Thread: Most Outrageous

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I realize that the term "Outrageous" is very subjective, but what the heck. What is the most outrageous, over-the-top thing that you have used or done for Hallowe'en Night?

In my experience it would have to be using either live rats or a real Human Skeleton. We used the rats three consecutive years and they were a huge hit every time. The authentic skeleton was more hassle than it was worth. In Canada you need a permit to Transport Human Remains. Getting the permit wasn't too bad. The trips between the University and our house, with a skeleton sitting in the passengers seat, now that was something else.

What about you guys?

I think my corpsed bucky with bloody guts, was a bit much for some kids. I also used live meal worms, that freaked some people out.

I was thinking about doing live mealworms or wax worms (they look like maggots) since I also feed them to my geckos, but how would you contain them throughout the night?

MEAL WORMS, Oh, why didn't I think of that??? They would have been perfect with our "dismembered heads" prop. The heads, three of them, were in an illuminated Glass Aquarium right at eye-level for a 12 year-old kid. The rats were given only water for three days, then, just before opening the doors, we put peanut butter on the heads. You get the picture. The "maggots" would have been a crowning touch.

For the unititiated, meal worms are used as food by reptile and tropical fish keepers. They look like 3/4" long maggots, quite gross if you've never seen them before...

Well, I used a loaner "used" coffin from a funeral home (see my Forum pics album for 2007) to display a skeleton in 2007.

The past couple of years I have put live black widow spider (sealed well!) in a jar along with my apothecary jars. People get really freaked after I see them pick it up -- they are thinking it's plastic -- and I tell them to look again and see her move around. They put it down very quickly. I had a few women shutter (Yea!!) My next live thing to get (if my wife gives me her okay) is a live Goliath spider (world's largest species).

-Doc

Originally Posted by kUITSUKU

I was thinking about doing live mealworms or wax worms (they look like maggots) since I also feed them to my geckos, but how would you contain them throughout the night?

Last year I bought a "bag" of glowing maggots at the Costume shop. I put about 50 in a small glass jar and after you shook them up, they kind of slid around and wriggled around for a while because they are kinda sticky, yet squishy soft plastic (like the fake worms used for fishing lures). Very easy and creepy.

-Doc

My pet white rat, Stitchface.
He was HUGE, had one eye and a scarred face. Sadly departed this life 4 years ago.
I was given him by the local pet shop as he had fought with another rat and was deemed unsellable due to his facial injuries. He was originally intended as food for Cleo, my African Rock Python. however I became very attached to him and vice versa..he would happily sit on my shoulder throughout Halloween night and was a hit with the TOT's.
He was very calm and friendly, (although he would rip your arm off for a cheesy puff...)

I cant really put anything down yet because this ear will be my first...

But I remember having a halloween party and hiring out a industrial fogger, and just holding down the button for 5 minutes....

Lets just say you could not see your feet it was that foggy....


Ruggerz

I dressed as a priest handcuffed to a baby doll and I whipped it with a cat of nine tails. This was just after the Father Porter story broke which lead to the bigger church scandal. I received a lot of "Oh no you didn't" looks all night.

We're doing meal worms with crickets this year in a live bug box. We're also foregoing the traditional creepy halloween music in favor of headbangers rock. With the volume ALL the way up. Our actors will have earplugs.

Stacy