BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - You know them as the people who make you scream around Halloween - but there’s another story under their masks.

It takes a special kind of person to run a haunted house. You’d think Nightmare’s actors are all horror aficionados, but it turns out many are scaredy cats in search of a community.

A maze full of creeps like this is many people’s worst nightmare. For Sam Zisk, it’s a dream.

“I’m deeply, deeply entrenched in making this show happen and making people feel welcome here,” said Zisk.

Nightmare Vermont’s annual horror show and its troop of self-proclaimed “top shelf weirdos” anchor the actor to Vermont.

“This is my whole social life now, and it’s a wonderful community,” said Zisk.

The team works for weeks to transform the underbelly of the Champlain Vall

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