NightMare Manor Haunted House
Another FrightFest Northwest Haunted Attraction
This years totals for intake for the CAP Help Food Warehouse $54 cash and 206Lbs. of non-perishable food, RIGHT ON this community ROCKS!!!. We would like to thank all our friends and neighbors in the Toutle/Longview area for coming out to have some fun and support needy families for a bit this winter and the Longview Daily news paper for placing us in their community events calendar

These are some pictures of our haunt  2004 Please be patient there are  several pictures so it will take some of you a while to get into your cache

 This is the borrowed facade <thank you HOM> we built the entry to our haunt out of  man that has to be the heaviest door in the world Rob lol
 
 
Thanks for giving us the coffin go-cart Dad the kids loved it and I am going to have a blast around the neighborhood
 
 
 
 
 
 
This was our pre construction advertising around the area... funny a cop came through the neighborhood for the first time sense I've lived here
 
 
Watch your step....damn ankle biters
 
 
this was our intro man "Foolish beings!" he set the mood for the house and had eerie background music
 
 
 
 
 
 
Welcome to Mamma's kitchen, Mamma seemed to disappear on us once in a while and we told the patrons how she must be out gathering fresh meat...better watch your step Bwahahaha!!!!!!!!
 
 

  Looks like Mamma has picked this one to the bone but look close she left some stale blood for the flies
 
 
 
 
 
Oh oh....Momma must have forgotten she still had one tenderfoot on the block
 
 
Looks like Momma let her skeleton stew go a bit too long or is he just relaxing having a drink?
 
 
Damn kid never cleans up its room and it look like he took out another teddy bear <another prop loan from HOM this works very well noone expects it "the dresser" to start jumping>
 
 
and its the ol reliable Monster Mash band staring boris the talking skeleton. These guys take a licking and just keep on picking
 
 

  "What's your name What's your name What's your name What's your name"  This was the best room in our house. It was 4 visqueen sides shredded visqueen in and out doors, cd player hooked to a set of computer speakers on the ceiling and 6 heads on fishing line hanging down 3 on either side of patrons when they walked in to the total darkness hearing the whispers. Dressed in all black with a skeleton mask on a black hood, an actor turned on the 2 strobe lights after all had entered and came up low from about 8' away towards the patrons who were flashed in the eyes while trying to make out what was moving towards them not knowing where the exit from this mad room was, at this point the guide pointed them in the right direction to their afterlife. I have to say this room was very uncomfortable even to work in in the daylight and it was so simple.
 
 
 
 
 
Welcome to the afterlife BWAhahaha
 
 

  Lisa's collection of tomb stones
 
 
 
 
 
Sorry Sue we gave this guy a new name for you "George Jetson" he doesn't look scary  but his sit up affect works well with chilled fog covering him so you don't see him at night until he sits up, this one worked well also. Thanks Sue
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is Lisa's prized reaper...ug, I hate monster mud lol. This reaper has been quite the traveler and still survives, It holds a faux flame skull pot and lights up the headstones between lightning strikes and the sounds of thunder thanks to lisa's T&L and a set of computer speakers and a cd player all under cover in our new FCG crypt I built for Lisa out of 2x2's and visqueen, it made a great central haunt location for electrical connections to stay dry.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks to the 13th door' s owner Raymond for the loan of the pillars and crypt toppers I found that I could stuff a pillar with blue ice packs nightly and use it as a very affective fog chiller but it took 12 packs lol, that reminds me I better return the borrowed ones for the neighborhood kids lunch boxes hahaha the fog machine stayed nice and dry under the crypt topper and was unseen by patrons
 
 
 
 
 
 

  This is Lisa's new FCG and crypt. People thought this was so awesome, we had a black light mounted up by the FCG motor and she looked very cool at night. Little kids thought she was going to come out and get them, I think next year I will build a lower half to get her higher up in the air. I did find I had to use vaseline on the fishing line to keep it from breaking and that worked very well.
 
