VIDEO: Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to take a ride on the new and improved Beast coaster at Kings Island. 🎢 The Beast, which first opened in 1979 as the world's longest wooden roller coaster, has held that distinction ever since and this year, will best it's own record by two feet. https://bit.ly/381kBAD | WLWT

For the 38th consecutive season (1979-2016), The Beast gave more than 1 million rides, raising its all-time total to 52,252,237. Share if you have experienced a ride on the world's longest wooden roller coaster. | Kings Island

Here's how the world's longest wooden roller coaster -- The Beast -- was introduced to TV audiences in the spring of 1979. | Kings Island

This isn't the Haunt you know; it's a Haunt like you've never seen before. Prepare for an entirely new level of fear with our terrifying new maze, Order of the Dragon, and the Conjuring: Beyond Fear experience. We've also enhanced all your favorite scare zones and haunted mazes to be more terrifying than ever. We'll see you at Halloween Haunt presented by SNICKERS® this Friday, September 19... if you dare. Haunted Mazes are a premier attraction not included with park admission. For access, purch