Thread: 1 car garage haunting ideas needed.

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Hey all,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, so I'll give it a try! I've done some searching on this, but not sure what's right.

I'm doing my first haunted garage this year, and i'm in need of some ideas. I have a fairly small 1 car garage. I've hung a cable system around the 3 wallas which is holding up some black tarps. So essentially the haunting will be where the car parks (the black tarps are to hide my snow blower, lawn mower, etc). I'm thinking of a table on the left with a mad scientist scene and maybe 1 more table in the back for another scene? I have a fog machine and some strobes, black lights, and police beacon spinning lights.

What do you guys think? I'm open to layouts and other ideas. We did a haunted cemetary last year, and we'll do that again this year, as well as the garage.

I ask because with such a limited space, i'm not sure what to do for layout or props inside of the garage.

Thanks for your ideas!

Just an idea and very easy to make. I saw this a while ago and don't have a garage but if I did I would do this Whispering Wall. Maybe $20.00 Except a boombox or portable cd player. Whispering Walls

I can show ya what we did in the garage.........go up in the Scary Scene contest entries & under Muffy's Entry go to page 3 ....it has several pictures of the garage from start to finish. I have that set up with 2 tables & Joe is on one for the scary scene contest but for halloween both tables will have spell & potion stuff & witches jars. Hope you might get some ideas!

Muffy

I do a haunted Garage every year and have some Ideas for you. I have a two car garage and find it too small! So I came up with the perfect fix. I added an addition. NO NOT WHAT YOU THINK! A temporary addition! What I did was this. I bought eight pieces of 8'x2" pvc pipe ($30.00) and some 4mil plastic sheeting ($39.00) I stuck some 4 foot rebar in the ground on each side of my driveway and slid the pipe over them. I then attached the poly to the pipe to make instant walls. I then sunk a few pieces of pipe in concrete in buckets to line up the middle of my driveway, and plastic sheeted that. In about an hour and $69.00 I doubled my space! Down the first hallway, I added strips of cloth dyed with RIT whitener and brightener. This makes the cloth glow like crazy under a blacklight. It is very disorenting! Once in the garage, I put some of my cooler props and animatronics. I set up a funeral home, an autopsy room and a morgue. I made a freezer panel out of plywood ; A sheet of plywood about 4x 6 and put two "freezer doors" out of more plywood, Handles and some temp gagues. Easy and cheep. HOPE THIS HELPED!

try checking out ourtragous-media.com, they have some great ghost , I really like the rats running around the garage floor. This is all done with a small tv and dvd player, but it looks great. His dvd's are cheap and he has a lot more items then he has listed on his web site. If you call him, tell him Kathy in Granite City, IL told you he had sample dvd's and he will send you some for free. This year I'm doing the ghost raising up out of the cemetery and the ghost that appears to walk right out of the wall.

These are some great ideas! thanks for sharing, and keep them coming!

drsprite, have you considered a "Dot Room"? We did one a few years back and it was a huge hit. Not all that scarey for the younger kids, but not too tame for adolescents and adults. To be honest, I thought the idea was lame, but after we got it up, with the lighting and the scareactors in place, I was impressed.
Black cotton fabric draped against the walls, covered with fluorescent paper "dots" cut 2" in diameter. The scareactors are dressed in black robes, the same fabric as the walls, and also covered with dots. We used the paper to put malevolent faces on the "Monsters". The actors remain motionless in the corners. The entire room is illuminated by Black Lights and Black Lights only. Honest, the actors blend in so well they are undetectable. On a given signal, the Monsters "come out of the walls" and approach the guests, who then scream and flee from the room. You'll need a host with a spiel about how "Things are not as they seem...especially on Hallowe'en Night" or something of that sort.
In our Haunted House, that was just one of about eight rooms that year. But as a "stand alone" scare, I think it would work well. Not too costly, either.
Good Luck!!

last year we did a haunted room, essentially made the garage look like a small house. tornwallpaper scene setter, and we made a haunted clock, chandelier, t.v., added a couple goretraits and candles. a fake fire place and a butler.

Instead of building a Haunted House full of narrow hallways and simple props. Think Quality! You have what, 10 feet by 20 feet? I've been building home Halloween haunts for the past 7 or 8 years; and what I have learned is: random, unthemed setups are very uninteresting. Do one or two scenes and finish with a great scare. The last scare should send your trick-r-treaters running for safety.

Do you have room outside of your garage? If so, try using a 10 foot by 10 foot EZ-UP to extend the size of your enclosed scares.

No room outside of the garage? Try building an eye-catching facade like they use for "Darkrides" at fairs. It makes a small haunted house appear much larger.

Have money? Purchase a few pneumatic props ( try Monsterguts.com or Fright Props ). These are especially effective if you don't have any live actors.

Stay away from hokey Department store props, like joking skeleton plaques and two feet tall monsters. Every kid has seen them in the stores, and they know that they are fake.

Good luck, and Happy Haunting.