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I am going with the idea of changing my garage every year to a different theme.... This year it will be pirates! I need help with ideas, photos, music (pirate music), sayings, etc... If you could post your pics of pirate stuff, ideas, and props here it would help me out and get my brian moving in the right direction. Any suggestions are welcome as long as they are pirate related.

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[elh] erin loves halloween and capt. jack sparrow both do real nice pirate haunts. maybe you might want to check them out

We're essentially doing the same thing in that we are starting to accumulate for a few different themes and then switch them out each year.

You could turn your garage into a haunted ship or Davey Jones locker. The theme is relatively simple, you need pirates (and/or ghost pirates) a chest of jewels, bottles of empty rum. Perhaps a marathon of watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies will inspire you.

Thanks for the tips... the more the merrier... if someone has pics that would be awesome!

we did a pirate haunt one year and we built a pirate ship out of ply wood and made cannons and had flags and fog machines in the cannons.... i am trying to post some of the pictures from that year on here so ELH can look at um

Originally Posted by buckles

I am going with the idea of changing my garage every year to a different theme.... This year it will be pirates! I need help with ideas, photos, music (pirate music), sayings, etc... If you could post your pics of pirate stuff, ideas, and props here it would help me out and get my brian moving in the right direction. Any suggestions are welcome as long as they are pirate related.

I'm also working on a pirate-themed garage haunt for this Halloween. I will leverage the items I used in my yard haunt last year (see Halloween Forum - MassMax's Album: Dead Man's Cove 2009, but go completely overboard (no pun intended).

Here's how I plan to lay things out:



I need to wait until things get warmer so I can work in my detached, unheated garage and build/stage the scenes, so I don't have photos to share with you yet. Most of the scene names are self-explanatory, but here's a rough idea of what some of them involve:

High Seas: Mast with a canvas sail that has been split open in the middle (ala Errol Flynn) and has a bucky skeleton poking out (ala Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" moment) with a dagger in its mouth.

Cannibal Corner: Pirate skeleton hanging in a rope cage over a washtub filled with boiling water. Bamboo hut scene setter for a background, some African masks backlit with red lights for atmosphere.

Walk the Plank: Side of a ship with a bucky skeleton pirate captain thrusting his sword at another bucky skeleton falling backwards off a plank.

Treasure Trove: A stack of chests with a ghostly pirate floating above, a barney skeleton rolling a large barrel with treasure spilling out of it, and another barney skeleton pulling on a rope and pulley to hoist a treasure chest (although the chest will actually be suspended from the ceiling of my garage).

I made myself a shopping list/inventory and I'm slowly collecting the materials using eBay and indoor flea markets. My first projects this year will be a signpost and a free-standing cannon hooked up to a fog machine. As I stage each scene, I'll post photos. In the interim, in addition to some of the forum members already mentioned, check out the albums posted by Haunter Halloween Forum - Haunter's Album: Pirate yard haunt 2009 and Wolfbeard (Halloween Forum - Wolfbeard's Album: Wolfbeard's Photos) for ideas.

Sorry I can't help more.

I always thought water effects would be great to add to a pirate display - maybe turn the yard into a "Pirate Isle". Instead of building a whole ship you could do a shipwreck, add some sand, maybe one of those pond/fountain things and the sound of ocean waves. It would take some creativity to pull off the effect but creativity isn't something yard haunters lack!

massmax, nice haunt, bet some ideas will come from this posting

Yeah, we did a Pirate theme a few years ago. Here is a link to some pics STARK Madness Photo Gallery - Halloween 2007. Also, you can look at our invitation while you're there. It was a 6-page newsletter full of Pirate jargon, graphics, cartoons, lyrics to the Yo Ho, Yo Ho song, Pirate Pick-Up lines, etc. PM me if you want any of the original image files, text, etc.

Oh, here is a pic of our facade that year. It's for sale, but you'll have to get it to Michigan yourself.

Originally Posted by frughoul

I always thought water effects would be great to add to a pirate display - maybe turn the yard into a "Pirate Isle". Instead of building a whole ship you could do a shipwreck, add some sand, maybe one of those pond/fountain things and the sound of ocean waves. It would take some creativity to pull off the effect but creativity isn't something yard haunters lack!

We're thinking about making a swamp by setting a bunch of pallets around with foam to soften the edges, lining it with black plastic, and filling it with a few inches of water. The black lining will (hopefully) hide the fact that it's only 3" deep. Add some greenery around the edges, some frog noises, and an alligator or 2 and... welcome to the swamp! This should also work for a Pirate's Cove.