~~~~NyghtMare Manor 2005~~~~

Our Banner and Caps Banner on our front fence.

Crazy Circus looking Haunt lol

Address by Banners ( Lisa did some nice art work on the tiles :-)

Looking in the front entrance to the waiting area

Cider and hot coco counter by window displaying the Big scream TV

Another wall in waiting area hold on there are a couple more lol

Remote Wheelchair and A vamp skelly with fading red eyes, his mask is a demon mask sitting in his lap

Couple standing at the Library entrance by the trash can

Looking in to the Library from the waiting area, took the doors down for pictures

This is Gurtrude, she is the silent type, she dont say much because the Gargoyle has her tongue, at least thats what we told everyone but she did have a bowl of candy for those in costume.

Gurtrudes pumpkin table, or is it??

What are those witches brewing?

Our Friend LeAnna was dressed up as a witch here one night with her back to passers by, she stood perfectly still looking like just another static prop then turned and cackled and made everyone bounce off the fence. It worked great wish we would have had an actor here the entire time.

Entering the band room

Where better for a couple pirate zombies who like to kareoke to zombie Jamboree?

ok on to the Dungeon

Lisa's cute little mini grave yard with a ghost and lots of giant cob webs lit via bone lighting

Trusty old banging box, Gotta love this one it still gets them HEHE

Skull lighting is awesome in a set like this and helped set off the banging box and mimic sensors well.

Lots of cob webs here for them to duck through and get stuck all over them as they entered ...... The clown room

Hmm who could this be, he was the first thing people saw when they stuck there head through the door and turned many around, in fact we had people turn around and strong arm someone behind them into the room in front of them. Man it was hard not to laugh here!!

We used a shower curtain here for a circus feel to this room and painted florecent lightning bolts on the walls

This is one of our new gargoyles Lisa made this year and I made talk with the scary terry board and a 1 minute chip of Pennywise the clown from IT as he stared down at people that wanted to pass through this door. I found out that not many saw this because they were terrified of my neighbor and actor ( Hilarie Kramer) who pretended to be the 3rd static clown in the room until they got close then moved at them

The Dot room worked very well, it was 10'x 10' and had a florecent fixture with 2 4' bulbs in it and lit the room well, when a little of the fog came in from the Clown room and gave a slight haze in the room they couldnt see Craig Kramer my other actor at all. When the fog wasnt in the room you could barely see his outline and he stood perfectly still and let people think he was just a shadow on the wall then he would crawl across the wall at them and step out and yell and we had people on the ground in piles several times in here, it was awesome and we cracked up a lot as the people moved on and we looked at each other.

hard to see the exit but this is kitty corner from the entrance so they would have to go across the entire room to leave. Fetch spot!! hahaha

I had a strobe light in an 8' x 30" hall that would blind them and get them ready for the dark hallway maze. almost had to push the young girls through here sheesh.

This stretch was 13' long and 30" wide and pitch black, the clostraphobics would get very uptight here hahaha, ignore the step you couldnt see it in the dark

Good ol' Pumpkin butt, he nailed without a miss, we put a 3watt bulb in each pumpkin so they could just see something was there and then BOOM!! air cannon went off as they were headed down and thay would have to find the hinged door/wall to escape

I put hose over the spring to keep people from getting pinched

Ended up rebuilding him last minute, added a second door closer and ran two lines from the air valve and it worked well this year. when he stood up Craig in my Dot room would hear people yell and release the guiletine blade for a second startle

I had one panel on hinges on the back wall here to access all my power and sound in one room

This room was handy

can anyone say wow how many cords does it take in a haunted house? lol

After the door from the dark maze sprung closed this new hall was reveiled after confusing them with another dead end into the torture chamber

Here is the new sissor prop with a little bitty spider to pop up into the face of unsuspecting passers by, thank god my fence held out to all those groups of 4 testing its strength.

now for the last section the uncovered graveyard

not just another day at the park

We put the old bycicle pump sit up prop in the casket this year, many commented that they thought there was a real actor in there.

One of my fog machines and chiller which bye the way worked awesome when there was no wind. it layed perfectly in the grass. We did learn however that the pipe must be up hill from the fog machine to the tail end to work good

This is Simon, He is doing his one minute sound track from Army of Darkness with his double barrel remington shot gun made of cobal blue steel, otherwise known as a boom stick!!

Well we got 135lbs more food this year then last year so we call it a success, Many people had an awesome time so Lisa and I are happy. Sure hate going through that darn PHDS = Post Halloween Depression Syndrome, seem to get that the day after halloween. Well off to design next years Haunt.