Abandoned Haunted House Complex Review 2024
Abandoned Haunted House Complex Review 2024
This weekend Halloween Blast visited Abandoned Haunted House Complex located at 2825 SE Frontage Rd, Mt Pleasant, WI 53177. Parking is free and tickets are anywhere between $40 to $60 depending on type of pass purchased (general or quick) and whether or not you choose to do the add-on axe throwing. Please visit https://abandonedhauntedhouse.com/?product=abandoned-event-ticket for more information on tickets.
Outside of the haunt where you wait in line is a small open area to relax that has a gift shop, a bar, a place to take photos and a concession stand. You aren’t allowed to take the food and drink into the haunts so use your time in line wisely. There is a trash can before you enter at the front. Stalker will empty you back to that main area at the end, whereas Hysteria and Ambush are combined and will send you back out to the ticket counters outside.
We went to Hysteria and Ambush first. This haunt sends you through in large groups, but it never feels like a conga line, even when there are slight stops in hallways as everyone is trying to find the way forward in the dark. They have everything spaced out with timers throughout the haunt to prevent one long snake of a line from happening and it is honestly mind blowing that it works.
In Hysteria, you go back in time (and space, cause we were DEFINATELY going around the world). You go through a portal and are spat out somewhere far in the past where things are dark, leafy and primitive. You transition through a short dark path that winds around and next thing you know you are in what looked to be the early 1800’s of England! One of the rooms here we liked was the small square room of plague doctors. You could hear the actors throughout the whole section coughing their lungs out with plague and the whole vibe was dour and somewhat sad. It’s not often you come across something in a haunt that can stir one’s emotions like that. We also ended up in Egypt where Karen pet a snake, and somewhere we never identified. Possibly somewhere in France? There was a room where you were “outside” and it’s snowing. Everyone in our group was in wonder over the snow indoors. Not scary, but beautiful and unique.
Ambush is the second half of this haunt. You wait in a short queue about halfway through for maybe a minute and a half per group. One of the first rooms in this haunt that stood out was the strip club and bar. The actor in this room had us rolling with laughter. They were sniffin at us and told Amanda and Karen they could stay, but David, they wrinkled their nose at and told him he smelled like “poor”. Another interaction was with Karen in the prison showers. A prisoner was trying to get her to hop in with him and she was insistent he take David instead.
The last haunt we went through was Stalker. Stalker is partially indoors and outdoors. It’s set in a corn maze and one of the main themes of it is kind of hillbilly-esque. The girl on the front porch at the start of the line wanted some kind of gift from us, but we often end up giving away small tokens from actors we have received through the night. This time we held onto them and she settled for some of Amanda’s loose hair that she put in her little pouch before letting us in. We went through a house scene that somehow became a crematorium when we went outside to another building. When we walked through there it had Amanda cackling for some reason when she saw a corpse being burned with REAL FIRE. We don’t know what the corpse was made of, that it didn’t melt or actually burn, but you could feel the rush of heat as the fire lit. One thing that stood out in Stalker this year was that it was EXTREMELY foggy, even outside. We were having a very hard time navigating at one point outside and had to be somewhat led by the actors so we didn’t wander off the path. We don’t even know how the fog can be that thick on a windy night, but it was impressive. We did miss out on scenery and some scares in these sections because of it, but we still had some good interactions while being heralded through the mist.
Abandoned Haunted House Complex is one of the longest haunts we review. We were there for close to an hour and a half to two hours, and that was with little to no wait in line because we got there as they just opened. You most definitely get bang for your buck at this haunt. We had such a great time talking with actors we remember from previous years and getting to meet new characters and old friends. This haunt is always beautifully put together and an all around amazing place to visit. Please come visit and we sincerely hope you have as awesome a night as we did.
