Haunted House Season Wrap Up

From the over 200 employees that made Scarefest.com happen in 2008, we'd all like to thank you for your WONDERFUL support of both The Darkness and Creepyworld. Both attractions will be back and BIGGER than ever in 2009.

What is planned as of right now?

The Darkness will have TWO new attractions built into our new $600,000.00 building addition. The Darkness now has over 16,000 additional square feet and inside this space you will travel through the freaky World of Terror Visions in 3D, and finally through our new Horror Museum, which leads to our Darkness gift store.

The Darkness will DOUBLE in size in 2009. As you can see in the photo the building is ALMOST DONE! We'll update you right here on Scarefest.com all winter and summer long.

Creepyworld will feature another new attraction bringing the total attractions up to SIX haunted houses for 2009. Again keep checking back right here!

Another NEW feature we will add to BOTH attractions in 2009 is improved ONLINE ticketing... starting next year Scarefest will sign up for an online ticketing program that allows you to print your tickets at HOME and then bring them right to the park without EVER waiting in the ticket line. NEXT YEAR you will be able to walk right into the line to get into the attraction.

Thanks again for a great season!

Happy Holidays.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ST LOUIS

Considering the election is only a couple days away we have these awesome pumpkin carving patterns for you for FREE! You must pick will you carve your pumpkin as Obama or McCain... We pick McCain because he will cut taxes, and help grow small business, protect our country and not to mention he looks a little scary compared to Obama! LOL



Have a GREAT HALLOWEEN!

Thanks for visiting both of our haunted attractions this The Darkness and Creepyworld. We promise to make both of the attraction TEN times better, bigger and scarier than ever before.

Keep visiting our website for updates all year long. Pumpkin images courtesy of www.Hauntworld.com

Tombstone Haunted Hayride Reports EXPLOSIONS

Recently there are reports of FIRE BALL EXPLOSION all over Tombstone Haunted Hayride at Creepyworld. Some crazy dead zombie cowboys are throwing real live dynamite at our guests causing massive explosions. BEWARE if you attend the all new Tombstone Haunted Hayride, which is ONLY ONE of FIVE haunted houses inside the new Creepyworld in Fenton.



We have also captured on film SCREAMS, SCREAMING guests inside the all new Ravens Mansion another attraction inside Creepyworld. See for yourself!



Creepyworld is located in Fenton on highway 141 and is open every night through this coming Sunday November 2, 2008.

Hope to Scare you soon!

One More Week To Go... Halloween is on its way!

Halloween is coming quick, this is the LAST week to visit either The Darkness or Creepyworld. Both attractions will be open all the way through this coming Sunday November 2, 2008. The Darkness has been featured over the last few days on National Geographic Channel, Travel Channel, and the History Channel and Creepyworld was featured on Travel Channel. You can watch all these shows again over the next few days... look for the following shows: Travel Channel (America Haunts) (America's Scariest Haunted Attractions 3) and or History Channel (Modern Marvels: Halloween Tech) and National Geographic Channel (Halloween UnMasked).

Make sure you go out pick a pumpkin, decorate your yard, go trick or treating and visit our haunted houses all before November 2, 2008. The following day is ELECTION DAY, so get your stress released by getting Scared at the Darkness and Creepyworld.

The day after we close comes the election and we hope that everyone gets out and votes. .. Scarefest endorses John McCain due to the fact that as a small business we can't afford our taxes raised, which may cause our small company to cut jobs, reduce our ability to purchase new equipment which brings a better Halloween and bigger SCREAMS for our guests each October. Vote for John McCain because that is a vote for small business like ourselves!

Darkness and Creepyworld Set to Air on National TV

Both the Darkness and Creepyworld will be showcased on NATIONAL Television over the next week... the following are showtimes and channels to watch out for.

