Haunted Houses

Halloween is coming up, and we all know what that means: Christmas stuff starts showing up in stores any minute now. Also, on Halloween weekend, we'll be going to lots of haunted houses, haunted garages, haunted mazes, haunted cul-de-sacs and haunted, well, anything you can stick a light-up ghost on. But ...

There's a chill in the air, brandy is slowly edging out rum as the drink of choice, and the skin around our eyes is brutally chapped -- must be Autumn! And you know what that means -- time for some laughs courtesy of perennial favorite Nightmares Fear Factory, a haunted house in Niagara Falls with a hidden camera that takes pictures of people while they're having the crap scared out of them. Hilar

If you're thinking of celebrating Halloween by going to a haunted house attraction, you also might want to schedule an appointment with a psychologist the following morning.

A couple in New Jersey are suing a landlord for their security deposit after fleeing a rental home they say is haunted. The landlord, meanwhile, alleges that the couple is simply trying to break their lease. Who do you believe?

When it comes to serious haunted houses, if they want to scare you, they're probably going to scare you. So as much as ABC 7's Kimberly Craig was hoping to walk out of Pontiac, Michigan's 4-story, Guinness World Record holding Erebus Haunted Attraction with little more than a few goosebumps, ultimately she wound helpless on the floor, surrounded by zombies.

Just in time for Halloween, 'Today' anchors Lester Holt, Amy Robach and Jenna Wolfe joined the cast of SyFy's 'Ghost Hunters' to search for spirits at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Mighty brave, given that the abandoned prison is supposedly a hotbed of paranormal activity.

Scare Stars is a video site for Chambers of Fear, a haunted house attraction in Surprise, AZ.  We're guessing somebody in Surprise wanted to live up to the town's name. The site posts dozens of videos daily of their favorite terrified haunted house customers, so we went through and found ten of the most hilarious.

Three ditzy Tampa Bay Buccaneer cheerleaders visit the Howl-O-Scream 2011 haunted house at Busch Gardens and get really scared while wearing skimpy outfits. And they make the same silly faces that the scared folks at the Nightmare Fear Factory make. What more do you need for Halloween fun?

For the majority of us, Halloween is only one day a year. But the residents of a supposedly haunted apartment complex in California experience ghostly terrors all year round, according to MSNBC.