WAIT! Before you scroll past thinking this is for kids, I went with three friends, all of us in our 50s, and we had a blast. It’s great for girls’ night out, date night, and for kids.
It’s like Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion but built in someone’s backyard from pure imagination and grit.
You begin inside an elevator, the walls seem to move, portraits elongate, and a haunting voice dares you to “find a way out.”
From there, you wind through a twisting maze packed with jump scares, eerie lighting, and creepy characters around every corner.
The five singing heads perform Grim Grinning Ghosts.. Fun fact: The song’s composer, Buddy Baker, also wrote “Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life for Me.”
The second half is pure Haunted Mansion magic: singing heads, flickering portraits, and a ghostly bride bidding you to “hurry baaack…”
A Labor of (Haunted) Love
The Haunted Mansion Haunt is the creation of Salar Kohnechi, who started building it back in 2006 when he was just 20.
Nearly two decades later, his suburban front yard transforms into one of South OC’s most jaw-dropping DIY haunts, crafted by hand and upgraded every year.
Kohnechi, a lifelong Disney fan, designed the attraction as a tribute to the original Haunted Mansion ride, but with his own eerie twists. Every prop, projection, and ghostly illusion is homemade.
📅 Open: Every night through November 1
🎟️ Admission: Free, or skip the line for $15
📍 Location: 28322 Millwood Rd, Trabuco Canyon
🌐 Website: hmhaunt.com
Note: Get your paid or free ticket in advance!
🎃 MORE Spooky Streets & Haunted Homes 2025
Think you are too old for haunted houses! Nonsense! We are all in our 50s and had the best time going to haunted houses!
🎃 Spooky Streets & Haunted Homes 2025
👻 Tour the Halloween Home Contest Winners
Cruise through South OC to see this year’s most creative and chilling home displays.
Mission VIejo
Aliso Viejo
Lake Forest
Ladera Ranch
Laguna Niguel
Orange
😈 Danz Halloween Maze
Home Haunt with lots of animatronics. Bonus, stop by on Halloween and first 500 kids get comics and candy!
Thru Nov 2 | Sunset - 11 pm | 24142 Roma Drive Mission Viejo
🎪 Nightmare on Loganberry Haunt
Home haunt with creepy clowns, twisted thrills, and two other haunts nearby, Free.
Fri, Oct 31 | 6–9pm | 25561 Loganberry Ln, Lake Forest
🧟♀️ Amy Way Haunted House
Family-friendly walkthrough filled with glowing decorations, eerie surprises, and just the right amount of chills. FREE to attend.
Fri, Oct 31st | 7-10pm | 64 Amy Way, Ladera Ranch
👻 1st Place Display in Aliso Viejo
Award-winning display with a 6-minute custom light and sound FX show, fog, animatronics, and 12-foot skeletons. Family-friendly and free.
Thurs-Fri, Oct 30–31 | Dusk–9pm | 18 Cameo Dr, Aliso Viejo
👺 Ladera ‘Area 51’
Ladera’s own ‘Area 51’ home haunt where the residents are out of this world.
Through Halloween | 7-9:30pm | 9 Sutherland Dr, Ladera Ranch
☠️ Mausoleum Maze & Haunted Graveyard
Walk-through haunt with eerie mausoleums, fog, and jump scares at this neighborhood favorite. Free.
Through Nov. 1 | 6–9pm | 21906 Cosala St, Mission Viejo
💀 Haunted Mansion Haunt
Movie-quality haunted house based on Disney’s Haunted Mansion
Thru Nov 1 | 28322 Millwood Rd, Trabuco Canyon
🤡 Sinister in San Clemente
The largest free walk-through home haunt in town.
Fri, Oct 31st | 605 Calle Fierros, San Clemente
🎃 Kim Haunted House
Neighborhood walk-through haunt with jump scares and eerie fun. 6–7pm is scare-free for kids.
Fri, Oct 31st | 6–9pm | 15081 Lorenat St, Irvine
🩸 Blood Orange Grove Haunted House
Walk through this Villa Park haunt packed with eerie lights & creepy characters. Free.
Fri, Oct 31 | 7–10pm | 9782 Eastwood Cir, Villa Park