe and happy Halloween Kansas City!

Haunted Houses Kansas City Zoo Boo at the Zoo

It's Time for Boo at the Zoo

Celebrate Halloween with a two-day, fun-filled, safe trick or treating animal extravaganza on October 29 & 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m!

Activities include trick or treat stations, costume parade at 1 and 3 p.m, a Jack O'Lantern display, Scarecrow Express (small fee), stilt walkers and Jazzbo (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), hair feathers, Boneville Graveyard and much more.  For a complete list of activities, visitwww.kansascityzoo.org. 

Special thanks to Hy-Vee, Mars, Jack FM, Sweet Tomatoes, Supercuts, KC Royals, Blue Bunny, Commerce Bank,Studio D Dance Studio, KC Zoo Photo Club, Frito Lay and NTDF.

Haunted Houses Kansas City Zoo

Spooktacular Zoofari Overnight Come dressed in your favorite costume and celebrate a kid-friendly Halloween, Zoo style,on Saturday, October 29 from 4 p.m. and ending at 8:30 a.m on Sunday, October 30.  Enjoy all of the awesome Boo at the Zoo activities until 6 p.m. and then stay overnight for more spooktacular fun! Overnight activities include: - Admission to the Zoo - Themed activities - Up close encounter with creepy, crawly animals - Exclusive tours - Climate-controlled sleeping areas - Dinner and continental breakfast - And tons more fun! Pre-registration is required.  Please contact Education at 816.513.5723 or visitwww.kansascityzoo.org for more information.

Haunted House in Kansas City 1016 Paseo

The Henderson Mansion at 1016 Paseo used to be a showcase home back in it's day, but now represents yet another haunted house in Kansas City.  This haunted house in Kansas City is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1899, The Henderson Mansion is one of the last great mansions standing around the once glorious North Paseo district.  Back in the good old days this house would have been reserved for the highest of the upper class, and has definitely seen it's share of house parties.  One of the house parties proved fatal for one of it's last owners.  On August 21st, 1978, Johnny Howard was brutally shot in the face during a small party that he was hosting one early evening when an intruder broke through a glass door.  Howard's killer was never caught nor identified, and after this brutal murder took place in the mansion, it has been on the market untouched to this day.  The house currently sits waiting for it's next owner, listed at $455,000 by Reece Nichols.  But this house is deep in the Kansas City ghetto, and you would have to install a pretty serious security system to keep out the bugga boos.

Many believe that the mansion is haunted and it has recently been added to the list of famous haunted houses in Kansas City.

Haunted Houses in Kansas City - Haunted Specials!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

If you haven't had the opportunity to visit two of Kansas City's best Haunted Houses, then now is the time to grab a couple of friends and head out to MACABRE CINEMA and THE CHAMBERS of EDGAR ALLAN POE.

MACABRE CINEMA 816-842-4280 / INFO LINE: 816-842-0320 Don't just watch it, LIVE the action of classic and contemporary horror scenes on your 45 minute one hour adventure through our haunted 1930s movie theatre. Save $3.00 off a single or combo ticket w/ MyJoeCard! THE CHAMBERS of EDGAR ALLAN POE 816-842-4280 Come journey through the imaginative and twisted tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Live your favorite nightmarish tales like The Raven, The House of Usher, Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and more! Save $3.00 off a single or combo ticket to your journey through the imaginative and twisted tales of Edgar Allan Poe w/ MyJoeCard.

Haunted House Party Release - Monster Bash in San Diego

Travelling out of KC for Halloween this year?

Maybe you aren't going to get a chance to go to any Haunted Houses in Kansas City this year because you're going to be in San Diego at the Monster Bash!

Well, if that's the case, Save 15% on tickets to San Diego's best Halloween party below:

Party with the undead at the biggest Halloween bash in San Diego, the 10th Annual Dos Equis XX Monster Bash! The madness begins on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 from 6:00 PM to Midnight on the outskirts of the Gaslamp at 7th Avenue between Market and J Street and on Island Avenue between 6th and 8th Avenues. See live performances from great bands and dance the night away to Southern California's hottest DJ's. Monster Bash once again presents its world famous Costume Contest giving all creative minds the chance to win a Grand Prize of $3,000 CASH!!!

