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Gateway to Darkness
Located in Wasilla, Alaska, this Halloween haunted attraction has been scaring their guests since 2007. Gateway to Darkness is the creation of husband and wife team, who found a common bond in their love of being scared. The duo first decided to try putting on their very own haunt by transforming their two-car garage into a Halloween graveyard and found that they loved the experience. Soon the couple began to travel to Halloween haunted attraction conventions and toured over 30 commercial haunts throughout the United States. With all of the makeup tips, costumes, props, and special effects they picked up in their travels, their home haunt quickly grew in size and attracted over 1,500 guests in 2006. For the next year, they decided to take their creation the commercial route and Gateway to Darkness was born.

The haunt was opened in Wasilla and is housed in a Quonset hut, which also hosts the Wasilla Splatterhouse Paintball (an indoor/outdoor paintball field) outside the Halloween season. From all accounts, Gateway to Darkness was an immediate success and has been drawing in more victims each year.

The Attraction
Billed as “Alaska’s most professional Haunted Attraction,” the theme of the attraction is to take their guests into their own private horror movie. Gateway to Darkness is specifically geared towards the teenage and adult crowds, and they even recommend that the haunt is not for children under 12.