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This year A Haunting at Skyline Hollow takes Halloween to a whole new level.

In Altoona Pennsylvania there's a New Haunted house in town.

After 100's of years of sightings of ghosts and spirits on the grounds of the lake, it is now your turn to experience what everyone else has seen and heard.

If you're ready to come face-to-face with your deepest, darkest fears, they'll be waiting for you.

We are pleased to annouce this years Attractions "A Haunting at Skyline Hollow", "Goblin Golf" and "Race The Phantom"

This 1/4 mile walk around the Hollow of the Skyline rollercoaster will take you back in time to the start of halloween and haunted houses.

Try your hand at a round of mini golf but watch out, cause you may never know what our malicious Goblins are up to.

Hop in to one of the old time Tin Lizzy cars and race the Phantom around the track

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Imaginarium Sanitarium

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Imaginarium Sanitarium is a Haunted Attraction located in Altoona, PA.

700 Park Ave, Altoona, PA 16602

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2023 Schedule: September 29th & 30th October 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, & 31 Opens at 7 PM General Admission $25 Fast Pass Upgrade $15

YOU’VE HEARD THE RUMORS… This year A Haunting at Skyline Hollow takes fear to a whole new level.

In Altoona Pennsylvania there’s a New Haunted house in town.

After 100’s of years of sightings of ghosts and spirits on the grounds of the lake, it is now your turn to experience what everyone else has seen and heard.

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The Haunted Baker Mansion in Altoona, Pennsylvania

A haunted location: Baker Mansion in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Details: This mansion is said to be haunted by the matriarch of the family.

There is a wedding dress in a glass case that is said to move on it’s own, especially around Halloween and full moons.

Tours are given and during the Halloween season, midnight tours.

Some say they have seen the woman that roams the house.

Written by: Jessica Street

Published on: October 8, 2022

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This Central PA haunted attraction ranked second best in the country: USA Today

Feel like getting scared?

Well, according to USA Today's list of the 10 best haunted houses in the US , there's no place better than Pennsylvania to do it.

Three of Pennsylvania's haunted attractions made the list, voted on by USA Today's readers. The only state other than Florida to have more than one entry, which had two.

Attractions were nominated by a panel of experts, with USA Today editors narrowing the list to a final set of nominees to be selected by readers.

Field of Screams

Field of Screams in Lancaster County came in at the number 2 best haunted attraction in the whole country, according to USA Today's readers.

Located at 191 College Avenue, Mountville, Field of Screams boasts four haunted attractions, two haunted houses, a hayride and nocturnal wasteland, an outdoor attraction in the woods.

Also featured at Field of Screams: three 5-minute escape rooms, axe throwing, live music and the chainsaw bar, new for 2023.

Field of Screams is open through the second weekend in November, with tickets for an all four attraction pass starting at $40.

Tickets can be purchased on fieldofscreams.com .

Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride

Located just outside Philadelphia in Glen Mills, Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride grabbed the number 8 spot on the list.

With three attractions, Bates Motel, Haunted Hayride, and Revenge of the Scarecrows Haunted Trail.

Bates motel, which boast high-tech special effects, soundtrack and light, is a high startle, high action haunted attraction, according to its website.

Haunted Hayride, a 25-minute tide of horror featuring drives through an Insane Asylum and 200-foot-long cave, has been operated at the Arasapha Farm for over 32 years.

Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride, located at 1835 N. Middletown Road, Glen Mills, operates throughout the week during the month of October, with tickets starting at $40.

For more information, visit thebatesmotel.com .

Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary

Coming in at number 10, Philadelphia's Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary, which itself is said to be haunted year round and was investigated on the first season of Syfy's "Ghost Hunters," gets an extra layer of fright during Halloween time with five haunted houses along with other exhibits and amenities, including a VIP speakeasy at Al Capone's cell.

Halloween Nights is open several days throughout the week, with tickets starting at $39.

More information can be found on their website, www.easternstate.org/halloween .

Daniel Larlham Jr. is a reporter for the Lebanon Daily News. Reach him at [email protected] or on X @djlarlham.

