The Haunted Manor is an independently owned dark ride attraction originally built and operated throughout New Jersey for the better part of 28 years before relocating to Sarasota, Florida. The haunt first opened in 1995 as a Halloween attraction at the Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, NJ. After additional Halloween runs in Wayne and Andover, the house made the change to a shore attraction with its d
ebut at Keansburg Amusement Park in 2002. After that one season, it moved to the Seaside Heights in 2003. After four seasons on Funtown Pier, the house returned to its North Jersey Halloween roots with fall seasons in Vernon in 2007 and 2008, and Budd Lake in 2010. In 2012, the Haunted Manor made its return to Seaside Heights where we hoped it could stay for good. A long term stay was made impossible though when Hurricane Sandy ravaged the boardwalk, destroying just about everything on it. Somehow, the Haunted Manor was one of very few attractions to make it through the storm completely intact though and, in 2013, it relocated back to Keansburg Amusement Park in Keansburg, NJ where it operated during the summers through 2022! The Haunted Manor left New Jersey altogether in 2023 and relocated to Sarasota, Florida where it now resides on the property of Fruitville Grove and operates during its annual Pumpkin Festival! While there are definitely some bloody scenes inside, we pride ourselves on creepiness over excessive gore. It is much more in the vein of a classic haunted house attraction with a mixture of live actors and one of a kind animatronic characters that you will find nowhere else!
