About Heartstoppers Haunt
Sacramento’s longest-running and highest-rated haunted house
Heartstoppers is going into its 19th year as Sacramento’s longest-running and highest-rated haunted house. For about 5 years before going ‘pro,’ we loved building a home haunt for Halloween night. Our goal was always simple: give trick-or-treaters a great time while making them squirm in terror. Now, nearly two decades in, we’ve taken that love of Halloween to the next level.
We’re a team that spends most of the off-season designing haunts for you, experts in script writing, scare acting, animatronics, custom costumes, and special-effect makeup. Building year-round means every attraction goes bigger in detail and scares each season.
We’re not saying the MineShaft building is haunted, but…we get calls from our security company.
Not unusual. Building alarms go off. It happens.
But this one was different. The monitoring system is set up to call when the microphones pick up sound inside the building. They called to let us know the mics had been triggered.
By a girl. Laughing. For about ten minutes. Nobody was scheduled to be there that night.
We work in this building year-round, building sets, designing new scenes, making it worse for you. We know every sound it makes. We know when something's off.
A security guard who does walkthroughs won't go into the basement anymore. Separate people, different years, have seen figures moving past the second floor windows when the building was locked up.
We're not saying it's haunted. We're just saying the security company doesn't usually call us to chat about laughing.
Our Mission Statement
“Heartstoppers Haunts is Sacramento’s longest-running haunted house. Since 2007, four interconnected haunts, a live stage show, and a cast of performers who’ve been building and rehearsing all year. It’s also how hundreds of young people get free theater education every year.
Every season, every ticket, every scare goes back to funding free classes in acting, stagecraft, and live performance for high school and college students across the Sacramento valley. We built the haunt to build them.”
— Joel Watson, Executive Director
Theater Education 4 Theater Nerds
Our History
We’ve grown considerably over the years, starting off with two brothers throwing fake feet off of rooftops, to working side-by-side with some of the top haunts in the country. We strive to create truly unique and new ways to terrify our fans. With this philosophy, we consistenly provide Sacramento’s best haunted house!