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Altoona, Pennsylvania – St. Mary’s Memorial Hall Haunted House

St. Mary’s Memorial Hall Haunted House Altoona, Pennsylvania

Where: 1420 4th Ave, Altoona PA 16602

Description: Presented by St.Mary’s Boy Scout Troop 25 Oct 18 (6pm-9pm) Oct 19 (6pm-10pm) Oct 20 (6pm-10pm) Oct 21 (6pm-10pm) Oct 26 (6pm-10pm) Oct 27 (6pm-10pm) Oct 28 (6pm-9pm) Admission is $3.00 per person Special non-scaring tours are available for the children.

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Haunted Places in Altoona, Pennsylvania

Mishler Theatre

Altoona, pennsylvania.

This 1906 theater building, still in operation today, is said to be home to three ghosts: Mr. Isaac Mishler, a howling dog, and a female spirit who plays pranks in the restroom.

Railroaders Memorial Museum

The Railroaders Museum is said to be haunted by a spirit named Frank, who has been seen all over the museum. Other apparitions have been noted as well, and employees have opened to find all the gift shop items removed from the shelves and set on the floor, and Big ...

The Devil's Elbow

Dysart, pennsylvania.

The Devil's Elbow is a dangerous curve along Wopsy Road that has a story about a ghostly white lady. Legend has it that she was a new bride on her honeymoon at the Wopsononock Hotel, which burned down long ago. As their carriage rounded the Devil's Elbow, there was an ...

Phillips' Rangers Monument

Saxton, pennsylvania.

In 1780 during the Revolutionary war, a group of rangers were engaged in a battle against the Iroquois who were fighting on behalf of the British. The natives outnumbered the rangers some five to one and the Rangers eventually surrendered. After their surrender the Rangers were tied ...

Grand Midway Hotel

Windber, pennsylvania.

This historic hotel has been in operation for over a century, but is now believed to be a private residence. The owners have been known to auction the rooms for a night, which is enough for some guests to leave the hotel in fear. Staff have reported a wild apparition ...

Penn State University

State college, pennsylvania.

Several buildings at Penn State University are allegedly haunted, including Pattee Library, said to be visited by the spirit of Betsy Aardsma, stabbed to death in the stacks in 1969. Schwab Auditorium is haunted by a former university president (who, incidentally, also haunts the Botany department building) as well as ...

Jean Bonnet Tavern

Bedford, pennsylvania.

This tavern building was a French outpost in the 1740s and a war headquarters in the 1750s. It became a tavern in the 1760s, and was also used as a courtroom. Several people were hanged here, and it is said that their spirits walk restlessly throughout the place. Witnesses have ...

Clearfield, Pennsylvania

I was an opening GM before when it had lost its flag from a Ramada. I was in the back of the back closet and there were just 2 people in the building the front desk person and I was getting food for the downtown pantry and trying to organize ...

Omni Bedford Springs Resort

Folks say that the ghosts at this 1800s resort want to be in pictures. They show up as oddities on the photographic images taken all over the hotel.

Green Gables Hotel and Restaurant

Lewistown, pennsylvania.

Ghosts here include a woman who haunts the kitchen (especially the walk-in cooler). She is said to whisper "Turn off the lights" and move objects in the kitchen. Often seen on the second floor is the ghost of an African-American man who wears 1800s clothing. He is usually near the ...

Academia Girl’s School

Port royal, pennsylvania.

Academia Girl’s School is the ruins of an 1800s building destroyed by fire. Many legends surround the place, including that a gardener set the fire to cover his tracks after raping and killing many students. Another says the girls at the school all died of a mysterious illness. The ghosts ...

Beech Creek Furst Corner

Beech creek, pennsylvania.

It's not only your eyes and ears that may detect haunted happenings here, but your nose may get in on the action too. Folks say at this restaurant you can smell ghostly cigar smoke from its old days. So the story goes, former owner Mr. Furst died in a fire ...

Penn State Mont Alto

Mont alto, pennsylvania.

