Go Behind the Scenes at Maryland's Scariest Haunted House

Those in the Baltimore-D.C. Corridor looking for a fright this Halloween need to look no further than their own backyard.

Just across the Severn line in Jessup sits the No. 1 ranked haunted house in Maryland, according to HauntWorld.com. 

Owned and operated by brothers Allan Bennett and Tony Bennett, Bennett's Curse Haunted Attraction draws more than 200,000 guests a season and employs around 70 actors, make-up artists and support staff. 

"We've been putting on masks and scaring people since we were 8 and 9 years old," said Tony Bennett, who manages a supermarket when he's not scaring the pants off people.

The giant tent-like structure houses three attractions: "The House of Vampyres," "The Zombie Kingdom in 3-D" and "The Sanctuary of Insanity." 

Some of the attractions' inner-rooms can cost around $20,000, said Tony Bennett, whose full-time career is operating and advancing Bennett's Curse. Much of the work inside the attractions are custom made, partially due to the quality of the room but also due to the Bennetts' innovation.

The brothers do their best to shy away from the norm, and continually look to push the envelope in what causes people to be scared.

This year, they're introducing a brand-new 3-D attraction. The scariest part is that when guests wear their 3-D glasses, they lose the ability to know which bodies are real and which are just mannequins, said Tony Bennett.

"Fear is all in the mind," he said.

The Bennetts gave Patch an inside look into their nationally ranked haunted house and showed what all the critics are raving about.