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MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW!
visit the number one outdoor hayride
hayride in the country and perhaps
the entire world! dont miss YOUR chance!

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Make your reservations now online or over the phone by calling 845-339-2666! september is booking fast so make reservations before its too late! come visit the haunted hayride voted number one in america by hauntworld magazine!

Headless Horseman Hayrides is...

We are now casting this fall's haunt with
various ranges of employment from concession
to actor. H5 provides a unique working
experience that pertains especially to
those with a passion for what
headless horseman hayrides and haunted
houses is all about;
safe and wicked scary fun.

Employment for the upcoming 2008 season
is beginning now with all positions
available. To read up on more information,
click the link below to contact the street
team via myspace message for any questions
you may have about employment. we do hire
throughout the entire season, until close.

to apply, call 845-339-2666 and schedual an
interview by leaving a message stating you
are interested in employement with Headless
Horseman Hayrides and would like to schedual
an interview, leaving your name and number.
You will be contacted as soon as possible by
the staff. Be patient, we are very busy.

Note: at the moment we are only hiring 18
years and older until further notice, we
have all the 16 and 17 year olds
necessary for this year due to
the fact that they cannot by law work
after midnight.

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Video by K Town Studios

Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses is ulster county NY's acclaimed halloween attraction that keeps people returning every year with their high intensity thrills and scares and a completely unique experience and environment. This property is over forty five acres of twisted foreboding woods,surreal ponds, and fruit orchards. The property provides a naturally landscaped backdrop for the stories told each year. Our attraction is family oriented and offers something for everyone. Each admission includes all that headless horseman has to offer.

Your ticket includes a thirty five minute hayride through the woods of the property beginning at approximately 7PM. Also included is a labyrinth styled corn maze, and three professionally created haunted houses. Incorporated into the attraction is john shaw's pandemonium midnight sideshow. Once you climb on the hayride theres no turning back, and you are at the marcy of the headless horseman.

Additionally there are three food concessions to enjoy as well as six giftshops with everything imagineable to make your headless horseman experience memorable. These are located in the "midway" where awaits a whole other experience and not for the faint of heart. You didnt honestly expect the horrors to stay in their houses did you?

Our attraction is not recommended for children of age 8 and under, and children under 5 years of age are not permitted on evening hayrides. There is however one day of the season designed specifically for young children. this event takes place in the daytime before the scedualed evening performance. This tiny taste of terror is the perfect fun and friendly halloween environment for children too young for the regular horseman show. Children 14 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult at all times, no exceptions.

Safety is a primary concern for our attraction and smoking and photography is not permitted on the property for the safety of customers as well as preformers. smoking and alcohol is also not permitted on the property including the parking lot. We encourage courteous interaction with preformers and customers and ask that all customers attending behave appropriately as to not distrupt others' experience at the headless horseman. Headless Horseman Hayrides also reserves the right to remove disruptive customers from the property without a refund. We also have security and paramedics located throughout the premises to ensure and maintain the safety of the environment. make the experience a fun one for yourself and those around you and the attraction will be that much better.

The attraction is not recommended for those with health risks including seizures that may be triggered due to the intensity and equiptment used including strobe lights. the environment can be demanding and include low lighting and extremely low visibility, damp or wet conditions and interaction, live animals, fog, and ground complications such as mud and small rocks. rugged footwear and jackets with hoods are strongly reccomended for sudden changes in climate or weather.
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07's twisted tales

Additional nightly entertainment includes
The John Shaw Pandemonium Midnight Side-
show. John Shaw is back for his seventh
year with Headless Horseman, and he has
an all new freaky show in store for you.
Come witness spectacular feats of human
discipline and endurance along with mind
blowing illusions all performed LIVE and
in the RAW!! John Shaw performs four times
nightly starting at 8PM. John has been
featured on "The Howard Stern Show",
"Ripley's Believe It or Not", "The New
Tom Green Show", "Jenny Jones", "Rikki
Lake", The Billboard Music Awards and
was actually on The Average Joe 4 on NBC.
John Shaw performs on the main stage
located next to the NEW MAGIC MAGPIE
& JOKE SHOP. Come see why people call
John "not just another magician", as
he corrupts the art of magic one show
at a time!

Click the link below to get a closer
look at John Shaw's sideshow
click here !

