 With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks, like unlimited talk, text, and three gigs of data for just $44.99, or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. Normally, first responders are the ones who come running when people scream in fear. But during October weekends in Pikeville, they're the ones causing the screams. Local police and fire officials have been hard at work for a couple of weeks, getting ready for the opening night of their cut-through mountain haunted trail. Of course, there's going to be bedrooms and kitchens and stuff set up in here. It's going to be a full-blown house time we get done with it. A full-blown haunted house located at the end of a haunted trail on the mountain above Bob Amos Park. And even though this is a Halloween event, Captain Edmund says it's really all about Christmas and something special they do for local children. We don't call it shop or the first responders what we call it now. We don't call it shop or the cop because we have so much more people involved. We have the fire department. They're really involved with it with us. They take kids the same as we do. With an admission price of $10 per person, Captain Edmund says the haunted trail is their biggest fundraiser of the year. We tried to do car washes, little bit of events that we could do just to try to get enough money raised to take 10 kids to have a Christmas with them. Once we got this idea and expanded this, we went from 10 to 30 kids that we can spend, you know, right around $300 on each year. Opening night is Friday, October 14th. The haunted adventures will start at the parking lot near the walking track. They'll come down and get a ticket to get into a hay ride up the mountain along the trail up to here. They get off down to barn. They'll have a little venture in there while another group's getting picked up. Then we'll pick them back up, bring them up to our trail and they'll walk around this trail which is .25 miles. Captain Edmunds was pretty tight lipped about exactly what people can expect to see, but he did say he couldn't rule out a creepy clown sighting or two somewhere on the trail. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.