Local Area Haunts 2026 Part 1

Spotted our first yard haunt of the season today and only a few houses down from our own house! A promising start to spooky season already!

2026 Aedicula Headstone Prop Completed

Halloween Candy 2026

After much thought and debate regarding what candy we were going to give out this Halloween, we decided to stick with full sized Kit-Kat bars as the primary treat along with some Haribo gummy candy snack sized bags as bonus treats. We also got a variety bag of fun sized candy for "emergency reserves", just in case we get swamped with trick-or-treaters. While our highest count over the past 16 years in this neighborhood was ~ 142 in 2024, we typically average around 100. And since we can't simply turn off the front porch lights if we run out of candy with our annual Halloween night haunt, better to have too much candy than not enough. 36 count boxes of full sized Kit-Kat bars were on sale recently for $25.98 at BJ's Wholesale Club. Comes out to 72 cents/bar which in this day and age was too good a deal to pass up. Many grocery stores are currently selling a single full sized Kit-Kat bar for $1.99! Plus kids really seam to love getting the full sized Kit-Kat bars.

Home Depot Halloween 2026

2026 Haunt Lighting

Put together this year's haunt light stringers which will go up on the house towards the end of September. Purple, green, and lime facetted LED C9 bulbs will create a nice ambient color palette for the haunt but will also help advertise our haunt from afar on Halloween night since not everyone on our street gets into the spirit of things. We wish our neighborhood was more like the one in Clinton Township, Michigan.

IRON SMOKE PUMPKIN PIE WHISKEY

Mrs. Haunted Eve went to Iron Smoke Distillery last night to see a band perform and bought herself and Mr. Haunted Eve Iron Smoke Pumpkin Pie Whiskey T-shirts because they just scream "Halloween". Iron Smoke Distillery has thrown some fun Halloween parties over the years, but we're typically too busy with Halloween haunt preparations to be able to attend.

CREEPY TWINS AT MICHAELS