 
 
 
 
The spider room. Thanks Raymond for the roll of Jute, I had an actor hide behind the jute and walk slowly out at the patrons especially when they tried to walk behind the dracula coffin. We did add a plastic spider web in the center that glowed in the dark especially with the 3 black lights in this room that added a lot after this picture was taken.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
If you notice the drop light above right I found this at Harbor freight for $10 and it takes a 12" florecent bulb that works awesome and also has a plastic tube around the light that keeps the water out. I want more of these next year Lisa lol
 
 
The stand up prop in laying down position was a pain in the but to make work with my new air compressor. I had to connect a 5 gal resivior tank behind the wall to give him enough umph to stand and crank my compressor to 130 psi to make it turn on before the air pressure dropped to low to make him stand but this guy popping up from out of a fog filled room made a couple of patrons dampen themselves lol. That skull fogger is Lisa's oldest fogger and works awesome sometimes a little too well as you could not see the props at all until the stand up was in your face. the skull is nice but this one needed a chiller badly. Piling ice cubes from days of saving them did not work well but helped and it looked like he puked ice all over the ground loll
 
 

  to the right above the faux flame cauldron I left a window in the visqueen and it worked the patrons thought someone was going to pop out at them for sure  which got their attention away from around the next corner
 
 
 
 
 
this hokey little prop was actually very affective, its thin and the eyes are activated with the sound and sensor placement on the prop of which there are 2 in the mouth <look closely you will see the circle where the lower right tooth looks like its missing> one on either side made the eyes turn in the direction motion was picked up and all he would say was "HEY, Where ya going? and I see you"and light up. stupid but the patrons were looking at the window opening and this was thin enough you couldn't see it when you did look down this hall. It got quite a few starts but it was difficult to get enough lighting for the sensors to work so we ended up shining a little flashlight on the sensor or turning a flame pot at it to set it off.
 
 
 
 
 
 
the ol skull light strand and banging box, wow that box works great year after year but I like the new cellar doors Sue made this year better!, Oh Lisa hon, can I can I? lol
 
 
 
 
I couldn't have been happier with the way this turned out, Lisa had the skull fountain she had built but it had fallen apart, in comes the fantastic Gorilla glue OMG that stuff is great. Lisa rebuilt her fountain with that stuff and it works with perfection, we are going to keep it there year around lol. This little item sports a 60 psi electric pump purchased at Harbor Freight for $10 and fills the top small skull that Lisa sealed with the glue and  drilled out the eye sockets to allow the skull fill up with water, crimson Rit die mixture and cry bleeding tears down its face and the other skulls. I had a sensored light in a tree that turned a white light on this after they had entered the room so they got a good look at the blood, it looks black at night with no lighting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
this is Simon and son relaxing in the glider or is she bone feeding?
 
 

 
  Simon and son enjoying the fountain, btw when the water dropped into the pool it made no rings it gave it a totally real blood feel.
 
 
 
 

  this part of our yard turned into a swamp, we had to tell patrons to stay left or right if they wanted to avoid wet feet. Funny most just tradded through the muddiest parts and didn't seem to give it a thought. How can women walk around something like this is sandals sheesh I saw so many.
 
 
 
 
 
Ahhhh look, birds enjoying a little bath HE HE HE
 
 

  Oh I guess they are sleeping in there, or are they. This one made Lisa tell me over and over that Im a sick man. I had asked her for some of those fake birds you see in lazy peoples bird cages and she picked me up some nice ones. She wanted to know what I was going to do with them and I wouldn't tell her lol.
 
 
 
 
 
Ahhh the air cannon man this one got EVERYONE and you couldn't help but break character and laugh at the nice little dances people would do or the ladies that just plain dropped to the ground.
 
 
 
 
 
 
this little rat room had hokey little things just to fill in the area to get to the exit gate. the 3 bottom right sang bad to the bone and were sensor activated, they need hacked with a wall wart ug. The tone of the voice on each one was a little different but they all said the same thing "bad to the bone" the eire part was they were out of unison and man that that just sound wrong. then to the left of the path here you can see the rat with his nose in a trap...also sensor activated, he would screech and vibrate around dragging the trap backwards on his nose.
 
 
I love your ware rat Sue can I keep him ? canI ? canI ?
 
 
This was an effort to maybe get a little money back from material expenses and it actually got us a little