Category Archives: Haunt

While we were setting up the mausoleum, a car drove by and slowed. This isn’t uncommon. It’s pretty unsettling to see people doing front yard construction work of things made of stone. A few minutes later, the same car drove back the other way, even slower. Okay, I thought, they just want a better look. […]

In 2017, we turned the wishing well into a fog chiller. We attempted a major new prop called the Ghost Train. We also had a visit from our good friend Reaper Madness. Props Added:

In 2016, Stanley got a new home. The bushes in front of the house were too tall to allow the tall flowing marionette to rise and fall in a convincing way, so we built him a “small” mausoleum and slipped it between the arms of the oak tree in the front yard. Sadly, Peter stayed […]

In 2015 we made a major push to put the Pumpkin scarecrow prop out into the yard. We succeeded in getting it outside. But nobody ever saw it work on the lawn. Props Added:

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This was a far less intentional year for us. The new prop in the display was the Wishing Well, with creepy ghost girl, Samara. There was an attempt to make it possible for her to rise out of the well on an armature that extended a drawer slide the same way the flying crank ghost […]

In 2010, Gar came back outside, this time sporting articulated neck and jaw, improved wing design and movement, and a web of motion sensors that caused his head to turn to follow the movement. There was also a live-action attraction added. We had our very own weeping angel (from doctor who) handing out candy. Props […]