billski
Active member
Got the graveyard setup in the front yard. Some old clothes, stuffed with leaves make a perfect dead body among the tombstones. This year, I've added a latex old man mask covering an inflated balloon to be deposited on or near the torso. An electronic recording "help....me....." will occasionally moan out. Around the side yard, a CD will be playing sounds of cats, chains and a dentist drilling. If I don't scare at least a couple of kids, I will have failed.
Got the idea when my kids were young and the neighbor had a setup so scary that my kids - 3 and 5YO refused to not only go up the driveway, but ran past the house. The guy had his kids hiding in the bushes, huge speakers in the window and he and his wife were dressed as a vampire and witch, with lots of scary lighting.
A friend likes to tell the story about another who year setup a fake casket and complete body alongside the front door. The catch was that his brother was underneath, with his real hands laying in the casket. Whey the revelers stood nearby to look, his hand would lunge out and grab the kids. Needless to say, there were many wet pants that evening.
Then there was a neighbor who made his house into haunted mansion, you could even go into his creeped-out dining room, with dead people seated at the table. But actually they weren't dead. That startled a number of kids.
Even the kids have laughed about these stories for years.
Decided to start doing this after living in the country when the only trick-or-treaters we got were the farmers down the road who drove their kids to our house, and we did the same. This is one advantage to suburbia...
Who you scarin'?
Got the idea when my kids were young and the neighbor had a setup so scary that my kids - 3 and 5YO refused to not only go up the driveway, but ran past the house. The guy had his kids hiding in the bushes, huge speakers in the window and he and his wife were dressed as a vampire and witch, with lots of scary lighting.
A friend likes to tell the story about another who year setup a fake casket and complete body alongside the front door. The catch was that his brother was underneath, with his real hands laying in the casket. Whey the revelers stood nearby to look, his hand would lunge out and grab the kids. Needless to say, there were many wet pants that evening.
Then there was a neighbor who made his house into haunted mansion, you could even go into his creeped-out dining room, with dead people seated at the table. But actually they weren't dead. That startled a number of kids.
Even the kids have laughed about these stories for years.
Decided to start doing this after living in the country when the only trick-or-treaters we got were the farmers down the road who drove their kids to our house, and we did the same. This is one advantage to suburbia...
Who you scarin'?
