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The Creep Zone's: Mammoth Way Haunted House

Address:

2424 Mammoth Way
Mammoth, CA
94531
United States

Website:

http://www.markbsplace.net/creepzone/

About:

Come Visit the Haunted Garage I have dreamt up out of my sick imagination!!!

History:

Several years ago I built a spider for the wall of the house...we live on the corner and one side wall fronts the street..I tied rope to the roof at various points and to the ground (using tent stakes) and weaved a quasi-spiderweb using thick rope. Then I made a giant spider out of a piece of 2 foot long 1x4 for strength and a black plastic garbage bag filled with crumpled newspapers. The legs were made of black pipe insulation with bent coat hangers nailed to the wood to keep them pointed the right way. Even now, 5 or more years later, people still talk about that spider! That was fun for decoration leading up to Halloween but we wanted to do a mini-haunted house, something to make the kids "earn" their candy...haha... we dreamed up the idea of using the garage as a haunted house. At first I made a long "hallway" out of 20 foot long 2x4's laying on top of the garage door when it was up and sticking out down the driveway. To keep things cheap we bought some $2 black plastic rolls and stapled them to the boards and roof of the garage, holding the bottoms in place with bricks to form a "hallway" or "tunnel"...then more sheeting formed creepy walls in the garage itself, where we waited at the end, looking down the hall to watch in glee at the little kiddies trying to work up their courage to come in. Over the years we enhanced things, bought a couple items each halloween to add to the atmosphere. We tried out different things, like I made a little Visual Basic program of giant red eyes that blinked and we set up the monitor where it was shrouded in gloom but the glowing red eyes could be seen.. I used fans set to oscilate to get hanging papers moving and tied strings to the fan letting the movement raise and lower spiders on strings, things like that...some worked, some didn't last to the next year. When we finally gave up parking the cars in the garage, closed the door and started piling things into the garage I knew I wasn't going to be building the "hallway" any more, besides it was logistically difficult. I had to build the thing on the day of halloween since I couldn't leave the garage door open overnight. So we came up with the idea of using the side door into the garage..it meant we couldn't see the kids faces as they approached but made life a lot easier.