Post by scrambyegg on Oct 11, 2009 21:27:37 GMT -5
First off let me start off by saying I looooooove hayrides & haunts even the generally bad ones. Second this is long, so if you're not going to read. SAVE YOUR $ AND GO SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE ELSE. Seriously this is supposedly to benefit the SPCA, just write the SPCA a check and move on with life. Third the people getting off behind me said "this was worse than the fair" (which is the lowest rated haunt in my book.. until now)..... And I am sorry if this post sounds harsh, but the website & all information that drew me to this place was 100% fabricated. On to the nightmare...
Billed as, and I quote, "a haunted forest on a tractor drawn wagon, each wagon has a narrator" & also "a tunnel of terror and a maze of madness." NOT TRUE, NOT ONE BIT, NOT EVEN A LITTLE! There was not one single spooky scene, not even a poorly put together one. Literally NOTHING, not even a fake cobweb along this long hayride through a marshy field, there were a lot of stars out though, so that was a plus...? Certainly NO narrator. There were some dead tree branches that should have been cut back as they hit people in their faces and backs while this "narrated" wagon drove through them. And the scariest part of the hayride portion was the condition of the wagon we were in, seriously I was nervous and I'm not a worrier. It originally started off with the people directing the show, down in the 1st ticket/barn area arguing with each other... Continued on to more arguing after the tractor took us what seemed to be at least mile away. Apparently the guy driving the tractor was supposed to radio up that a group was on its way, and he did not do so. We arrived to the "monsters" (aka children (not even teenagers)) sitting around a fire with their masks off. Soooo this Maze turns out to really be just a winding trail (achieved through strings of orange xmas lights) through the mud which they didn't forewarn us about until we got up there. And honestly more than three times the "monsters" would just stand there and yell boo. The trail was unguided so instead of everyone gathered around a site the first people who would arrive would get the "scare" or see the person in a mask not everyone. At one point the "monster" who jumped out to "scare" the very front of the group, turned around and said boo to us as we walked by, we couldn't help but laugh. NEVER did I encounter a tunnel, or anything the could have dreamed of wanting to think about being a tunnel... Yada yada, we were SUPPOSED to be greeted by our wonderful arguing tractor driver on the other side of the "maze" aka trail of orange xmas lights and loud cd players and yep, you guessed it... he wasn't there, he wasn't even like on his way... Nope. Just gone. Apparently he just drove back down the field and didn't bother to wait for us... Probably to go argue some more with the woman he was arguing with initially. Sooooo we walk back around the outside of the "maze", at this point we are just in a field walking, cold, wishing we were home/ wishing we were doing anything else. And lo and behold a tractor is coming... Ours, you say? NO! Another one that is full of people, more arguing ensues and we get on the newly emptied tractor.... We go about 2 feet but seriously not more than 5 feet and the tractor breaks down??? or something... Who knows really. Surprise surprise, lol! so we get off wait some more and get on the original tractor with the original arguing "narrator". From there we get back and one thing that they billed themselves as is true. This place will definitely "leave you running for your car." I didn't even think about getting cider or hot chocolate, which is a tradition for me. All in all I would probably be much more forgiving if they hadn't mislead me into going there... because I never would have went if they said it was a hayride with a halloween trail, which is precisely what this was... Just a hayride, not a haunted hayride, I never once saw a tunnel of anything much less terror. Dudes, don't say you have one when clearly you don't. And young children do not make for remotely decent scares, by the way don't they have school in the morning? I just wish I had picked another place because I don't have many chances to go
So I'm thinking either last ride or screamer's hollow next weekend. I've never been to either.
Billed as, and I quote, "a haunted forest on a tractor drawn wagon, each wagon has a narrator" & also "a tunnel of terror and a maze of madness." NOT TRUE, NOT ONE BIT, NOT EVEN A LITTLE! There was not one single spooky scene, not even a poorly put together one. Literally NOTHING, not even a fake cobweb along this long hayride through a marshy field, there were a lot of stars out though, so that was a plus...? Certainly NO narrator. There were some dead tree branches that should have been cut back as they hit people in their faces and backs while this "narrated" wagon drove through them. And the scariest part of the hayride portion was the condition of the wagon we were in, seriously I was nervous and I'm not a worrier. It originally started off with the people directing the show, down in the 1st ticket/barn area arguing with each other... Continued on to more arguing after the tractor took us what seemed to be at least mile away. Apparently the guy driving the tractor was supposed to radio up that a group was on its way, and he did not do so. We arrived to the "monsters" (aka children (not even teenagers)) sitting around a fire with their masks off. Soooo this Maze turns out to really be just a winding trail (achieved through strings of orange xmas lights) through the mud which they didn't forewarn us about until we got up there. And honestly more than three times the "monsters" would just stand there and yell boo. The trail was unguided so instead of everyone gathered around a site the first people who would arrive would get the "scare" or see the person in a mask not everyone. At one point the "monster" who jumped out to "scare" the very front of the group, turned around and said boo to us as we walked by, we couldn't help but laugh. NEVER did I encounter a tunnel, or anything the could have dreamed of wanting to think about being a tunnel... Yada yada, we were SUPPOSED to be greeted by our wonderful arguing tractor driver on the other side of the "maze" aka trail of orange xmas lights and loud cd players and yep, you guessed it... he wasn't there, he wasn't even like on his way... Nope. Just gone. Apparently he just drove back down the field and didn't bother to wait for us... Probably to go argue some more with the woman he was arguing with initially. Sooooo we walk back around the outside of the "maze", at this point we are just in a field walking, cold, wishing we were home/ wishing we were doing anything else. And lo and behold a tractor is coming... Ours, you say? NO! Another one that is full of people, more arguing ensues and we get on the newly emptied tractor.... We go about 2 feet but seriously not more than 5 feet and the tractor breaks down??? or something... Who knows really. Surprise surprise, lol! so we get off wait some more and get on the original tractor with the original arguing "narrator". From there we get back and one thing that they billed themselves as is true. This place will definitely "leave you running for your car." I didn't even think about getting cider or hot chocolate, which is a tradition for me. All in all I would probably be much more forgiving if they hadn't mislead me into going there... because I never would have went if they said it was a hayride with a halloween trail, which is precisely what this was... Just a hayride, not a haunted hayride, I never once saw a tunnel of anything much less terror. Dudes, don't say you have one when clearly you don't. And young children do not make for remotely decent scares, by the way don't they have school in the morning? I just wish I had picked another place because I don't have many chances to go
So I'm thinking either last ride or screamer's hollow next weekend. I've never been to either.