Oct.  31

I was a krazed klown once with the Insane Clown Posse. Really. It was four years ago. They were the celebrity crazies in a cage down at Spooky World down in Foxborough, but I got to dress up with the other SW "actors" in a puffy clown suit roam the cavern or lurk in the bones and gore, while fondling a dismembered fake foot. "Foot fetish," was my best line. I would growl it to an inquisitive visitor. One year, we got to hang with Alice Cooper. Spooky World, owned by Dave Bertolino, went down after 2003, but John Denley of Boneyard Productions acquired the franchise from Bertolino and launched it this year at Bayside Expo. Now, is it really as horrifying next to Morrissey Blvd. as it was "deep in the Foxborough Woods," as they used to put it? Isn't outside inherently more terrifying than inside? Yeah, maybe. But Denley's got three huge (4000 square-feet) haunted houses in there as well as three other main attractions and various C-level celebs showing up to do the meet-and-greet on various weekends. Wrestler Kane is there Oct. 28, 4-6 p.m., and Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and R.A. Mihailoff (the original Leatherface) are slated, too. Check website for details.Denley's also got a tag the kids can wear - a zombie protective badge,so the wandering psychos stay away. There's also a guarantee the patrolling monsters will not touch anyone. Call this Spooky World a PG-rated experience. Bertolino went opening weekend and raved about a house called "The Experiment" - "a very cool haunted house with high energy. That made the event, with the jump-and-scare stuff. He's got great staffing. I enjoyed it and my son thought it was great." Tickets: $24.50 (adult). Kids cheaper, and there are discount coupons out and about everywhere. Check for hours of operation; they're open some afternoons as well as evenings.

Columbia Point, South Boston, 800-697-3287 spookyworld.com