Dead Air Valley: "The Curse List at Ballston Spa"

Double M Haunted Hayrides in Ballston Spa has been frightening people on purpose since 1991. This October, the attraction says a guest pushed past one of its actresses, took a prop, and left with it. Double M answered in public, not with a stern warning alone, but with a list of small lifelong curses wished on that guest: a pillow warm on both sides, damp socks, flat soda, and actors in every future haunted house who know exactly who they are. Silas Van Wyck works the plain strangeness of etiquette enforcement at a haunted attraction in peak season: who the rules are for, what actors can and cannot do back, and why a joke travels farther than a sign at the gate. Sources: Hudson Valley Country, October 13, 2026; 104.5 The Team; Q105.7.