The Kingwood Asylum is Kingwood’s Premier haunted house.

2007 Shayne Torrans (owner) and Kirk Fuson (owner), started building props and small sets in 2007. The first year, the haunt was no more than an industrial, custom smoke machine, a few latex masks and the front yard of Shayne’s house. The little residential haunt had people stopping in their tracks. Several trick r’ treaters refused to even walk up to the front door for candy. The small success from 2007 spurred Shayne and Kirk to go bigger in 2008.

2008 The Spook House is created. Shayne and Kirk along with a dedicated group of family and friends conceptualized, marketed and built “the Spook House” in three days. Utilizing Shayne’s driveway, garage and backyard, the Spook House was like nothing Kingwood had ever seen before. The Spookhouse was run from 7pm – 11pm and pulled over 500+ visitors. Several visitors took the time to compliment the Spook House team. With another success under the belt, Kirk and Shayne decided it was time to give the haunt 100% effort and marketing for the next year.
POPULARITY
2007: 300 visitors
2008: 500+ visitors
2009: 1,400+ visitors
2010: 1,500+ visitors

2009 The Kingwood Asylum is created. Utilizing most of the year leading up to October, Kirk, Shayne and the dedicated team of family and friends designed, built, marketed and worked the Kingwood Asylum. The Kingwood Asylum operated on Friday and Saturday from 8pm – 12pm. Not really sure what to expect in number of visitors, the Kingwood Asylum was overwhelmed. 1,400+ visitors journeyed to Kingwood, TX in order to walk through the Kingwood Asylum. The Kingwood Asylum was a success.

2010 The Kingwood Asylum gears up for its second year in operation. Building on 2009′s success, the Kingwood Asylum steps up the haunt on every level. Marketing, props, design, operations and costume/wardrobe are all overhauled and geared for professional haunt level. Haunt for Hunger is established as a food drive charity for The Society of Saint Stephen’s. The Tribune gave the Kingwood Asylum front page coverage in order to promote the Haunt for Hunger food drive. The Kingwood Asylum operated Saturday and Sunday for a total of six hours and generated 1,500+ visitors and over 2,000 lbs of canned goods.