Apparitions 2024

Making some progress on the standing mannequins for our 2024 haunt. The Chiller and The Duchess props are new for this year's haunt. Thought the blue light candle lantern for The Chiller made for an interesting prop accessory. The blue apparitions' hands are also a new addition this year.

2019 Haunt Photo

For our 2024 Halloween yard haunt we're revisiting our 2019 ghost theme. We have to work out a better system for mounting the digital projection screen in our front window this year. In 2019 we used 3M removable double sided adhesive mounting dots to mount the screen fabric to our vinyl window frames, but the adhesive couldn't keep the screen fabric taught for the entire duration of the haunt. We started to get visible wrinkles and creases in the fabric due to the flexible/stretchy nature of the dots. This summer we're going to test out 3M Command Velcro strips on the window frames paired up with sew on Velcro strips on the edges of the screen fabric. The hope is that the Velcro strips can keep the screen fabric taught or at least allow for quick adjustments.

Late Night With The Devil

This may be surprising to hear, but we're not huge fans of modern horror movies, e.g. most movies of the genre made after 1999. But this newly released 1970's set period piece horror movie looks rather intriguing and in the same vein of the old Tales From The Darkside, Tales From The Crypt, and darker themed Twilight Zone/Outer Limits type stories which we always found entertaining. 

Dracula Approved!

One of our favorite places to visit is Lake Effect Ice Cream in Lockport, NY. We managed to squeeze in a visit last weekend and had their special St. Patrick's Day "Guinness Extra Stout" ice cream and picked up a "I Vant To Eat Lake Effect Ice Cream" pin. Every October they release their "Trick-Or-Treat" ice cream which is Mr. Haunted Eve's favorite flavor they make. Here's their description of the ice cream flavor:

"If you've never had it, here's the idea: You come home from an awesome night of trick-or-treating and dump out your candy bag on the floor, and take a look at the big pile of candy bars in front of you. Well, pretty much that's what we put in this flavor. This year, we mixed Heath bars, Snickers, Kit Kats, Twix bars, M&Ms, Reese's pieces, and Nestlé crunch bars into our Silver Cloud Vanilla ice cream."
https://www.facebook.com/Lakeeffecticecream

New Year Off To A Crummy Start

2024 has not been kind to us. Mr. Haunted Eve's mom passed away at the age of 83 earlier this week (almost made it to 84). She was hospitalized for two weeks prior and it was an emotional rollercoaster ride. There's also other chaos going on in our lives but we will weather this storm! On a happier note, future phases of our housing development that were on hold for the past several years are now in the process of adding new homes. More homes means more trick-or-treaters to visit our annual Halloween yard haunt.

Lapped Ourselves

We need to update a couple of our shorter pedestals for this year's Halloween yard haunt and did an image search for "gothic pedestal" to get some ideas and "lapped ourselves". How "meta" is that?

Miser Brothers

Didn't know this even existed until tonight. From a 2006 live action version of A Year Without A Santa Claus with Harvey Fierstein as Heat Miser and Michael McKean as Snow Miser. Those two characters always had an elemental netherworldly vibe to them, e.g. "Creepmas".