After leading four ghost walks through downtown Coupeville over the weekend, Rebecca Robinson physically was feeling spent.

Spiritually, however, she could have gone on forever.

“I live for Halloween,” she said.

The month-long list of events and activities that make up the first Haunting of Coupeville this October was exactly the sort of thing that lured Robinson and her husband Don from Fresno, Calif., two and a half years ago.

When Lynda Eccles, executive director of the Coupeville Chamber of Commerce, set the idea in motion, Robinson couldn’t have jumped on board to help quick enough.

“We wanted a community-wide event,” Eccles said. “By incorporating some major players, it happened.”

Local businesses and two historic community farm families have stepped in, as have other community members and school groups.

All were in play last week Friday and Saturday nights during the Coupeville Ghost Walks, led by Robinson.

Steering clear of real history and actual family names from Washington’s second oldest town, Robinson told fictional tales as she led groups around the usual waterfront attractions.

She led the followers on the boardwalk near the wharf, criss-crossed Front Street and walked through dark passageways between buildings.

Students from Coupeville  and Oak Harbor high schools dressed as zombies, pirates, a butcher, coffin-maker and other characters popped out of the darkness to provide a scare then tended to follow the group for the duration of the tour.

The group was led through the Weary Bones Graveyard, a creation of Coupeville insurance agent Matt Iverson and others, before winding up at a haunted house in the office of massage therapist Susan Rogers Berg on Coveland Street.

The biggest scares came from characters dressed as scarecrows, who appeared to be stiff dummies until Robinson got too close. Iverson, who’s on the Chamber of Commerce board, played the role of one of the scarecrows but had his mind somewhere else.

“I’m supposed to be at the Corn Maze,” he said.

While the Ghost Walks are done, the Haunted Corn Maze is just warming up.

Opening at dusk, that event, put on by Engle Family Farms near Ebey Bowl, will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24, 25 and 26 and Friday, Oct. 31.

The entry free is $10 per person with no children allowed under 8.