Smith, who helped organize the event, said not only does the Haunted Granary raise money to restore the structures, but the event also gives the community a chance to come together for a good cause and share the history of the building.
The Haunted Granary has about 70 high school volunteers, and Smith said working with them is one of her favorite parts of the event.
"It's fun because it's nice to see helpful kids interested," she said. "We're building the community."
Decorated CATA buses will be picking up passengers at the Schlow Library stop and transporting them to the Granary for free.
Tickets go on sale at 6:30 p.m. Smith said the entire tour takes about an hour.
She said the tickets will not be sold past 9:30 p.m. in hopes of preventing inebriated students from purchasing tickets, who have caused disturbances in the past.
"We worry about students coming drunk and causing confrontation with our high school volunteers," Smith said. "We've had kids slugged."
A short trip away, in Huntingdon, is the Ghosts and Goblins 2005 tour of Lincoln Caverns. The haunted cavern and trail begin at 5 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and tickets are sold until 10 p.m.
An underground lab and mad scientists theme was chosen this year.
Jennifer Brumbaugh, an employee at Lincoln Caverns, said the cavern is pretty scary, but it's all for fun.
"Goblins will jump out and scare you," she said. "There are a whole lot of props --rats, snakes, you name it -- but they're the rubber ones."
The tour takes about an hour and ends with a haunted trail throughout the woods surrounding the cavern, which leads back to the visitor center where the tour begins.
Brumbaugh also said that the tour changes each year and takes months to construct.
"We've even had to build structures inside of the caverns because they are so elaborate," she said.
Another attraction is the Forest of Fear hayride in McClure. It involves different scenes and vignettes of scary Halloween clichés brought to life, including graveyards, haunted houses and a slaughterhouse.
The proceeds of the hayride benefit the Bannerville Volunteer Fire Department. Clint Smarty, one of the main organizers of the hayride, said the hayride can last until midnight or later, depending on the number of people that show up. Smarty also said that preparations for the hayride begin long before Halloween.
"It can take a couple of months for us to set up the forest; we try to work on it every weekend and, as the time draws closer, we step it into overdrive to complete any last-minute things that need done," he said.
All this work pays off though, Smarty said, when people go on the hayride. The scenes are so scary that sometimes accidents happen.
"Some of our scenes are just too scary for some people to handle, we even have adults who wet themselves," he said.
