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Here's where to get scares this spooky season

Fall has arrived and with it, Halloween fun.

The Haunted Shack outside Carlton opened, appropriately, on Friday the 13th. The smaller but spectacular Haunted Hawthorne is alive and well, with frights every weekend behind a family home in Cloquet. And thereā€™s pumpkins galore, including in the Cloquet Middle School swimming pool on Saturday. Thereā€™s even an option for those who prefer to be terrified while driving their cars down a country lane listening to spooky music, courtesy of the County Seat Theater.

Following is a list of area amusements, tame, spine-tingling and downright spooky:

ā€¢ The...