Oct. 21, 2023
Sir Henry's Haunted Trail in Plant City FL
Sir Henry's Haunted Trail expanded in 2023 with a new haunted hayride. Owner Zach Glaros explains how he continues to grow the event into a full scream Park.
Sir Henry's Haunted Trail expanded in 2023 with a new haunted hayride. Owner Zach Glaros explains how he continues to grow the event into a full scream Park.
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Sir Henry's Haunted Trail is celebrating its
tenth anniversary by adding a hay ride that's
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coming up on today's show from the
Haunted Attraction Network. I'm Philip and this
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everything going on. Okay, Nestled halfway
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between Orlando and Tampa is Sir Henry's
Hanted Trail, and it began as a
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simple outdoor haunt. Over the years, though they've grown into a full screen
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park with three trails, laser tag
escape room, a midway, and food,
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and the lore of Sir Henry has
inspired a podcast, book series,
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and even a movie. To celebrate
its tenth anniversary, Sir Henry Hunter Trail
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added a Haunted hay ride today.
We'll preview that hay ride with owner Zach
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Glarros and for those of you super
fans, we are hosting a VIP event
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on November fourth at Sir Henry's.
Even though it's after Halloween, I thought
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November fourth would be a great time
for those who are still looking for a
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little bit of Halloween magic. At
the event, you'll hear all about the
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hay Ride and you'll learn where they're
going to go from here. Links to
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those tickets are in the show notes. Okay, here's Zach and I on
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location at Sir Henry Hunter Trail in
Plant City, Florida. I am Zach
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Gleros and I'm the owner of Sir
Henry Saunta Trail here in Plant City,
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Florida. Okay, this is your
tenth year, and this year you added
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a hay ride. First, tell
us about this year and then we'll talk
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about the hay ride. Yeah.
So this is our tenth season. We've
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come a very long way. We've
got our feature three haunted trails. Just
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like always, they've been re themed, revamped in their own capacity. Each
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one features it's unique scares, characters
and one of kind sets as well as
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a bunch of surprises. We have
Moonlight Massacre, which is our we werewoof
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Trail. We have Tails of the
Dead, which is a Sir Henry Icon
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trill, something new for us we've
never done. And our third trail is
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Wicked Waters, which is a swamp
which buy you. So we're excited to
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bring all three of those to life. And then as you mentioned, we
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did add a Haunted hay Ride for
our tenth season, our fourth attraction.
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Extremely excited to bring this to life
for guests to experience it. We put
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a lot of theatrics into it and
then the show elements that you're gonna see,
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and it's just a totally different experience
being on a wagon going through these
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larger than life sets compared to walking
through a trail. So it's been a
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passion project. We've been working on
it for eight months. Larger than life
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sets, a ton of animatron as
a lot of big show pieces. So
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we're excited. I can't say it
enough. So we are previewing the hay
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Ride, so we got to see
it about three weeks before it's going to
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actually launch the public, and I
will say it is a really big departure
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I think for the stuff you've done
in the past. I mean, not
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only is it obviously it's a hay
ride, and you're actually riding wagons,
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and you know you're sitting on hay
and whatnot. But I think if I
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would describe it essentially, it's set
up to be like a little dark ride
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in a way, like you're going
from scene to scene and there are audio
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cues that play, and actors come
out and distract you right from the stuff
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that's creeping around you as it happens. Trying to carefully for an anhi evil
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reside within this land, a sworn
which took her wrath upon hundreds of helpless
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souls many years ago. She twisted
and contorted the and its creatures into monsters
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and death. On the night of
All Haloes Eve, she turned these beauties
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and eats the townspeople. But when
the witch perished, these creatures went into
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a deep slop. If you are
to venture down these woods tonight, beware
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of Beatrice and her ancient beasts of
the dead, For if the Witch is
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brought back from the underworld, she
will a leash these legends of Halloween to
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bring upon your destruction. I'm allows
a wagon full of law to its dare
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cross into my woods. The skeletons
and warned you not to come. I
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shall finish. She won't, as
I will hear, but not for you
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suffer as she no, you will
be tell greatly, just as this and
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this one too thrown, these woods
will be awaken from the sun God sent
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to hunting down domain Bestius Exeter comment
comment esq mess and then Thruster advers Santa.
