5 Creepy, Halloween Horror Homes

Ready to haunt your Halloween? These five homes are so spooky they'll give you chills down your spine.

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About this

An HGTV Halloween feature rounding up five allegedly haunted or horror-themed real properties, mostly abandoned or for sale, across the U.S. Each entry gives location, history, asking price and the eerie details that make it notable, from a mannequin-stuffed Houston house to a Nevada clown motel. The piece is framed around Halloween and cites a Realtor.com survey in which 33 percent of 1,000 respondents said they would buy a haunted house.

The list

Mannequin House 2000

Built 2000 in a swanky community just outside Houston, Texas. Interior is completely filled with mannequins, animal skins, taxidermy and doodads; mannequins sit at the bar, hang feet-first from the ceiling and crawl under beds. For sale at $1,275,000; owner takes everything when it sells and has 10 tractor trailers on standby.

The Mortician's House 1911

Historic 1911 house bought in foreclosure in 2010 by Brad Warner and his wife, who were converting it into a Dead and Breakfast when they encountered the resident spirits, likely in the old first-floor mortuary. Located off I-5 across from the Sacramento River near Mt. Shasta. Divorce halted restoration; back on the market for $100,000 after once listing at $900,000. Said to have inspired the book The Mortician's Wife.

Crazy Clown Motel

In Tonopah, Nev., built in the 1980s by a brother and sister beside the Tonopah graveyard to be near their deceased father. Named 'the scariest motel in America' by Roadtrippers.com; a small clown collection grew into hundreds of donated clowns after Ghost Adventures featured it. The 79-year-old owner wants about $900,000 and the clowns must stay.

Thousand Islands Haunted Mansion 1895

Carleton Manor in St. Vincent, N.Y., built in 1895 for William O. Wyckoff, president of Remington Arms and Typewriter Company, once among New York's grandest structures. Abandoned for 70 years; the solid stone building sits on an island with 6.9 acres and nearly 1,000 feet of waterfront. Priced at $495,000 as a restoration project.

Howey-in-the-Hills Haunted House 1927

Howey Mansion, completed in 1927 in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., for citrus magnate William Howey, who founded the town north of Orlando. Mediterranean Revival style, one of Florida's most opulent homes; the New York Civic Opera Company performed at its completion and President Calvin Coolidge was an early guest. 8,832 square feet, eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms on 3.63 acres. Foreclosed and listed in April at $480,000; sold quickly above asking for an undisclosed amount, with an estimated $3 million needed to restore it.