It’s officially Halloween time, so where are you going to go to get spooked and scared? If it’s thrills and chills you want, just visit some of these Halloween haunts.

Kreepy Krug Park

Krug Park might look like a nice place during the day, but at night it becomes a real horror. Kreepy Krug Park, put on by the Northend Community Association, will be at the west end of the park Oct. 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31.

“It might not be quite as scary as in Kansas City, but it’s the scariest one you’re going to find around here anyway,” says Angel Benner, treasurer of the Northend Community Association.

Guides take guests through the Krug Park forest, leading them to a fate that includes scary favorites like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and a few other things that will make you scream in the night.

The guides are the only ones with flashlights, so the visitors “don’t know where they’re going, and we don’t start anything until it’s completely dark,” says Ms. Benner. “It gets pretty scary down there.”

For the faint of heart, there is a chicken’s exit about one-fourth of the way through the trail. Ms. Benner says most little kids don’t make it through. For them, there are a witches’ cabin, a car bash, rides and games.

The cost for Kreepy Krug Park is $9, with $1 off for those with student IDs. It starts after dark and runs until 11:30 p.m. The children’s area is open from 6 to 10 p.m.

Mount Mora

Cemetery tours

They say dead man tell no tales, but that’s not quite true. At Mount Mora Cemetery, the stories of the deceased come to life every October.

The St. Joseph Museums Inc., along with the Mount Mora Preservation and Restoration Association, will once again host “Voices From Our Past: Interpretive Tours of Mount Mora Cemetery.”

The tours take guest along “Mausoleum Row,” where they will be met by spirits of the past. Suzanne Lehr, who leads the tours, won’t reveal exactly who’ll you meet this year, but she says there is always a variety in the stories.

“We have men and women, we may have businessman or artists,” she says.

The “Voices of the Past” tours will run at 6 and 7 p.m. Oct. 28 and 29. The tours begin at the St. Joseph Museum, 3406 Frederick Avenue.

And on Halloween, there will be a special Mount Mora tour, a midnight cemetery crawl. The crawl will take guests “deep into the cemetery,” Ms. Lehr says, and will include 12 new stories not featured on the “Voices of the Past” tour.

The midnight cemetery crawl will begin at 11:30. The cost is $35. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the St. Joseph Museum at 232-8471.

Haunted Atchison tours

Atchison has gotten a reputation as the “most haunted town in Kansas,” and you can experience the hauntings up close. The Haunted Atchison tours travel through the city, visiting 16 supposedly haunted spots.

They included the city park, one of the Benedictine College dorms and Molly’s Hollow, the most popular spot on the tour.

“That is one that it probably demands to be on our tour every year,” says Sally Webb, tourism coordinator for Atchison.

She says grew up with the legend of Molly’s Hollow, as did her 89-year-old mother. The legend goes that a jilted young woman took her life by throwing herself off a ravine in the hollow. Her screams, they say, can still be heard at night.

Another spooky spot is Sally’s House, where a young girl died while the local doctor was performing an appendectomy.

The Haunted Atchison tours run every Friday and Saturday until Oct. 25, and then nightly until Oct. 31. The cost is $12. For tour hours and reservation information call (800) 234-1854.

Great Scares

For those looking for the ultimate scares, there’s no denying that Kansas City offers some of the best haunted houses in the country. Along with the yearly standards The Beast, The Edge of Hell and The Catacombs, two new haunted houses opened this year. The Chambers of Poe Haunted House brings the author’s scariest stories to life, while the Macabre Cinema puts you in the scenes of horror movies.

For information on the The Beast, The Edge of Hell, The Chambers of Poe and the Macabre Cinema, visit www.kcbeast.com. For information on The Catacombs, call (816) 474-3854.

Lifestyles reporter Lacey Storer can be reached at lstorer@npgco.com