The land used to belong to Col. George Wiestling, a veteran of the Civil War who died in 1891. In 1903, the university was founded, but Wiestling is said to remain. A famous photograph taken in 1907 (one of the earliest ghost photos thought to be legitimate) shows a figure ...

Fort Frederick Maryland

Big pool, maryland.

A stone star fort in the Maryland Panhandle, Fort Frederick Maryland was built in the 1750s to defend Maryland from French and Indian raiders. During the American Revolution it was used as a prisoner of war camp for soldiers surrendered at Yorktown. It was a Federal outpost during the ...

Carlisle Barracks

Carlisle, pennsylvania.

Carlisle Barracks is a military school that was attended by the likes of John J. Pershing and Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was originally a military post that began in the 1700s. Ghostly band music is said to come from the bandstand, tunes from around the turn of the century. The ...

Miller's Church

Hagerstown, maryland.

Legend has it that the 1930s Catholic Miller’s Church was taken over by devil worshippers, and practitioners sacrificed young girls inside its walls. And then, the church suddenly burned down. All that's left is a parking lot and a big oak. And so the story goes, a couple was parked ...

Cashtown Inn

Orrtanna, pennsylvania.

This 1797 inn was named because the original innkeeper, Peter Marck, would only accept cash as payment. It has been seen on TV's Ghost Hunters, and as a setting in the movie Gettysburg. Actor Sam Elliott reportedly stayed here during its filming. The ghosts here, possibly lingering from the nearby ...

Johnathan Hager House Museum

The 1739 house is thought to be haunted by 2 families: The Hammonds, who lived here in the 1840s, and the Civil War-era Downins. Voices and footsteps have been heard, and the Downin children are thought to be the ones who move around a corncob doll, turn off the lights, ...

Maryland Theatre

The 1915 Maryland Theatre, once a vaudeville and movie house, operated until 1973. In 1974 it caught fire and was rebuilt, and to this day presents cultural offerings to the public. It is believed to be haunted. The daughter of an early manager encountered the ghost of her father here, ...

Town Hall - Williamsport

Williamsport, maryland.

Ghosts said to hang out here include former employee "Bus" Seymore, who is heard typing upstairs, and a little girl who sits in the conference room and has a "thing" for flashlights. Disembodied footsteps have been heard here as well. A spooky annual Halloween ghost walk concludes here.

Fallingwater

Mill run, pennsylvania.

A solitude woman is said to be seen staring out of the window of the master bedroom. She is believed to the first wife of Edgar Kaufmann, depressed by his unfaithfulness. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

Allegheny-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum

Tarentum, pennsylvania.

A former volunteer named Jack is commonly seen in the basement. He is said to be seen mostly around the old gardening tools. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

Summit Hose Company

Voices and odd noises are heard, doors open by themselves, and shadows have been seen here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

Duncannon, Pennsylvania

Although the Amity Hall burned to the ground in the late 2000s, it was alleged to be extremely active with the haunts. A man was said to have killed his wife by stabbing her on the porch sofa, then killed his children and himself upstairs. Apparitions, black figures and flashes ...

Fairfield Inn - The Mansion House

Fairfield, pennsylvania.

Reported to be haunted by the ghosts of Civil War era soldiers who were treated and died in the Inn when it served as a hospital after the battle.

Dead Mans Curve

Story goes that a doctor was killed here in an accident around the middle of the 19th century. Between then and around the 1930s locals swore they would frequently see the headless apparition of the doctor around this area.

Poor House Farm Park

Martinsburg, west virginia.

The original stone house in the historic park is believed to be haunted. Witnesses say they have felt a heavy presence inside, during which it is difficult to breathe. Also, a soldier's apparition has been spotted on the park grounds.

Bucktail Hotel

Marienville, pennsylvania.

Guests staying at this 1937 hotel have reported a spook haunting the upstairs rooms. The entity is believed to be a poltergeist, as it has been known to move objects around. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

Culmerville Hotel - Zottola's Pub and Eatery

A spirit is said to reside in the former Culmervilel Hotel, now Zottola's Pub and Eatery.

