09/19/2024
Fall 2020, what a strange time for all of us...COVID was rampant, restrictions still abound...if haunts did open that year- things were limited and extremely different. That year I needed a project, something to keep me busy both creatively and physically. I ended up doing a more extensive yard haunt than ever before.
I remember being thankful lots of friends made time to visit and check it out, I remember blowing my mom's power circuits when figuring out lighting and fog machines, I remember trying to set up booked times to fit with COVID guidelines, I also remember it snowing the night before Halloween and shovelling the snow out of the haunt. What a crazy time!
Yard haunts, decorating your house to the nines, going all out to impress your neighbors and friends...this is a huge, integral part of the Halloween season for so many home haunters. There's a special magic to creating something of your own, isn't there? Of course we all like going to commercial haunts and screaming our heads off at the often movie quality sets and make up and actors ..but. It's just a different kind of magic to create your own smaller version of that, right at your own home- isn't there?
So cheers to everyone that keeps the tradition of decorating and trick or treating alive...one of my favorite things in that part of my life is seeing kids wonder at the spooky monsters and creepy art work. So many kids in my mom's neighborhood now ask me, "when are you decorating?! We want to see the skeletons!". It's affirmative, you know? People enjoy what we do!
Later in this rambling series of revisiting past projects and experiencing what this season has to offer I really want to dive into why. Why does looking at someone who goes and builds a scary wonderland in their yard fill us with joy, just as much as commercial haunts? Is it just the creative outlet of it all? Or is it something more too...
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Happy haunting to all!
