Hearing word on the wind that giant spiders are ruling a pumpkin patch in Moorpark sounds like something out of a classic B movie, the kind of flick with over-the-top startles and comical moments.

Alpacas and pumpkins and corn mazes, oh my! We're in all-out autumn mode, and it's the perfect time to take a hayride, venture through a corn maze and pick a pumpkin. This corn maze is going to be pop ...