[Michael Smith]

I have a loose backstory in mind for mine, but it'll be years of development before it's at all apparent. I'll probably wait until then before I worry about a name.

 

[cyberhaunt]

Distorted Nightmares
This is the first year that I've given my haunt a name. It's been lurking around in my head for 30 years and it's finally time to use it. The name allows me to to have a different theme each year.

 

[imagined]

Ooh, I love hearing about everyone else's names!

Our haunt is called Hemlock Hall, which I believe we settled on after going through several dictionaries, the thesaurus and the Culpeper's Herbal and looking for anything that was poisonous or otherwise menacing.

The above pic is from the first year that we used the name.

We do tend to change it depending on the theme - so when we had a haunted train station, we called it Hemlock Halt
We did a pirate theme one year, and called it Bloodwort Bay. The garage became a tavern called The Dead Parrot Inn, as a vague homage to Monty Python.
Last year's theme was a haunted playhouse called The Old Arsenic Theatre.

 

[Scatterbrains]

The Money Pit

 

[SpookyBlackKat]

Used to be Nightmare on Nantucket (name of our street) but with a younger and younger crowd moving in I have not used it in a couple years.

 

[Muffy]

It took me awhile to come up with a name. Here is a link to my website telling about our name, scroll to the middle of the page:

http://www.collinwood841.com/hallowenprojects.html

The number 841 is my address number. We stick with the same name & create an ongoing story that is added each year as we add new scenes. As some of you know I do family photo's on Halloween night & post them. I got tired of telling my guests where to find the photo's so last year I had 1000 business cards made that tell where to find the website and where to find the picturetrail albums with their pictures. As soon as I break out my camera I'll post a picture of one.

 

[LairMistress]

I've been trying to come up with a new name, but something short...not having much luck. It's just a cemetery scene with a haunted house (front porch, they don't come into the house itself).

Our street name is not ominous in the least, nor does it sound cemetery-ish, or funeral home-ish.

Our city used to be called Elm City, so I thought that incorporating "Elm" makes sense. I want to stay away from using "Elm City" itself, because we have a center for special needs adults by that name.

So far I have come up with:

Whispering Elm Cemetery (a bit long for carving a sign!)
Towering Elm Cemetery (still long?)
Crooked Elm Cemetery (??)

then there are the more obviously-Halloween names:

Dark Elm Cemetery
Eerie Elm Cemetery
Ghostly Elm Cemetery
Spectral Elm Cemetery

Thoughts? Oh, and then the only real problem with all of these is, we have NO trees in the scene...unless I make some.

 

[Trex]

Maybe try Wych Elm Cemetery, it is an Elm species?

 

[LairMistress]

Maybe try Wych Elm Cemetery, it is an Elm species?

Ooooh, I like it! I LIKE it! Thanks!

 

[mraymer]

I borrowed from the name of our neighbourhood, Stone Ledge Farm, and changed it up a bit and named our haunt Bone Dredge Farm.

 

[Shebear1]

The name of our haunt this year is Blackwater Swamp, because it is built around a haunted Louisiana swamp.

 

[CherryBrandy79]

Our party/haunt is called Pleasant View. We live in a town called Pleasant Hill. This year our party is called Bloody Asylum...so if you think about it Pleasant hill...where the view isn't pleasant. So that is how Pleasant View has came about.

 

[midnight87]

I was thinking about calling mine dead man's curve since I live on the corner of two roads.

 

[psox16]

We decided to name our haunt The House at the End of the Street. Our street is a number, so it did not lend itself to a cool name. Our house is in a culdesac at the end of a street, so that just made sense.

 

[Nightlites13]

Wanted a name for a long time. Few years back asked everyone involved to throw in ideas and we wrote them all down.
A few of us narrowed the list to 3 and then asked all to vote. We didn't want to lock into a certain theme because we have several scenes of different themes.
At last we all agreed on OCTOBER"S END and I set to work making a sign that is not complete (still working on pillars) but have the arched lighted part done.
Hope to find a pic to post.

 

[Eerie Erie Haunts]

I use Eerie Erie Cemeterie. I'm in Erie County, on the shores of Lake Erie, and it's just too easy of a name to pass up. We might move in a couple of years, though, and I'll have to change it then.

 

[robotscandance]

we do a different name every year.

the first two years (2011 & 2012) it was just "Haunted Garage."

in 2013 it was the "Carnival of Terror." (clowns)

Last year it was "Quarantine Zone." (zombies)

This year we haven't decided on a name yet, but the theme is nightmares and phobias, so it will probably be something along those lines.

Next year will be "Allenwood Institution for the Criminally Insane." The reason why we have the name already for that one is because it was going to be this year, but we're bumping it up a year to make it bigger and better than any haunt we've done, with this year being a smaller haunt.

The name "Allenwood" comes from my last name (Allen) and the fact that adding "wood" to the end makes it sound like a real hospital.

 

[Wyatt Furr]

Vulture HIll. I wanted a western sounding name to reflect the theme of a ghost town and haunted gold mine.

 

[Kyriotes]

Balcony of Bereavement. My parents' yard is a no go this year, so I'll throw everything at my apartment balcony that I can. It looks over a nice courtyard.

 

[IshWitch]

Mine is The Horror On Harvard since we live on the corner of Harvard St. and Lehigh Terrace. We have had a yard haunt since 2001, and I was actually looking at houses with "hauntability" in mind when we bought this home in 2000! Don't tell hubby!
We just bought the 2 wooded lots next door so next year I plan on having a pallet maze. I'm so excited! Going to call it Lehigh Terror!
The Horror On Harvard presents Lehigh Terror! Mwahahahaha