Apollo Theatre

The vaudeville venue built in 1913 is the home of a ghostly former manager. He has been seen standing outside the building smoking a cigar. His cigar smoke has been smelled by witnesses as well.

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, pennsylvania.

It is reported that two administrators had an experience with an elevator to another dimension. Instead of stopping at their desired floor, the elevator continued to the basement. When the door opened, they saw a thriving hospital scene, only without sound. Frightened, the two desperately finally managed to close the ...

Sachs Covered Bridge

Locals tell a harrowing story of something that may happen near here: A strange fog gathers quickly, and from out of the mysterious fog comes a ghostly battle.

The Gettysburg Hotel

This old hotel, established in 1797, is haunted by Rachel, among other spirits. Rachel is believed to be the spirit of a Civil War nurse who seems to be looking for soldiers to help. Guests say she opens their drawers and removes the clothing from them. Other ghosts who reside ...

Tillie Pierce House Inn

You can't swing a dead cat in Gettysburg without hitting something haunted and the Tillie Pierce house is no exception. Tille Pierce is well known as she wrote a book in the aftermath of Gettysburg about her experiences during the battle. A teenager during the time of the battle, she ...

Farnsworth House Inn

Reportedly haunted by over a dozen ghosts, including the most ubiquitous, a former nurse named Mary who is said to still attempt to comfort the ill and a young boy who was killed in an accident.

Jennie Wade House

Jennie Wade was a seamstress and the only civilian to be directly killed in the Battle of Gettysburg when a stray bullet entered this house, where she was visiting her sister. At the house, now a tourist attraction, visitors can see a bullet hole in the door. Legend has it ...

Soldiers National Museum

Rosa Carmichael is said to be the spirit who haunts this museum. According to locals, she operated an orphanage located at this very site during the Civil War era.

Triangular Field

Visitors to this site have reported hearing the harrowing sounds of battle, although nothing appears to be happening on the quiet field. It is also said that cameras will always fail to work at this site.

Devil's Den

At this historic site, a boulder-ridden hill and Gettysburg Battlefield location, ghostly soldiers are reported to be seen. It is said that these soldiers are from the battle's second day. One soldier who frequents the site has been described as having long gray hair and dirty, torn clothing of buckskin. ...

Slaughter Pen

According to those in the know, this area is haunted by the ghost of a young girl who wears a white dress.

Little Round Top

According to reports, soldiers are still active at this site. Per one story, some Civil War re-enactors working on the film Gettysburg at this site were approached here by a Union soldier. They assumed he, like them, was an extra working on the film. He handed them some ammunition for ...

Allen’s Haunted Hayrides

Smock, pennsylvania.

Psychics say that the energy here is high because there an Indian burial ground beneath the land. This may be the source of the glowing white figures that are reported, or the strange light manifestations. The hayrides are year-round so visit freely! (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

Antietam National Battlefield

Sharpsburg, maryland.

This historic Civil War National Park battlefield from 1862, where many lives were lost, is said to be haunted by the ghosts of soldiers and the sounds of phantom gunfire and shouts, drum beats and war songs. Some visitors have presumed to be looking at reenactors playing a part in ...

Inn Boonsboro

Boonsboro, maryland.

The historic inn dates back to 1790, and was recently restored after a catastrophic fire swept through the building in 2008. However, the resident ghost does not appear to left, as guests still report seeing a ghostly cat in their rooms at night, while others have heard the tinkling ...

National Emergency Training Center - St. Joseph's College

Emmitsburg, maryland.

The National Emergency Training Center was once St. Joseph's College, which until 1973 was a Catholic girls' school established in 1809. Witnesses at the former college claim to have seen the ghosts of Civil War nurses who were carrying buckets of amputated human limbs and heard the sounds of soldiers ...

The Lightner Farmhouse

This farmhouse, built during the Civil War, was once even used as a war hospital. Around its grounds, ghosts have been spotted reliving the war.

