Two of the houses featured in the new HGTV series, “Scariest House in America,” that debuts Friday are in Kansas and Missouri.
The series is hosted by comedian, actress and home design enthusiast Retta, who also hosts the network’s popular “ Ugliest House in America.” The four-episode Halloween spinoff debuts at 8 p.m. Friday.
The search for nine of the scariest houses in the country led HGTV to Atchison, Kansas and Brumley, Missouri, on Lake of the Ozarks. Those homes will be featured Oct. 11.
“If you thought the Midwest was all corn fields and quaint towns, and cordial people, you’d be wrong,” she says in the “Mysterious Midwest” episode. “Because America’s heartland is not for the faint of heart. The houses here know how to bring the scary.”
In the final episode, the home deemed the “scariest” of nine featured will be renovated and revived to the tune of $150,000 by designer Alison Victoria.
Which will win the scary title? The former jail now inhabited by bats? The alleged mobster hangout?