It’s a few months yet before haunted houses pop up in almost every town across the U.S. If you are helping set one up, here are some ideas I’ve found. I just spent several hours updating my “101 Ideas for Haunted Houses” page and now am burned out on gory, creepy, slimy stuff.
People are incredibly inventive and I found all sorts of hacks for taking a cheap plastic skeleton and turning it into something ghoulish. There was even a stylish chandelier made of stacked skulls with stubby candles on top of each one.
What’s creepy? Apparently spiders, rotting corpses, slimy eyeballs dripping blood, manic clowns and disfigured doll’s heads. These showed up regularly with full instructions on making your own displays of these.
There are homemade haunted houses in someone’s porch or basement, ones set up by groups, some at campgrounds and then the big commercial ones visited by thousands who pay quite a bit to be scared silly.
Have you ever been to a haunted house?
Animated Figures Are Used in Some Haunted Houses
Here’s what you need to brace yourself for. You might see a creepy granny in a rocking chair or demon babies with swiveling heads or even a skeletal wolf that howls.
Tytroy Skeleton Halloween Talking and Walking- light up animated figure decorationView DetailsAnimated corn stalker with a pumpkin headView DetailsAdorox Motion Sensor Hanging Caged Animated Mohawk Eye Patch Jail Prisoner Skeleton Halloween PropView DetailsAnimated Standing Halloween GhostView DetailsHalloween Lifesize 6′ Animated Standing Witch with Glowing OrbView DetailsMorris Costumes Swamp Hag Animated Halloween Figure PropView DetailsSpinning Head Animated Demon Baby Halloween Yard DecorView DetailsMario Chiodo Clawing Cathy Animated Halloween PropView DetailsSpooky Hollow 31 Inch Life Size Animated Halloween Howling Wolf Crazy Bones with Sound – Eyes Light Up RedView DetailsAnimated Haunted House Prop – Grandma Zombie Scary Yard DecorView Details
Virginia Allain 