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Open seasonally in October. Haunted Attraction with a new theme each year. Strobe lights, loud sounds, and smoke machines will keep you on your toes… so will the chainsaws chasing you! Travel through over a mile long corn and bamboo maze full of scares. Find updates here.
2025: Friday & Saturdays, September 26 - October 31, 2025.
$20 per person. Parking $10/car
Busch Gardens® theme park has something for all ages including seven world-class roller coasters, Sesame Street® Forest of Fun™ and Land of the Dragons®. Animal attractions, rides, carnival games, and more.
Seasonal attractions include Howl-O-Scream during the Halloween season, and Christmas Town during the winter holidays.
The Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg recreates the atmosphere and lifestyle of Virginia’s colonial capital city. The Historic Area includes 89 original 18th-century buildings, as well as hundreds more buildings reconstructed based on historical records and archaeological research. Explore our community, interact with historical interpreters, and learn more about the daily lives of the diverse men and women who lived in Williamsburg before and during the American Revolution.
Offered seasonally. This 75-minute walking tour explores the hidden meanings buried in Suffolk’s Historic Cedar Hill Cemetery. The tour will feature Victorian-era symbolism, burial practices, funerary industries, and mourning rituals. This intriguing and educational excursion will highlight how the residents of Suffolk both lived and died in the 19th century. Cedar Hill Cemetery is more than two centuries old, with roots that harken back to the founding of Suffolk. With keen eyes and curious minds, this tour will bring into focus the fascinating world of Victorian America, their obsession with death, dying, and living beyond the grave.
2025 Pricing: $7 adults; $5 seniors (60+), military, and children 12 and under.
2025 Dates: Saturday, September 20 at 6pm, Saturday, October 18 at 5:30pm, Saturday, November 15 at 4 pm.
Seasonal experience in October. Ghost Walk at Fort Monroe, Where History Meets Mystery. Explore buildings, structures, and the real life history of some of Fort Monroe’s lesser known people as we share with you some recently discovered real life stories and of course some of our traditional haunting tales!
2024 Pricing: $20+ fees.
Additional Information: Teens under 18 must be accompanied by an adult and this tour is not recommended for children under the age of 12. Walking tour. Rain or shine.
Open seasonally, select days in September/October. Frightmare is an intense and graphic indoor haunt in Chesapeake, VA. Disturbing scenes of gore, carnage and horrific mayhem! Under 18 must have a parent or guardian with them. Find updates here.
Select dates in October. Come experience real life stories and experiences from The Granby Theater staff about the ghosts that exist here at the Historic Granby Theater. Granby Theater. We have over a 100 year history here at the theater with deaths that have taken place within the theater and the ghosts that remain. Come explore our back hallways where your hair will stand up and you may even see Charlie who still roams the halls of our theater.
2025 Dates: October 3, 10, 18 & 25, 2025.
2025 Pricing: $25.50
Our Horror Tours are back to bring tales of mystery and the macabre to the streets of Hampton…and with more fun and fright than ever before! Even if you’ve been a regular on our Horror Tours in the past, you won’t want to miss their reincarnation! Not recommended for children under 8. Find updates here.
2025 Dates: October 25 & 29-31
Cost: $15/Person | Tickets will be available through the Hampton History Museum
Offered throughout the year. Would you like to visit Bacon’s Castle at night and hear spooky stories from the past? Come for a guided tour through the castle and hear tales of eerie happenings. Join our Haunted History Tours for a rare opportunity to walk through the 360-year-old halls at night. An interpreter will lead you through the house, sharing four centuries of stories. Maybe you will have your own ghostly encounter! Limited tickets will be sold for each tour, and the tour is suitable for children 12 and up. For safety, no children under 6 allowed. Find updates here.
2025 Pricing: $28.52
2025 Dates: September 20, October 11, 25, 31, 2025
Join the thousands of brave souls from across Hampton Roads who've witnessed absolute terror on 100 acres of haunted farmland in Windsor, VA. This event is an annual fundraiser for Diamonds in the Rough
2025 Dates: October 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 from 7-10pm
2025 Cost: $15-20 donation
Select dates in October. Annual Walk of Terror – a spine-chilling experience filled with thrills and scares! Join us for a night of frights as you navigate through dark corridors and encounter terrifying surprises at every turn. Get ready to face your fears and be immersed in a world of horror like never before. Don’t miss out on this hair-raising adventure! Find updates here.
Seasonal Only. Haunted Hunt Club Farm is over 30 years of EXTREME HALLOWEEN, featuring 4 Haunted Attractions, including the ever-popular Haunted Hayride with a cast of over 75 Creepy Characters nightly! Find updates here.
Seasonally on select dates in September/October. The Haunted Norfolk Tour themes are of an adult nature, and include references to ghosts, murders, suicides, and other treachery. It is at a parent’s discretion as to whether their child is mature enough for this content. 90 minute walking tour.