September Dates:
20,26,27

September 26th is a special event hosted by headless horseman hayrides to raise money for autism foundations please come out and show your support in fighting this epidemic. bring family and friends making this a good overall turn out.

October Dates:
3,4,5,10,11,12,17,18,19,23,24,25,26,29,30,31

October 11th is a children's event during the day from 12-3. the park is "toned down" for the daytime especially for younger kids. children can dress up if they want, play games and have fun. many families have made this a tradition, coming back anually. reccomended for smaller children but anyone can attend.

Please Note*** a standard night of operation DOES follow
on the eleventh, children's day is during the day.

November Dates:
1,2

***It is advised that when attending headless horseman hayrides, you dress accordingly. it is often cold and or wet so dressing to impress is not practical. wear practical footwear and dress for the weather. footwear such as flip flops and UGG™ boots may be unsafe and could become damaged. so ladies...save the ugg boots for home, there is mud here and mud and dirt will get on them. also wearing white clothes doesnt make too much sense. basically if you think you will be upset if you get dirt on something that your wearing...change it before you leave.

Once Upon a Terror Hayride

Fear was brewing in the small town of Crow Hollow. Children were disappearing rapidly. People panicked, not knowing what was going on, until the day when all suspicions fell on Mr. Jedidiah Grimm.

One would never think that this tall, lanky, silent man could be capable of doing something this gruesome. But if you were familiar with Grimm's past, all one would see was hurt and fear. While being raised by his uncle, the village dentist, Grimm was living in his own personal hell. His uncle would regularly beat him and strap the young Grimm into a dentist chair and drill unmercifully. Fragments of tooth piled on the young boy's tongue as the pungent odor of burning enamel grew strong. The uncle would then hit raw nerve after raw nerve, while Grimm tasted the blood and pulp as it drained down his throat. This frequent torture would force Grimm into a state of delusion where he would hide in world of Fairy tales, safely in his mind. As Grimm grew older, the Fairytale world grew more real and darker. Even when he was alone, away from his horrid uncle, Grimm would still fantasize about ruling over a Kingdom full of all his favorite Fairytale.

As the Uncle grew old and frail, the torture sessions grew less till one day they ceased. Even though Grimm was very relieved, he would never forget his past. The pain was so badly etched into his mind that he now actually desired it. Now, he was in a position to recreate the torture. He would satisfy these cravings by stealing his uncle's dental tools to perform cruel surgeries on the mouths of small animals. This forced Grimm to continue hiding in his enchanted mind, blocking out the pain and grief that he was causing. His grisly actions grew to the point where Grimm was secretly taking children and giving them the same torture that he had received when he was a young boy. Grimm's Fairytale Kingdom was now ruled with evil intent and pure revenge.

When the townspeople finally figured out that it was Grimm, he fled the town and hid in a cave in a nearby forest. Inside the cave Grimm came across a waterfall where an old Gypsy woman stood. She explained to Grimm that the world he dreamed of was real. She assured him she was sent here to save him. By walking through the waterfall, Grimm would enter a vortex leading him to his own evil, a Fairytale Kingdom. Without hesitation, Grimm stepped through the flowing water and was never seen by the townspeople again.

The Nightshade Experiments-Bad Seed Company Haunted House

The Lucky Homes Fertilizer Company was known by its customers for its, Natural Products made from pure corn oil. This pleasantry, however, changed one morning when the Bad Seed paid them a visit.

Calling themselves Official Inspectors of the Government, the military dressed men, with logos of a Giant Seeds, took over the company and set up a lab in one of the offices for unknown experimentation.

The company ran in its usual daily fashion but now there was heavily armed men watching the employees every move. Complaints began to spill in, all saying that the fertilizer was doing more harm than good. At the same time, from inside the Company, the workers were experiencing all types of bodily rashes and illnesses.

The scientists of the Bad Seed were keeping daily records of these worsening conditions. Before their departure, they gathered all the employees and thanked them for their cooperation. Then, with out warning, the Bad Seed employees released swarms of experimental chemically enhanced bees into the building. The Soldiers locked the doors from the outside and no one has set foot in or out ever again… That is until now! It is your chance to explore the ruins of the once prosperous fertilizer company. Can you make it through without being “Contaminated”?

