There’ll be a witch doctor, an escaped fugitive and a creepy white lady, each set loose in the dark, winding, Litchfield woods, but students behind a new half-mile Halloween trail won’t reveal much else.

To save the scares, their haunted lips are mostly sealed.

“The past few years we’ve really gotten into it and we like to just create different ways to frighten people,” said Samantha Wark, 16, junior class president at Oak Hill High School.

For the first time, this year juniors are teaming up with eighth-graders at Carrie Ricker School to host a haunted walk behind Carrie Ricker. Juniors are using it as a fundraiser for prom and graduation expenses like caps and gowns; eighth-graders for the annual Washington, D.C., field trip.

More kids will equal more creep, they hope.

For two nights, Oct. 25 and 27, the event will kick off in an old, fog-covered cemetery. Parents serving as storytellers will lead groups of 10 to 12 people, with a few minutes lag time between each group. Students plan to stage a dozen scenes along a footpath that empties into a parking lot near the elementary school. From there, trail-goers will get wagon rides back to Carrie Ricker, but when it comes to frights, people won’t be out of the woods just yet.

“It should be awesome,” said Helen Sherman, a physical education teacher and junior class head advisor.

She is encouraging people to dress warmly, wear practical shoes and be ready, at times, for a wait.

Juniors have spent the past several weeks cleaning up and clearing out the footpath, laying down wood chips in wet spots, Sherman said. The work counts toward the 10 hours of community service every Oak Hill student needs for graduation.

They won’t set up until Thursday. Each night, more than 50 students and 20 parents will be in front of and behind the scenes, Sherman said. There will be concessions for sale and activities planned indoors, like “fishing” for apples and a craft corner, for those less in the mood for a fright.

Wark said she’ll be dressed as an almost dainty-sounding witch: Long purple hair, purple butterflies.

Friend Maggie O’Connell, the junior class secretary, is opting for witchy warts, funny teeth, gross hair.

“Myself, I want to be ugly,” she said, laughing.