The 10 Most Terrifying, Spooky Places To Visit In Pennsylvania This Halloween

Hansell Road is one of the creepiest and most mysterious haunted locations in the state of Pennsylvania. Visitors to the site spot strange lights in the woods... Some describe them as lanterns, other describe them as burning eyes that glare at them from the darkness. You might feel like the ghostly glare is following you even long after you drive speedily away from Hansell Road...

Eastern State Penitentiary is the grandfather of modern day prisons. The first prison in the United States to introduce the horrors of solitary confinement, many infamous criminals were kept and even exiled here. It's a creepy enough place to visit for most of the year, but during the Halloween season you can go there and take a haunted tour.

Many unfortunate people died at Pennhurst hospital after suffering greatly. A few months ago we wrote a post about Pennhurst, which was the subject of a documentary after it was shut down. Overcrowded conditions and atrocious mistreatment of patients by the hospital staff led to a long, drawn-out legal battle and tons of media coverage. This time of year, Pennhurst is turned into a haunted house. Visiting will give you a good scare and a good opportunity to get a peek at the interior of a historic building.

Gravity Hills are a strange, unexplained phenomena that manifest in various places throughout the world, and we're lucky enough to have one of our own in Pennsylvania. Leave your car in neutral on this hill and it will begin to roll... uphill! How bizarre. Is it being pushed by ghosts? Probably.

I know that this isn't quite fitting with the rest of the haunted/abandoned/haunted house-esque entries on this list, but maybe you want a creepy Halloween location where you can sit down and enjoy dinner. Lucky for you, Bube's Brewery in Lancaster has built a restaurant that is literally in catacombs! Enjoy your delicious meal underground and contemplate the possibility of never seeing sunlight again.

Haunted attractions are cool and everything, but sometimes you want to go see something incredibly terrifying that you can verify is actually... there. The Mütter Museum is perfect for fulfilling such desires! The museum is an extensive collection of medical artifacts that range from the intriguing (the tallest skeleton on exhibit in North America) to the downright disgusting (tumors preserved in jars.) Yum!

Field of Screams is one of the top-rated haunted attractions in Pennsylvania. It's home to a variety of attractions, including Frightmare Asylum, the Den of Darkness, and something called the... Nocturnal Wasteland. I might never sleep again, and that's just from reading the description on their website.

See that? That is a taxidermy squirrel fish. They are a naturally occurring species in Trundle Manor, a house filled with oddities and artifacts that you wouldn't imagine in even your weirdest dreams. Erring more on the side of creepy than downright SCREAM-worthy, Trundle Manor is the perfect place to ring in Halloween.