When Halloween rises on the Falls, there’s plenty of activities to partake in such as trick-or-treating, festivals, pumpkin patches and even corn mazes.
However, a personal favorite of mine are visiting haunted houses. It feels as if the haunted houses give a spookier atmosphere to the Halloween season that you just can’t beat.
I started going to haunted houses about three years ago. I’ve been to ones here in Wichita Falls, and even some in the Metroplex area. All of them have different aspects and different tones and some are better than others. If you’d like to have a scare, I’d recommend listening to my experiences and maybe snagging yourself a ticket for Halloween.
One haunted house I’ve gone to was Twisted Vision near the base. This was a unique haunted house with lots of scare actors inside and around the house while waiting in line for the main event. It’s in the rural area and only open at night which makes it an eerie, spookier place.
Inside, the smell of synthetic blood and fog fill your lungs as you walk with your group throughout the cramped decorated halls. The animatronics they had were huge and spooky, and since it was dark, they painted them with glow-in-the-dark paint making them shine under the flashing lights.
Another house I’ve been to was the Dark Hour in Plano. The good thing about this haunted house is that outside of the halloween season, it turns into an escape room for fun throughout the year. This haunted house never fails to have lines out the door considering its professional look and variety of choices inside, and lets not forget the frightening scares.
Inside there are three different haunted houses to enter, giving you more Halloween fun and a bang for your buck. The scares are great and the quality and work they put into the houses are absolutely jaw-dropping. Dark hour is one of my personal favorite houses just because of the amazing quality and professionalism.
I’ve been to many haunted houses in the past three years. Some have higher conditions, some have greater scares, some have spooker atmospheres, But The Primevil Forest in Westlake, Texas just so happens to be the scariest one I’ve been to with all the best aspects rolled into one.
The Primevil Forest is located in a forest, if you couldn’t tell by the name, and has neat movie theater seats in the front facing a screen. They play a trailer video for the rules and what to expect in the forest. As you enter, they give you flashlights and a shove into the deep dark forest. As you walk, the cold crisp fall air brushes against your face and actors pop out to scare you.
No matter where you are, or what you do for Halloween, hope you have a Fright-tastic Halloween!
HOUSES I’VE BEEN TO (that I remember)
- Dark hour https://darkhourhauntedhouse.com/
- Moxley Manor Haunted House http://moxleymanor.com/
- Mad Jacks Haunted House https://www.madjackshauntedhouse.com/events
- Nightmare in the falls (no web) 916 9th St, Wichita Falls, TX 76301
- Nightmares of terrors (no web) 3111 Midwestern Pkwy, Wichita Falls
- Twisted Vision Haunted Attraction 7403 Central E Fwy, Wichita Falls https://www.twistedvisionnightterrors.com/
- The Primevil Forest in Westlake, Texas https://theprimevilforest.com/
