Haunted Hayride Goals: Field Of Screams

Would love to check this one out this season.  Haven't been on a Hayride in forever and I can't even imagine what they must be like nowadays.  

Click below for their site, with a bunch of trailers for the different attractions.

Sleepy Hollow Haunted Acres

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Unholy Orchard

There really is no excuse as to why every hayride doesn't have stuff like this in their fields...

unholyorchard.com

The Haunted Farm

...of Mullica Hills, NJ

Click below for a video:

Cornfield Burial

Image by Carz4ever.

The Haunted Hayride

Fun video for Green Mountain Farm's annual haunted hayride.

Prairietown

The Headless Horseman [Hayride] of Conner Prairie.

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Creepywoods

Haunted Forest...






Creepywoods.com

Flickr photo set.

Halloween Hayride

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Hayrides

The Headless Horseman Hayride entry reminded me of the first hayride I ever experienced. I was in grade school, probably about 12 years old. It wasn't a haunted one, just an evening of bonfires, hotdogs, hot chocolate - and a wagon pull where the wagons would maneuver around and swoop by the other wagons encouraging the kids to throw hay at the other wagons as we passed. Strange and probably pretty dangerous since we were hanging over the edges to throw the hay.

The highlight of this formative experience was when the girls that went along as part of this school function clustered together and sat in one corner of the wagon. Being an awkward pre-teen kid, I remember thinking how cool it was sharing a wagon with Donna, the cutest girl on the trip. They had covered their legs with piles of hay and I'm not sure how it happened or what I was thinking, but my perception was off and I flopped down next to Donna. I had assumed she was sitting Indian-style with her legs crossed. She wasn't. I landed with my full weight onto her knees. She screamed.

Sorry, Donna. Wherever you are.


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Headless Horseman Hayrides

...And Haunted Houses.
Would love to build some scarecrows for this haunted attraction in Ulster Park, NY. Great setting for a haunted hayride.


HeadlessHorseman.com

Halloween Aliens

Looking through flickr photos from a previous entry, I saw a bunch of alien Halloween decorations and it made me wonder about the origins of the UFO/Alien theme in yard haunting. I wouldn't have thought that aliens were universally frightening enough to feature in a haunt (I should add that they are to ME - especially those ugly ones with the giant eyes).

I can remember being on a haunted hayride in the middle of nowhere a long time ago and it ended with an insanely massive UFO with a very creepy humming sound that you could feel in your chest. No aliens, just laser lights and the giant dark ship (it was back-lit and I recall being creeped out by the size). I think I would have had some of the hayride actors dress and act like the Military giving us a foot escort through the last part of the hayride. We would have gotten a cheap speech about how a ship was seen landing in this area and we needed to be escorted out so the military could move in. Then I'd have those laser lights start shooting around the wagons and the actors would scream and fall away and leave us alone with that giant humming craft.

So maybe aliens ARE creepy enough for a haunt. A human vivisection might be a nice part of a display. Dark and organic like in that movie FIRE IN THE SKY (creeped me out something awful). A human corpse flowered open and hollow. But bloody and brightly lit. But only one point of light from above, creating shadows on the motionless aliens standing around the human body. It'd probably work best in a garage where you could control the light. Even better if it could be visible through a window or small opening...then you could have someone in an alien mask pop up from below while the people are straining to let their eyes adjust to the poorly-lit autopsy.

Anyways, here's one of those pics that got me thinking about this stuff. I love the chilled fog.


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Here's a decoration (in a different photo set) that would freak me out to the point of throwing it in the trash.
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