The Mississippi Horse Park is offering three nights filled of scare beginning this Wednesday, through Saturday.  During these nights, the park will be known as the Haunted Horse Park of Starkville for its fourth year.  It will be open to the public and this event is presented by the Mississippi State Housing and Residence Life.  
Admission is $5 and free shuttles will be provided  that will travel from the Colvard Student Union.  The Haunted Horse Park will have a kid’s hour from 7-8 p.m.  From 8 p.m. to midnight, it is “Lights out.”  
Bricklee Miller, the faculty director at the Mississippi Horse Park said people will be in for a good scare.
“There will be mazes, graveyards, clown rooms, and all kind of things to see as you go through each scene, thrilling you to no end,” Miller said. 
This year’s event will have 14 different scenes and rooms for participants to walk through.
 
Miller said the Haunted Horse Park has grown steadily every year.  Last year the event hosted 2,500 participants in the fun. 
“The Residential Association has done a great job to grow the event, adding more nights every year to create more scary areas and opportunities,” Miller said.
The event offers something for everyone, students and community alike, from 7-8 p.m., the park will host “Kid’s Hour” in which volunteers will leave on the lights in the park giving the children enough taste of scare.  
“For the first hour we leave the lights on and it does not get quite as loud. It is catered more towards children,” Miller said. 
From 8 p.m. to midnight, the park will be known as “Lights out.”  During these four hours, the park will be completely dark.  Participants will walk in groups of six to 10 people through the different scenes and rooms on the Horse Farm’s grounds.
“The participants will not be able to see what is coming in the next room, making the whole experience even scarier.  It will be really dark. There will be lots of strobe lights, and crazy sounds to keep you on edge,” Miller said.
The money raised from this event will be given to local Starkville area charities.   The MSU Housing and Resident Life hosts this event, providing it with about 100 volunteers.  The volunteers can help out in several ways  including taking tickets, doing makeup, or participating in scenes.
“This is our annual haunted house that we host to give not only MSU students, but the Starkville community something to look forward to during October,” said Talla Cisse, president of the Residence Hall Association.