Travel Channel: America's Scariest Haunted Houses Part 3

Sunday October 26 at 10pm Central Time
Thursday October 30 at 6pm Central Time
Friday October 31 at 3pm Central time

Modern Marvels: Halloween Tech

Monday, October 27 07:00 PM Central Time
Tuesday, October 28 11:00 PM Central Time
Friday, October 31 07:00 PM Central
Saturday, November 01 11:00 PM Central Time

Travel Channel: America Haunts

Sunday October 26 8:00 PM Central Time
Monday October 27 12:00 Midnight Central Time
Wednesday, October 29 7:00 PM Central Time
Thu, October 30 12:00 AM

National Geographic Channel: Halloween UnMasked

Friday October 31 8am

Food TV: Pumpkin Challenge

Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7pm

Also check Travel Channel on Sunday October 26th all night long there is one Haunted House show after another!

Set your TIVO!

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Scarefest Owner Judges Extreme Pumpkin Challenge for Food TV

Food TV has finally announced the air dates for the Extreme Pumpkin Challenge. The owner of Creepyworld and The Darkness was selected as a judge. The challenge featured four incredible pumpkin carvers from all over the United States, and we have to admit they carved some amazing pumpkins. Check out this show Food Network Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7pm. Make sure you TIVO this program!

Darkness Rated Second Best Place to Get Scared

National Paranormal Examiner at Examiner.com rated The Darkness as the second best place to get scared in America. Universal Studios Horror Nights was rated the best place to get a scare. Scarefest.com and the Darkness want to thank the National Paranormal Examiner. It was also recently released that the Darkness has over 20 ghosts real ones living in the building. A Paranormal investigator came to the Darkness with scientific equipment and found over 20 ghosts living inside the building.

Hauntworld.com also rated the Darkness the second best haunted attraction in the United States. Come and visit both Darkness and Creepyworld now open nightly through November 2nd, 2008.

To see the entire list click here... http://www.examiner.com/x-716-Paranormal-Examiner~y2008m10d9-Best-scare-you-senseless-halloween-attractions

America's Scariest Attractions TV Show

It was announced today that Darkness and Creepyworld will be featured on Travel Channel Television Show 'America's Scariest Attractions Part 3'. Air times and information about the show are listed below... make sure to tune in or Tivo this show!

10/26 10p Eastern Time
10/29 9p and 1a
10/31 4p

Note, however, that our Network programming plan and schedule is always subject to change.

SHOW DESCRIPTION
AMERICA’S SCARIEST HALLOWEEN ATTRACTIONS 3 is a one-hour special for The Travel Channel that features the best haunted house attractions - just in time for Halloween!

Every year in September a frightening fever sweeps the nation from the biggest cities to the smallest Midwestern towns. It’s the annual opening of eerie exhibitions – haunted houses, creepy mazes and frightening fairs. Haunted castles and houses of terror re-create scary scenes and tales of terror for all chill seekers.

Thousands of folks line up to experience crazy characters, cool special effects and sheer horror! Each year there are new trends in the business of fear – including live performances by actors trained to scare the toughest customer. These attractions have moved beyond the neighborhood haunted house and have become popular tourist destinations across the country.

Darkness and Creepyworld on National Television

Both Darkness and Creepyworld will be featured on national television show called 'America's Scariest Haunted Attractions'. The show will air on October 24th at 11pm eastern time. Additionally The Darkness is featured on a Halloween themed show from 2007 called 'Halloween Exposed'. Lastly, The Darkness will be featured on History Channels 'Modern Marvels' episode 'Halloween Tech' in late October. Listed below is a description of the latest Travel Channel Show


America's Scariest Halloween Attractions 3

Thousands of horror attractions open and thousands of people line up and pay good money to experience crazy characters, cool special effects and sheer terror. For the third year in a row, this special explores the biggest and best attractions open for business.

To view all the air dates visit this link: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Halloween

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America's Best Haunted Houses

The Darkness was picked as one of the best haunted houses in America by Americasbestonline.net. The website lists top 10's for almost everything imaginable and now has ranked the top 10 haunts in America. The Darkness was ranked the 3rd best haunted house in the United States. See the entire list here... http://www.americasbestonline.net/index.php/pages/hauntedhousestopten.html

The Darkness Has REAL GHOST we have the proof

Recently the Glover Show at 97.1 had a real Ghost Hunter come to the Darkness downtown, near Soulard Market, and discover if The Darkness has ghosts. Real ghosts inside one of America's Best Haunted Houses...hmmm. That is worth investigating isn't it?