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Now you will see my full rat
So tell me, like, why
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a hay ride and why did you
decide to do it in that way?
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Particularly so, I've always wanted to
do hay ride, even before Haunted Trails,
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but it's just it was a logistics
thing, and then being our ten
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season, I wanted to add something
special and Central Florida really doesn't have any
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kind of hay ride to speak of
that's of this caliber. And the hay
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rides are huge up north. I
love the Northeastern style Halloween and a lot
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of hay rides up there, and
I wanted to bring that down here,
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and that's what we did. You're
right. It's like a dark ride where
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you go from scene to scene and
see the theatrics and the cues and the
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stage play almost so to speak.
But I wanted to take our storytelling to
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another level of immersion and captivation for
the audience, all while still being able
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to scare people in an effective way, which was one of our biggest things
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going into the hay Ride is how
do we still scare people because hay rides
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might not necessarily be as scary for
all the theatrics we have packed it equally
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with your jump scares, your distraction
scares, and animatronics to play with your
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mind in a disturbing type of way. Our barn scene is I think one
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of our more intense scenes on the
hay Ride. There's just so much going
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on, it's like sensory overload.
And as you mentioned, Philip, there's
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still about four weeks till we open. We still have a lot of key
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pieces, very big elements for our
hay Ride that we still have to put
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in place to put it over top
for where we want it to be.
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So it's just unlike anything we've ever
done, and I think unlike anything guests
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we'll also see anywhere else. Myself
and my show manager Calvin went to a
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handful of hay rides last year.
As R and D we went to Baits
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Field of Screams. Both have phenomenal
shows. Phil the Screams in particular,
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they did stop you at each scene, and that's something we wanted to take
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and do it our thing because I
think we found the storytelling ability to be
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more effective and to engage the audience, and it just creates a longer experience
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too for the guests. So we
took elements. We saw what they did,
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we wanted to do our own thing. We never want a copy or
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a straight imitate. It's never about
that, but we definitely take influence and
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that's just a big shout out to
them for how well they do their event.
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Yeah, be sure to listen to
our episode with Field the Scream just
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getting a little plug in there.
That's okay. I just worked in naturally.
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I don't know, it's like we
planned it. Attractions, by their
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very nature take nods to other people. I mean Disney and Tivoli, right
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even, I mean, everybody is
aware of what's going on. But I
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was gonna say, because I was
gonna say, it reminds me of those
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and it also reminds me a little
bit of the La Hay Ride because it's
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like you're stopping and there are scenes
are going through in sets, but really
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in this area. I'm trying to
think of the end, you know,
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the end, customer. I don't
think you know. I mean, we
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just heard it tonight, even with
the preview, how many people had never
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been on a hay ride or they
haven't been one since they were kids.
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And I think you're tapping into that
there's no other hay ride around here.
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Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, I'm extremely proud of what our team
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has done. And we have a
very very small team. We're talking less
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than five people that work on this
full time, year round, and we've
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just poured our heart and soul and
to creating this experience, I mean,
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and equally vamping up the other trails
and attractions to stay on an elevated level
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and to keep the experience fresh for
guests. But the hay Ride, it's
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just all my heart and soul is
going into it. And I can speak
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for Calvin because he was my right
hand person doing all this, and this
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is only our first year doing this, and I think our fans who have
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come before and experienced our event,
they're gonna love it even more once they
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experienced says hey ride, because this
is just another level of scary fun the
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story has always been heavy, and
you had the podcast, there's the book
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series that was inspired by the characters, there's the film that was shot here,
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right, There's so much that's built
around the lore of it. Right.
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But it seems like with the hay
Ride this year, it's almost gone
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a little bit beyond Sir Henry because
you have a new character that's been introduced.
