Never been in any haunted houses, save for some at amusement parks. They were totally my favorite rides though. You either sit in a wagon which takes you through it, or walk through them. The paths are linear, and you see plastics spooks that pop up with flashes of light and super loud annoying bell sounds, but it’s fucking awesome. I’d probably have sex every day if it came with stupid alarm sounds when you orgasm.
One I remember a lot is a jungle theme ’‘haunted house’’, where it starts out as a pretty jungle with green leaves painted on walls and friendly looking tigers with bobbing heads… but halfway through it, it gets all dark, the only light source presents decapitated heads on bloody pikes, and a giant animated gorilla serves as the end boss. He doesn’t do anything except sway about. You step between his legs and it ends…but it kicked ass. I remember finding it disturbing because of the normal jungle theme transitioning to some fucking nightmare.
But Halloween themed haunted houses that get put up for the holiday, never saw any. Although once my mom and her boyfriend brought me on the outskirts of Winnipeg to go check out some huge ass monumental statue of some guy on a horse. While riding over there there was an acclaimed haunted house you could visit for like five bucks. I so wanted to go there, and expressed this desire after coming back from seeing the horse statue, then my mom called me ungrateful. Bunghole.