Creepin It Real: St. Louis Hal­loween At­trac­tions

With Hal­loween ap­proach­ing, there are plenty of at­trac­tions and ac­tiv­i­ties to do in the St. Louis com­mu­nity. To avoid a lack­lus­ter Hal­loween, be­low is a list of spooky at­trac­tions to check out this month.

The Dark­ness

Ad­dress: 1525 South 8th Street, St. Louis, MO 63104

Price: $25 (Pur­chase tick­ets here)

The Dark­ness has been haunt­ing the St. Louis city since 1994. For the 24th sea­son, The Dark­ness was up­graded with new scenes, props, an­i­ma­tions and spe­cial sound and vi­sual ef­fects. In ad­di­tion, The Dark­ness will fea­ture at­trac­tions like The Dark­ness haunted house, Ter­ror Vi­sions 3D haunted house, an out­door scare zone, a mon­ster mu­seum and a gift store.

The Dark­ness will be open nightly from Oct. 19 un­til Oct. 31 with times rang­ing from 6:30 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. To check out dates for fu­ture events and times, see their sched­ule.

Creep­y­world

Ad­dress: 1400 S Old High­way 141, Fen­ton, MO 63026

Price: $25 (Pur­chase tick­ets here)

Re­ferred to as Amer­i­ca’s longest and biggest haunted house scream park, Creep­y­world fea­tures 13 haunted at­trac­tions, in­clud­ing Trick R Treat Haunted Hayride and Quar­an­tine World War Zom­bie. In ad­di­tion, the Haunted Houses will in­clude ‘Kram­pus A Christ­mas Hor­ror Story,’ ‘St. Lu­cifer’s Hos­pi­tal,’ ‘Horn­buckel Pig Farm,’ ‘Haunted Grave­yard’ and plenty more.

Se­nior in­ter­ac­tive de­sign ma­jor, Christina Isa­iah, ex­pressed her fear dur­ing her time at Creep­y­world.

“Go­ing through in­door and out­door build­ings, it was hard to see. In ad­di­tion, peo­ple are jump­ing out at you,” Isa­iah said. “The makeup jobs on the ac­tors are re­al­is­tic, and I can tell every­one was pas­sion­ate about their role.”

Creep­y­world will be open nightly from Oct. 19 un­til Oct. 31 with times rang­ing from 6 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. To look at op­er­a­tion dates, check out their cal­en­dar.

The Abyss at Lemp Brew­ery 

Ad­dress: 3500 Lemp Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118

Price: $25 (Pur­chase tick­ets here)

Built in the 1860s, the Lemp Man­sion was home to the Lemp fam­ily. The man­sion is sit­u­ated next to their old fam­ily busi­ness, The Lemp Brew­ery. How­ever, from 1919 to 1949, five deaths/​sui­cides oc­curred within the Lemp Fam­ily.

The Lemp Brew­ery haunted house spans over 100 feet un­der­ground in caves and tun­nels. Un­like other haunted houses, the Abyss has au­then­tic stone and cas­tle walls with art an­i­ma­tions and light­ing to high­light the gothic look.

The Abyss will be open from Oct. 20 to Oct. 21 and Oct. 27 to Oct. 28 from 7 p.m. to mid­night. In ad­di­tion, Lemp will be open from Oct. 29 to Oct. 30 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Oct. 31 un­til Nov. 3 from 4 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. To learn more his­tory about the Lemp Brew­ery, click here.

St. Louis Es­cape

Ad­dress: 1517 South 8th Street, St. Louis, MO 63104

Price: Range from $25 to $28 (Pur­chase tick­ets here)

Next door to The Dark­ness, St. Louis Es­cape is one of the high­est rated es­cape rooms in Amer­ica. St. Louis es­cape fea­tures four dif­fer­ent es­cape rooms in­clud­ing Haunted Ho­tel, Cel­lar Es­cape, Mummy Es­cape and Sub­way Es­cape.

In Cel­lar Es­cape, the sce­nario is that a se­r­ial killer has locked peo­ple in a dark base­ment. In an hour, the se­r­ial killer will re­turn to kill the in­di­vid­u­als locked in the base­ment. The es­cape game fea­tures the se­r­ial killer giv­ing clues that will solve puz­zles to help the team es­cape.

St. Louis Es­cape is open every day, how­ever the times vary. To get more in­for­ma­tion on the sched­ule, click here.

Six Flags Fright Fest

Ad­dress: 4900 Six Flags Road, Eu­reka, MO 63025

Price: Range from $41.99 to $56.99 (Pur­chase tick­ets here)

From Sept. 29 to Oct. 31, Six Flags St. Louis Fright Fest is in ac­tion. Fright Fest is known for zom­bies and ghouls that roam around the park “for their daily hunt­ing rit­u­als.” Fright Fest of­fers many thrills and ac­tiv­i­ties like haunted houses and scare zones through­out the park.

Ju­nior pre-med bi­ol­ogy ma­jor, Marta Rasas, ex­plained what makes Fright Fest dif­fer­ent from oth­ers.

“Walk­ing around, then be­ing fright­ened by the Six Flags zom­bies and mon­sters was ter­ri­fy­ing,” Rasas ex­claimed. “They [mon­sters] jumped out of the bushes and be­gan chas­ing my friends and I when we least ex­pected it.”

One of the scare zones fea­tured is Syco­phants, which is lo­cated in DC Comics Plaza. In this zone, Python and his team of Syco­phants plan to take over Fright Fest with a few tricks and chain­saw wield­ing min­ions. An­other at­trac­tion in­volved is “Re­al­ity?” fea­tur­ing il­lu­sion­ist Johnny Magic. Magic will have his au­di­ence par­tic­i­pants in­volved do­ing var­i­ous mind-blog­ging ac­tiv­i­ties.

Six Flags Fright Fest will be open every Thurs­day from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sat­ur­day from noon to mid­night, Sun­day from noon to 9 p.m. On Oct. 30 to Oct. 31, Fright Fest will be open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. To look at other ac­tiv­i­ties at Fright Fest, click here.

Let us know where you like to visit dur­ing Hal­loween visit in the com­ments be­low!