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After Halloween I went to two of Kansas City's famous pro-haunts: Edge of Hell and their newer haunt - Macabre Cinema. Incredible! This blog contains spoilers so if you are planning to ever visit this place...don't read past the history part.

History

First, some interesting background about the location of these haunts. Edge of Hell and Macabre Cinema is in the West Bottoms in Kansas City. What is the West Bottoms you ask? Here's a picture back in it's hey day: ...

Here's an easy way to give your windows a stained glass look. The effect you get (click on the link to YouTube for video):

http://youtu.be/UGP4VnyKxxY



Here's a picture:

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Two years ago there was a major land clearing near my house and all of a sudden a very old cemetery appeared! You could tell from the car that these stones were at least a hundred years old. Time to Google! It's named Pleasant Ridge Cemetery and is considered a great example of a pioneer community cemetery. The inhabitants are the first settlers to Kansas after the Shawnee indians were moved to Oklahoma. The earliest legible burial is in 1865. Neat...gotta get right over there!

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These are flickering fake pumpkins that are on a timer. To see them live, here's a video:

They are brightly lit and have a very slight flicker to them. If you want ...

Love the flicker lights using tealights created by jimmyzdc. But, needed them to be on a timer. Time to hack a string of Christmas flicker lights.

Videos of them in action can be found here:

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