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Fear Factory of Salt Lake City Unveils New Attractions for 2026

Salt Lake City’s favorite Halloween Experience, Fear Factory, is celebrating 15 years of heart pounding, adrenalin inducing, haunted adventures. The award-winning attraction, including national recognition from USA Today, The Travel Channel, BuzzFeed, FrightFind, and Scary Overload, is located in the abandoned 1800s-era Portland Cement Works. With real haunted history, including documented factory worker deaths on-site

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Connie Lewis

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Scary nurse character featured in Fear Factory Salt Lake City's Halloween attraction.

Salt Lake City’s favorite Halloween Experience, Fear Factory, is celebrating 15 years of heart pounding, adrenalin inducing, haunted adventures.  

The award-winning attraction, including national recognition from USA Today, The Travel Channel, BuzzFeed, FrightFind, and Scary Overload, is located in the abandoned 1800s-era Portland Cement Works. With real haunted history, including documented factory worker deaths on-site, Fear Factory has been branded an authentically haunted Haunted House. 

Scare-seekers will navigate through six buildings, some reaching six stories, with two underground passages. Those who listen closely might be able to hear the Factory’s ‘beating heart’ that some say is proof the place is ‘alive.’ 

Many new features have been added over the years, as the team behind this event never stops innovating. In 2024, a Halloween-themed bar, Dark Spirits, opened, offering specialty drinks in a sit-down venue. This year, they plan to offer Dirty Sodas as well. For 2026, Fear Factory has launched a brand new, expanded midway with private party spaces available to rent. 

It is said that a good scare can be therapeutic, and at Fear Factory, you’ll get all of that and more. It is hard to worry about day-to-day trivial problems when your heart is pounding and you are looking for a way to escape the monsters closing in on you. For 45 minutes, you can enter a world that lets you escape reality and leaves you energized and ready to tackle the easy problems that will be waiting at the exit.

Feature Image courtesy of Fear Factory.

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Connie Lewis

Connie has been with Utah Stories since 2013, and has enjoyed learning everything involved in producing a monthly magazine. In addition to writing, Connie performs administrative tasks, coordinates writers, photographers and editors, and oversees a million little details. Her least favorite word is ‘deadline.’ A journalism class at the University of Utah sparked Connie’s love of writing. Finding it hard to narrow her interests to just one major, journalism allowed her to explore a wide variety of topics and disciplines. When she is not writing, Connie loves spending time with her family and traveling with her dogs. “It has been a pleasure learning new things about the state I was born in and meeting the people who make Utah great,” she says. Connie plans to continue her love of learning and improving as the magazine moves onward and upward.

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