2025 Pricing: $25 adults, $20 children
Seasonally, on select dates in October. The Norfolk Masonic Temple transforms into the Haunted Temple. Actors take on the roles of creepy clowns, spirits, ghosts, and undead to bring the visitor’s nightmares to life, and the state-of-the-art animatronics and special effects ram up the terror. Recommended for ages 13+
2025 Pricing: $25 Cash, $25+fee Credit
2025 Dates: Friday–Sunday, October 10 - November 1. Beginning at 7pm
Offered seasonally in October. Walk the torch lit trails of Kay’s Acres this October with the creatures and lost souls from a carnival tragedy decades ago. This doesn’t mean it’s not a great place to enjoy yourself during the day. But at night, you can certainly tell.. there’s a lot here that…hasn’t left…
2025 Dates/Cost: TBA
Offered regularly throughout the year. A hair-raising encounter with the spirited side of Suffolk. Follow a costumed guide through the shadows of historic Main Street discovering stories, legends and “unexplained occurrences” by lantern light. Tales of unsolved mysteries and unresolved affairs abound throughout Suffolk’s historically hip Ghost Walk. Reservations required.
2025 Pricing: $10 adults; $8 adults age 60+, military, and children under 17. Not recommended for children under 9
2025 Dates: September 27 at 8pm. October 24 at 7pm. October 25 at 7pm. November 1 at 7pm
Ready to uncover the real horrors that lie below the surface of the Virginia Beach boardwalk? Uncover gruesome accounts of murderous sirens, insatiable pirates, and undead witches that tread the stormy waves of the Atlantic.
2025: Scheduled regularly
2025 Pricing: Adults $26, Children 6+ $17. Children under 6 are free
Open year-round. One of the country’s top ten rated haunted attractions, celebrating 35 years of screams! Walk-thru haunted house with live actors. Not recommended for kids under 10.
Escape Room - age 15+.
Ghosts of the Olde Towne Ghost Walk tell their tales of love, loss, murder and mayhem! Patrons are guided on a walking tour through the historic district of Olde Towne, Portsmouth. At each haunted house visitors hear costumed actors retell the legends of ghostly visitations and things that go bump in the night! This tour is family friendly. It’s spooky, not scary. No one jumps out to scare you.
2025 Pricing: $15 before October 1st, and $17 after October 1st. Children under 5 years old are free.
2025 Date: Friday, October 24
Multiple Tours including The Ghosts, Witches and Pirates Tour. Dead of Night Ghost Tour, Forgotten Spirits of the Past Tour, Civil War Ghost Tour, & more.
2025 Cost: $20-25
2025 Dates: Offered regularly
Select dates in September/October. Walk through if you dare… Come celebrate 30 years of haunting with the March of Dimes annual Spooky Acres Haunted House! We’ll scare the “yell” out of you! Portion of proceeds to benefit the March of Dimes.
2025 Pricing: $20 cash only
2025 Dates: September 26, 27, 28
October 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 November 1st
Open seasonally on select dates in October. Canceled in 2025. Returning in 2026. Find updates here.
A haunted walk in the dark woods provides spooky attractions for horror fans. Gruesome creatures creep from dark crevices. Leering, shrieking clowns emerge from unseen hiding spots. Even the rustle of the wind through the dry leaves induces terror.
This Halloween, those brave enough to chance a walk through Terror Woods at Great Bridge Pumpkin Patch can immerse themselves in a truly fearful experience. The lengthy, wooded trail features actors and eerie animated props that send guests scuttling. And, if guests still have their wits about them, one look at the dilapidated cabin along the trail, with its inhabitants staggering out and inching closer and closer to the path's edge, will surely send them reeling.
2025 Costs: TBA
Available seasonally, select dates in October. The Trail is more family friendly than terrifying. Please join us if you enjoy being scared! If it’s not scary enough for you, please be respectful of other guests. If you are too scared to continue, let your guide know. We have never lost a visitor!
2025 Pricing: TBA
The Original Ghost of Williamsburg Candlelight Walking Tour, The Yorktown Hallowed Ground Candlelight Walking Tour, The Extreme Ghosts of Williamsburg Candlelight Walking Tour, The Murder Tour and Pub Crawl, The Ghosts of the Williamsburg Winery, Boos and Booz Haunted Pub Crawl, The Lingering Spirits of The Williamsburg Winery Tour
Cost varies by tour. Tours offered throughout the year.
Two versions of this tour take place seasonally in October.
Family Tour: Come out and hear the stories of those buried in Virginia’s oldest continuous cemetery at St Luke’s Historic Church & Museum. This is NOT a ghost tour but it might get a little spooky at times. 2025 Pricing: $15
- Friday, October 17, 2025 at 6pm
Adults Only Twilight Cemetery Tours. Guests must be 21 years of age or older to participate. IDs will be checked. Start off with a tasting from Sly Clyde’s Cidery of Hampton and then enjoy a tour of our ancient cemetery. They say; “Dead men tell no tales,” we disagree. Come and enjoy the stories of those buried here at St Luke’s Historic Church & Museum. 2025 Pricing: $30.
- Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7pm, 8pm, and 9pm