Date: Saturday Oct. 30th
Time: 6pm to 12 pm
Location: 7th and Market St./J St. Downtown San Diego

Save 15% on tickets when you purchase now!

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Kansas City Haunted Houses are Up and Running in KC

Kansas City Haunted Houses are Up and Running for the 2010 Season

It's that time of year again, time to get your scare on! We'll give you the rundown of all things spooky for the upcoming Halloween season. There are two old favorites and two newcomers to the Haunted House Landscape.

Old Favorites:


The Edge of Hell
1300 W 12th St, KCMO
816-842-0320

Granddaddy of Haunted Houses, the oldest in Kansas City, and possibly the nation, it probably scared your parents back in the day. This is the 35th season for familiar faces like "Ratman" entertaining and scaring guests as they wait in line to get in. Inside you will face five stories of terror as you ascend into "Heaven" passing huge live snakes, vampires, and other demons as 45 live entertainers scare the daylights out of you. Of course there is also the obligatory stumbling around in the dark (which is usually just as terrifying) anticipating the next creature to leap from behind the next wall. After your 30 minutes of screams and strobe lights, you are treated to a five story slide into the depths of Hell and into the arms of the Devil himself!

Tickets range from $23 on weeknights to $37 for a weekend "Line Pass" (gets you by the usually extensive line waiting on weekends)

Open Friday and Saturday in September, Thursday through Sunday in October - doors open around 7:30 and close around Midnight.
Click here to get tickets online

The Beast
1401 W 13th St, KCMO
816-842-0320

The Beast is a Werewolf themed venue. Since it's founding in 1991, The Beast has offered a different take on a haunted house. Here, you are not simply following a line of people in the dark, you are actually part of the action. It's "open format" has you lost in the fog of the Werewolf Forest, Jack the Ripper's London, or the Swamp. Billed as the largest haunted house in the country, you will get your money's worth as it takes nearly an hour to exit the madness.

Hours and prices are the same as Edge of Hell, however a combo ticket for both houses can be purchased and range from $36 to $64.

New in the last few years:

Macabre Cinema & The Chambers of Poe

1222 W 12th St, KCMO

816-842-0320

The Macabre Cinema (used to be the Catacombs back in the day) is, you guessed it, a horror movie themed house. All the scenes from the classic movies that scared you as a child (or adult) are here. Jason, Freddie, Pinhead, and others are waiting to make you scream.

The Chambers of Poe (formerly the Main Street Morgue) has rooms centered around the classic stories of Edgar Allen Poe. Being a Literary based Haunted House it is a little more subdued in its scariness (more creepy really) than the other choices.

These two houses are located right around the corner from each other and a combo ticket can be purchased for $30 - otherwise they are $20 each. Macabre Cinema and Chambers of Poe are only open on Friday and Saturday nights through Halloween.

Other Halloween themed Attractions

Halloween Haunt

Worlds of Fun

4545 Worlds of Fun Ave, KCMO

816-454-4545

Halloween Haunt is World of Fun's take on Halloween. At 8PM on Fridays and Saturdays from September 18-October 31st, They turn sections of their park into Halloween themed attractions. There are nine in all including:

Asylum Island - A Sanitarium themed haunt

Bloodshed - Meat Processing at the slaughterhouse gone horribly wrong

Master McCarthy's Doll Factory - Psychotic killer turns victims into dolls.

Fright Zone - Traditional foggy, dark, confusing, haunted experience.

and new for this year,

Corn Stalkers - Think Children of the Corn.

Price is included in admission to Worlds of Fun $26.99 (Fri after 6PM, Sat after 4PM) $19.99 for guests under 48" tall.

