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I still need to finish my haunted tree and rebuild the mausoleum, but I couldn't resist adding this little prop to my inventory.

http://www.hauntedprops.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=CAGE+200A

I know I can do this with some thin flat pieces of aluminum and I already have a skeleton to park inside it. I just have to figure out where to store it in the off season.

This should be fun and the good news is I receiv… Continue

I've been trying to get the parts together for a 3 axis skull build. I have almost all the parts and was just waiting on my order from myatomic.com to come in. The most important part of the build was coming from them which were the skulls.

I get the box today and it's small. Too small. I open it up and one lousy skull was in the box. WTF!

I check the receipt inside and it is only showing one skull was shipped. I checked the shipping confirmation and it was showing 13 were shipping. Someone sc… Continue

3-axis skulls have been a very popular build for the last 3 or so years. HalloweenBob got the ball rolling with his dissertation on the Halloweenforum which is 185 pages and still growing.

Once you assemble the skull, the big question remains, which is how to connect the skulls to the computer. This how-to can help. Please note, this is how I hooked my controller box up. You may have a better way that works for you and that's great. I encourage diversity. This is simply a layhaunters i… Continue

We had over 230 ToTs this year. No actors and I didn't have time to set up the 3 axis skulls or the animated pumpkins or set up more background lighting. I was able to spray on some webbing which shocked me that it went up without a fuss. Couldn't find the timers for the fog machines so they had to be pressed when there was a spare moment. The worst of all, the ghosts on the Axworthy couldn't handle the speed. Next year, I need a stronger line for the Axworthy and the Ghosts.

Jack Skellington w… Continue

We finally finished painting the walls (I think as there are some walls that we set aside for inside the cell walls that we are not using this year). It's good that we finished when we did as the wind started to kick up something fierce.

We were able to complete all of the framing of the studs for inside the garage yesterday. Today we were able to get most of the walls up and only have a few more to put up before we add the blacklights, speakers, security cameras and webbing. We still need to p… Continue