WATCH: Is Farmaphobia the scariest Halloween experience in the country?

It was voted one of Europe’s best independent scare attractions at the SCAR awards in London recently and over 22,000 brave souls staggered through the terror last year, but is the Faramaphobia experience at Causey Farm really that frightening?

 

The Meath Chronicle bravely decided to visit Causey Farm in Fordstown ahead of its official opening onslaught and give our readers a taste of what lies ahead (and beneath)

An enquiry about bringing kids to Farmaphobia was met with a firm ‘No’! from the Causey Farm scaremongerers. And they’re absolutely right. 
Once you enter the five different themed ‘attractions’ you’ve got to see it through and it’s not the place for younger kids to be losing their mind as a flesh eating zombie chases them through pitch-black narrow corridors. 
You know they’re coming, around every corner, twist and turn. The frights, the scares, the bursts of terror, they come thick and fast, you’re ready for them and yet you’re still jumping out of your skin and screaming like a little girls every time.

 

The first section of the Faramaphobia fright-fest is the dark walk out to the Corn Field where you meet all manner of ghoulish entity before stumbling into the beastly corn maze itself. Some thing lurks around every corner and the sound of genuine distant screams of other victims, sorry visitors, in the night air adds to the trauma.
Once through that menace, The Morgue, the Hotel and Scarecus all await to curdle the blood.
Is it for you? Well, if you like having the life scared out of you, don’t mind getting hopelessly lost in dark, creepy cornfields where yokels chase you with chainsaws or farm outbuildings are turned into macabre morgues and hotels of horror, it’s the place to be.
And if that’s not enough terror and bloody mayhem for one night, back across the road in Fordstown you can step inside your own personal horror movie experience at the terrifying Haunted Spooktacular Horror Farm at Grove Gardens.
There you can journey through themed indoor and outdoor areas where your worst nightmares come true and “anything can happen”.
Meath is at the chilling epicentre of Halloween activity this year with over 30 other events that make up the ‘Spirits of Meath Halloween Festival’ programme by Boyne Valley Tourism. 
Now in its 8th year this festival offers spooky and fun events for every age group from October 14th to November 6th.
Halloween began over 3,000 years ago in County Meath, Ireland’s Ancient East. Each year the ‘Spirits of Meath Halloween Festival’ re-creates that first Halloween with a Torchlit Procession and Samhain Festival of Fire, a re-enactment of the first Halloween fire from over 3,000 years ago. This takes place on the Hill of Tlachtga, (Hill of Ward) in Athboy, Co. Meath on 31st

October and is just one of some 30 other events that make up the ‘Spirits of Meath Halloween Festival’ programme by Boyne Valley Tourism. 
For full details of all the spooktacular events taking place check out www.spiritsofmeath.ie