As the sun sets on the outskirts of Whitewater, The Fuzzy Pig’s Shockwave haunts come alive.

Just before 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 at the Fuzzy Pig, bloodied and made up characters of all sort rush around the premises finishing details or hauling beer from one building to another. It’s show-time.

The owner of the Fuzzy Pig, Dick Kraus, is dressed in blood-stained and shredded clothing with his crumpled rubber mask in hand.

“I think about the haunts all year long. I’m demented that way,” Kraus said. “I farm 1100 acres so whatever I’m doing I’m always thinking about it and during the winter I’m working on it.”

The Fuzzy Pig sits on the outskirts of Whitewater and contains at least three large buildings where the haunts are held. One building being the main store front which contains a multitude of antiques and country -living themed novelties, not a place where you would expect to see zombies and deranged clowns roaming about.

“It’s kinda funny what people say,” McKenna Riley said. “They think they’re all tough and stuff and it’s kinda funny.”

This is Riley’s second year working the haunt, this time as a zombie in the Mystery Haunt.

Kraus said this year offers some changes from the previous ones.

“This year we took two haunts and totally changed them,” Kraus said. “This is our sixth season, and we try to come up with something different every year. Change certain rooms and change little bitty things in each room.”

The four haunts are The Bloody Chamber, Mystery Haunt, Nightmare at the Carnival and St. Leah’s Last Rights Nursing Home. The newest haunt being Nightmare at the Carnival, a twisting walk surrounded by “murderous clowns” who love to sniff hair and giggle at terror.

“The adult comedy haunt is probably the coolest. It’s about retired super heroes this year,” Riley said.

St. Leah’s Last Rights Nursing Home is much lighter adventure into the macabre where you will see your favorite super heroes deal with their dementia and loss of youth and power – Certainly a more mature and realistic fear that is handled with an amusingly dark twist.

The Bloody Chamber has clearly been designed to really force you to keep going despite the confusion and horror. The haunt begins with a long stretch of darkness that is both bewildering and squirm inducing. As you make your way, you are first attacked with lights and loud cautionary sounds. Suddenly monstrous butchers, screaming children and rooms so gory and well designed they could be considered installations of fine art. One such scenario sent me flailing backwards through a door. Okay Kraus, you’ve won this round.

After three haunts and two beers to calm my nerves, I couldn’t force myself to attempt the Mystery Haunt. Stories from the crowds, however, revealed scenarios of women falling down and grown men huddled upon themselves, crying. Perhaps it was best to sit that one out.

The Shockwave Haunts are disturbing, vulgar and the experience will find its way under your skin, which is a compliment. The haunts will be held every weekend from 7 to 10 p.m. until the end of the month. The Fuzzy Pig is located at N8660 Clover Valley Road, Whitewater, Wisconsin, if you should dare.