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And also, I think Sir Henry
was never really like classic Halloween,
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right, it feels like you're stepping
more into Oh, this is a Lloween
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themed thing with witches, and it
used to be like about Sir Henry in
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his background. So the way we've
set it up, and you're exactly right,
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it's Legends of Halloween, and we're
taking a lot of our ancient origin,
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historical you could call it icons we've
done in the past. We've brought
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them over to the hay Ride.
Sir Henry makes an appearance, because Sir
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Sir Henry is in everything we do, and you actually go through his mausoleum.
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He warns you don't go any further, but of course you're going to
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go further. And the main villain
on the hay Ride is Beatrice and Beatrice
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is Sir Henry's arch nemesis, a
villain witch, and she and Sir Henry
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have this long history with their families, going back to the origins. You
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can actually find this origin one of
the trails we did in twenty seventeen,
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Curse of Hollow Oak. So we
set that up way back then, and
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now it's brought back full circle.
How it goes as Beatrice has been dead
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many years and now she has been
resurrected as you go into these ancient,
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long lost woods, and so Beatrice
and her Witch's shack will be the very
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first scene you come upon, and
she casts a spell over the whole hay
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Ride and basically resurrects these monsters from
the dust. And that those are the
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legends of Halloween that you will go
through and see in each scene. So
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that it's a cool way we brought
back all these icons that enshrine them forever
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from what we've done the past ten
years, and I'm excited to keep adding
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on to that too. I would
normally ask you at the end here about
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what you have planned, but this
year, we're gonna come see you on
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your last night, and we're gonna
do an event and you will tell us
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at that time how the year went
and what you're gonna do going forward.
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Yes, you're absolutely right. November
fourth, we're gonna be doing an exclusive
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VIP night here at Sir Henry's to
wrap up the season. You know,
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it's kind of like, okay,
now where do you go from here?
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Yeah? I am asking myself that
question. But I just told Calvin,
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our show manager, the other day, Hey, I think I already have
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next year's lineup in my head,
with some big surprises of course, as
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always, but our fans will start
to see more of an expanded universe,
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and I'll leave it at that.
Today's episode was produced and edited by me
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Philip Hernandez, with post production by
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This is a Haunted Attraction Network produ
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Sir Henry's Haunted Trail is celebrating its
tenth anniversary by adding a hay ride that's
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coming up on today's show from the
Haunted Attraction Network. I'm Philip and this
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is our hauntedon or We're counting down
to Halloween by celebrating haunted houses daily via
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videos, podcasts, and the IP
in person experiences. Remember that the best
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way you can support us is by
sharing this Hauntathon with someone you think will
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enjoy it. And since there's so
much going on beyond this podcast, the
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best way to follow along is by
subscribing to our email list, because we
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email out a review every week of
everything going on. Okay, Nestled halfway
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between Orlando and Tampa is Sir Henry's
Hanted Trail, and it began as a
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simple outdoor haunt. Over the years, though they've grown into a full screen
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park with three trails, laser tag
escape room, a midway, and food,
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and the lore of Sir Henry has
inspired a podcast, book series,
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and even a movie. To celebrate
its tenth anniversary, Sir Henry Hunter Trail
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added a Haunted hay ride today.
We'll preview that hay ride with owner Zach
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Glarros and for those of you super
fans, we are hosting a VIP event
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on November fourth at Sir Henry's.
Even though it's after Halloween, I thought
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November fourth would be a great time
for those who are still looking for a
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little bit of Halloween magic. At
the event, you'll hear all about the
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hay Ride and you'll learn where they're
going to go from here. Links to
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those tickets are in the show notes. Okay, here's Zach and I on
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location at Sir Henry Hunter Trail in
Plant City, Florida. I am Zach
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Gleros and I'm the owner of Sir
Henry Saunta Trail here in Plant City,
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Florida. Okay, this is your
tenth year, and this year you added
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a hay ride. First, tell
us about this year and then we'll talk
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about the hay ride. Yeah.