Here are the results...

The Darkness has about 20 ghosts living inside this 100 plus year old building that now houses the World Famous Darkness Haunted House. The ghosts are apparently not aggressive, 3 are women, the rest are men. Some of the ghosts are from civil war, some from the local city hospital and yes some are from insane asylum. Most of the ghosts are apparently still lingering in our World because of wrongful deaths.

The Ghost Hunter will be back for a special episode of the Glover show, when they will spend the night inside The Darkness.

The Darkness is open NIGHTLY from October 3rd through November 2nd.

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TRAVEL CHANNEL TO FILM AT DARKNESS AND CREEPYWORLD

THE DARKNESS AND CREEPYWORLD TO APPEAR ON TRAVEL CHANNEL

Hey St. Louis do you want to appear on NATIONAL TELEVISION getting scared half to death? The Travel Channel one of televisions favorite stations, will be in St. Louis on September 19th and 20th at both The Darkness and Creepyworld filming for a show called "America's Scariest Haunted Attractions", which will air in October.

The Darkness and Creepyworld were chosen to be on this show due to their incredible national reputation, attention to detail, special effects and because they rank as some of the scariest haunted attractions in the United States.

Make sure you make it out the weekend of September 19th and 20th and you might see yourself screaming on national television.

The Darkness and Creepyworld are open every Friday and Saturday in September and nightly October 3rd through November 2nd.

CreepyWorld 2008 WILL AMAZE St. Louis

CREEPYWORLD is set to open for the 2008 season bigger and better than EVER BEFORE!



From the creators of the WORLD FAMOUS Darkness brings you the all-new Creepyworld. Larry Kirchner owner of Creepyworld says "For years we made The Darkness our focus, all of our creative energy went into making The Darkness the best haunted house in the nation'. Kirchner continues by saying, "But two years ago when we finally came up with the idea of Creepyworld, we made a financial and creative commitment to make Creepyworld the biggest and best outdoor Halloween and Haunted Attraction in America'.




Now in 2008 Creepyworld has taken a HUGE step in that very direction to being one of the biggest and best Halloween Haunted Attraction in the nation. Tens of thousands of dollars, and months and months of design, construction and planning has gone into taking Creepyworld to the next level. Every aspect of Creepyworld has been improved adding many high tech effects such as pyro and multi motion animations. But the biggest improvement is the attention to detail, no stone was left unturned this year.



Creepyworld is NOW FIVE HAUNTED HOUSES IN ONE LOCATION FOR ONE PRICE. Start your journey through St. Louis' biggest event into the all new and redesigned 'Ravens Mansion' with all sorts of new high tech screams, inside a highly detailed haunted mansion. Then enter an all new attraction for 2008 'Grisly's Graveyard' and travel past animated werewolves, crypts, enter forbidden tombs, and through an eerie swamp.



Then get lost in the all-new Cornfield where you will finally discover Arnold Hornbuckels farm house where you might be the next meal! Be chased through endless rows of corn through St. Louis' only corn maze. Next board St. Louis' ONLY haunted hayride at Tombstone. The town of Tombstone has doubled in size, now explore falling buildings, the Tombstone Hotel, House of Redemption, travel through a turn of the century western graveyard and be amazed at pyro effects and massive monsters that leap over the hayride.



Finally its the ALL NEW SILO-X the scariest haunted house in St. Louis. You will be stalked to multiple chainsaws, blood thirsty mutated monsters through endless tunnels and radiated ruins. Silo-X has a new section a mutated jail filled with experiments gone wrong.



Creepyworld now FIVE haunted houses in ONE location for ONE price will be open weekends in September and every night in October start the 3rd through November 2nd.



Come to Creepyworld and experience the longest and scariest attraction in the Midwest. Creepyworld takes over 1 hour to complete!



Visit our photo gallery to view over 200 photos of the new Creepyworld.