Haunted Benjamin Ranch

6401 E 87th St, KCMO

816-761-5055

This is a brand new attraction, and the only one in South Kansas City. The premise here is that the old Benjamin Ranch was closed because it was haunted. Obviously a ranch or western based Haunt. You will brave the Haunted Stables and in the Quarantined Animal Barn (that sounds interesting?) - then on to the one of a kind Stockpen Cage Maze. There is also a more traditional Haunted Hayride available. You don't wait in line here, instead groups will wait in "The Corral of Doom" with entertainment provided by Sheriff Dusty Cadaver and a mechanical bull? Definitely sounds like a different kind of show. You should check it out.

Open Thursday through Sunday nights beginning September 24th - October 31st. Gates open at 6PM - last ticket sold at 10PM. cost is $25 at the gate, but specials can be had at their website, including $10 on opening night Sept 24th.

Macabre Cinema Haunted House Kansas City

Macabre Cinema Haunted House Kansas City
1222 W 12th St
Kansas City, MO 64101-1408
(816) 471-2250
As their motto says, "Lights, Camera, Scream!" - The Macabre Cinema Haunted House in Kansas City presents an all new form of haunted house to the fright seeking public.  Set in a 4 story 1930's movie theater, this unique new haunted house takes you through an hour tour through multiple rooms featuring scenes from your favorite horror movies, some new, some old.  Instead of watching the movies, you'll be living them!  Four floors of great movie moments, and, if you dare, there is always....the dungeon.

Please call ahead for ticket information on Macabre Cinema Haunted House, thank you.

Chambers of Edgar Allan Poe Kansas City Haunted House

Chambers of Edgar Allan Poe Kansas City Haunted House
1100 Santa Fe Street
Kansas City, Missouri  64101
816-842-4280
Though not much is known about this new haunted house, The Chambers of Edgar Allan Poe is a series of rooms where you will experience several of Edgar Allan Poe's grim tales.  Get buried alive in The Raven Room and test your claustrophobic limits in other rooms.  This new haunted house is open every Friday and Saturday from now until Halloween as well as Thursday - Sunday in the last weeks leading up to All Hallow's Eve.

Edgar Allan Poe works that this haunted house covers include:  The Raven, The House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Black Cat.

Prices are $20 each, $33 per couple, $64 for a group of four

Ghosts and Gangsters Tour Kansas City

Ghosts and Gangsters Tour Kansas City

Departing from The Edge of Hell on Friday and Saturday Nights at 6pm and again at 9pm, The Ghosts and Gangsters Tour in Kansas City is a ride you will never forget!  Climb aboard this haunted coach that will take you on a tour of Kansas City's most haunted sites including The Savoy Hotel, where the ghost of Betsy Ward still haunts room 505, visit a church where the minister committed suicide and haunts the church to this day trying to gain redemption.  Also visit numerous famous Kansas City gangster hotspots where several ghosts are sure to remain.  This tour should also roll through Westport, an area that is now a ghost town - haha.  Ticket price for the Ghosts and Gangsters Tour are $25.00 each.

A side note on the Savoy Hotel, we used to know the owner's son and we used to go to the hotel after partying at a bar next door.  We would open up the HUGE kitchen (which looks like the kitchen from "The Shining") and cook up some 4am dinner.  We would then scatter to the various hotel rooms (there were usually around 5 - 10 of us) and stay the night.  The Savoy Hotel is DEFINITELY haunted and we always had a KILLER time at The Savoy :)   The picture above is of Apartment 505 in the hotel - this is the room where Betsy Ward is known to haunt regularly.  There is another ghost resident at The Savoy.  His name is Fred Lightner and he has been seen by several hotel residents haunting his former room.  Fred Lightner's wife remained in the hotel for years after her husband's death.  A guest of the hotel went to Mrs. Lightner's room to borrow something and heard her talking to someone before answering the door.  When she answered the door there was a man in a double breasted 30's era suit standing next to her, the figure of the man was very grey and slightly faded.  The figure of the man suddenly vanished and the guest asked Mrs. Lightner if she saw the man's figure as well.  To this she replied "Oh, yes, that's my husband Fred".  Mrs. Lightner has since passed on but it is said that Fred still haunts several rooms at The Savoy to this day.