My Haunt…So Far

We’re coming up on Halloween so fast I’m scrambling to try and get the last of my things up in the face of freezing weather and rain. Thanks 2020!

I thought I’d share how my 2020 haunt, which I’m calling Creepy Christmas, is going. Scroll down for skeletons in adorable Santa hats.

I’ve wanted to do a Creepy Christmas haunt for years, but have always been hesitant. We live in a city that tends to crack down on Halloween, especially home haunts. But since it’s 2020, I figured who cares, and wanted to go all out. Luckily, no one’s complained, though quite a few people have drove past and stopped to look.

Santa is actually my vampire skeleton I stripped of his cool vampire clothes and put in the red coat, but he still has the fangs. I mean, Santa being a vampire isn’t beyond the realm of possibility. It would explain how he can get up and down chimneys, just turn into a puff of smoke.

My headless lady is the first skeleton I ever got. She’s easily ten years old and is held together with hopes, dreams, zip-ties, and duct tape. Her head fell off a few years back so I’ve been trying to think of cute ways to pose with it ever since. This year, it’s her Christmas gift.

What’s Christmas without presents? While harder to see in the dark, these packages are festooned with spiders, flies, ants, and one tiny mouse.

I promised skeletons in cute hats. Here’s my big dragon who gets to come out every year with his little passenger, and my werewolf. This year, wolfie gets to sport a scarf to keep himself warm. I also told him that if anyone tries to steal his Santa hat (which has happened before), he’s allowed to bite them.

My witch and my scarecrow have also been with me a long time. Two years ago, I decided I wanted to have my own fake fire. We ran into some issues getting it off the ground high enough so the fan would work, and have been relying on cinder blocks ever since.

I wanted to get a sort of Ghost of Christmas Past vibe going. Scrooge up there is actually wearing my vampire’s clothing. The ghost is my seven foot tall Reaper statue made out of monster mud that I call Angela. The other shorter ghost is just adorable. I’m always fixing his hair.

That’s all for now.

If you want to see the full walkthrough with video and commentary, you should sign up to my live event. I’m gonna have everything working and show it all off just as the sun goes down.