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If you have land not far from even a small city, doing Halloween shit makes bank. Relatives have a patch of woods they grow lumber on, and turn it into a haunted trail for the second half of October. $15 a head, and they get hundreds of people a night.

Make little camps with different themes out of plywood, tarps, and sheet metal, fake cemetaries, spiderwebs hanging from trees, etc. like a "Hills Have Eyes"-style cannibal hillbilly dens, voodoo, and zombie themed shit is pretty cheap and a lot of fun. Hire local teenagers to doll up in masks and makeup and jump out at people, guys in hockey masks chasing folks with a bladeless chainsaw, and have an area selling stuff like nachos, hamburgers, and cokes at the entrance/exit with a few tables around. If you offer a discount to church youth groups and get a few of them to show up, you're golden. Help sponsor a few teeball games and shit like that to get more parents bringing their kids out.

Hayrides are another option if you're in a small town.