A look at Denver’s famed attraction The Frightmare Compound | Business [Video]

Josh Holder has been in a scary business his whole life. He inherited it from his father, Brad.

The Holder family owns and operates metro Denver’s longest continuously running haunted house attraction: The Frightmare Compound in Westminster.

“Everyone says I must have just had the weirdest parents in the world,” Holder said. “It was always my dad’s idea. That’s what he wanted. Mom was more like ‘OK – I’ll support that as long as we have a nice house and I get to do my thing.’”

Holder proudly proclaims “we’re the number one rated Google haunted house in the U.S. — just Google us.”

When Brad Holder bought the farmland at 10798 Yukon Street in 1983, there was “nothing up here.”

“That was a serious thing for a while, because when you drove up here you were literally in the middle of nowhere.”

On the corner of West 108th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, the …