'Tis the Season for Thrills and Chills at North Carolina's 2025 Holiday Haunts!

Across North Carolina, haunted attractions are putting a spooky twist on the holiday season, mixing cheerful décor with unexpected scares. Picture a cozy winter scene filled with twinkling lights and festive greenery—yet something feels off. Behind the shimmer and sparkle, unsettling figures stir, turning warm traditions into chilling encounters. Evil elves, twisted snowmen, and the fearsome Krampus bring a haunting edge to the holidays, creating an atmosphere where merriment meets the macabre.

Whether you wander through a shadowy winter forest or peer into windows glazed with icy mystery, these attractions offer immersive adventures that elevate the season’s excitement. If you’re craving a holiday celebration that breaks from the usual, these fright-filled festivities deliver a memorable—and delightfully eerie—escape.

Extreme Fear Scaregrounds: Holiday Fear
401 Fairgrounds Road, Kinston, NC 28504
Open: 12/12 & 12/13

Extreme Fear Scaregrounds is proud to present their 2nd annual "HOLIDAY FEAR" Christmas haunted house! The patients of the Nixon asylum have been allowed to decorate and celebrate the jolly holiday, but things begin to get dark as some patients are triggered by the bright lights and holiday cheer. Enjoy all the HOLIDAY FEAR for 2 nights only!

Hollow Acres: Slaybells & Misfits
565 Boyd Road, Fairmont, NC 28340
Open: 12/12, 12/12, 12/19, 12/20

You are formally invited to step into a twisted winter wonderland where the jingle of bells turns sinister.

This exclusive event fuses the chilling thrill of horror with the festive chaos of Christmas — where Santa’s not the only one watching who’s been naughty.

Enjoy eerie holiday décor, haunting performances, and a chillingly good time as you wander through scenes of fright and festive delight. Come dressed for the season — whether you’re a jolly elf or a misfit ready for mayhem.

Haunted Forest at Panic Point: Yuletide Nightmare
2808 Cedar Creek Road, Youngsville, NC 27596
Open: 12/13

During the dead of winter, the ancients would celebrate the return of the sun by slaughtering corpulent livestock and feasting around the Yule. The quiet, peaceful, domesticated Christmas we all enjoy bears little resemblance to the raging party that came before. Santa’s ancestors – Krampus, Belznickle, and the like - were all about delivering pain & sorrow equally to everyone, not just to the naughty. To that we say: “Ooooooooh Yeah! We’re doin’ this!”

In December, when days are shortest, we celebrate at Panic Point with Mad Mirth. You have a choice – stay home and sip on nog while Bing serenades you. How dreadfully booooring. Or… OR…you can come to Panic Point and scream-laugh-scream all night long inside and outside of these 3 of our Featured Attractions (conveniently listed below):

THE HAUNTED FOREST: “Wicked Wonderland“. Take a casual stroll through The Forest, with its dozens of monsters and 12 unique locales, each with its own unique twist on the cold, dark, dismal days of winter. You’ll encounter Seasonal Specters, Evil Elves, and a variety of Twisted Yuletide Characters as you trek the half-mile of holiday suffering.

THE DARK TRAIL – “Frostbite”: It’s The Dark Trail in “Deep Freeze Mode”. On Friday, December 13th, 197,5 a massive blizzard tore through Youngsville. Blistering winds lifted water off the slurry pond adjacent to the compound, dropping a snow so cold and contaminated that it poisoned, mutated, and finally froze the inhabitants in their tracks. Now, every December, those souls roam the area in search of warm mammalian flesh to free them from their semi-animated state.

The Hotel: A Nightmare on Elf Street
107 North Railroad Street, Ahoskie, NC
Open: 12/5, 12/6, 12/12, 12/13

This year, the North Pole is gripped by terror. A mysterious illness has struck Santa and the elves, plunging them into feverish nightmares that twist the holiday spirit into something dark and dangerous. But the fever’s reach doesn’t stop there—all the naughty people are being sucked into this chilling dreamscape, forced to confront the horrors that haunt Santa’s mind.

Are you brave enough to step into Santa’s worst fears? Can you outwit the shadows, survive the chaos, and restore hope before Christmas is lost forever?

The clock is ticking. The snow is swirling. And somewhere in the nightmare, Santa’s deepest dread awaits…

Pinhead's Graveyard: Merry Axemas
562 Main Street, Canton, NC 28716
Open: 12/5, 12/6, 12/12, 12/13

Pinhead's Graveyard's Axemas is going down like an Elf on Santa! Come out and celebrate the holiday season with your favorite people. They're way cooler than those distant relative parties where the one bad uncle gets drunk and kisses your sister, then takes your mom home. They will also have pictures with Krampus! The mythical Bad Santa will once again be making a stop at the Graveyard that weekend to hand out his evil bag of goodies and take a few kiddies in the process. Mark your calendars and come out for the holiday event of the season!

Woods Of Terror: Krampus Christmas
5601 North Church Street, Greensboro, NC 27455
Open: 11/28, 11/29, 11/30, 12/5, 12/6, 12/7

Brave the haunted wintry woods and survive the night as you and your friends try to escape Krampus and his minions.

Not your average gingerbread man…this holiday season, the sweet treats are deadly at Woods of Terror's Krampus Christmas!