Spooky Season Is Upon Us!
October 1, 2023 5:50 AM Subscribe
#SpookySeason We're entering that time of hauntings and horrors, and maybe you need some inspiration? Well, the 2013 documentary Halloween Home Haunts [1h25m] is a leisurely stroll through terrifying yards, gristly walk-through, and even some who graduated to professional level. Gain some insight, glean some techniques, and linger in the atmosphere that could lure you to creating your own home haunt!
I'd love to see a bunch of SpookySeason posts during this month! I have a lot of things planned but doing a post every day for a month is exhausting. From videos to craft ideas to music to whatever haunts your graveyard, maybe others can have their own things to post, too? Use the tag SpookySeason and we can spookify up the lives of any MeFite who wants it!
I'd love to see a bunch of SpookySeason posts during this month! I have a lot of things planned but doing a post every day for a month is exhausting. From videos to craft ideas to music to whatever haunts your graveyard, maybe others can have their own things to post, too? Use the tag SpookySeason and we can spookify up the lives of any MeFite who wants it!
So, we're doing this early? I have only one thing to offer. This classic comment to the Slashdot post, "Fun with Fog Generators"
A fog chiller like this will work almost as well as a professional one. The professional fog coolers essentially blow the fog through an refrigerator evaporator.posted by mikelieman at 7:27 AM on October 1, 2023 [7 favorites]
Halloween of 1994, I had the police at my house 6 times, each time with them begging me to stop doing what I was doing... he so badly wanted a reason to arrest me, but could think of none.
Picture it: The doorbell was connected through an optocoupler to my computer's keyboard. ...
that is the most incredible halloween story I have ever read. wow. I am just completely awed by the level of...I don't even know...
posted by supermedusa at 9:29 AM on October 1, 2023
posted by supermedusa at 9:29 AM on October 1, 2023
Halloween is my favorite holiday and the only one on the "traditional" calendar that I celebrate. I will try to whip up a post or 3 this month to help out.
posted by supermedusa at 9:30 AM on October 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 9:30 AM on October 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
Some of the houses in my neighborhood go in big for homemade Halloween decorations and I noticed that several had gone up this weekend. So far, I've seen a wonderful rooftop alien saucer landing, complete with adorable little green aliens dressed in Halloween costumes to blend with the locals, and a 12 foot Beetlejuice sandworm emerging from a lawn. There's another house on the same block that usually does a full on Day of the Dead lurching zombie invasion and I saw them out front this morning starting to put it together.
posted by merriment at 1:21 PM on October 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by merriment at 1:21 PM on October 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
I have already put the creepy glow-in-the-dark eyes on all my front porch ferns so
posted by daisystomper at 1:47 PM on October 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by daisystomper at 1:47 PM on October 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
We realized the previous owners put up estate sale signs in about a half mile radius, with the address and days, but NOT the date. So we've been trying to find them, because people keep showing up on Fri-Sat for the sale (from a couple weeks ago) but also because I'm going to use the little spiky things and the signboard for our (new to us) front yard. I'm thinking, classic headstones, but probably with the projected amount we'll actually pay after 30 years of interest and taxes. The horroR!
posted by winesong at 5:46 PM on October 1, 2023
posted by winesong at 5:46 PM on October 1, 2023
Decorative gourds motherfarmers!
Hmmm...not sure on this. As a decorative gourd and pumpkin farmer the gourd sales are not off to a good start compared to the miniature pumpkins--at least in my part of the market. This isn't how it worked out for me last year.
The season has just begun though, and a government shutdown has been averted at least for spooky season, so I remain optimistic.
Demand your local PNW restaurants and employee and student cafeterias decorate with gourds and pumpkins! For whatever reason these places are my main customers.
posted by sevenless at 8:31 AM on October 2, 2023
Hmmm...not sure on this. As a decorative gourd and pumpkin farmer the gourd sales are not off to a good start compared to the miniature pumpkins--at least in my part of the market. This isn't how it worked out for me last year.
The season has just begun though, and a government shutdown has been averted at least for spooky season, so I remain optimistic.
Demand your local PNW restaurants and employee and student cafeterias decorate with gourds and pumpkins! For whatever reason these places are my main customers.
posted by sevenless at 8:31 AM on October 2, 2023
It seems like folks in my circle are going in hard on this year's Spooktober. Just yesterday I helped some friends put up one of those 12-foot skeletons. It was quite the endeavor -- that thing is much bigger and heavier than you'd expect, even though you know intellectually it's 12 feet! But it is truly a glorious sight to behold.
I have a feeling this season is going to be an especially good one, despite whatever real life horrors the world throws at us
posted by treepour at 2:25 PM on October 2, 2023
I have a feeling this season is going to be an especially good one, despite whatever real life horrors the world throws at us
posted by treepour at 2:25 PM on October 2, 2023
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