10.21.2008 7:00 am
Head to a haunted house for Halloween
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A former employee of The Darkness in Soulard. Post-Dispatch file photo
Among the best-known events held each year around Halloween time are Keene, N.H.’s Pumpkin Festival (Oct. 25), New York’s Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (Oct. 31), New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival (Oct. 24-26), and the pumpkin-tossing contest in Bridgeville, Del., called Punkin Chunkin (Oct. 31-Nov. 2).
But if none of those are convenient and you’re looking for some spooky fun closer to home, here are 13 of the Haunted House Association’s top picks for haunted houses around the country, chosen from among 2,200 such attractions:
- -The Darkness, St. Louis
- -7 Floors of Hell, Cleveland, Ohio
- -13th Gate Haunted House, Baton Rouge, La.
- -Nightmare on 13th, Salt Lake City, Utah
- -Nightmare on the Bayou, Houston, Texas
- -Cutting Edge, Fort Worth, Texas
- -The Bates Motel, Philadelphia, Pa.
- -Dreamreapers Haunted House, Chicago
- -Erebus Four Story Haunted Attraction, Pontiac, Mich.
- -The Haunted Hotel, San Diego, Calif.
- -Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses, Ulster Park, N.Y.
- -Kersey Valley SpookyWoods and Maize Adventure, Greensboro, N.C.
- -NETHERWORLD Haunted House, Atlanta, Ga.
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Jackie Hutcherson is editor of STL Health, the Post-Dispatch's Thursday section dedicated to medical and health news. 
How about more haunted houses located in St. Louis as opposed to out of town since this is a St. Louis paper?!!
Have any of you more faint of heart people been to The Darkness? I want to go, but I don’t want to scar myself for life. I scare easy ; )
Oh and I agree, Caty, I thought it was going to be all St. Louis haunted houses!
Sorry about that. I just did a quick search and this link should give you plenty of scary stuff in St. Louis.
Thanks Jackie!
You’re most welcome Caty. Thanks for reading the blog. Tell your friends!