Denton’s weird and wonderful Day of the Dead festival is described as Día De Los Muertos, Halloween and a fall harvest celebration all rolled up into one multicultural festival. Visitors can enjoy a Halloween-themed tent show, pumpkin patch, a twilight costume contest and parade, and of course, the wildly popular coffin races.

Wait, what? Coffin racing?

This was something that KERA Morning Edition host Andrew Garcia and I just had to know more about.

As it turns out, Denton’s Day of the Day coffin races are exactly that–coffins racing. Well, push-cars designed to look like coffins–that race down Hickory Street in Denton.

Kelley Pound, who is the chair of the Denton Day of the Dead Coffin Race Committee, told us how the whole thing works.

She said this year, 70 teams will race in t

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