Old South Mountain Inn

Legend has it that a ghost saved this 1730s historic inn from being destroyed by fire. It was the ghost of Madeline Dahlgren, owners say, who opened a door that normally remains shut, which allowed an employee to smell the smoke coming from a fire that had erupted in the ...

Old Hampshire County Jail

Romney, west virginia.

Built in the late 1700s, the old jail has a legend attached. It seems that in the late 1800s a sheriff was shot to death by a gang of bandits on the staircase leading between the jail and the attached brick building, which was the jailer's family home. He was ...

Bechtel Mansion Inn

East berlin, pennsylvania.

This inn, housed in a 1897 building, has been visited by strange noises, residual smells, and a ghost named Flossie who is said to have died in the house in the 1920s. She has been seen on the turret's balcony. She also may be the one who makes objects mysteriously ...

U.S. Route 322

Cranberry, pennsylvania.

General Anthony Wayne was buried, unearthed, then boiled so he could be transferred to his family grave. It is said that he lost some bones along the way and was reburied as an incomplete body. Some people still see him wandering along this road (used to transfer him); he is ...

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In addition to the apparitions, Baker Mansion houses a number of other paranormal antics. Phantom footsteps are heard often on the upper floors and furniture sometimes moves on its own. Other apparitions, unrelated to the Baker family, are seen by visitors outside the mansion. Activity around and in the mansion picks up during a full moon.

Railroaders Memorial Museum

The popular tourist attraction is also home to the ghost of a man named Frank. Frank’s been seen by just about everyone who’s worked at the museum and countless visitors. He often hangs around the train engine in the museum’s lobby and in the elevator before he disappears into a puff of smoke.

Mishler Theatre

A landmark in Altoona since 1906, the Mishler Theatre attracts visitors for its family entertainment and its ghostly spirits. The most prominent spirit is said to be that of Isaac Mishler, the founder of the theater who died in 1944. Numerous guests claim to have seen the apparition of a man, sometimes in vibrantly colored hats, wandering through the theater. 

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USA Today named this central Pa. attraction one of the best haunted houses in the nation

• Updated: Oct. 10, 2023, 5:56 p.m. |
• Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 4:01 p.m.

Field of Screams was one of the highest-ranked "haunted houses" in a voter poll, according to USA Today. Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive

• Sean Adams | [email protected]

The votes are in, and the results are clear: Pennsylvania haunted houses have dominated the list of 10 best scary destinations in the nation.

A new list from USA Today has ranked the “10 best haunted houses in the US,” as selected by voters in a USA Today poll. And three of those 10 are located in the Keystone State. Florida, with two entries, was the only other state to earn more than one spot on the top 10.

And when it comes to where those entries ranked, Pennsylvania has even more reason to be proud of our brand of spooky destinations.

The Halloween Nights attraction at Philadelphia’s famously unnerving Eastern State Penitentiary took the 10th spot, with the USA Today story noting that “the crumbling ruins stand empty, but they return to life during Halloween Nights. Come each spooky season, visitors who dare can test their bravery in five haunted houses, learn about the prison’s past on historic tours, and drink their fears away in themed bars and lounges.”

Then, in ninth place, came the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride of Glen Mills.

“Located just outside Philadelphia on Arasapha Farm, the Bates Motel offers an incredible experience of terror and mayhem,” the USA Today story reads, adding that the “new level of horror” offered by the motel is paired with “detailed Hollywood-style sets and props” on the haunted hayride.

But a nearby haunted attraction was way up near the top, grabbing the second place spot. And that is none other than Mountville’s own Field of Screams.

“At Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania, visitors can choose from four terrifying experiences: the Haunted Hayride, two haunted houses (Den of Darkness and Frightmare Asylum), and the Nocturnal Wasteland, a fear-filled forest,” reads the story. “If you think your heart can take it, you can try to conquer all four during your visit.”

We at the PennLive office know all too well how creepy Field of Screams can be, as some of their characters usually make their way here once fall rolls around . For more info on Field of Screams, including info on hours and prices, you can check out this story for details:

• Field of Screams is open: What’s new this year, and what to know before you go

And to read the full list of USA’s top 10 best haunted houses, click here .

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