Jaycee Haunted Houses 1975

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

Memories Of Halloweens Past

The next submission for this fun blog series (click here to see the others) comes from the super talented home haunter Fraidy.  This one is terrific, and it's not tied to a particular Halloween possession, but rather a haunted attraction - The Indianapolis Children's Museum Haunted House.  Started in 1964, it's the oldest continually operated spook house in the country.  Fraidy shared that she has many fond memories visiting this attraction and provided some links featuring vintage photos from its early days... Old School Halloween Heaven for sure, "Looking back, it was actually pretty scary! - even for adults - and over the years, it has inspired countless young Halloween fans to make haunted houses of their own."

Click below for a fantastic article about the Haunted House, which includes some amazing would-never-do-that-stuff-now memories from a blogger who grew up near the attraction.  Here's an excerpt:

October 1 was the day we walked into our classrooms at school and found the “Dial-A-Witch” flyer on our desks promoting that year’s version of the haunted house.  While the themes of the haunted house would change annually, there was always a loose association with these witches who were kind of the marketing team for the haunted house.  The “Dial-A-Witch” flyer would not only provide with the hours of operation for the haunted house, but provide you with a 1-800 number to call in order to talk to a witch.  This, for me, was as sacred a Halloween tradition as trick-or-treating!

Read the rest here.

And click here for some wonderful vintage photos.

This submission opens up some possibilities for this blog feature - so if you're sitting there thinking that you don't necessarily have a Halloween item that's been with you for decades, but you have a specific memory that you cherish and that may have started your Halloween obsession, send it on!  I would love to post it on the blog.   

Thanks, Fraidy!  This was really great.  I had never heard of this Haunted House before.

Click here for her Youtube channel.

Click here for her Instagram account.

For anyone interested in submitting, you can email me at pumpkinrot @ gmail . com (remove the spaces, of course!)

The Haunted House

One time a preacher went to see if he could put a haunt to rest at a house in his settlement. The house had been haunted for about ten years. Several people had tried to stay there all night, but they always would get scared out by the haunt...

- Alvin Schwartz

Thrift Store Finds

The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."

- Matthew 8:13

We found some really neat coasters, and a Halloween bag from 2013 with creatures that appeared to be bats at first.  

At first.

Junk Fed

Really great video of a lights-on walk-through dress rehearsal of a high school Haunted House in the 80s.

Click below...

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The Art Of Barry Jackson

More works here.

Now Watching: We Live In A Haunted House (1996)

This is truly incredible.  

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Trailer: HELL HOUSE LLC

Watched this last night and had so much fun.  It restored my faith in the Found Footage genre (meanwhile it was released in 2015[it takes me a while]).  The subject matter was very interesting, and the film was definitely and genuinely scary.  And the most intriguing thing was that typically I will watch a found footage film and be thinking "Why couldn't this movie just be a regular movie?" but this thing NEEDED to be found footage.  And it worked perfectly.

Thanks, Wren, for the recommendation.  I probably never would have gotten around to watching this one.

Click below for the trailer...

The Art Of Joanna Barnum

More works here.

The Spookhouse

Image by nightmarehour.

Wheelchair Accessible

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The History Of The Haunted House

Thanks, Mike!

Good Ol' Days

Images by Joseph Covino Jr.

Open Oct.20th Thru 31st

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Goodsprings Haunted House

Wow.
LOVE these photos.

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You Will Scream!!!

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And click here for something awesome.

Haunted House

By Paul Blaine Henrie.

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The Mansion

By artist Nick Johnson.

Sometimes

As it happened, nobody wanted to buy the house. Nobody could explain why, but it just didn’t seem like a house where anybody wanted to live. That happens sometimes.

Ted Kooser

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Haunted Places

A great Pinterest collection...