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Warning: Horseman's Hollow Will Eat You Up

Every Halloween season you can take a different path through Sleepy Hollow's Philipsburg Manor, and it’s amazing how long and winding – and scary – this path can be.

I went to Horseman’s Hollow when it first debuted in 2011 and found myself scared giggly (the best kind of scared). I went again on opening weekend this year to a whole different set of strung together scenes from Hell that thrills adults, and big brave kids, throughout the weekends of October.

The chills are all era-appropriate, which means you don’t have to face a buzzing chainsaw or such B-movie schlock, but rather the utter creepiness of ghosts and freaks of the Revolutionary period this "working farm" still honors. The special effects here are seamless, the make-up (was it even make-up?) flawless, the sets so elaborate and the ghosts so floaty perhaps you really are transported to a darker underworld after all.

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On this night, the farm does not work – not at all. It is broken! Get out! Instead of growing things, these bloody creeps are trying to eat you at every turn. There’s a lot of carnivorous action going on, dinner parties where these crazy close-talkers are trying to get you to stay, please stay, STAY.

RUN!

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Run right into, oh, could it be...Satan? Step right up To Be Judged if you dare. Need help by now? These lip-less nurses would be happy to operate. Haven’t heard enough about the Headless Horseman from the FOX network this season? Catch him live (or dead?) right here.

There’s a corn maze, re-appropriated from the recent CORNcupia fest for sure, but here made wholly terrifying. Does this fun ever end?

Care to walk under a giant spider? 

Dig up buried bodies?

Oh the nasty places you'll go!

Click here for more information on visiting Horseman's Hollow this month...if you dare.


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