Lincoln Mill Haunted House 2026: Tickets, Dates, Three New Rooms and the Manayunk Ghost Tour

Philadelphia, PA — Lincoln Mill Haunted House is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, inside an 1860 textile mill in Manayunk, with three new rooms, new characters and an all-new Mill Yard this season. General admission is $38 online, and Lincoln Mill’s new Ghost Tours of Manayunk is a $42 walk along the Manayunk Canal that ends at the mill.

Dates and Hours

Lincoln Mill Haunted House runs 20 nights from September 26 to November 7, 2026. The front gate opens 10 minutes before each start time, and Lincoln Mill says Thursdays and Sundays are typically less crowded than Friday and Saturday nights. Wait times grow longer closer to Halloween, according to its FAQ.

Tickets and Prices

Tickets are for a set night and time window, and Lincoln Mill’s FAQ recommends buying ahead because availability is limited. Tickets can also be bought on site by scanning a QR code.

• General admission: $38 online, covering the haunted house and the River Deck, which overlooks the Schuylkill River.
• VIP (Skip the Line): $55, good for any night and any time this season through November 7.
• Add-ons: Go Through Twice for $20, and Skip The Line for $17 on a general admission ticket.
• Groups: $20 a ticket, which is $18 off general admission, with a minimum of 20 tickets bought online in advance. The group rate is not sold at the box office.
• Lights Out: November 7 is a blackout night, $38 for general admission, when guests go through in complete darkness with only a candle.

What’s New in 2026

Lincoln Mill’s 2026 season adds three all-new rooms, new characters and an all-new Mill Yard experience, according to its September 11 Instagram post. The Mill Yard is the open-air area outside the haunted house, with roaming characters, and every guest passes through a metal detector and a security checkpoint before entering it.

The layout changes every year with new props, characters and sets, and more than 50 actors work the haunt at any one time, Lincoln Mill’s FAQ says.

The Story of Viktor Kane

Lincoln Mill Haunted House calls itself a high-intensity, story-driven attraction, with live scare actors, special effects and detailed sets inside the Lincoln Mill, a textile mill that opened in Manayunk in 1860. Its FAQ says the story blends the mill’s real industrial history with the fictional legend of Viktor Kane.

Hurricane Ida flooded the real mill in September 2021. In Lincoln Mill’s legend, that flood revealed a hidden chamber in the basement, where human remains were found, and investigators traced them to the 1930s, when Kane, the mill’s owner, ran a Labor Efficiency Program. Workers who fell ill, got hurt or slowed down were taken to an infirmary in the basement and injected with serums and tonics, and those who broke down were taken deeper, to the Chamber.

“Lincoln Mill Haunted House isn’t just a walkthrough,” Jared Bilsak, the attraction’s cofounder and architect, said in February. “It’s an immersive horror experience rooted in story, atmosphere, and history.”

Built to Scare, Lincoln Mill’s documentary series on the videos page of its site, goes behind the scenes of building the haunt.

Ghost Tours of Manayunk

Ghost Tours of Manayunk is a guided walking tour Lincoln Mill added this year, along the Manayunk Canal to the mill. Guests carry EMF readers, the handheld meters paranormal investigators use, to search for unexplained energy along the way, and the tour draws on Manayunk’s textile mill history.

• Price: $42.
• Times: 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. and 8:45 to 10:00 p.m., on select nights through November 7.
• Route: it starts at Canal View Park, 4418 Main Street, follows the Manayunk Tow Path along the canal, and ends at the Lincoln Mill, 4100 Main Street.
• Booking: reservations must be made at least two hours in advance, and guests should arrive 15 minutes early.
• Ages: guests under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian.
• Walking: tours run rain or shine, over uneven sidewalks and stairs, so wear walking shoes.

Getting There and Parking

Lincoln Mill is at 4100 Main Street in Manayunk, a historic Philadelphia neighborhood on the Schuylkill River.

