Still considered a home haunt by definition. But we are trying to go pro. Only thing in our way is the right building.

Anyways.... backgroud. This is built on the side and back yards of my buddies house. It had 1700 sqft covered and alittle over 400 sqat uncovered. Not counting the path out to the road.

We have such a hard time finding actors that we use animatronics to help get the scares. I still wish we had more actors to rely on. We really needed about 20 and only had about 11 - 12 each night.

Enough of that. Lets do pics. Gonna be ALOT of pics.

Here is a pic of the walls going up. In this pic, you can see part of phase 1, none of phase 2, all of phase 4 and phase 3 isn't even built yet.

The graveyard you looked at while standing in line.

Had a soundtrack playing and fog and lit up alittle with LEDs.

This year the graveyard was minimal this year as we expanded the haunt and had to get more work done.

The front.

Also the entrance into the mausoleum.

As you walk in there is a casket and a shrine set-up to The Baron

A rotting corpse inside an opened plundered casket.

We had a decaying body scent in the casket. It did not smell pretty.

Also had an air blaster under the casket that got you as you exited the room.

Exiting the back of the mausoleum to caverns

NEM on here has his own Haunted house!

Caskets sticking out of the cavern walls.

Also has a sound track of cave bugs playing through this area.

NEM on here has his own Haunted house!

Yeah. I know.

I bumped into his crew in St. Louis last year. Maybe get to meet him this coming and shoot the shit.

These walls played tricks on your eyes. Looked as if they never ended when we had them lit up at night

Looks really good man

AS much as I hate to say it, find some kids that are still in HS and hire them.. Usually they'll jump on a job just to scare people on minimum wage.

Last of the cavern walls that lead you into the swamps

We had a swamp soundtrack playing through this area.

The fog also had a swamp scent in it to make you feel like your in a swamp.

Also had the floors lined with mulch. LOTS of mulch.

Animatronic snake. Right behind the snake was an actor in a ghillie suit that matched the walls perfectly. NOONE knew he was there till it was too late. Thats when you already cursed.

The skull walls protruding in, taking up your space, and vines hitting you in the face

Really nice work.

Did you do all of the work on the walls and such like the textured walls/skulls/etc?

Vines on the walls (set lighting was different so they looked better), and brush, camoflaged the drop panel

Really nice work.

Did you do all of the work on the walls and such like the textured walls/skulls/etc?

In the 1st room with the casket, we made all those wall panels. Carved and treated foam. Then painted and aged them.

The walls with the caskets sticking out, the skulls, and the other rock walls are vacumm formed panels. We did paint them and age them to our liking.

A few pics from now will be a cave set. We carved and made those ourselves.

Round the corner and your greeted by the drop down vine creature and his habitat

Another snake that swings around the corner

Leaving that area you find an overgrown cave entrance

With a spider that jumps out and at you.

Shot from the side just past him

Fear Flap that lead into the dark hallways. Also had an actor here in a black morph suit. You never saw him till it was too late.

Only light in here were the sparks you got from the 4 shock mats that lined the walls.

Then at the end we had cracklers over head

Even though I put EXIT on the door, people still tried to walk straight. Never failed.

But that wasn't actually the EXIT

It led into the Baked Potato Room.

It was lined on all 4 walls, ceiling and the floors with reflective insulation sheeting and triggered two 800w strobe lights.

People actually got lost in an 8x8 room on several occasions.

Here is the door. You have to push it.

Once out, and blinded I might add, your dropped into a cornfield.

Before the corn.....

After the corn.....