My neck of the woods (which is right next door to Sleepy Hollow, which you might recall as the place where the Headless Horseman himself lived) does Halloween REALLY well. Like, transforming-a-corn-maze-into-the-scariest-haunted-house-ever well. And since this is our last season as residents of HalloweenLand, I figured we should probably do it right.
I have a pretty low fear threshold at these live-action haunted house things, so I’ve developed a strategy for dealing with it when I really need, say, the lady with the bleeding eyes to get away from me RIGHT NOW. Did you know that if you act totally not-scared they look for someone more fun to freak out? It’s true. So when I spot a creature on the horizon that I can’t handle coming near me, I just immediately disengage and act all “whatever, I’m so totally over this” and there you go: Scary Thing has moved on to the person behind me (sorry, Diana).
(We met our friends for some pre-haunted house drinks, and my first tequila shot in a good two years inspired me to try to create a dramatic Vampire Bite photo that obviously didn’t work out quite as well in reality as it did in my head.)
How the night came to a close: with a sighting of The Man himself.
There are still some tickets available for shows next weekend; click here if you’d like to check it out. And if terror isn’t your thing, there are other extremely cool autumn-y events in the area (like cemetery tours and The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, which runs through mid-November) – it’s definitely worth a day (or night) trip.
