
WELCOME TO CITY BLOOD’S 2022 HAUNT AWARDS!
We congratulate all the winners and please enjoy our annual Haunt Awards! Let’s first start with the Haunt of the Year and our Top 10 Haunts. Drum roll please. Haunt of the Year is none other than
1: The Dent Schoolhouse

The Dent Schoolhouse has come out on top once again. What can I say, but wow. The Dent Schoolhouse has some of the best detail of any haunt in the united states along with amazing animatronics, crazy characters and scenes that will make you cower in fear. Their new Monster Midway was incredible. Congratulations to The Dent Schoolhouse on being our 2022 Haunt of the Year.
Rest of the Top 10:
2: The Thirteenth Hour
3: Nightmare on Edgewood
4: USS Nightmare
5: Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
6: The Devil’s Attic
7: Escape From Blood Prison
8: Fear Fair
9: American Horrorplex
10: The Haunted Hotel
Enjoy the Awards!
We congratulate all the winners. Only haunts we toured in 2022 were considered for an award.
Best Ohio Haunt
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Kentucky Haunt
USS Nightmare
Best Indiana Haunt
The Thirteenth Hour
Best Haunted House
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Haunted Trail
Middletown Haunted Trail
Best Haunted Hayride
Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Scariest Scream Park
Land of Illusion
Most Confusing Maze
Dysphoria at Land of Illusion
Best Side Attraction (Not A Haunt)
The Dent Schoolhouse’s Mini Escape Rooms
Best Old School Haunt
Fright Manor
Most Interactive Haunt
USS Nightmare’s Rip Experience
Most Physical Haunt
Face your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Best Design
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Lighting
The Thirteenth Hour
Best Sound
The Thirteenth Hour
Best Use of Darkness
Escape From Blood Prison
Best Use of Water
Fear Fair
Best Use of Fire
Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Best Use of Fog
Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse’s Laser Swamps
Best Use of CGI
Acres Manor Haunted Mansion
Best Façade
Fear Fair
Most Unique Scene
Walk Through Jack-O’-Lantern at Twisted Trails
Scariest Scene
Human Castration at Nightmare on Edgewood
Best Introduction
Fear Fair’s Pre Show
Most Memorable Finale
Nightmare on Edgewood
Most Intense Vehicle Chases
Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Best Backstory
American Horrorplex
Most Unique Location
USS Nightmare’s Haunted Steamboat
Scariest Building
Escape From Blood Prison at Ohio State Reformatory
Spookiest Graveyard
Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse
Most Electrifying Laboratory
The Dent Schoolhouse
Most Out of this World Alien Scene
Area 49 at Middletown Haunted Trail
Best Swamp
Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse
Best Church Scene
The Thirteenth Hour
Best Hospital Scene
USS Nightmare
Best Props
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Actormatronics
Nightmare on Edgewood
Best New Animatronic
The Mutant at USS Nightmare
Scariest Animatronic Monster
Necromancer at Fear Fair
Funniest Prop
Car Falling on Mechanic at Malice Manor
Best Vortex Tunnel
Land of Illusion
Favorite Hellevator
The Haunted Hotel
Best Acting
The Thirteenth Hour
Best Young Cast
Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion
Best Actor
Nurse Bubbles played by Samantha Gray
Most Unique Characters
American Horrorplex
Best New Character
Anguish at Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion
Most Sadistic Chainsaw Maniacs
Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Most Blood Thirsty Vampires
Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse
Hungriest Zombies
Fright Manor
Best Haunt Mascot
Warden’s Widow at Escape From Blood Prison
Best Backwoods Hillbillies
Nightmare on Edgewood
Craziest Killer Clowns
Hell’s Dungeon
Best Horror Movie Recreations
The Devil’s Attic
Best Headless Horseman
Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Favorite Serial Killer
The Boogeyman at Forgotten Forest
Favorite Michael Myers
Middletown Haunted Trail
Favorite Leatherface
Ohio Fear Farm
Most Frightful Queue Line
The Dent Schoolhouse’s Fall Festival
Best Queue Line Entertainment
The Dent Schoolhouse
Favorite Queue Line Character
Naughty Nurse at Mochican Haunted Schoolhouse
Best Aerial Scare
Flying Ghoul at The Dent Schoolhouse
Most Disturbing Childbirth
Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse
Best Makeup
USS Nightmare
Best Masks
The Devil’s Attic
Best Mask
Anguish at Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion
Best Costumes
The Devil’s Attic
Best Midway
Monster Midway at The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Gift Shop
Escape From Blood Prison
Best Food Concessions
Zombiezi Bay
Best Apparel
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Photo Op Stations
The Dent Schoolhouse
Most Spooktacular Hearse
Nightmare on Edgewood’s Angel of Death Hearse
Most Professional Website
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Commercial
Escape From Blood Prison
Most Halloween Spirit
The Dent Schoolhouse
Thanks for joining us. We hope you enjoyed our Awards. See you next time!