It seems the weather’s getting worse each Halloween, although it’s hard to complain about the weather while Hurricane Sandy’s causing death and destruction. Our thoughts go out to all those who have lost loved ones, friends, family or their homes. … Continue reading
This is one of those stories that makes you scratch your head and go, “hmmmm…”. A father is suing Six Flags for $30,000 after his daughter tripped and suffered scrapes and bruises trying to run away from a park employee … Continue reading
Wow, this was a tough year for Halloween! It fell on a school night, it snowed in the morning, rained in the afternoon and the wind started getting crazy just as darkness started to fall. It became almost impossible to … Continue reading
Well… I’m not sure if this a good thing or something to worry about. Our yard haunt now has several warning signs indicating that the CDC has designated our yard haunt a Level Three Infected Zone. That means only individuals … Continue reading
Our little guy made a cake of our yard haunt at one of his cooking classes. It’s complete with tombstones, zombies, spiders, freshly dug dirt and a wiggly green blob that’s apparently one of the garden beds. It’s quite an … Continue reading
Planning for this year’s haunt is well underway. A couple of new additions for this year include two skeleton sentinels roped up on some wooden crosses, lighting the way with flickering witch jars. Also new this year, are the “tables … Continue reading
Another year, another night of sending children and adults screaming in terror and glee. Our voodoo theme was a resounding success this year. Thanks to the Calgary Corn Maze, we had a truck-load full of old corn stalks to add … Continue reading
Nailed it once again! Lots of screams, shrieks and dropped bags of candy. I’m still playing around with different coloured lighting. Sometimes I think red looks better, other times green seems to be more creepy looking. Check out the 2008 … Continue reading
In 2007, we entered our yard haunt into the Calgary Herald’s Houses of Horror contest. Four homes would be selected, and the winners featured in a Herald article. We were thrilled to be chosen as one of the top four … Continue reading
Last night we did a test run for some of this year’s yard haunt features. Not everything is up yet, as we don’t want any of the props “walking away”, but we still managed to get a few good photos. … Continue reading