{"id":85,"date":"2011-10-20T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2023-11-05T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:13:45","slug":"my-haunted-halloween-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/my-haunted-halloween-manor\/","title":{"rendered":"My Haunted Halloween Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey folks! Xavier Remington<\/a> here. President of Mystic Investigations. Me and Rebecca Abernathy<\/a> have really decked out our home for Halloween, Remington Manor<\/a>, to greet the little trick o treating ghouls with Halloween mock horrors. We feel just throwing out treats in a jack-o-lantern bucket isn’t enough. These greedy little candy goblins need to earn their treats and get a few tricks played on them as well.<\/p>\n

The front yard is made to resemble a graveyard with various realistic looking customized Styrofoam tombstones.\u00a0 We ruined the lawn, and tilled the soil in front of them so the graves appeared freshly dug.\u00a0 A few were dug into the Earth and mock caskets were placed inside with motion activated animatronic props.\u00a0 There’s also a few robotic zombies half out of the soil as well.\u00a0 There’s a plethora of spooky lighting.\u00a0 Most of which is an eerie green which seems to blend nicely with the fog produced by our professional fog machine.\u00a0 The driveway will be blocked off so the trick o treaters have to make their way through our front graveyard.\u00a0 All the windows have creepy looking tattered curtains, cobwebs, fake spiders, and some blood spattering as well with unholy red rum lighting.\u00a0 One curtains is closed and a spotlight shines upon a moving figure walking back and forth clearly wielding a deadly butcher knife.\u00a0 The facade of the home is lit by an intermittent\u00a0lightning simulator coupled with strategically placed stereo speakers to simulate terrifying thunder.\u00a0 In addition a light mist wafts down in front of the porch.<\/p>\n

Trick or treaters are greeted by our hand carved candle lit jack-o-lanterns. Along with spider webs and fake spiders on the lights which are now actually black lights which make everything on the porch glow including the footprints of odd creatures, and outlines of ghosts.\u00a0 Webbing and a huge spider\u00a0that moves down is also over the doorway.\u00a0 A motion sensor activates a squeaking rat that races across the porch just as a talking animatronic monstrous vampire leaps from a barrel inviting the kids inside our house of half-horrors.\u00a0 Naturally I will be at the entry as well explaining how the kids must find their way through our haunted house to collect various treats.\u00a0 The temptation of collecting multiple treats is what will make them want to explore our domain rather than run off to other homes in search of more candy.\u00a0 I plan to be dressed as Dracula complete with fangs, and make-up while Rebecca will be dressed as a witch since it’s the one time of year she can wear her uniform in public with pride as a\u00a0 practitioner of Wicca magic.<\/p>\n

My next bewitching blog post will detail the inside of our masterpiece manor that took us nearly a month to decorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey folks! Xavier Remington here. President of Mystic Investigations. Me and Rebecca Abernathy have really decked out our home for Halloween, Remington Manor, to greet the little trick o treating ghouls with Halloween mock horrors. We feel just throwing out treats in a jack-o-lantern bucket isn’t enough. These greedy little candy goblins need to earn … Read moreMy Haunted Halloween Manor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween","category-halloween-decorations","category-halloween-haunted-house"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticinvestigations.com\/halloween-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}