America's Best Haunted House

The Darkness haunted house located in St. Louis, Missouri is one of the nations best haunted houses is set to open for the 2008 Halloween season. Recently the hit show 'Modern Marvels' came to St. Louis to film segments for an upcoming show titled 'Halloween Tech'. The only haunted house they will feature is the all new Darkness haunted attraction. Travel Channel is also producing a show entitled 'America's Scariest Haunted Attractions' and both Creepyworld and the new Darkness will be featured. Last season National Geographic Channel featured the Darkness on a show called "Halloween Exposed".



The Darkness was also recently ranked the SECOND BEST Haunted House in the WORLD by www.HauntWorld.com known as the best website on the web to find, review, rate haunted attractions.



Recently Dan Glover toured the Darkness from talk 97 and said it was better than Disney World. So HOW cool is the new Darkness haunted house 2008? Well let me tell you COOLER THAN ANYTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE... over $200,000.00 was invested into upgrades for the attraction and new things were created that you can see no where else in the entire nation.



The new Darkness features HIGH END costumes, to upgrade the realism of the actors inside the attraction. Secondly several new scenes where built at cost of THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of dollars built by the same people who built the Spiderman Ride or the multi million dollar Ghostwood Estate in Kennywood Amusement Park.



So what is new you might ask? Try entering a massive swamp house, that MOVES, TILTS, RAISES and LOWERS it is a TRUE MODERN MARVEL and well will be featured on the show 'Modern Marvels' in October on the History Channel. We also build a MASSIVE graveyard that is so realistic that Hollywood could pull up tomorrow and start filming a movie. Inside the Graveyard you will come face to face with werewolves and real ghost and spirits.



Our favorite new scene and effect inside the new Darkness is a MASSIVE SKELETON T-REX room where you will be attacked by this gigantic beast... you will smell his breath, you will feel the bite from its jaws.



Upstairs you can also experience a true mirror maze which will keep you lost for what seems like an eternity. The Darkness is just a TRUE MODERN MARVEL, that is known WORLD WIDE, and visited by scare seekers from all over the WORLD each Halloween season. St. Louis you are blessed to have this WORLD CLASS attraction just sitting a few miles from your house in Downtown St. Louis next to Soulard Market.



We invite you to come down this season. View all the latest photo by click on this link.

The Darkness opens September 12 and stays open weekends in September and nightly in October 3rd through November 2, 2008.

Creepyworld is coming soon! New Video

Creepyworld is back in 2008 and bigger and better than EVER! Over 50,000 people toured Creepyworld in 2008 making it the number one haunted house in the St. Louis area. Now back and scarier than ever we have added this video to give you an idea of what you missed. Creepyworld has undergone a massive overhaul for 2008 with the addition of a whole new attraction based around a Graveyard.

Get ready because the screams are on their way!

Visit http://www.scarefest.com for more information.

NEW VIDEO FOR THE DARKNESS

Watch the new video created for the Darkness 2008. Expect new footage very soon just prior to the Darkness opening on September 12, 2008. The new Darkness is just breathtaking. Keep checking this blog for updates!

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Darkness Haunted House Featured on National Geographic Channel

The Darkness located in St. Louis, Missouri was featured on National Geographic Channel Television special titled: Halloween Exposed. The show ran all throughout October 2007, and will air again this coming October 2008.

The show featured all sorts of segments about the Halloween industry but the show featured only one haunted attraction: The Darkness located right here in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Darkness is one of the best haunted houses in the WORLD, with over 100 animations, the most detailed sets and scenes with amazing special effects.

The Darkness will be featured in 2008 on three additional television shows including Modern Marvels. Come back and read our blog to get all the details.

Creepyworld and Darkness open September 12th through November 2, 2008.

St. Louis' Best Haunted Houses are Coming Back!

Within the next few days prepare yourself for the all new Scarefest.com website, and information about the new Creepyworld located in Fenton and The Darkness located downtown. Both attractions will open on September 12th and 13th at 8pm.

