Halloween Places

It was bigger this year! I didn't see huge new stand-out props BUT the vendors took existing ideas and ramped it up to level 11. It was awesome. As usual made a highlight video which is the best way to get an overview of the show:





My favorite prop of the show was The Thing-type monster grabbing at the girl on the table. Made by Dark Raven Designs. $3,650


Notes from the video:
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This was posted in a thread already but I thought I'd keep this at my blog as well...

This was a surprising year! Transworld upped their game (once again) and we met so many forum members & Hauntcast.... partied hard with fellow haunters and lived to tell about it.

As with previous Transworld reports, made a video but now it's improved... it's in full HD! (new camcorder):




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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: ...

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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