Blowing Screams Farm
271 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, GA 30725
Blowing Springs Farm is a haunted attraction that features
outside activities such as haunted woods, dark swamps, bonfires, nighttime
hayrides and roaming monsters. Other activities include a Kids Pumpkin Patch
Maze, Black Forest Makeovers, and a Coca-Cola Playground. The Forest of Fear
and Ghost Ride are the main attractions.
Halloween Pumpkin by Dusty Snoke |
Tickets: Tickets
can be purchased online. An All You Can
Scream Pass is $45 (website says $25 but when you go to purchase ticket it says
$45) and includes unlimited admission to haunt. General admission tickets for Blowing
Screams Farm (includes the Forest of Fear and Ghost Ride) are $16.00.
Information: Blowing
Screams Farm website.
Sir Goony Haunted Carnival
5918 Brainerd Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421
Voted Best Overall Haunted House by the Chattanooga Times
Free Press, Sir Goony’s Haunted Carnival brings 17 years of experience to their
newest show “Zombie Circus”. The show features animatronics, special effects,
30 fear engineers and a professional light and sound design.
Dates: Opening
day is Friday, September 27, 2013. The frights continue every Friday and
Saturday through October along with October 20, 27, 30 and 31.Tickets go on
sale at 7 pm and the nightmare begins at 7:30.
Tickets: $20 per adult.
Includes the Castle Nightmare plus 19 holes of haunted golf, go karts, batting
cage tokens and a $5 Papa John’s Pizza Gift Card.
Carving the pumpkin by Dusty Snoke |
Information: Sir Goonys Haunted
Carnival website
Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern
1720 South Scenic Highway, Chattanooga, TN 37409
Ruby Falls Haunted Caven was voted Top 10 in Nation by Rand
McNally. This haunt involves the cave, a bus and a top haunt so where
comfortable clothes and shoes. The shoes should be closed toe, no sandals or
flip flops. It will take around 45 minutes to complete the full trip.
Dates: Friday,
September 27, 2013 is opening day for the Haunted Cavern. The Cavern will be
open every Friday and Saturday from Sept. 27 to November 2. There are a few
extra fright nights that include every Sunday in October and Thursday, October
31 (of course)J.
Tickets: Range in
price from $23.00 to $17.00. A couple of hints…buy your ticket online and go on
a Sunday.
Information: Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern
webpage
The Haunted Hilltop
8235 Hwy 58, Harrison, TN 37341
The Haunted Hilltop offers Halloween fun for everyone
whether you like haunted houses or just a bonfire and scary movie. For one low
price, visitors can enjoy a huge haunted house, a dark maze, a long haunted
hayride through woods and a cornfield along with scary movies playing on an
outdoor tv. While waiting to enjoy the hayride or haunted house, purchase some
concessions and eat around the bonfire. New this year is the longest vortex
tunnel in the south and many new state of the art animatronics.
Dates: September
27th and 28th is opening weekend. After that The Haunted
Hilltop is open every Friday and Saturday until November 1st
including Thursday, October 21, 2013. Times are 7 till midnight opening weekend
and 7pm till 1am for the rest of the season.
Tickets: Tickets
are $20 for everything or $10 for each attraction. Tickets may be purchased
online through paypal.
Information: The Haunted Hilltop website
The Haunted Barn
5017 McDonald Road, McDonald, TN 37353
18 years of creating haunted fun makes The Haunted Barn a
must see this year. The Haunted Barn is a 16-room dark maze that victims, oops,
I mean visitors walk through. Along with the barn there is a bonfire,
concessions and a spooky graveyard. The Haunted Barn uses a number system so
there are no lines to wait in but be careful on your walk to the barn, rumor
has it that monsters are waiting on you.
Dates: Opened
every Friday and Saturday in October including Halloween and November 1 and 2.
Gates open at 7 and the last ticket is sold at Midnight.
Tickets: Tickets
are $18 for admission to the barn. All major credit cards are accepted.
Information: The Haunted Barn website
155 Depot Street, Ringgold, GA 30736
What happens when scary meets historic? A haunted train
depot of course! The historic Ringgold depot turns scary this October for three
short weeks. Not only does the depot offer up a frightening load of horror,
there are hayrides and ghost tours for the more timid members of your group. The
prices are very reasonable and well worth it. I have visited this one a few
times and have always enjoyed it.
Dates: Final
three Fridays and Saturdays in October starting at 7:00 pm
Tickets: The hay
ride is $3, the ghost tour and the haunted depot are $5 each.
Information: Ringgold’s Haunted Depot
Facebook page
Lake Whinnepespookah
1730 Lakeview Drive, Rossville, GA 30741
Chattanooga’s favorite, fun-time spot is going to the ghost
and ghouls this October. According to
their website guests can “enjoy an atmosfear of haunted rides, eerie edibles
and screaming thrills throughout this spooktacular Halloween event”.
Dates: Every
Friday and Saturday in October. Just a little note: on October 4, they will be
shooting fireworks.
Tickets: An Unlimited
Rides pass is $26 (water park is closed). Other packages are available.
Information: Lake Winnie website
Acres of Darkness
900 North Sanctuary Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421
The Chattanooga Audubon Society opens two trails for a scary
night in the woods. One trail is for kids and the faint of heart. The other is
for those who dare to enter extreme dangers in the Haunted Woods. On the
extreme trail you meet up with local legends and the natural dangers that haunt
the woods at night. Bonfires, face painting, pumpkin decorating and a black light
maze are available also.
Dates: Every
Friday and Saturday between October 18 and October 26, from 8-11
Tickets: This is
a fundraiser for the Audubon Society.
Information: Chattanooga
Audubon Society website
Mystery Dog Ranch
975 Wooten Road, Ringgold GA
Support the HOZHO Therapeutic Equestrian Services, a nonprofit
riding program used by special needs children and adults (including veterans),
by visiting Mystery Dog Ranch this October. Their “Home of the Dead” ghost town
and hayride are sure to leave you shaking in your boots.
Dates: Last three
Fridays and Saturdays in October. Ghost town opens at 7:00; hayride begins at
Dark
Tickets: Admission
is $10 with proceeds benefitting HOZHO Therapeutic Equestrian Services.
Information: Mystery Dog Ranch website