Phantom Harbor -Mansion of Dahlia Blood Haunted House

The town of Port Ulster is not on any map for a good reason. The small Hamlet formally known as Dahlia is now just an emergency stop along the Hudson River with a strict sunset curfew. The town was originally named after the town’s main beneficiary’s beautiful wife. Terrence Van Cope married the local elementary school teacher at a young age and soon thereafter rescued the town’s dying economy by purchasing a fleet of ships and forming a charter company. The good natured Van Cope spent his entire fortune on his new venture even giving his estate a complete nautical make over. The lovely Dahlia’s true colors began to shine, her husband no longer had his fortune and she no longer had her happiness. In fact she had a hatred for the sea and the man she claimed to love. She convinces her husband that he must oversee the whole project and that he should be aboard the Flagship’s maiden voyage.

Terrance chooses the largest ship for his flagship and appoints himself as captain. The ships former commander Captain Tyrannous or simply Captain T as he is known by his crew, is not happy that a man with no sailing experience is now in charge of his ship and his crew of ex convicts, unwilling sailors, and perhaps some slaves. Whispers of planned mutiny reached Dahlia’s ear weeks before they set sail. The whispers where not enough; Driven by madness the school teacher had turned to black magic often sneaking down to the bait shack to practice her little spells. She learned of a hex that would summon the worst sea creature to do her bidding. She painted the hex on the bottom of the flag ship making sure her husband would not return. The wife was meticulous so, the night before they raised anchor she snuck aboard the ship and poised all the food with mercury; to ensure that not only her husband, but all would not return.

The next day the ship was renamed after the town and the woman that it was leaving behind. The Dahlia Love left port at 10 am and set a course for the Atlantic and Bermuda, what happened next is a mystery. The ship was never heard from again. The search parties had given up, and Dahlia won being sole heir of her husband’s estate and shipping company. She quickly sold the ships and swindled the money in less than 3 years. Shortly thereafter an abandoned ship docked in the dying town’s only functioning dock. It was the Dahlia Love but the word love was written over in blood. From that day forth when the sun went down the crew of the Dahlia BLOOD came out to play! As for the beautiful Dahlia, the ghost of her husband and Captain Tyrannous drove her eventually to suicide. After multiple attempts she was found dead in her vanity room with the words “HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT” written in Blood on the mirror!

Some say there is a hidden entrance to the Hamlet of Dahlia somewhere in the house that the Van Cope’s lived. It brings you through the looted town where the ghosts of insane criminals that manned the Dahlia Blood pillage to this day!

The Feeding

"The Flesh They Crave"

Welcome Prize winners! You have won 1000 shares in Bananagan’s stock! You also get a free tour of future home of the MEGA Bananagan’s. The Ulster Park Center for Pathological Studies building which has been around for over a century has been chosen by the Bananagan’s cooperation, a chain of new children’s restaurants and arcades, to be the biggest location and headquarters. Construction is only waiting for the current tenants’ lease to run out. Well truth is you didn’t actually win a tour of the building and the current tenant’s lease isn’t up for quite some time. You, being the largest stock holder, have the soul responsibility of talking some sense into the staff of the very secretive research company and to survey the inside of the building. Well I thought I’d be the one to tell you that the present occupants don’t have to leave and are a bit hostel to say the least. The fact is that they don’t like visitors and the warrant we got for you to inspect the property isn’t what we would call “legit” so mind your manners get in, get out and be safe, because rumor has it that once you go in you never leave.

Up Date:

A letter from recently deceased Bananagan’s CEO

Dear Stock Holders:

The UPCPS may look like an ordinary government building but what goes on inside is hardly sanctioned under any law. The people inside, if that's what you would call them, have developed a system that they consider a way of life.

These human-like shells are superior in every way. Strength, discipline and especially intelligence...they walk upright, have thoughts and speak like you and I but these beings lack something... what they are lacking is far more important than what they possess.

Under this roof “the people inside” may have the protection of the government. But that protection is only as strong as the four walls that imprison these hallow creatures with human façades.

This building was sold to the Bananagan’s cooperation. My only question to you is, WHY?

Roy Huckelbee

CEO Bananagan's Corp.

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Promotional Video Compilation
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Monster Happy Hour at Headless Horseman Hayrides

Headless Horseman Compilation from Emril Live's halloween episode

Headless Horseman Myspace Street Team

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