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I note that several people have had trouble with grave robbers (so to speak) what type of security do people use in their haunts? I was thinking of some motion detectors with a remote alarm in the house that I saw at Lowes. I could just turn it on when the Yard is closed for the evening. I wonder what other people use and how successful they have been. I really started thinking about this after someone destroyed a Christmas decoration this year.

Do the motion flood light hack, and hook it up to your lighting fixtures. Just replace the bulbs to regular white instead of blue or green or what ever was in them before. It will scare people away, now on mischief night I am sitting in the bushes with a ghille suit. Gonna carry an air horn and perhaps a highpowered airsoft gun. My plans change like the wind though so who knows. I have heard of some people on the forum using actually cameras and what not, you can get creative with security.

We have had a front-yard haunt for more than 10 years and we have had something stolen and/or vandalized every year except one - and the only thing different that year was that every night we left lights on in the room over-looking the front yard. I think that the thieves.vandals who do this are mostly high school kids looking for trouble and they do a snatch and grab and are gone within 15 seconds. Thats why my suggestion is rather than spending money on some kind of alarm system, spend your time making your home look like someone is (or might be) watching every minute and they will leave you alone and find another place to bother. If that doesn't work, then try high-voltage electric fences.

Originally Posted by Biggie

Do the motion flood light hack, and hook it up to your lighting fixtures. Just replace the bulbs to regular white instead of blue or green or what ever was in them before. It will scare people away, now on mischief night I am sitting in the bushes with a ghille suit. Gonna carry an air horn and perhaps a highpowered airsoft gun. My plans change like the wind though so who knows. I have heard of some people on the forum using actually cameras and what not, you can get creative with security.

Maybe paintball? Get the red both for future identification and effect. Better yet get those filled with pepper spray.

I'll be using myO paintball gun this year.


For now I'm just using lights and a fence to hopfully detear theives and vandles away but I may try Talking Phony Security Camera - Surveillance Things - Things for Security - Things You Never Knew Existed this year so I can put my yard display out longer than Halloween night.


Maybe spray paint them black to look a little more realistic.

I have heard of people sitting dummies in a window of the house and leaving the light on to deter any misbehavior. If that doesn't work.... a moat filled with alligators and sharp spears! LOL

this year I did have 2 nights where stuff was taken! I was surprised cause in 11 years we never had any problems. usually I bring in my heads at night and leave out the dummy bodies. or sometimes I have had the dummies , so they just slide over rebar and put them away at night and leave everything elce out. I wire everything down pretty good, so if they want something of mine... they have to work for it!

There really is NO substitute for good old-fashioned watching over your haunt LIVE!. I am out all evening handing out candy, filling foggers etc. etc. and, when i go in, the haunt goes in. I place everything as best i can, into my garage and lock it! The next morning, when i have more time (and light) i place everything carefully into the original boxes for next year. I have NEVER set up a week early or even days early and i NEVER leave things out all night, i simply don't trust some people.....period.

I think the only surefire prevention is not to decorate. Motion detectors wouldn't work in my yard as I have a big maple tree that is dropping leaves during the Halloween season. I usually put the strobes, blacklights and fog machines in everynight, as those would be the things most likely to disappear.

I thought I got hit by vandals last year. I have two foam skulls on my cemetery pillars and one morning noticed that one was missing and the other was broken. My first thoughts were that some &*^%%&^%#^&$ threw a snowball to break the one and they took the other. So I spent that whole day pissed at the world thinking about how I was going to torture the vandals when I caught them....it turned out that they were blown off their hooks by a windstorm and my neighbor found the broken one when he left for work early in the morning, so he hung it back up. The other one reappeared on it's hook later that evening. I still don't know who found it and returned it but I guess it blew a lot further than my original search. We spend so much time focusing on the negative, but this was actually a pretty positive experience.

I think you just have to trust that there are more good people watching out for you than bad people trying to take you stuff

I play paintball and love the sport, however, using a paintball marker to protect the haunt may be inviting a felony charge against you. In my state and others, even though it is not a fire arm, paintball markers are considered weapons. Hitting someone with a paintball can be considered as a felony assault, in that a paintball marker is being used. This is not speculation. I have seen people prosecuted on these charges.

Eric