Haunted Hills Haunted Attractions Review 2023

Haunted Hills Haunted Attractions Review 2023

On October 21st, we visited Haunted Hills Haunted Attractions. When visiting the attraction, you can not park on the property. They have special parking at Deep Rivers Water Park which is at 9001 E. Lincoln Hwy, Crown Point, IN 46307. There is a parking fee of $5. You can buy the parking pass on the Haunted Hills website when you buy your tickets, or you can pay in cash at the parking lot. I recommend that you check the weather before you go to Indiana, because if it’s raining or rained the day before I would suggest that you bundle up and wear shoes that are waterproof or shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty. After parking your car, a bus will take you from the parking lot to Haunted Hills. Prices for the event are as follows: General Admission is $25 which includes Haunted Hills Hospital and Sick Billy Sideshow, $30 includes Haunted Hills Hospital, Sick Billy Sideshow and Fear Lab Haunted Experience. If you are buying tickets at the ticket booth, it will be $5 extra on site, so keep that in mind when buying tickets for the haunt. If you visit their website, they go more into details about ticket prices and other deals they have. https://www.hauntedhillshauntedattractions.com/tickets.html

Now it’s been a while since Halloween Blast has been to Haunted Hills, which was back in 2019. We did go in 2021, but it was a black out special event so we are really not going to count it because you couldn’t see anything which is why it is called black out. Since the last time we went they have moved to their new location and is now called Haunted Hills Haunted Attractions instead of Haunted Hills Hospital. Before you go into the attractions, you are put into a virtual queue on your phone. Once your time is up, they will send you an email or a text letting you know when it is time to head to that attraction. There are a lot of things to do while you wait in their midway, so you don’t have to stand around and be bored. They have a food stand with hotdogs, burgers and some amazing lemonade along with a few other goodies. They have an escape room, gift shops, Tarot Card reading, carnival games, a movie screen and a lot of photo ops selections in the Midway. And of course they do have monsters walking around interacting with the crowd.

So the first attraction we tried out was the Fear Lab experience. Before you enter the Fear Lab, you must put on goggles. These goggles block your view from seeing anything, so when you enter the haunt you have your hands on the shoulders of the person in front of you.. Not to give anything away, this haunt is based on messing with your senses. You can’t see anything, but you feel everything. The whole point of this attraction is that you have no idea what is going on except what you can feel, smell and touch. There really is not too much one can say about it without giving anything away and spoiling the Fear Lab, but a lot of people have that fear of being in the dark and feeling helpless about what is happening. You touch things and you’re like, “what was that? Is it alive? What is it?”.

The next attraction is Sick Billy Sideshow. Do you hate clowns? Good, because this attraction is full of them! As you head through the haunt, you walk through carnival games that look like they have been abandoned. We already knew this wasn’t a good sign thinking, “what terror awaits us?”. As we walked through Sick Billy Sideshow, we saw a person laying on a knife throwing wheel that looked like something went terribly wrong. Later on in the sideshow, we walked through a circus maze that we had to find our way out of, but be careful because you may not be alone. Sick Billy Sideshow is just one huge circus show that went terribly wrong. Clowns trying to get you to play their games, or become their games. They even have a ball pit  in this attraction filled with bubbles. Unfortunately because of the rain, there weren’t that many bubbles when we visited, but I liked that it was something I haven’t seen anywhere else.

The final attraction we went to was Haunted Hills Hospital. Yes you heard right, it’s called Haunted Hills Hospital. When I saw the name I got so pumped up! Once we got into the hospital, we were locked up right away in cells. Once it was time, we had to be checked in and hosed down like you would if you went to a real asylum back in the day (they didn’t use water, so you won’t be getting wet!). Finally, we were checked in with the doctor, and we’re set to receive shock treatment. When we walk into the shock treatment room, you see the doctor playing with the machine and shocking himself! As you make your journey further through the hospital, you meet an inmate that found a way to escape out of Haunted Hills Hospital through a hole in the wall. He told us to be careful of the dogs out there. Once through the wall, we heard and saw the dogs, but kept going until we escaped. Now let me tell you, this was fun! This attraction right here brought back the memories of the old location video but they have added more. At the old location, it was called Haunted Hills Hospital and when you got into the queue line, they were like cell blocks. Seeing them put us into cells, it brought back a lot of memories, so this is great storytelling. You get locked up, you go through the check in procedures, and now you have to escape to get out of this madness of a hospital! As you walk through the hospital, it has this look and feel with the cell blocks, inmate jackets hanging, and the psychosis of people running around the hospital. We had a blast in this attraction!  Haunted Hills has done a lot of changes since we were there in 2019. They moved to a huge location! They have multiple attractions and a parking lot! Plus, they are now called Haunted Hills Haunted Attraction. So over the years they have made a lot, and I mean a LOT of new changes! The best part of this trip was seeing the Haunted Hills Hospital Attraction. To see that yes, they have a huge location now, they didn’t forget how they started and walking through the hospital was just so many memories of our first time visiting them. Now of course it is not the same, but it made the hospital better by keeping the main parts. Now, there is a journey to escape the hospital. They already have plans next year to make it better, and bring even more changes! To see Haunted Hills evolve over the years from one attraction to now into three is just wonderful to see. We know they are going to keep challenging themselves to get to the next level. We wonder what is next for Haunted Hills? What new changes will they come up with next year? Indiana better get ready, because Haunted Hills Haunted Attraction isn’t slowing down anytime soon!