Is an Alabama home rumored to be a former mob hideout the “Scariest House in America?” According to a new HGTV series, it’s in the running.
For Halloween season, HGTV is serving up a spinoff of its “Ugliest House in America” series. The four-episode miniseries “Scariest House in America” premiered Oct. 4, with comedian and actress Retta promising “haunted houses, ghosts and goblins, nightmares, jolts, frights and me” as she travels “across the country in search of the nine scariest houses we can find.”
“I did not see this iteration of this show coming,” Retta said in an HGTV promo. “I was cool with the summer road trip and ugly in paradise, but, for a gal that is spooked by every creak, critter and errant hair that brushes my shoulder, this wasn’t it. Glad I got through it, but I won’t lie and say I ‘enjoyed’ it.”…