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The Stough Canyon Nature Center is Haunted!

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Contributed by: Carol Mercado on 10/3/2007

Beware if you visit the Stough Canyon Nature Center on Oct. 19 and 20 at night.

Those scary Burbank nature volunteers will be turning the center into a "Circus of Fear," with crazed clowns, terrifiying trapeze artists, a frightening freak show and the ghostly one-armed lion tamer.

More than 75 volunteers devote a total of about 1,200 hours each year creating and conducting the annual Haunted Hike/Haunted Center tour at the Stough Canyon Nature Center in Burbank.

The event, run by the city of Burbank, gets from 800 to 1,100 people over the two nights.

"Dead"icated volunteers and staff have been working on various circus scenes, creating a ghoulish story, making fun props and rehearsing their scare tactics all toward making this year's haunt, "Terror Under the Big Top" the best ever.

The volunteers include nature docents, many high school students and individuals who just love to scare people. It can be very scary to young children, so no one under 6 years is allowed and even older children might have nightmares.

But for the children and adults who like to be frightened, this is the event for you.

The $5 tickets will be sold each night, Oct. 19 and 20, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Stough Park near the Starlight Bowl off of Walnut Avenue in Burbank.

Participants are then shuttled in groups by Burbank Transportation vans to the haunted Nature Center for their 15-minute tour.

There will be face painting, live animals, games and more at Stough Park while waiting for your tour. Refreshments and souvenirs will be sold.

For more information on this frightening fun, please call (818) 238-5440.

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