With Halloween quickly approaching, students around Auburn are searching for costumes ideas, planning parties, carving pumpkins and anything else to get prepared for this spooky holiday.
Many people will also be out and about looking for place to find a good scare at a local haunted house.
"I like good haunted houses around this time of year," said David Bailey, senior in environmental sciences. "I think haunted houses are a good place to for a guy to take a girl on a date; since they are scary they give you a good reason to get close."
While most of the Halloween festivities won't be kicking off until this weekend, Omega Tau Sigma started things off early by hosting a haunted house Friday night.
Auburn's professional veterinary fraternity turned its usually peaceful abode on Wire Road into a house of horror for one night for visitors to come enjoy for only $6.
Omega Tau Sigma also accepted donations of canned food at the door for the "Beat Bama" food drive. With a can of food, attendees received a dollar-off discount.
In between studying and going to class at the Vet school, members of Omega Tau Sigma worked all week to make the house look as scary as possible.
"The whole week before we worked to get everything ready," said Casey Eckert, first year veterinary student, "Everybody went up there and worked hard getting all the rooms ready; with a lot of help we got everything finished."
The members also took part in the haunted house by playing spooky characters and scaring visitors as they traveled throughout the house and yard.
"I played the girl from 'The Ring,'" said Alexandra Favreau, first year veterinary student and Omega Tau Sigma member. "I hid behind the couch and crawled out from the television at people."
The haunted house was full of terrifying attractions: an amputation room, a rabies room, a pain clinic, a jail and more.
"I thought the haunted house was tons of fun," Favreau said. "I liked the headless horseman and the pain clinic acts the most."
The vet students tried to make sure each room played on different fears.
"The hand room was a dark room with black lights," Eckert said. "People in the room just looked like part of the walls, but they were wearing white gloves, so you could just see hands everywhere in the room and all over the walls."
The action wasn't limited to inside the house. In the yard, haunted house visitors were frightened by a man in the process of being hung to death, a crazed person with a running chainsaw and even a headless horseman.
"It was exciting to have a horse at a haunted house," said Eckert, who played the role as the headless horseman by riding her black mare, Shadow, with a black shirt over her head. "Horses are just something you just don't see at most haunted houses."
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