Thread: scared of my own haunt.

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Does anyone else ever scare themselves while setting up their haunted house. I get the creeps walking through my haunt alone.
Every year I have a room full of dolls, clowns, and disturbing stuffed animals. This room scares me so much that I decorate it within a few hours of opening, that way i don't have to walk through it the whole month of october. On halloween night I rarely
walk through the room. Is silly to be afraied of my own creation?
Are other people on these boards scared of the rooms in their haunts, or yard displays. I hope I'm not the only one because then I would feel silly.

I would say that being scared of your own haunt is a good thing. If you’re scared, chances are others will be scared too.

The one thing that scares me about our haunt is our Leatherface animatronic. He is still standing in the front hallway and I plug him in every so often to make sure he still works. But, I never plug him in when Mr. L is not home. I have this vision of his creepy eyes coming to life, his tongue licking his lips and the chainsaw starting up, getting ready to chase me.

I mentioned this to Mr. L once and he said he was glad I told him that because he had planned to move Leatherface into the bathroom while I was showering so I’d open the shower curtain and see Leatherface coming right for me. Now that would have freaked me out so much that I’d probably drop dead on the spot. He’s never done it so I guess he doesn’t want a dead wife, lol.

i'm in the process of making a giant mache spider, i've only shaped and taped the chicken wire of the abdomen and i'm already creeping out! I HATE SPIDERS, AND I'VE DECIDED THAT'S MY THEME FOR THIS YEAR, so it's going to be a funky scarey halloween for both me and my "guests".

Hum, yes. Every year I manage to walk around a corner and forget I left a life-sized prop there. I usually end up screaming out loud, and then start laughing at myself. lol

Jim

A few years ago, I was setting up in my front yard, and I needed a box cutter, which was in my backyard. So I was running through my house, and forgot I had left my head ripping zombie from Spirit plugged in, so right when I got in the dining room, I heard the zombie scream and almost had heart attack.

But other than that, my yards not really scary, so I dont get scared

Myself, of course. But my wife and kids get it worse.

Had a life size dummy in the staging area that is the garage 2 years ago. Dressed all in black with an 'invisible face' mask. Just kinda looming. A full month before setting up. That first morning after setting him out, I walk out to the garage on my way to work, in the dark, flip on the light to find my shoes, and nearly fell over I jumped so much.

It scared my wife for about a week. Then she got used to it. So I decided to dress identical one day, move it outside, and stand there waiting for her to come home from work. Ah...good times. Was informed if I ever did that again it was grounds for divorce. (not the first such threat, she's able to laugh it off the next day)

Not so much here...the usual life size prop left in the living room has startled me or my fiancee in the mornings when still half asleep.
The biggest scare in the haunt while setting up was last year. Several friends and I were working on walls and setups a few nights before halloween....the yard was divided off by curtains, with floodlights run to each scene so we could see what we were doing....its about midnight.
The yard is fenced in....but somehow a possum got in, and suddenly came out of the darkness and scared us all...then he ran under the mausoleum, leaving us all wondering when he was going to come back out. We broke early....here in the south, we all know some redneck who has tangled with a mad or rabid possum...they aren't as passive as they look.
A little while later I had to go out to get a tool left outside, and he was walking on top of the fence...I grabbed a long piece of pvc and smacked him until he fell off on the other side. So if you hear an unexplained, non prop noise in my haunt, we joke its the ghost of an angry possum coming to get you.

I have one prop- a hanging ghost that kinda creeps me out. For the first few years I had it, I would turn it away from me whenever I was alone with it. I don't know why just that one prop bothered me out of dozens of others, but it did.

Because of long work hours during the day, I'm often outside working on stuff at night after sundown in October. It's a creepy setup and never fails to creep me out a bit.

My neighbour tells me how she gets spooked out every time she leaves the house in the morning and sees the flying ghoul next to the fence.

Last year, the head I made for the scarecrow came out way scarier that I thought possible. It sat on a workbench in the garage for a couple of weeks. Every time I turned on the light and looked at it, I gotses da willies.

I've got the completed scarecrow stored over one of the garage doors.

There is a bag over the head.

Good times.

JD

I have left things that gave me a start.
But what I fear the most is the amount of work I will have to do in few months and what it costs.
Ah, not really!