It's beginning to look a lot like... #Halloween!

It's been an exhausting couple of months but things are finally starting to look very Halloween-y.

The mine shaft is creepy and dark, the toxic dump has all but its final toxic touches done, the graveyard is taking shape, the decontamination tunnel sprouted this past weekend, the hospital area has taken shape and awaits its first blood, the giant web out front is CRAWLING with spiders, and the morgue is already lined up with bodies. We even revamped several old favorite animated props - look for the "well to hell" in its new reincarnation! What else could you ask for? Oh and did we mention we'll have quite a few more scareactors than we've had before!

We'll be putting some signs out along the local streets this week and I plan to paint a new hours-of-operation sign for the front fence this week. As a reminder (the show schedule is up on our web page at http://www.creepynights.org/2013_show_schedule.html ) but tour nights are the weekend before Halloween (Friday 10/25 and Saturday 10/26) plus Halloween night (10/31); 7-10 pm each night. Feel free to park in front of the house - we'll have some cones and reflectors guiding you). 

We got listed in quite a few directories this year so we anticipate a crowd. We also may be getting a visit from the Virginia Lottery folks who have promised to stop by one evening with some giveaways! 

A shot of the toxic dump area: 

Scaredy Cat has been busy detailing; a few previews of the areas as they come along. First the Field Hospital:

Next the morgue:

More updates when I get a chance to get some more photos! We'll definitely get some shots after we spray the entire hospital area with blood and add the toxic "goo" to the toxic dump area.... ;-)

Light Show Premier 2013

We made it. The Halloween music and light show went online on schedule tonight - October 1st, 2013!

The massive spider web that covers most of the front yard is rockin' and rollin' - even the cocooned victims are singing along. If you pass by, roll down your windows or just tune your car radio to FM 91.1 to listen in on the tunes - each of which was custom synchronized to the 16-channel light show. 

The show comes on at 5PM nightly and shuts off at 9:30pm weeknights and 10:30pm on Friday and Saturday nights. The light show will run through October 31st - then it's gone! Below is a short video I took while we were testing it - just a fast cycling of all the lights:

Also thanks in large part to help from Will Bentley (and Gabriel) this past weekend we finished the mine shaft structure assembly and wiring - including the thunder and lightning system that RATTLES the entire back yard! It's a massive 20'x20' enclosure full of surprises; and with luck we'll get most of the detailing done this coming weekend.

The toxic area is also coming along nicely... We have several more large items to move in there, but here's a preview of how it's starting to look:
 

Stay tuned... some VERY COOL news to be announced soon!
 

Welcome!

Welcome!

  Our new blog is where you can come to keep up with updates to our haunt - Creepy Nights on Calamo.
  The full haunt site is www.creepynights.org - where you can view the haunt history, photo and videos of past haunts, how-to sections, and sections on the various projects we've created in the past or are working on now. You won't typically see items in our haunt that you've seen in a store somewhere; everything we put out is either created from scratch (including electronic controls and pneumatic devices) or started with something store-bought which got turned into something much different!

  Typically we operate a computer controlled (Light-o-Rama) Halloween light show in our front yard that runs nightly throughout the month of October. The show currently contains about a dozen custom choreographed songs synchronized to the light effects. In addition we do a haunted yard walk-thru that runs around the entire property.

  We'll be updating this page as we work on the haunt or as we encounter or work on something Halloween related.

  We also try to attend at least one Halloween related trade show each year; usually it's the National Haunters Convention in PA, but we've also visited HauntCon and the Virginia Haunters. This year we're heading to the National Haunters Convention again and are looking forward to an exciting and fun time there - and already have a shopping list of accessories and prop components we'll be shopping for.

  If you're in the area (we're in Springfield Virginia) we're always looking for volunteer actors or traffic guides - as well as local haunters that might be interested in make 'n take or similar get togethers.

  hauntmaster@creepynights.org 
 -Creepy Chris