Halloween 2024 Postmortem

Another Halloween is in the books and it's time to reflect! Every year we try to up our yard haunting game and we think this year's haunt may be one of our best. Weather for a change was fantastic. Temps remained in the low 70s during trick-or-treating last night (extremely rare for western NY) and the rain and wind held off until hours after the last trick-or-treaters arrived. We had 142 trick-or-treaters, a new record for our 15th Halloween in this neighborhood. We were told by numerous visitors that we have the "BEST HOUSE" every Halloween. Also what was extremely gratifying in this age of big box store homogenous Halloween decorating is that people noticed our props and decorations aren't "common". People asked "Where did you get this stuff?" A few noticed that our "Ghostly Blue" skeletons didn't just come off the rack from a store. And despite us dialing back the complexity of our jack-o-lantern carvings this year, people recognized the effort of carving real pumpkins versus buying fake ones off the rack that get reused year after year. That's the true artistry of yard haunting: making it your own, making it unique. We have probably close to 1000 photos from this year's haunt, but after we sort through them, we'll post when they're up on Flickr. Also check out our Instagram page regularly for Halloween photos and video clips as well.

Mrs. Haunted Eve

Mr. Haunted Eve