PUMPKINROT.COM: The Blog: February 2025

Thursday, February 20, 2025

The Scare Woods

An abandoned Haunted Attraction in England.

More images by Obsidian Urbex Photography.

Every year Elora, Ontario gets invaded by MONSTERS for a month-long celebration of Halloween! Come deep into the monster's den and learn the secrets behind Sensational Elora's Monster Month. What began with an idea from Tim Murton has grown to a month-long festival in Elora, Ontario, Canada. From the mind of Tim Murton and his creatures of the Twilight Zoo.

I've featured these wonderful creatures many times on this blog. Never saw the below video before. It's from 2020 and it's pretty great.

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Now Watching: Wanderers

A fantastic sci-fi short film.

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Jaycee Haunted Houses 1975

Click below for a wonderful video packed with Old School Halloween charm...

Graveyard Ghouls

Images by adamkissick.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Terror Town

Image source.

Group Portrait

Image by Justin Ryan Chambers.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Haunt Retrospective

Re-post of the Retrospective Gallery post to bump it up (just added a photo from the 2024 display).

Had fun posting these to Instagram and wanted to have them all in one place on the blog. Prior to the first display photo below from 1986, we did random things like stuffed dummies or rubber masks hanging in the tree. 1986 was an important year as it established that the lawn would always be some kind of cemetery. And it featured a prop centerpiece (a focal point), which would become a general theme in the coming decades. The Ghost standing in the cemetery had a flashing strobe light in its head, and even now after all these years I love the vibe in that photo. It really captures what I love about Halloween. The macabre absurdity of it all. Creating some strange little world on a small lawn of a brick house in a strip of rowhomes in suburbia. Trying to make the ordinary (and life) spooky... and making it a little mysterious too.