The 5 Most Disturbing Haunted Houses in America

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Everyone has heard of the murder-hotel where dark shadows creep at the edge of your vision, or the abandoned house where the furniture moves each time you leave the room.

But sometimes the places set up to capture the fun and fright of the Halloween season for paying customers can be far more horrifying than any ghost stories. These “fake” haunted houses will leave you genuinely haunted.

Pennhurst Haunted Asylum

Pennhurst Asylum was in operation from 1908-1987 in the small town of Spring City, Pennsylvania. While we don’t have all the records of the residents’ experiences there, it doesn’t take much imagination to realize that this building was home to true horrors. In many ways, 1908 wasn’t that long ago, but in terms of mental health treatment—especially in small-town Pennsylvania—it was absolutely the dark ages. This was the time of lobotomies, straight jackets, and shock therapy. Whatever the jump scares and fake blood contribute to the fear you will feel walking through Pennhurst Asylum’s aging, echoing halls, they can’t come close to the deep, sinking feeling caused by the deep history of torment that has left its imprint on the very fabric of the place. Four spooky skulls out of five.

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