Allen's Haunted Hayrides and Tavern of Terror Attraction

Haunted Hayrides:

Come and enjoy our haunted hayride. Sit in a wagon filled with straw and frightened guests. The tractor will take you on a 1 mile tour of our farm through a haunted forest, barn, and fields. Visit the Allen Family Cemetery and Church.

Venture through our Haunted Hayshed, which was confirmed to be haunted by the Angel Ladies of Pittsburgh during a live Halloween night broadcast on KDKA October 31, 2001. The Angel Ladies, spiritualistic mediums, detected paranormal activity in and around the barn. With all this in mind, we have been listed in PA 80 Haunted Sites.

There are over 10 different displays and over 30 spooks, ghouls, and monsters to put a chill down your spine.

Cost of Hayride:
September Special: $20 per attraction and $30 combo
$25 Per Ride or Combo Price
$40 for both the hayride and the tavern tour
Must purchase both at the same time to get the combo price

Allen’s Haunted Hayride and The Tavern of Terror Presents:

Woodcrest Asylum
In the early 1700’s, when farmland and dense woods stretched as far as the eye could see, there stood a solitary building. Shadowed and ghostly, even in its prime, the feeling of malice and terror overshadowed any structural beauty that the stone behemoth may have had. Woodcrest Asylum, a monument on its own, seemed to have an almost life like presence, but one that was shrouded in misery and despair. And in this edifice of fear is where our story begins.

An asylum, as we know them today, is a type of hospital, meant to house and help those that are mentally impaired. That was not the case in the time of Woodcrest. The asylum at that point, was where families would abandon their loved ones that they no longer wanted to deal with. Their ailments ranged from alcoholism to hiccups, all being diagnosed as a type of hysteria. In charge of treatment for these lost souls was Dr. Elias Barnes. A doctor of brilliant practice, and genius intellect, was easily more insane than any of the patients that had ever dwelled those forsaken hallways.

Dr. Barnes believed that he could cure all ailments, using both science and black magic experimentation. His philosophy was that magic is just science that has not yet been figured out. His experimentation had for years left his patients dead, if they were the lucky ones, but mostly mangled, lobotomized, and sent deeper into insanity than most people could fathom to imagine.

After years of his torturous experimentation, word had gotten out of his ungodly treatments. This sparked an uprising with the families of the patients, calling for his termination, as well as his execution.

To this day, no one knows what really happened at the asylum, besides the fact that it was burnt, leaving a shell, and a scar of a reminder of the horrendous, vile, and evil acts that were performed there. There were no survivors, and though most of the bodies that were recovered were burnt beyond recognition, the legend goes that Dr. Barnes did not escape, but instead, used his black magic to keep his soul, as well as the souls of his patients, trapped in that nightmare for eternity, so that he may continue his experiments until the end of time.

Woodcrest Asylum once sat on the very spot where the Tavern of Terror currently resides, leaving behind the tormented souls of those tortured, and the soul of the insane doctor, Elias Barnes, to haunt the premises, and continue to search for new souls to add to his collection of the insane. If you are brave enough to explore these remains, you may be one of the unlucky that gets trapped there for eternity with the tortured and damned, left to be experimented on for eons to come.

Cost of the Tavern of Terror:
September Special: $20 per attraction and $30 combo
$25 per tour or Combo Price
$40 for both the hayride and the tavern tour (cash only)