Museum Of The Dead 2026

This past Friday night we attended the Museum of the Dead Halloween party at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. It was one of the best Halloween parties we've been to in decades!

Peripheral Haunt Skeletons Upgraded

We wanted to enhance the standard 5' tall pose-n-stay skeletons that we have on the periphery of our yard with some form of lighting. Last year we used 5' skeletons that had red LED eyes, so those skeletons stood out on their own, but we needed something to make these skeletons pop in the dark on the border of our yard. Battery powered waterproof green LED chains with built in timers did the trick. The actual themed yard haunt parts and pieces will start going up this coming weekend. The yard haunt should be fully completed the Friday before All Hallows Eve.

Haunt Side Hustle

The east side of our garage is basically "out of sight, out of mind" and is not typically part of the Halloween night yard haunt, but we're trying to remedy that. We're not big fans of our fake plastic jack-o'-lantern that we purchased many years ago. We are currently waiting for some battery powered lighted accessories for our skeletons to arrive any day now so that we can retire that plastic jack-o'-lantern for good.

RMSC After Dark Halloween 2026

We attended the Rochester Museum & Science Center's After Dark "Mad Science" Halloween event this past Saturday. It was a lot of fun!

Local Area Haunts 2026 Part 4

Halloween 2026 Pumpkins

We purchased our pumpkins for carving jack-o'-lanterns for our 2026 Halloween haunt today. $100 total for 14 pumpkins, all from one local roadside farm stand. We paid $15/each for 3 really big pumpkins (they're really heavy) and $5/each for the 11 medium-large pumpkins. Taking the current price of fuel and overall inflation into consideration, this was a bargain! We've been holding off on buying pumpkins until mid to late October for the past several years because we typically lose a few to rot when we used to buy them at the beginning of October. We inspected all of these to make sure there were no apparent soft spots or bruises. Anyone who has ever cut into a pumpkin that's starting to turn knows what is found inside can be rather noxious! The goal is to have at least 12 jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween night.

 

Local Area Haunts 2026 Part 3