Local haunted house among America's 10 scariest

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(FOX News/ FOX 32 News) - Is your Halloween season overrun with fistfuls of candy corn and unending reruns of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"? In the spirit of the true meaning of Halloween, we’ve collected a list of spine-chilling houses that are sure to bring the season’s spooky back.

Regardless of where you live, there is a haunted house nearby just waiting for you to join in the screaming. Enter if you dare...

But for Halloween lovers in the Chicago area, one local haunted house was ranked among the top 10 scariest in America!

Stateville haunted prison was ranked at number 6 on the list and is located 40 miles southwest of Chicago and sits in the shadow of the real Stateville Maximum Security Prison on Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm.

It’s theme? A prison riot. Guests are led through 23 maximum security cells and come face to face with over 100 ghostly criminals that, the attraction claims, “are too evil to die.”

The scariest haunted house in America is 13th Floor in Denver. 

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