• Train: SEPTA Regional Rail’s Wissahickon and Manayunk stations are both within walking distance.
• Uber and Lyft: Lincoln Mill asks riders to set 4050 Main Street as the destination, to avoid a busy intersection, and walk 100 feet to the entrance at 4100 Main Street.
• Parking: Manayunk has more than 700 spaces in lots across its commercial district. Spaces in the lot at 4000 Main Street are limited and sold in advance. The FAQ recommends the Parkway Parking lot on Venice Island, a 2 to 5 minute walk. Valet parking runs on Main Street after 6 p.m.

What to Know Before You Go

• Security: every guest goes through a metal detector and a security checkpoint, and weapons are not allowed.
• Bags: small fanny packs, clutch purses, diaper bags, medically approved bags, and clear or solid tote bags are allowed, none larger than 12 by 12 by 1 inches. Book bags, drawstring bags, camera bags and large purses are not.
• Touching: the actors will not touch guests, and guests may not touch the actors or props.
• Photos: no photos or videos inside.
• Age: there is no age limit, but the FAQ says the haunt is meant to be very scary, with many startle scares.
• Time: plan on 60 minutes or more from entering the complex, with the pre-show, food and drinks, and the haunted house.
• On site: it is indoors and open rain or shine, it is ADA accessible, and food, drinks, souvenirs and bathrooms are on site.

Lincoln Mill’s Christmas, Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s Haunts

Lincoln Mill reopens three more times between December and March with holiday versions of the haunt, and the fall presale is $26 for general admission ($12 off $38) and $40 for VIP ($15 off $55).

• A Twisted Christmas, December 11, 12 and 19: Viktor hallucinates his workers turning into twisted elves and winter creatures. The presale tickets are for December 11 and 12.
• Viktor’s Valentine, February 12 and 13, 2027: guests follow a trail of hearts through pitch-black corridors with only a flickering candle, toward the ghost of Viktor’s lost Valentine.
• St. Patrick’s Revenge, March 12 and 13, 2027: Viktor imagines his workers turning into goblins, banshees and leprechauns.

Lincoln Mill also lists Darkness Rises, a Star Wars-inspired horror experience, with no date posted.

Lincoln Mill Haunted House by Year

2023: Viktor’s Valentine, Halfway to Halloween and the First Twisted Christmas

Lincoln Mill’s owners, Brian Corcodilos and Jared Bilsak, opened the mill for Viktor’s Valentine: A ‘Dark’ Love Story on February 11, 2023, a blackout walk through the hidden chamber with only a candle, for $25 a ticket or $45 for a pair. On April 29, 2023, Viktor’s Vengeance: Halfway to Halloween lit the chamber in ultraviolet light, for $25.

Haunted Attraction Network’s preview of the 2023 season:

A Twisted Christmas, Lincoln Mill’s first holiday haunt, opened on December 16, 2023, with more than 35 scare actors and tickets from $32. “We always thought it would be interesting to combine our two favorite Holidays, Christmas and Halloween!” Bilsak said that year.

2024 to 2026: Christmas, Valentine’s and a Convention Tour

Lincoln Mill opened for the holidays on December 13 and 14, 2024, and December 12 and 13, 2025, and for Valentine’s Day on February 10, 2024, February 14 and 15, 2025, and February 13 and 14, 2026. Each is in my holiday haunted houses and Valentine’s Day haunted houses roundups.

On April 24, 2026, the East Coast Haunters Convention’s Friday haunt tour included Lincoln Mill and Pennhurst Asylum. The 2026 season is Lincoln Mill’s fifth.

Event Details

• Event: Lincoln Mill Haunted House 2026.
• Location: 4100 Main Street, Philadelphia, PA 19127, in Manayunk.
• Dates: 20 nights, September 26 to November 7, 2026.
• Tickets: general admission $38 online, VIP $55, at lincolnmillhaunt.com.
• Ghost Tours of Manayunk: $42, booked in advance at lincolnmillhaunt.com/ghost-tours.

Dates, hours and prices checked October 19, 2026.