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Any suggestions on what to do with this area?? We are thinking a Haunted forest but dont really know where to start. This is the view from our road, and we also have recently purchased the light o rama setup and would like to incorporate it somehow. Everyone here has such great ideas . Thanks

That's an awsome area, wish I had that area to build my Halloween Haunt in. Just a quick look at your picture and I am sure many people on this site will have immediate suggestions. Looking at that, I immediate think of the wagon scene from Sleepy Hallow. I would go with a carriage, headless horseman, dead bodies type them. Having off in the distance (end of the row of trees) I would have the headless horseman holding his pumkin head, eyes flickering and all. Possibly keeping that scene to one side. On the other side I would put up cloth (cheese cloth or something) that blends into its surroundings. Then you or friend take off running down the lane and all of a sudden disappearing from site behind the cloth. With the right lighting this is possible. I seen this done at a Haunt at a local theme park years ago. It was pretty cool.

Haunted forest sounds good to me.

Hang bits and bobs from the trees. Blair Witch style, or look into indian burial grounds, etc. One of the creepiest places I've ever been in real life was a hollow with a bunch of random skulls hanging in the tree (NOT a haunt, just a real place).

Build a shack. Search the tutorials for "Pallet shack" and/or a couple huts. You could go the more graphic route and have it be a psycho's meat locker or something.

It's also just begging for a spider area. Bodies hanging all wrapped up....or...

that scene from The Beast Master that always creeped me out, for something different.

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Werewolfs would fit

headless horseman.

How dark is it at night? Can you get power out there? I would try some blacklight floods and have some reactive ghost costumes roaming around. Or if you don't want to spend a lot of money, get some red "eyes" and hang them from the trees throughout the whole area. Make them from red led's or christmas lights.

Wow, great spot. So many things. The haunted forest is good.
Or if you want to do a haunt maze, those trees are placed so that you can hang partitions between them and segment them into separate rooms for props.

Let us know what you figure out.

ooooh, very nice. Our woods in the back of our house are more natural and not put into the great lines you have. It screams SPIDERS to me. Haunted forest works too. A cemetary scene on the outskirts with pop up heads, ground breakers. Then at the end put up a couple flying crank ghosts. In the middle have spider webs, ghouls peeking out from the back of the trees and then popping back behind them, spiders in the trees hanging down, maybe a crypt in the middle with the door part way open and a corpse popping around it every once in a while. All depends on your budget, what you have now, and the time to build it.
Good luck and show us the pics later when your done.

Don't forget fog. Maybe some paper mache faces on the trees. Owls sitting in the branches. Bats flying around catching fireflys. Leaves covering tombstones, maybe... or a mound of rocks with something glowing underneath. You could also take this a Druid route and set up some stonehenge nearby. You could also go more "voodoo" and have a fire circle beside the trees, so guests come out and are SUDDENLY in the middle of some rite with snake-dancers wearing masks and hopping around to the beat of some drums. It depends on what goal you're going for with the decorations.

Just remember, if there's an implied threat-- empty grave, ritualistic circle, empty "scary house" with bones and such (like in the Hansel & Gretel story)-- people are more inclined to use their imaginations and make that leap to what's "missing" and might "get" them. Happy haunting! =)

Thanks everyone for all the input. I love all your ideas. Now what to make first LOL!!!and how many days to do it??

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Any suggestions on what to do with this area?? We are thinking a Haunted forest but dont really know where to start. This is the view from our road, and we also have recently purchased the light o rama setup and would like to incorporate it somehow. Everyone here has such great ideas . Thanks

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do you live in Nancy Kentucky because i swear i saw those trees when my family was on a trip

VERY cool area! I see bones hanging and swaying from the trees. Lots of gauze or cheesecloth. Maybe booc splattered across the trunks. The Sleepy Hollow idea is a great one!!