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| Well finally we are off and running for 2007. I special ordered this vertical lifter from Brent Ross at Devious Concoctions. It arrived today April 24th.I learned a long time ago that if someone knows what they are doing It costs me a lot less money to just order from them rather than trying to build something myself. Besides Brent does welding and I don't. This vertical lifter with a Bucky has a spitting mechanism in the mouth. My nephew Chris has been after me for awhile to build two short Cemetery columns to finish off the front of the cemetery. Well this is the plan for this year. Only the right column will have this lifter and spitting skeleton inside that will trigger when the kids approach it. Flash.... This has now become the project for 2008. |
| Well it has been a strange year. With all good intentions in place I just couldn't get inspired for this years yard haunt. The plan was to do Grimsley's Haunted Organ again, as much as I hate repeating the same thing the next year. I was going to build two exterior 40 inch pillars to go with Vinnie and Boris and have the spitter, pictured below, pop out of the right one. But I just couldn't get the juices flowing. In September,after reading Leonard Pickel's article in Haunted Attraction magazine and discovering Halloween next year would fall on Friday I knew I was going to wait to do Grimsley Manor again. Still searching for inspiration the Halloween Gear store opened once again and I saw the new shaking Scaretaker figure from Gag Studios in the front window. I fell in love right then and there and found my inspiration for this year's project. I couldn't believe the detail in the faces. Lynn the owner has done an outstanding job once again of procuring Halloween Goodies. I couldn't get inside fast enough to say hello and tell her I wanted to buy the great prop in the window. Since the store had only been open six days I made arrangements to return a few days later to help dismantle the front window and pack up this guy. I wish every Haunter had this great a store in their area. Thanks Lynn!! After getting him home and setting him up the Halloween juices began to flow. I was talking with Wes ,one of our supervisors at work, and asked him if he would do the voice for Mr. Moundshroud, the Scaretaker of Shallow Grave Cemetery. He agreed and I gave him the basics of what I wanted. After a few days he and his girlfriend Amanda came up with an awesome back story. We did the recording with my Olympus digital recorder, and with the story they created Gari my brother and I have set out to achieve all the effects needed to make this year's Halloween Memory happen. The kids in the neighborhood have already been asking what we are doing this year. Stay tuned! |
| Click to hear the back story of Shallow Grave Cemetery from Mr. Moundshroud and his assistant with whom he can't part Severus Nobody. |
| Halloween 2007 |