OKLAHOMA ASYLUM
Interactive Indoor Attraction | Nowata, OK
Oklahoma Asylum Haunted Attraction Overview
Oklahoma Asylum is a two-story indoor haunted attraction in the heart of downtown Nowata, located in a historic building, where you and your friends are admitted into an isolated 1940s-era sanitarium at the exact moment the patients break free and take over—forcing you to navigate their twisted rituals, fight your way through the chaos, and avoid getting caught by the one thing they fear: whatever they locked up downstairs. This is an interactive haunt with plenty of up-close encounters and multiple chances to get theatrical blood on you, so expect to leave messy.
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Oklahoma Asylum is an indoor, walk-through haunted attraction in Nowata, Oklahoma that presents the experience as an isolated 1940s-era sanitarium. The story drops you and your group into the middle of a takeover, with patients loose in the building and a steady pull toward what they are trying to keep locked away downstairs.
This is marketed as an interactive haunt with close actor engagement. Oklahoma Asylum is upfront that guests should expect up-close moments throughout the walk-through, and they also make a point of warning visitors about theatrical blood being part of the experience. If you go, dress like you might leave with a little evidence of what you survived.
They also do not treat October as the only season that matters. Oklahoma Asylum has built a reputation for special, limited-run events outside peak fall, including Curse of Krampus during the holidays and Rottentail’s Revenge in the spring. They have also branded a Valentine’s-themed slasher weekend called Love Hurts, giving locals another reason to show up when most haunted attractions are closed for the year.
Oklahoma Asylum Haunted Attraction HISTORY
Oklahoma Asylum’s story is bigger than a fall-only haunted house. It has steadily evolved into a year-round haunt brand in Nowata. After construction ramped up in 2010 and the attraction held its first public operating nights in October 2010, the team pushed through early growing pains, including a cancelled 2011 season, and built momentum into a consistent annual fall run through the 2010s.
As the years went on, Oklahoma Asylum expanded beyond a standard opening-season schedule by introducing special formats and event weekends. That included the debut of DODSFALL in 2015 as a live-action survival horror-style experience, plus the rise of Blackout nights that reworked the experience with lights-out intensity and an altered pathway.
By the late 2010s and early 2020s, the Asylum was building a rhythm that extended far past September and October. February became a recurring anti-romance tradition through Sweetheart’s Slaughter and later Valentine’s Day Sucks. Spring turned darker with Rottentail’s Revenge around Easter. December became its own horror season through Silent Night and Curse of Krampus.
Even in 2020, the attraction adapted operations with COVID-era precautions, and 2021 marked a major turning point with a 10-year anniversary and an ownership transition when it was acquired by Sindicate Haunted House Group. In recent seasons, the off-season slate has only grown, from Halfway to Halloween and holiday one-offs like Slasher Night to the newest Valentine’s evolution with Love Hurts in February 2026, reinforcing that Oklahoma Asylum has become a haunt that shows up all year.
