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General News: Haunted Hayride Designed to Scare
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| Monsters like this one await the innocent visitor to Shadowwoods. |
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| The ghosts come out at night to welcome you to Shadowwoods. |
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| This doll had an unfortunate run-in with the doll monster. |
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| You'll be dying to come back to Shadowwoods! |
October 16, 2008
If you are looking for a scary treat this Halloween season, take a ride out Route 94 to Shadowwoods, in New Windsor, where a farmer’s field and forest has been haunted by ghosts and ghouls.
Visitors to the haunted trails get an up-close encounter with the hidden horrors from a hay wagon that pulls them along.
Shadowwoods project manager Alexis Gray explained that people on the hayride cross an open field filled with ghosts, then enter the woods, where they often let their guards down and that’s when the monsters start popping out from unexpected places. A frightening encounter with chain saws is one of the highlights of the tour.
Gray says that she first created a haunted trail five years ago with her three brothers, Byron, Clayton and Dalton Gray. Byron, an artist, sketches out the costumes, making them scarier and scarier each year. This year’s crop of monsters includes a banshee, a doll monster and a green ghoul called the Caliphax.
The siblings run Shadowwoods in part for the fun of doing it. They grew up next to the property, Ivy Rock Farms, which is home to a horse stable and riding center run by their parents, Roger and Shelley Gray. The Grays also run Center Line Studio, a theatre scene shop in Cornwall, which supplies elaborate costumes and set pieces to Broadway shows.
Alexis explains that she and her brothers have loved theater all their lives and have a great time getting dressed up like monsters and running around the woods in the dark. They also enjoy creating the costumes and sometimes borrow pieces from their parents’ scene shop. “Having access to the scenery is a wonderful thing that most people only dream of,” Alexis says.
This year’s theme is wrapped around a tale of two brothers who own the farm inhabited by ghouls. The brothers want to show people the monsters they have to deal with, so they load visitors into the wagon and take them into the forest where they have plenty of close encounters with the shrieking demons.
Tours of Shadowwoods run every hour from 7 p.m. until midnight and each hour the ride gets scarier, so visitors age 10 or younger should come on the early tour. The haunted trails will be open October 17 and 18, then again from October 24 to 26.
For more information, you can visit the Shadowwoods website at www.shadowwoodshayride.com.
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Me and some friends went on this ride Saturday night and it was AWESOME! Definitely one of the scariest rides in the area. I have been to the Headless horseman and a couple in northern jersey and they don;t compare. This one is great and most everything was original. There is only so much Michael Myers and Jason I can take. Highly reccommend!
posted by Jennifer Demanche on 10/20/08 at 11:00 AM
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This ride was great. I agree with the above, there were no cheesy jason masks. The costumes were great and being in the woods at night is pretty scary in of itself. I went on a late ride with some buddies and enjoyed every minute. Thanks for bringing this so close to home, I had no idea you were even back there.
posted by Scott Kastanis on 10/20/08 at 4:46 PM
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