DULUTH - Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and things that go bump in the night.  It's one of the most frightful events of the year, when the William A. Irvin in Duluth is transformed into "the haunted ship."

Fear strikes the hearts of many....before they even step on board.  Every October the William A. Irvin transforms into "the haunted ship."  And this, their 17th year, is the scariest one yet.

This year there are three themes....the insane asylum.  The sci–fi area.  And the mideival castle.

Sherri LeSarge is the production manager.  Sherri and others have spent months preparing to frighten the Northland.  They even attended the "Midwest Haunters Convention" in Ohio and came back with some new ideas.

"We've made up a lot of walls that will be falling down on you. Bodies that will be popping up on you. It'll be a lot of fun."

Sherri is an expert in scaring people, she's been working on the haunted ship for the past eight years.  In fact, she fell in love right here....among the eerie cobwebs and the blood curdling screams.

"I actually met my husband eight years ago down here, acting."

"About 8 years ago we met down here as actors in the make–up shop," says her husband Steve Dossett.

Sherri says, "I was the witch doctor and he was well, he's 6'9", so he was of course Frankenstein."

Steve says, "She was trying to superglue bolts to my neck. I was Frakenstein, what can I say?"

Steve and Sherri, now husband and wife, run the haunted ship together.

Says Steve. "We've always enjoyed coming down here and acting, and we thought we could do a good job running it."

And they are doing a good job ....their one goal is to scare people to death.... And judging from the frightened faces and high pitched screams, it's working.