Thread: Do you smell that?

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I've been to a few haunted houses in my lifetime and I always seem to notice a certain smell in the air, kinda musky and old smelling. Can anyone tell me what I'm smelling and where I can get it? Looking to spice up my haunt a little bit...

Maybe it's the smell of all the stuff brought out of storage after being tucked away for a year?
Old canvas?
It reminds me of the tents we had when I was a kid, when you brought them out of the basement for the first time each year for camping.

If they're using fog machines, then they are using fog juice scents. There are a couple of threads on this forum about the best types of additives, but most people swear by Froggys. Here is a ilk to their fog juice scents:

http://www.froggysfog.com/c=r1hlPV9D...loween-scents/

People have recommended mixing "swamp marsh" and "gothic" for the perfect graveyard scent. Though I've never smelled it, I've heard "charred corpse" is the worst smell on earth. I plan on buying some Froggys juice and scent this year!

I know it's not related but the name of your post reminded me a funny story from when I was a kid. Back in the 1970s, stories of UFOs and Bigfoot were all the rage, and one of my Dad's friends was in a group dedicated to investigating stories of Bigfoot sightings in western Pennsylvania (believe it or not, some folks swore they saw him there). This guy was always telling my Dad about how to know if Bigfoot was around, and he mentioned that many people who had encountered Bigfoot reported smelling something like a sulphur smell.

One weekend, this guy and his group are out by Butler, PA to investigate a sighting, and he had told my Dad about it and my Dad said he wanted to go along. My Dad and a couple other friends took an old brown shag carpet we had in the basement and cut what looked like a bear skin rug out of it, then took a bunch of those little smoke bombs they sell around the 4th of July, that give off a strong sulphur smell, and went out where the group said they were going to be. My Dad joined the group and took along an old cassette recorder to record their "search".

They went out at sunset as they had heard Bigfoot sightings were more likely at dusk, and were out for about an hour and busy looking for traces when you start hearing "Do you smell that?" on the tape as the gentle odor of sulphur started wafting towards them. My Dad made sure they were making lots of noise so his friends could figure out where the group was and light smokebombs a few hundred feet away to where they could smell the sulphur but not see the smoke. For all their talk of being out to find Bigfoot you can hear the fear and panic starting to raise in their voices as they started to believe they might actually be on Bigfoot's trail.

The guys put the piece of rug up in a tree with a rope connected to it, and waited for the Bigfoot hunters to get close to it, then they pulled the rope and dropped the rug out of the tree and onto the ground in front of them. The whole crowd panicked and broke and ran for it. I wish I still had the tape because it was hillarious!

Great! Any other ideas please let me know!

Originally Posted by FearTheReaper

I've been to a few haunted houses in my lifetime and I always seem to notice a certain smell in the air, kinda musky and old smelling.

You mean that smell of old latex, high voltage, dust, and fog?

Unless it was a perfumed scent you are referring to, most houses have that smell that comes with genuine age, and being abandoned most the year. (I mean, do you really think they clean the haunt that often?)