So this is our tenth season. We've
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come a very long way. We've
got our feature three haunted trails. Just
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like always, they've been re themed, revamped in their own capacity. Each
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one features it's unique scares, characters
and one of kind sets as well as
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a bunch of surprises. We have
Moonlight Massacre, which is our we werewoof
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Trail. We have Tails of the
Dead, which is a Sir Henry Icon
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trill, something new for us we've
never done. And our third trail is
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Wicked Waters, which is a swamp
which buy you. So we're excited to
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bring all three of those to life. And then as you mentioned, we
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did add a Haunted hay Ride for
our tenth season, our fourth attraction.
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Extremely excited to bring this to life
for guests to experience it. We put
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a lot of theatrics into it and
then the show elements that you're gonna see,
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and it's just a totally different experience
being on a wagon going through these
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larger than life sets compared to walking
through a trail. So it's been a
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passion project. We've been working on
it for eight months. Larger than life
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sets, a ton of animatron as
a lot of big show pieces. So
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we're excited. I can't say it
enough. So we are previewing the hay
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Ride, so we got to see
it about three weeks before it's going to
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actually launch the public, and I
will say it is a really big departure
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I think for the stuff you've done
in the past. I mean, not
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only is it obviously it's a hay
ride, and you're actually riding wagons,
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and you know you're sitting on hay
and whatnot. But I think if I
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would describe it essentially, it's set
up to be like a little dark ride
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in a way, like you're going
from scene to scene and there are audio
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cues that play, and actors come
out and distract you right from the stuff
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that's creeping around you as it happens. Trying to carefully for an anhi evil
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reside within this land, a sworn
which took her wrath upon hundreds of helpless
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souls many years ago. She twisted
and contorted the and its creatures into monsters
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and death. On the night of
All Haloes Eve, she turned these beauties
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and eats the townspeople. But when
the witch perished, these creatures went into
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a deep slop. If you are
to venture down these woods tonight, beware
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of Beatrice and her ancient beasts of
the dead, For if the Witch is
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brought back from the underworld, she
will a leash these legends of Halloween to
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bring upon your destruction. I'm allows
a wagon full of law to its dare
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cross into my woods. The skeletons
and warned you not to come. I
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shall finish. She won't, as
I will hear, but not for you
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suffer as she no, you will
be tell greatly, just as this and
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this one too thrown, these woods
will be awaken from the sun God sent
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to hunting down domain Bestius Exeter comment
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Now you will see my full rat
So tell me, like, why
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a hay ride and why did you
decide to do it in that way?
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Particularly so, I've always wanted to
do hay ride, even before Haunted Trails,
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but it's just it was a logistics
thing, and then being our ten
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season, I wanted to add something
special and Central Florida really doesn't have any
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kind of hay ride to speak of
that's of this caliber. And the hay
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rides are huge up north. I
love the Northeastern style Halloween and a lot
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of hay rides up there, and
I wanted to bring that down here,
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and that's what we did. You're
right. It's like a dark ride where
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you go from scene to scene and
see the theatrics and the cues and the
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stage play almost so to speak.
But I wanted to take our storytelling to
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another level of immersion and captivation for
the audience, all while still being able
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to scare people in an effective way, which was one of our biggest things
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going into the hay Ride is how
do we still scare people because hay rides
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might not necessarily be as scary for
all the theatrics we have packed it equally
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with your jump scares, your distraction
scares, and animatronics to play with your
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mind in a disturbing type of way. Our barn scene is I think one
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of our more intense scenes on the
hay Ride. There's just so much going
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on, it's like sensory overload.
And as you mentioned, Philip, there's
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still about four weeks till we open. We still have a lot of key
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pieces, very big elements for our
hay Ride that we still have to put
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in place to put it over top
for where we want it to be.
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So it's just unlike anything we've ever
done, and I think unlike anything guests
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we'll also see anywhere else. Myself
and my show manager Calvin went to a
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handful of hay rides last year.
As R and D we went to Baits
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Field of Screams. Both have phenomenal
shows. Phil the Screams in particular,
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they did stop you at each scene, and that's something we wanted to take
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and do it our thing because I
think we found the storytelling ability to be
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more effective and to engage the audience, and it just creates a longer experience
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too for the guests. So we
took elements. We saw what they did,
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we wanted to do our own thing. We never want a copy or
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a straight imitate. It's never about
that, but we definitely take influence and
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that's just a big shout out to
them for how well they do their event.
