Haunted HousesNo. 3061 · The 2026 edition
Haunted Attraction Association About Haunted House Industry
Discover the organization behind the screams: the Haunted Attraction Association shapes the haunted house industry with standards and support.
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The Haunted Attraction Association (HAA) is a professional trade group that represents and promotes the haunted house industry. It sets safety guidelines, offers networking opportunities, and provides resources for operators to create better scares.
About this
An about page for the Haunted House Association (HHA), a trade group that supports the haunted house industry through communication, education, and information. It describes the association's networking and media offerings and argues that modern haunts have grown dramatically in scale, quality, and venue variety. Rather than reviewing a single title, the page is an industry overview and membership/media pitch.
Facts from the original
- HHA was established to assist and advance the haunted house industry through communication, education, and information.
- The website offers a worldwide network of fellow haunters for exchanging ideas, information, experiences, and concerns.
- Haunters can communicate via message boards, newsletters, and magazines.
- The site links to profit and not-for-profit haunters, actors, set designers, haunted house suppliers, and related vendors.
- The haunted house industry has grown over the past decade and a half.
- Today's haunted houses are a far more advanced form of entertainment than haunts from the 80s or early 90s.
- Modern haunted houses feature set design comparable to major Florida theme parks.
- Modern haunted houses feature special effects even a Hollywood movie would envy.
- The industry has grown in both the quality and the types of venues that hold events.
- Virtually every major theme park now has a haunted event in October as part of its amusement season.
- Some haunted events attract over 300,000 paid guests in 30 short days.
- Other events produce attractions to raise money for local charities.
- HHA launches a national public relations campaign each year to support the haunted attraction industry.
- HHA produces magazines, communication, information, and safety articles.
- HHA members have been featured on the Travel Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Good Morning America, and the Today Show.
- HHA members have appeared on the front page of the life section of USA Today and in Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
- HHA is the national spokesperson for the haunted house industry and does interviews nationwide.
- HHA has secured interviews from Good Morning America to Fox News coast to coast.
- HHA's tagline is 'Making the World a Safer Place to Scream!'
- HHA invites owners, operators, and equipment suppliers to the industry to list their companies.
From the original
The Haunted House Association (HHA) exists to assist and advance the haunted house industry through communication, education, and information, and its website connects haunters worldwide so they can swap ideas, information, experiences, and concerns. Members can communicate through message boards, newsletters, and magazines, and the site links to for-profit and nonprofit haunters, actors, set designers, haunted house suppliers, and related vendors. The page argues the industry has matured over the past decade and a half: today's haunts are far more advanced than those of the 80s and early 90s, with set design rivaling major Florida theme parks and special effects a Hollywood movie would envy. Growth has come in both quality and venue variety, and virtually every major theme park now runs a haunted event in October during its amusement season; some events draw over 300,000 paid guests in 30 days, while others use attractions to raise money for local charities. HHA runs an annual national public relations campaign and produces magazines, communication, information, and safety articles. Its members have appeared on the Travel Channel, National Geographic Channel, Good Morning America, and the Today Show, as well as on the front page of the life section of USA Today and in Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. HHA also acts as national spokesperson for the industry, giving interviews nationwide, and invites media, owners, operators, and equipment suppliers to get in touch. Its tagline: Making the World a Safer Place to Scream.
