Children of the Corn

I got to take Amber and a few of her friends to try out Miller Farms haunted corn maze tonight. They're opening it to the public tomorrow night and we got to go be part of a guinea pig group to test it out. The tour started with a scary story about abandoned, sunken coal mines, ghosts, Indian spirits and goatsuckers (I never did quite figure out what those were). We then loaded into a hay trailer and drove about a mile out in the middle of the corn field where we had a "guide" waiting for us. The path meandered through the corn where we would hear an occasional rustle or noise. The guide would stop every once in awhile and back track like he was lost and the further we got in the more active the corn got. Finally he sent us forward onto a path saying he would catch up and promptly disappeared at which point the fog machine got cranked up and we were left on our own for about 5 minutes. It was definitely an example that fear of what you can't see is far worse than a zombie right in front of you. Even some of the adults were beginning to freak out a little by the time the owner of the farm rescued us and walked us back out. The "ghosts" continued to follow us all the way back to the farmhouse and the girls were keeping an eye over their shoulders even as we walked back to the car. It was so fun to watch them enjoy being scared. They're still young enough not to need blood and gore to be impressed. Definitely time well spent.