Parade Video

Here is a video of the float we had in the Cottage Grove Halloween Parade last weekend. It was awesome. See the post below for pics from it.

Parade

This weekend we were in our local Cottage Grove Halloween Parade. We are pleased to announce that we won 1st PLACE for Halloween Spirt. We had an awesome day setting up our Haunted Float pulled by our Haunted Truck.

We tossed out 8 large bags of candy and could have used 4 more. We also handed out over 400 flyer's to encourage people to come by our haunted house. It was very fun and we would like to thank the following people for their efforts/help during the parade.

Bonnie & Larry (Grandma in truck tossing out candy & Grandpa, walking handing out flyers)

Scott & Betsy (Scott drove the haunted truck as his Scary clown, we saw a lot of people pointing at "the clown driver", Betsy handed out a ton of flayers)

Brian & Holly (Holly got all three of the boyz there, the two oldest were in back of the truck tossing out the candy with cousins Nick and MattMatt, Brian was a scary guy who scared a lot of kids, he would tease them with Candy then yell at them when they took it, it was funny)

Gonzo (he was an awesome scary guy handing out candy)

Amy and Leslie for their help decorating and handing out flyer's, Leslie was very cute.

See some of our pics, wicked fun.(BELOW)

Update on the Haunted house-the Driveway now shows some signs of life as most of the tunnels are up! We just sat down tonight and generated our "to do list" it is still long but WILL be done by Friday, our first nite of scarring.

BOOOOO!!!!

Newspaper

For those of you in the Cottage Grove area, watch for us in next weeks Bulletin. We had Toni from the paper out the other night to take a few photos and interview us. While she did say we won't get a full article this year (last year we were on the front page) she did say the paper is going to due a full page of Halloween events in Cottage Grove and we will be listed.

We also had the Pioneer Press stop out the other evening and I am trying to follow up with him to see about getting something in there. I will let you know if we are going to be in that.

Don't forget the Halloween parade is this Saturday at 11:00 in Cottage Grove so you HAVE to make it. Weather is suppose to be 'ok' so bring the kids and get some candy.

Set up has been slowed a little due to the weather but rest assured, we will be up and ready only 9 days from now..........BOOOOOO!

Video of the Haunt Show

So, my previous post I posted a few of our own pics that we took of the Haunt Show in St. Louis. I thought it would be fun to post a few videos that they put together as well. Here they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5bKWZL4tk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niWbwk1ocpQ

Some of our inspiration

People always are asking us where our inspiration comes from and some of our ideas. Well, that question isn't the easiest to answer. But, this March we did travel to St. Louis to a national Haunt Show. It was awesome to say the least, and a few of our new "scares" this year came from stuff we saw there and thus built/created ourselves. See some of the pics below.

We are on Google Maps

Hey, check out the link. We have posted our Haunted House on Google maps so more people can find us. It doesn't really have more info than this blog or our website but hey, I have gotten two phone calls all ready asking for a little more details.

Just a quick update, work continues. We are meeting tomorrow to work on more stuff and start construction in the back yard I think. Weather is suppose to be great, so it should be fun.

I will try to post some updated pics so you can see a little. Only a little bit though, I don't want to ruin it for you.

Just in case the link didn't work above, here it is again:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=13473674239602882044&q=nightmare%2Bgrove

Halloween Parade

This year we are entering the 2009 Halloween Parade in Cottage Grove. We plan on entering a Haunted Truck pulling a Haunted Trailer. We will use some of our props from our haunted house to "trick" out our ride....get it, "trick". Kind of like Trick-or-Treat! Ok, lame, sorry.

Anyway, here is a little info on the parade. See You there!

The Strawberry Festival Committee will be sponsoring the annual Halloween Parade. The parade will be Saturday, October 24th, starting at 11:00 AM. The parade will begin at the District 833 Service Center (across from McDonald’s) and will proceed down East Point Douglas Road to the District 833 Program Center (next to Applebee’s). Stick around for the Costume Contest, immediately following the parade at the District Program Center. There will be 3 divisions Ages 0-3, 4-7, and 8-12, and there will be three medals for each age group.

Haunted House is Under Way...

We have been working on the haunted house, things are getting down to the wire so we're starting to move fast! We are working hard on some new 'scares'. Check out the pics of our 'staff' working. We are also planning on being in the Cottage Grove Halloween Parade on October 24th - it runs between the building across from McDonalds on East Point Douglas and ends at the District Program Center by Applebee's. Blog post to follow with more details of the parade!

2009 Haunt

We are back for '09 and its gonna be bigger and badder than 2008, we promise. Please check back soon for a few photo updates and "Scare" updates.

Please note we will be running two nights this year: Friday October 30th from 7 - 10PM & Saturday October 31st also from 7 - 10 PM.

You WILL be afraid!!!