Boo! Four Haunted Houses Outside The City - Photo Gallery

<strong>Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary - Philadelphia, PA </strong><br/><br/>What better place to get spooked than an actual abandoned penitentiary. A staple for 22 years, you'll find <a href="http://www.easternstate.org/halloween">Terror behind the Walls</a> at this Philadelphia prison which opened in 1829 and once housed Al Capone. With stone walls inside a castle-like fortress, you'll go through six attractions, weaving through original cell blocks. <br/><br/>You might be grabbed, separated from your group and moved into secret passageways, while going through sections including the infirmary, the machine shop, lock down and night watch, where you'll meander through the pitch blackness. A highly touted 3-D movie is an added element. Many believe that the 11 acre prison is haunted, and 60 paranormal groups investigate the site each year. You'll find out for yourself if it's possessed.

<strong>Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses - Ulster Park, NY </strong><br/><br/>The headless horseman rode near here more than 200 years ago, and you'll see a repeat at <a href="http://www.headlesshorseman.com/">this Hudson Valley experience</a>. You'll start out with a one mile haunted hay ride, populated by real and animatronic spooks. At the end? The first of six haunted houses, including the Lunar Motel, Glutton's Diner, Slithers Pet Shop, the Blood Inn and Nightshade Greenhouse, plus a labyrinth style haunted corn maze. If the live chainsaw in one of the houses isn't enough to scare you, look out for the clowns.<br/><br/> Part of the fun here is reading the stories behind each haunted house, which you can do online before you go. Those waiting for the hayride or finished with the haunted circuit can still have fun watching the illusion and other side shows, or shopping and eating on site.

<strong>Shocktoberfest - Sinking Spring, PA (outside of Reading)</strong><br/><br/><a href="http://www.shocktoberfest.com/">ShocktoberFest</a> features several disturbing attractions. Go through an abandoned industrial park where zombies were discovered during site redevelopment, while on the Zombie Revenge Haunted Hayride. Then board the prison inmate bus en route to the Prisoner of the Dead Escape haunted house. Will you go as yourself, or as a zombie? If you choose the latter, you'll try to make it through with your brain, heart and entrails still attached (in the form of flags on a flag football belt). <br/><br/>Or would you rather go through the Unknown, a maze of shipping crates stacked two stories high, where you're bombarded with spooky audio and 3-D video? If that's not frightening enough, try the Naked and Scared challenge, which caused a stir last year when a naked haunted maze was so frightening to city officials that it was modified to the "prude" option of wearing only underwear. Let's see what happens this year. At least if you're so scared you poop your pants, you'll have undies to catch it.

<strong>Frightland - Middletown, DE</strong><br/><br/>This <a href="http://www.frightland.com/">Delaware Valley fright zone</a> revolves around the Idalia family. Dad Jacob and son Thaddeus were both doctors turned revengeful and crazy, setting the scene for the ghoulfest to come. You'll go through Idalia Manor, where Thaddeus went insane and dead patients' souls may still be trapped, and through the Barn, where his daughter took her last breath. <br/><br/>Visit Zombie Town, the abandoned Western town full of ghosts and ghouls poisoned by Jacob, and walk through the Ravenwood Cemetery in the haunted woods. With eight haunted attractions, including a hayride, there's plenty of time to get your scare on, and then some carnival rides too.