Lots of people that do house haunts, and even professional haunts for that matter, consider startling someone and scaring someone the same thing. While the word startle is defined partially as, “to frighten or surprise suddenly” and most people equate that with “scaring” someone the definition is qualified as, “usually not seriously.” I consider the startle, at best, a mild scare. It passes relatively quickly and easily. (continue reading…)

I am not that big of a packrat, but I have kept myself from throwing away certain things that I probably should throw away just because I said, “Wow, I know exactly how to use this for Halloween!” While that sometimes upsets my wife, well, let’s just say that she is a REAL packrat and knows that she cannot say anything about it (continue reading…)

This is a picture of my Ringwraith costume which, up until this year was my staple of our garage haunt every Halloween for the past six years. However the kids are starting to get wise to it. I’ve already tried the “pretending” to not be inside it trick the past two years and and that worked but I think a third year would be too much. (continue reading…)

Last year the Haunted Rider was part of our 2008 garage haunt and he’ll be back this year as well. Here is a picture: (continue reading…)

While the wife has taken the children to a birthday party, and I have finished doing some wiring around the house that needed done, I thought that I would get started laying out the garage and thinking about this year’s haunt “officially”. My budget for this year was $200 … the same as last year. So the first thing I have done is done to the Halloween Store (Spirit is my personal preference) and took a look around yesterday. (continue reading…)

Last year I talked about a quick and easy way to build a sign for your house haunt. But I never showed it actually up and completely on display. Here is a picture of it from our 2008 house/garage haunt. (continue reading…)

Yes, Halloween, my most favorite of all holidays, is once again barreling down upon me like a freight train. Every year something comes up that pushes back my plans for the garage until nearly the last minute. This year it was the birth of my son, Magnus. However now that he is home I am dedicating much of my free time over the next two weeks to getting the garage ready to scare the little kiddies. (continue reading…)