Hatrack River Forum: You Rang? (Now a "friendly contest)!!

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

Anyone else here live in a haunted house?

[ October 06, 2004, 02:33 PM: Message edited by: KarlEd ]

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

You go, Lurch...

Very cool house, KarlEd...even if you didn't make it to the WMASS Hatrack picnic... [Big Grin]

For a final touch you should put those fake spiderwebs on the railing of your porch...it would lok really cool!

Scare those holy rollers off your side lawn... [Evil]

[ October 05, 2004, 08:31 AM: Message edited by: Kwea ]

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

I'm jealous. You have the perfect place to set up a haunted house.

Might I suggest some arms reaching out from the crawl space under the house.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Yeah, motion-activated animatronic arms! And recordings of screaming sounds!!

Those are great photos. [Evil]

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

Yeah, I have the fake spiderweb stuff and some fake spiders. (If Halloween were a month early, I wouldn't need to fake either of those [Eek!]

) And another idea I want to try is to get a string of red lights and put them under the porch grouped in pairs so they look like the glowing eyes of a hoard of rats.

So in short, I'm not finished. After putting the jack o'lanterns in the windows, though, I just had to take a photo.

I've been a tiny bit disappointed that my house is right on PA 116 through town. It's very busy and quite a few trucks come through at night, but it's not too bad. The plus is at just about any moment I can look out my front window and see a car at the light with someone inside looking at my house and grinning or some kid in the backseat pointing and banging dad on the shoulder so he'll look.

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

Eyes in the Bushes

A variation of this worked pretty well for me. Unfortunately, it will be a while before my new house has bushes large enough for this to work.

Check this site out for a lot of ideas.

Monster Page of Halloween

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I bet your house is going to be the cause of a lot of dares [Smile]

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

LOL - I'm not sure I want it to be THAT scary. I still want to give out candy this Halloween.

Incidentally, Hanover apparently really gets into Halloween. They have a parade on Thursday before Halloween this year and it lasts nearly 3 hours. That's pretty good for a town that only rates one of the tiny dots on the state map.

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

Neat, KarlEd. I'm so glad your house brings you joy already.

Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :

Nice House. I like it.

Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :

That's very cool Karl ED.

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

Hey zgator,
Thanks for the link for the eyes. I was just going to buy red lights, but apparently they are very scarce. In fact, at WalMart I couldn't find any simple strings of lights for Halloween. They all had junk attached. So I bought a string of normal white lights and I'm going to try the method you linked. I'll put photos up when I get it done.

Also, I'm going to try the fog chiller from the other link. I've always had the problem of my fog machine's fog just dispersing up into the room mostly cutting visibility rather than adding creepiness. I never thought of chilling the fog. (Smacks head).

Posted by Psycho Triad (Member # 3331) on :

Did you ever think about maybe a cut out poorly back-lit in one of those windows?

Give people a "you're being watched" effect.
[Dont Know]

Crazy as always,
Psycho Triad

Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :

I love Halloween. I'd love to make my place as haunted as possible.

Shall we make this a friendly contest? I want to see what other hatrackers' haunted homes look like for this holiday. Lets see if we can outdo each other and have fun at it [Smile]

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

That sounds like fun, but how about more of a Virtual Tour than a contest. Anyone else got photos of their Halloween decorations?? Link them here!

[ October 06, 2004, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: KarlEd ]

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

So. . . what? No one else decorates? No one else has photos? (And don't say it's too early, the stores are already filling up with Christmas stuff, forheavenssake.)

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

Halloween in Poland [Razz]

Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :

I haven't started yet. I'm going to start looking for things this weekend.

I did carve a pumpkin last night. [Smile]

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

I just moved in Karl. Give me some time.

My old house had a large front yard, but we were on a dead end street with few trick-or-treaters. We're now on a very long street with lots of kids, but not much front yard.

I gave away my wood coffin and my cage that hangs from a tree with a skeleton inside. They went to a good home, though.

I plan on, at least, making a cemetary fence this year.

Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :

Its TOO EARLY for goshdarned sakes! I'm not done with my apples yet! Soon, though. Soon.

You're a tough act to follow, though!

I close my eyes while walking past the Christmas sections in stores. Atrocious.

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

I just bid on tombstone molds on eBay. Just add ready mix concrete and you've got your own concrete tombstones. This will be much better than the plywood ones I've been using.

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

Too awesome KarlEd!!

I love Halloween... [Evil]

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

Great pumpkin, dabbler. We have 5 pumpkins we bought from a local farmer, but we're not going to carve them until the weekend before Halloween. Last year we carved them earlier and they were a little . . . ripe by the time the trick-or-treaters arrived.