SMITHFIELD, R.I (WPRI) — Giada Lanzieri will never forget the night of October 28, 2023.
It was the night the Smithfield teen wound up pinned underneath a haunted hayride .
Lanzieri told 12 News she loved working seasonally as a scare actor at the Seven Cedars Farm Haunted Hayride.
That night, Lanzieri said her job was to jump onto the tractor, which was towing a trailer full of thrill-seekers ready to be spooked.
“I don’t remember much, but I remember jumping on it,” Lanzieri recalled.
Lanzieri said everything went black, and then she awoke to a horrifying realization.
“Somehow the tractor wheel was on my back,” Lanzieri said. “I remember throwing up and everyone was saying to stop the tractor.’”
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“It stopped, but it was still on my back,” the teenager continued. “Everybody got off and someone lifted it up off of me.”
Lanzieri’s parents were just a short drive away, preparing to leave the house and head to the Smithfield farm.