Frenchtown Dead Heat Coffin Race

Fourteen teams, one 100-yard course, trophies and $100 prizes, then a funeral procession to Good News Brewing and a Thriller flash mob.

24 photos · Saturday, October 24, 2026 – October 24 · Frenchtown, outside Bench Racers

Frenchtown proved that October thrills are alive and kicking, even when caskets are involved, at the first Dead Heat Coffin Race on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

The showdown kicked off at 3 PM outside Bench Racers, where 14 teams checked in for time trials that seeded a head-to-head bracket. Crowds lined the 100-yard course. When the dust settled: 1st place Ghoul Runnings, 2nd place Tiki Terrors (pushing Wasted Away Again), Best Coffin to Tiki Terrors, Best Entourage to 360 RIP Permanent Retirement (pushing Dead Equity).

Afterwards a funeral procession made its way to Good News Brewing and Naked Tiki Distilling, where mourners were treated to a flash mob of zombies grooving to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Also pictured: Jerry Boshears, one of the four original board members of the Frenchtown Heritage Museum, with his son Jeff.

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Photos byLexi PyszkaLexi Lynn Design · lexilynndesign.com

Runners in top hats and fake-blood shirts push an orange coffin covered in fake $100 bills, numbered 16, down a street. — Dead Equity crossing the finish line

Team in black shirts pushes a wheeled coffin with a rider past cheering spectators on a sunny street. — At the finish line: 1st place, Ghoul Runnings

Two men in black shirts embrace and jump at a coffin race finish line as a crowd cheers and a man takes photos — At the finish line: 1st place, Ghoul Runnings

Man in cap and sunglasses raises a wooden coffin-and-skull trophy above a cheering crowd outdoors on a sunny day — Ghoul Runnings take 1st place

Man in cap and sunglasses holds up a trophy topped with purple flowers as a man in a green tailcoat and top hat looks on. — Winner, 1st Place: Ghoul Runnings

Man in a bright tropical shirt holds up a trophy topped with dark flowers as a crowd claps; man in green tailcoat and top hat watches — Winner, Best Coffin: Tiki Terrors

Man in a bright tropical shirt and lei holds a glass trophy on a street, with a tiki-themed coffin cart and crowd behind — Winner, 2nd Place: Tiki Terrors

Smiling young man in a bright Hawaiian-style shirt and white lei holds a clear box of cash before a crowd at sunset — Tiki Terrors take 2nd place

Woman hands a trophy and spooky bouquet to a man in a tattered black suit as men in top hats and a green tailcoat watch — Winner, Best Entourage: 360 RIP Permanent Retirement

Men in black top hats and fake-bloodied shirts cheer as one raises a trophy and another lifts a bouquet on a city street — RIP 360 wins best entourage

Crowd of people in zombie costumes and pale makeup dancing in a street with a double yellow line, vintage green truck behind. — Zombies rocking out to Thriller

Four women push a wheeled coffin cart down a street as spectators line the curb and a man waves a checkered flag. — Girl Power!

Woman in a tall black witch hat and floral black top under a full moon, another woman sipping a drink behind her — Casting a spell under the full moon

Racers in black top hats and suits push an orange coffin on wheels, covered in fake money and labeled Dead Equity, No. 16. — Dead Equity crossing the finish line

Two men in black push a smoking coffin cart decorated with skeletons and red gore, number 13, down a street — Frenchtown Tattoo Co., smoking hot

Two men in black Ghoul Runnings shirts push a coffin labeled Frenchtown with number 01 down a street lined with spectators. — Ghoul Runnings

Older man in a Ford cap and younger man in a gray T-shirt sit in folding camp chairs on a sunny lawn, smiling. — Jerry Boshears, one of the four original board members of the Frenchtown Heritage Museum, with his son Jeff

Two people push a skeleton-decorated red coffin cart number 13 with a helmeted rider toward a red finish line on a street. — Team entry: Frenchtown Tattoo Co

Two men in blue checkered lederhosen shirts push a wooden crate coffin with a smiling woman inside and a skeleton up front. — Team entry: Good News Brewery

Four women in green cloaks and black outfits pose around a black wheeled coffin labeled Nazgul Express with a helmeted driver inside. — Team entry: Nazgul Express

Team in matching gray sugar-skull shirts pushes a wheeled wooden coffin topped with bright flowers down a street — Team entry: Pushing Up Daisies

Five people pose with a green coffin cart labeled Spice Ghouls, number 11, decorated with vegetables, on a street. — Team entry: Spice Ghouls

Team in red and black Spider-Man suits with a red Spider-Man themed coffin cart numbered 02, draped in fake webs, on a street — Team entry: Spider Man

Girl in white top makes a mock-scared face as a zombie in pink mesh top and torn bloody jeans looms behind her on a sidewalk. — Watch out for that zombie, Vivian!

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