The Darkness has undergone a MASSIVE overhaul making it now one of the best haunted houses in the WORLD. Inside the new Darkness is a Hollywood quality Graveyard, which is simply breathtaking. Also new inside the new Darkness is a mirror maze, which will leave you lost and confused. Several other new scenes, special effects and more where added to the Darkness for 2008 including a motion ride scene centered around a swamp house...you'll just have to see it to believe it.

Creepyworld on the other hand has added a fifth haunted house to the mix called 'Grisly's Graveyard', which is located in the center of Ravens Mansion. Silo-X is now more detailed than ever, Tombstone Hayride has all sorts of new special effects and much more.

More information is coming soon! Bring your eye balls back as the 2008 Scarefest is set to make St. Louis Scream.

Darkness and Creepyworld Change Operation Times

Both The Darkness and Creepyworld will open at 6pm on October 26th and 27th (Friday and Saturday) to help lesson crowds and wait times. The extra hour of operation times will help make the attractions LESS busy at peak times of 9 and 10pm.

If you are a family group we strongly suggest to visit our attractions 6pm and avoid big crowds later in the night.

Both The Darkness and Creepyworld will be open now through November 3rd.

Explosions At Tombstone Haunted Hayride

'Someone keeps blowing up the dynamite factory at Tombstone' so beware folks... Creepyworld the new haunted attraction in Fenton on 141 features FOUR haunted houses for ONE price all in one location. The hayride features PYRO effects as featured in this photo. Creepyworld is open now through November 3rd.

Halloween Productions, Inc. owners of Scarefest's The Darkness and Creepyworld held a special behind the scenes tour of the new Darkness in Soulard for a group of Children associated with Kurt Warner's foundation. Brenda Warner attended the event and Channel 5 covered the action with Darkness monsters dropping coats into baskets for Warner's Warm Ups. Bring in new or used coats to either The Darkness or Creepyworld and receive a special discount on your admission ticket. The Darkness and Creepyworld are open through November 3rd.

FEARNET.com

The nets #1 Horror Movie website www.fearnet.com has installed a webcam at The Darkness... did you get scared? Were you caught on tape? Check out the LIVE fear cam here at this address http://www.fearnet.com/stunts/Halloween/default.aspx

We watched the video and it's pretty funny watching some of you jump out of your skin!

You can still visit the all new Darkness every night now through November 3.

The Darkness Will Feature Live Fear Cam

The Darkness is proud to announce that it was chosen as one of four haunted houses nationwide to feature a LIVE FEAR CAM hosted on national Horror site www.FearNet.com

You will be able to log onto www.FearNet.com and see people being scared 24 hours a day... keep checking back for more news and information!

The Darkness and Creepworld are open every weekend in September (Friday and Saturday) starting at 7:30pm.

Scarefest Staff

SCAREFEST COLLECTS COATS FOR KURT WARNER

Both The Darkness and Creepyworld open this weekend September 14 and 15th and every weekend there after in September and Nightly October 5 through 31st and November 2nd and 3rd.

You can pick up discount coupons at any of our sponsors including Spirit Halloween Superstores, White Castles, Tan Company, Slackers, CFM or Shell Stations, Hollywood Video, but you can also BRING IN A NEW OR USED COAT to Scarefest this weekend or any night we're open for special discounts.

ALL COATS will be given to Kurt Warners for his Warner's Warm Up Drive to help St. Louis stay warm this winter. PLEASE bring in a new or used coat to Scarefest and help us help Kurt Warner keep St. Louis warm this winter.

Happy Hauntings!

SCAREFEST OPENS SEPTEMBER 14 and 15

Both The Darkness and the new Creepyworld are set to open on Friday and Saturday the 14 and 15th of September. The Darkness will blow your mind, with breathtaking scares, sets and special effects. Creepyworld is an all new event in Fenton on 141 with FOUR major haunted houses for ONE price all in ONE location.

Be one of the first to experience the all new Darkness and Creepyworld this weekend.

We will be taking photos of guests who get really scared and posting them here on our Scarefest News!!! Will you make the cut?

Scare you soon!