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Shane McWilliams, 9, a fourth-grader at Charlotte Harbor School, dresses as a zombie in one of many rooms and mazes throughout the Haunted House in Punta Gorda, presented by Smuggler’s.

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Adina Lewis, 17, a senior at Charlotte High School, dressed as an alien in the radioactive area of the haunted house.

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Chris Purdy and Alley Pope, 16, a junior at Charlotte High School, prepare to scare those who attended the haunted house in Punta Gorda at Haunting on the Harbor, in the butcher shop. A portion of the proceeds raised from the haunted house will be donated by Smuggler’s to Charlotte High School’s drama department to help defer costs for its production of “West Side Story” in February.

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Alley Wojcik, 17, left, and Madison Michalski, 16, both juniors at Edison Collegiate School, prepare to scare in the werewolf cave.

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Balie Crawford, 14, a freshman at Charlotte High School and a drama student, hides in the psycho clown room.

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Sara Hart, 17, a junior at Charlotte High School, was one of many drama department students who acted in Smuggler’s Haunted House in Punta Gorda, October 26. For more information on the haunted house and festival activities, visit http://www.puntagordahaunting.com

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Sarah Getter holds her 4-year old daughter, Roxy, as they wait to enter the haunted house at Haunting on the Harbor on Friday evening.

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Randi Totten comes through the radioactive area with her daughter, Piper, 11, a sixth-grader at Oasis Middle School, and step-daughter Skylynn Wohlers, 8, a third-grader at Seventh Day Adventist School, in the haunted house.

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Gina Parris, 17, a senior at Charlotte High School, puts on her best zombie face in the haunted house at Haunting on the Harbor.

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Charlotte High School senior Eddie Perez, 18, peers through a spider web in one of many darkened corners of the haunted house.

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Warren Scoggin, 18, a 2012 graduate at Port Charlotte High School, places his head in the guillotine at the Haunted House.

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Hannah Middlebrooks, 15, and Sergio Allarracin, 15, both sophomores at Charlotte High School, wait to scare those who attend the Haunted House in the zombie room.

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Daulton Lunsford, 14, a freshman at Charlotte High School and a member of the drama club, scurries through mazes and corridors dressed as a werewolf at the Haunted House attraction at Haunting on the Harbor in Punta Gorda.