2025 Haunt Soundtrack

Our annual Halloween night yard haunt displays dazzle with sights, sounds, and smells (we always use scented candles in our jack-o-lanterns). For our 2025 Demons & Devils themed yard haunt, we're going to be playing Nox Arcana's Grimm Tales album as the backing soundtrack.

At Home Store Giant Inflatable Werewolf

This was really impressive. It stands 20 feet tall!

Creepy Trick-Or-Treater Prop

This prop is a classic example of "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." We have been working on the next few years worth of haunt themes in parallel and ordered a mask hoping it would allow us to create a very specific character prop. Unfortunately, we received the wrong version mask (instead of the Phantasm "Minion Lurker", received the "Evil Lurker" mask). This mask was too grotesque for our intended character use and we quickly realized that the Lurker masks are too small in scale as well. But an idea formed that was inspired by a Pumpkinrot blog post from last year. We had enough spare PVC mannequin parts to construct a small child sized Creepy Trick-Or-Treater prop that we will use on the one side of our garage that is highly visible but really isn't part of the themed yard haunt space. Already working on an expansion of the concept for that display area for 2026!

Cemetery Fence Columns Completed

The faux flame light sconces and D-ring fence chain connectors have been installed on the cemetery columns.

Local Area Haunts 2025 Part 1

Our first sighting while out for a drive tonight. Halloween season has begun!

Aedicula Props Get A "Done Stamp!"

Got the main plaques for this year's haunt mounted on the aedicula props. These LED top light skulls were purchased from the now defunct JoAnn Fabrics last year. This was just a test to make sure the plaque mounting bolts were installed at the correct height on the two newer aediculae. While the decorative plaques on the upper pediments of the aediculae are permanently mounted, the main plaques can be swapped out to taste. This way the props won't always look exactly the same from haunt year to haunt year.

Prop Progress Update

New cemetery post columns and 2 new aediculas antiqued to match our 2023 aedicula prop. Still have to add the LED flame light sconces and D ring brackets for fence chain to the columns and the center plaque mounting screws to the new aediculas. The outdoor light stringers for the house will go up in ~ 2 weeks followed by our pre-haunt inflatable flame light jack-o-lantern decoration at the end of September.