We gather props year round (in fact sometimes years in advance) and this year's haunt was on different I'd been searching for 55 gallon drums for our toxic waste area for at least 6 months, and from the time we decided to do a field hospital many months ago we've been looking for those small details that make it more realistic. Hospitals are tough to do well because to be convincing you need equipment that looks (and typically is) very expensive.
We had planned out most of our props anyway, even coming up with cheap alternatives for the hospital beds/cots - since even army style cots aren't cheap if you don't already have several laying around - and we didn't.
So about a week before we open a doctor's office in the medical complex where Catherine works shut down, selling everything on the premises as an estate sale.
Other home haunters out there will appreciate this even more (I know I'd be jealous) but talk about lucking out...
If you've ever dare shopped for hospital gurneys on EBay or similar - you'd find that even used they run $1200-$1500.
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| Working EKG machine |
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| 3 hospital gurneys and 2 IV stands |
Plus a couple IV stands, an "Exam room" sign... and - wait for it...
A WORKING (Hewlett Packard)EKG machine - with leads ($25!)
Took the truck over to pick them all up Friday morning before our opening night!
Probably going to pick up a couple more items too before they finally shut down the office next week!
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