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Yeah, be sure to listen to
our episode with Field the Scream just
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getting a little plug in there.
That's okay. I just worked in naturally.
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I don't know, it's like we
planned it. Attractions, by their
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very nature take nods to other people. I mean Disney and Tivoli, right
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even, I mean, everybody is
aware of what's going on. But I
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was gonna say, because I was
gonna say, it reminds me of those
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and it also reminds me a little
bit of the La Hay Ride because it's
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like you're stopping and there are scenes
are going through in sets, but really
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in this area. I'm trying to
think of the end, you know,
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the end, customer. I don't
think you know. I mean, we
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just heard it tonight, even with
the preview, how many people had never
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been on a hay ride or they
haven't been one since they were kids.
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And I think you're tapping into that
there's no other hay ride around here.
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Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, I'm extremely proud of what our team
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has done. And we have a
very very small team. We're talking less
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than five people that work on this
full time, year round, and we've
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just poured our heart and soul and
to creating this experience, I mean,
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and equally vamping up the other trails
and attractions to stay on an elevated level
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and to keep the experience fresh for
guests. But the hay Ride, it's
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just all my heart and soul is
going into it. And I can speak
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for Calvin because he was my right
hand person doing all this, and this
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is only our first year doing this, and I think our fans who have
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come before and experienced our event,
they're gonna love it even more once they
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experienced says hey ride, because this
is just another level of scary fun the
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story has always been heavy, and
you had the podcast, there's the book
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series that was inspired by the characters, there's the film that was shot here,
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right, There's so much that's built
around the lore of it. Right.
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But it seems like with the hay
Ride this year, it's almost gone
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a little bit beyond Sir Henry because
you have a new character that's been introduced.
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And also, I think Sir Henry
was never really like classic Halloween,
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right, it feels like you're stepping
more into Oh, this is a Lloween
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themed thing with witches, and it
used to be like about Sir Henry in
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his background. So the way we've
set it up, and you're exactly right,
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it's Legends of Halloween, and we're
taking a lot of our ancient origin,
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historical you could call it icons we've
done in the past. We've brought
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them over to the hay Ride.
Sir Henry makes an appearance, because Sir
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Sir Henry is in everything we do, and you actually go through his mausoleum.
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He warns you don't go any further, but of course you're going to
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go further. And the main villain
on the hay Ride is Beatrice and Beatrice
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is Sir Henry's arch nemesis, a
villain witch, and she and Sir Henry
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have this long history with their families, going back to the origins. You
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can actually find this origin one of
the trails we did in twenty seventeen,
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Curse of Hollow Oak. So we
set that up way back then, and
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now it's brought back full circle.
How it goes as Beatrice has been dead
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many years and now she has been
resurrected as you go into these ancient,
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long lost woods, and so Beatrice
and her Witch's shack will be the very
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first scene you come upon, and
she casts a spell over the whole hay
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Ride and basically resurrects these monsters from
the dust. And that those are the
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legends of Halloween that you will go
through and see in each scene. So
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that it's a cool way we brought
back all these icons that enshrine them forever
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from what we've done the past ten
years, and I'm excited to keep adding
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on to that too. I would
normally ask you at the end here about
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what you have planned, but this
year, we're gonna come see you on
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your last night, and we're gonna
do an event and you will tell us
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at that time how the year went
and what you're gonna do going forward.
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Yes, you're absolutely right. November
fourth, we're gonna be doing an exclusive
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VIP night here at Sir Henry's to
wrap up the season. You know,
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it's kind of like, okay,
now where do you go from here?
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Yeah? I am asking myself that
question. But I just told Calvin,
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our show manager, the other day, Hey, I think I already have
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next year's lineup in my head,
with some big surprises of course, as
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always, but our fans will start
to see more of an expanded universe,
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and I'll leave it at that.
Today's episode was produced and edited by me
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Philip Hernandez, with post production by
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