Inuvik - Tyler Gordon-Bahr knew he had no business being anywhere near the haunted house at the Midnight Sun Complex Sunday afternoon.

Maddysen Kingmiaqtuq-Devlin had no problem scaring the daylights out of everyone who passed her in the haunted house - Andrew Rankin/NNSL photos

He would have rather been hauling wood with his dad, but instead wound up tagging along with his mom, Liz Gordon, who volunteered to be a masked monster for the event.

The moment he found out a dangling skeleton was hanging inside one of those creepy rooms was the moment he decided to have no part of it.

"Mom said I would get too scared," said Tyler. "That's OK."

So he waited patiently amid the ghastly screams and rattled youngsters dreaming about his own clever costume he would wear in a matter of hours trick or treating throughout town.

It being a snazzy blue and white sandtrooper costume. A Star Wars lover, he really didn't know or care what character he was imitating, just that he was.

"I'm not one of the jedis but those white guys," he said of the infamous stormtroopers.

Tony Devlin, Inuvik's director of community services, was the mastermind of the haunted house and said plenty of youngsters of all ages showed up and promptly left horrified. Well not quite, the makeshift monsters and witches toned it down a notch for the

very young and the faint of heart.

His daughter Maddysen Kingmiaqtuq-Devlin was among the scaremongers who manned the house. Enjoying her shock-inducing role for the most part, the youngsters admitted she may have gone over board a few times.

"I think I really scared about four people," she said. "I heard a few kids crying. That made me kind of sad because they were little, little kids."

Angie Edwards, 11, wasn't one of those kids. The event provided her with a perfect outlet.

"I like being scared," she said. "It's just fun to scream."

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