Kansas City is known for its haunted houses at Halloween, but the big debate happens every year: which is better the Halloween Haunt or The West Bottoms haunted houses? This is highly debated because everybody has his or her reasons for liking or disliking either one. Halloween Haunt takes place at Worlds of Fun where roller coaster thrills can be enjoyed along with the haunted houses and scare zones. The Edge of Hell, The Beast, the Chambers of Edgar Allen Poe, and the Macabre Cinema all take their place downtown in the Bottoms; these haunted house in the country, so feel like being extremely scared? Go to these. There are quite a few differences between these two places to think about before making a choice like the fact that according to haunted house worker junior Doran Duncan,

”The haunted houses downtown are actually haunted. The owner fell down the elevator shaft of the Beast and died.” Also, in the haunted houses in the Bottoms there are many places to get lost and if a person does get lost none of the workers or other people have to help them. Other things that Duncan said about the haunted houses in the Bottoms are that “[the house] doesn’t close until everyone is gone, making shifts longer than most.”

There is no set time to close only one to open. Duncan also said was that it gets hot and there are no breaks but it’s worth it because it is a lot of fun. These are things to consider before taking that application in to get a job there. In the Haunted houses downtown the workers can touch you unlike The Haunt where the workers aren’t allowed to get anywhere near touching you due to liability. The Haunt is definitely for the thrill seekers, where the haunted houses and the roller coasters go till midnight or later. The houses in Worlds of Fun all have their own unique theme, go for the vampires at Lore of the Vampire and leave wishing you hadn’t gone through Corn Stalkers. These houses add a uniqueness to the Haunt that the downtown houses don’t have.

The terrors at the Haunt also don’t end in the haunted houses it also carries out to the rest of the park where you can be scared at anytime.

With all of this in mind my own personal favorite place is The Haunt at Worlds of Fun because I like roller coasters and less scary haunted houses than all of those downtown. Now that you, the reader, have all this information go and experience these places on your own and decide for yourself which is your favorite place to be scared.