In the deep South, the onset of fall often means the mercury dips just a few ticks lower than it did on the Fourth of July.

Candy will melt in your bucket before the night is through. The humidity will ransack your jack-o'-lantern long before the witching hour could, and the most comfortable costumes are also the skimpiest.

But creepy? Oh, honey. We've got that covered.

Alligators lurking in swamps, spiders the size of your palm, cemeteries whose mausoleums create a maze of the dead and Spanish moss that drips from the trees like entrails. It's easy to argue that the American South is the creepiest place in all the land.

More than a dozen movies considered staples of spooky season have been filmed in the Yellowhammer state since the 1970s. The victims in three of those called Baldwin County home.

In the northern reaches of the county, as the forests become thick and the roads narrow, Jason Voorhees once terrorized campers.

Just off of Alabama 225 near Byrnes Lake landing is where "Friday the 13th, Part VII" was filmed in 1987.

Swampy? Check.

Deep, dark woods? Check.

Looks like a place where a hockey mask clad killer is running loose? Check. Check.

While officials have talked of marking the fictional Camp Crystal Lake with signs to attract its legions of fans, plans have never materialized. The only filming location in the "Friday the 13th" movie series that officially draws visitors is Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Blairstown, N.J. which is also an active Boy Scout camp.

But devotees of the genre chatter online about the Alabama location, posting photos of their visits here and directions to guide others to the site.

Creepy as it is, there isn't much left of the fictional camp. Buildings used in the movie were blown up as part of the storyline and even the boat launch there isn't the one used in the film.

But at dusk, trust us. You'll get the photo you came for.

Further down 181, the house from 1977's "Close Encounters of The Third Kind," remains fully intact. The building is closed to visitors but easy to pick out as it sits among an active construction site where 35 acres of homes and retail lots are being built in what planners have dubbed the "Encounter" development.

And, if you are lucky enough to know someone who knows someone, you might get a glimpse of the scariest spot in all of Baldwin County.

The Armitage House, a sprawling 4,300-square-foot home in Point Clear which sits off the road away from prying eyes, was the backdrop for 2017's psychological horror film "Get Out," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

As you travel, keep in mind, these places were picked for their solitude, their eerie silence and their proximity to the thin line between real and pretend.

And as Halloween inches closer, are these just filming sites? Are they?

Go take a look. Just make sure you have a plan to get out.