Spooky season is well and truly upon us as we enter Halloweekend. While trick-or-treating around your neighborhood is the norm for most, those with a particular fondness for the freaky and frightening can make a memorable Halloween trip to some of the most haunted, ghost-and-ghoul infested towns in the country. A new study determined the spookiest city in America isn’t one of the most well-known: Virginia City, Nevada .

The study analyzed factors such as ghost sightings, haunted locations, haunted houses, astrologers and psychics per capita, spiritual stores, ghost-related Google searches, and more: out of the more than seventy cities and towns studied, Virginia City was deemed the spookiest, with the highest concentration of haunted houses, spiritual shops, and ghoulish Google activity.…