Last week, we brought you a list of 13 corn mazes across New England to enhance your fall experience. From Massachusetts to Rhode Island, New Hampshire to Vermont, we envisioned couples holding hands while strolling through the corn stalks and families laughing as they run through mazes that pay tribute to Halloween, the Bruins and historical figures like Noah Webster.

But one family’s journey through the Headless Horseman maze at Connors Farm didn’t fare so well. A couple and their five-year-old son headed out to Connors Farm in Danvers, MA yesterday to enjoy Columbus Day and the unusually warm October weather. However, according to a report from The Boston Channel, the maze proved too challenging for them to complete. With the sun long gone behind the horizon, the child began getting “hysterical” and the husband decided to call 911 around 7pm, informing police they were lost in the maze.

The police sent a rescue team to the scene, including a full K-9 unit. After wading through the corn, the police found the family 25 feet inside the maze, and all members were unharmed.

The big question of the story, though – why would you go into a corn maze if you didn’t want to get lost? Where you there to simply to hang the corn stalks, scarecrow style?

The owner of the farm offered the family free tickets to the maze for their trouble, but something tells me they won’t be back anytime soon.