It’s dark and foggy outside on a cold October night. You’re about to go into a haunted house with your friends, and your heart is racing while you’re in line to go inside. You’re waiting for that familiar spook that many people enjoy around Halloween.
Here are some of Milford High School’s students and a staff member’s favorite Halloween attractions to visit in the spooky season.
There are many different types of haunted attractions: Haunted houses, hayrides, festivals, etc. One that Morgan Selke, an English teacher, enjoys is one at Blake’s Cider Mill. Although there is one in South Lyon, Selke enjoys the one in Armada, Mich., more. “They are not only a cider mill,” Selke said, “They also do a haunted hayride and a haunted house.”
Their haunted house is actually a three-story haunted barn filled with ghouls and rooms that defy reality. Selke explained that the hayride has jump scares as well as creepy creatures 9as you move through the woods.
If this seems interesting to you, their tickets for the haunted hayride are $28.95 a piece, and the haunted barn is $22.95.
They also sell combos where you can get tickets for multiple different attractions for less money than buying them individually.
They will be open still during Halloween weekend, and they are going to host a Halloween bash from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Halloween.
There are also haunted festivals, such as the Rotten Manor in Holly, Mich. The festival includes a haunted asylum, house, hayride, and carnival games for an entire family to play. The festival seems to be scarier than the average haunted house.
Tickets for these attractions will be sold on site at the ticket booth. Prices vary in October depending on the day as well: they are $25 on Thur./Sun. and $35 on
Fri./Sat., they sell combo tickets as well there where you can buy tickets for 2 or 4 attractions.
“I get scared really easily,” Gia Hysko, a student of Milford High School, stated, “So I would say it’s a 9 or a 10.” Another cool thing they have here is The House of Wax, which is a building with scenes from some of the most popular horror movies.
Another student at Milford High School also enjoys the Rotten Manor. Riley Carlson said she went there a few years ago and was thrilled. She stated her favorite memory of being there with her friends and how they were all almost too scared to go inside.
“It was an 8/10 on the scare scale”, Carlson stated, “there were people hiding at every turn, and someone chased you with a chainsaw at the end”. That is definitely a way to get someone spooked.
Gabby Hawver, a senior at Milford High School, went to a Haunted attraction a little farther than the other two; she went to Cedar Point’s Halloweekends. “They have a lot of haunted houses there”, Gabby said, “It’s not just haunted houses, though, there are also actors who dress up and scare you”.
She rated it a 10/10 on the scare scale because when you’re trying to go on rides, there are people walking around scaring everyone. There are two types of tickets for these events: a Halloween attraction pass for $10 and a Ticket and Haunted attraction pass for $55.
The second of the two gets you access to both the park rides and the haunted houses. A few more haunted attractions near Milford are The Howling Haunted Trail, which is a trail in the woods with actors dressed up to scare you and jump scares. This is located in Fenton, Mich., and is recognized as one of the scariest haunts in Mich.
Tickets for this trail are $25 on Fridays online, $35 on Saturdays online, and $5 more when you buy them in person. For this trail, if you are under 16, you must be accompanied by an adult.
Another attraction is Bondao Farms’ Full Moon haunted house located in White Lake, Mich. Tickets for this haunted house are $25. The perfect thing to do around Halloween is go to haunted attractions with your friends, or if you aren’t a fan of scary things, maybe going to a cider mill like Blake’s is more your speed.
Either way, it’s hard to think about Halloween without thinking about smoke, jump scares, monsters, and fighting with your friends about who has to walk in front inside the haunted house.