GALLERY: Camden Park's Spooktacular

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Amy Patrick, 6, and Payton Duncan, 6, both of Huntington, get all painted up in their cat faces for a night at Camden Park’s 9th Annual Spooktacular. The Halloween-themed event, with 20 rides and attractions, continues Fridays and Saturdays in October.

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A tiny pedaler gets a push from dad at Camden Park’s hand-car ride where the a giant dragon that moves its head and roars is trackside for its 9th Annual Spooktacular.

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While most visitors to Camden Park go in summer in the daytime, the park’s 9th Annual Spooktacular gives visitors a chance to see the historic family-run park all tricked out and lit up with lots of neon, lights and spooky decorations.

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Camden Park’s creepy clown, known during daylight hours as Konnor Lyons, 17, a senior at Spring Valley High School, is just one of dozens of Camden Park workers helping bring some hauntings to the park during its 9th Annual Spooktacular

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Beside the West Virginia Grille at Camden Park, one of the workers poses before going in to try to get just a little drink of blood from park-goers lost in the maze behind the arcade during Spooktacular.

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These ghost friends are blowing in the wind in the open spaces outside of Camden Park’s 100-year-old carousel.

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In the shadow of the sign of the happy clown, this inflatable Haunted House is just an appetizer for the wee tots who haven’t worked up enough courage for the two haunted mazes, the haunted train ride and the historic dark ride, The Haunted House at Camden Park.

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Unfortunately for folks who made it past the Claustrophobia room to this cemetery turning back would mean another tight squeeze at the Discovery Center maze, located past the Hot Cat ride at Camden Park’s 9th Annual Spooktacular.

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Pedalers of the hand-cars at Camden Park don’t take much of a break around the curves thanks to the roars of a giant dragon in the vicinity. The dragon is just one of dozens of creepy critters and monsters in place around the park for its 9th Annual Spooktacular.

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Konnor Lyons, 17, a senior at Spring Valley High School, gets the last laugh as one of the costumed characters putting a little fright into the night at Camden Park’s 9th Annual Spooktacular