The "Harvest Celebration" in Viera looks innocent enough.

"Come here; come closer," beckons a grandmotherly-type rocking in a chair on a front porch. She appears warm until a wicked cackle escapes her soul.

Step right up and you'll soon discover there's something amiss at the Woods' Family BBQ business.

"It was nice because it was well put together, but it was also very scary," Savannah Flemming said.

Like cattle, those wearing the brand mark of a W are known to be dangerous. This spirited stroll through a Brevard County forest is not for the faint of heart.

"When you were walking straight, people just come at you from the side and angles in front and you don't expect it, and it just throws you off and it just scares you," Flemming warns.

Would you believe the inagural Trail of Terror takes place at the Brevard Zoo?

"You're in the middle of the woods," said Andrea Hill, with the Brevard Zoo. "And you're disoriented. And we're going to use that to bring scares to you."

Local actors and volunteers embrace the macabre on Friday and Saturday nights until Halloween to scare for a good cause.

"We're actually a nonprofit organization, so everything comes back to us," Hill said of the ticket price.

Even a special website at runforyourfreakinlife.com explains the deep backstory.

The fictitious meat-packing family has plenty of secrets as you put one foot in front of the other for a quarter-mile in Brevard County swamp land.

"We'd be all three holding together and she would end up behind me, all tangled up because she ran around us," Connie Weaver said of her group of scared friends from Titusville.

Weaver and her friends made it safely through and found the after party.

Survivors can party to a live DJ and grab pork and hamburgers for dinner.

A ticket grants admission over and over to the same person all night.

"I got your Tankful right here," Granny warns as we fade into the night.

NOTE: The Trail of Terror is only open Friday and Saturday nights through Oct. 31.

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