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Welcome to Spirit Haunted House. Our development crew is now with the Nightmare Mansion and Castle of Chaos haunted house team in Salt Lake City and Taylorsville Utah. You can get to our current sites at the following links. Haunted-House-Utah.com Utah-Haunted-House.com NightmareMansion.com CastleOfChaos.com The rest of this site is for information for any who are interested in this past event. 2004 Spirit Haunted House is teaming up with Hollywood Connections to bring you Haunted Hollywood Connections. 6000 square feet of terror, 25 rooms of horror, and three mind-boggling mazes that will leave you wondering if there is any escape from the terror that lurks within. Click on this link for more information haunted-hollywood Hollywood Connections is located at 3200 S 2200 W, in West Valley City, (Across from the E-Center). Tickets are $8.00 Sunday - Thursday and $10.00 Friday and Saturday Our event is very different from the other Utah haunted houses and most unique in that we have spent a year traveling all over Utah visiting genuine haunted locations. Places like the McCune Mansion, the Rio Grand Train Station, and the Park City Silver Mines. We have also visited ghost towns like Ophir, Mercer, and Pirea. And have brought back relics from each location. These genuinely haunted items will be in our event this year to help insight mayhem and madness to all who enter. We greatly fear that in bringing these haunted items to our location we may have awakened something from its dreadful slumber to stalk the earth and claim its vengeance. Abandon all, hope ye who enter here! These are some photos from years past.Click on them for a larger view.
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The event was created as two separate themed haunts, and may also be connected together to be one continuous haunt. I’ve used it both ways. The first is a classic haunted house and the second was the haunted maze. I’ll go through the effects as you walk through each house separately. Hopefully with the picture of the model and the blueprints this will make sense (Actually, I’m still trying to get a displayable copy of the blueprints for the web site and need a little more time). First the haunted mansion. The façade may be seen in a few of the pictures on the web site. I had planned on making it one story higher, but have yet to complete the project. I do have the lumber to complete most of the second story but it needs to be painted and structurally reinforced if used in the event. On the octagon side two of the windows open up to hold the ticket booth. Once the front door is opened the patrons walk to the left and enter the square side of the façade. This works well as an orientation room where the house’s story may be told. Next comes the painting hallway. In a cubby there is a table with a light and a loud buzzer that can be turned on to scare guests. Just around the corner from the buzzer is a hinged panel for an actor to scare through the wall. The light and buzzer is a nice distraction for the panel scare. Next comes the kitchen. Actors may scare from behind the door. The fridge has a hole cut in the roof of the fridge compartment so an actor can reach into the fridge from behind the wall to grab any unsuspecting hands that reach into the fridge. The actor may also scare from behind the fridge door as there is a cutout in the lower half of the panel behind the fridge door. The kitchen sink is a pneumatic cupboard where one door bangs loudly when a switch is switched. There is also a slatted panel above the sink that an actor may open to scare into the room. Across the room is a pan rack on the wall that bangs loudly when an actor pulls a rope from behind a wall. In the adjacent corridor there is a boarded up window that allows an actor scare. The next room is the living room. It allows for a peppers ghost illusion behind the plexi glass mirror where the rocking chair rocks and a ghost may be seen in the chairs mirror reflection. There is a large metal book case in the room that bangs loudly via a rope into the actor hallway. There is also an access panel in the room that allows an actor to enter the room from behind the book case door for a scare. After the living room is the spider hallway. There are 7 inch spiders on the floor or bottom of the wall as a distraction and three latex spiders drop from the roof as a scare. The spiders are operated on a rope that runs to the actor corridor. The door hallway comes next where there are three working doors at the end of the hallway for scares and one working door that connects the beginning of the hallway to the bedroom allowing an actor to scare from the beginning of the hall. Move to the middle of the hall and then get behind the guests to chase them into the bedroom. Inside the bedroom is a wooden frame bed. There is a bedolator type pneumatic device for the bed. I had a skeleton on it, but a Scarefactory type latex corpse would probably work better. The device works in a scissor like fashion and the prop is propelled about 6-7 feet to the end of the bed. There is also an airburst tank that fits under the end of the bed. And a picture frame with a hole in it for a scare and actor viewing. The next room was the closet where close were hung on either side and actors could scare from behind the clothes (you will have to supply your own clothes and hangers). After that comes the pumpkin room (Something like 20 to 30 lit pumpkins) where pumpkins are hung on the walls or in dead trees. An actor with a pumpkin on their head and a black robe scares in this room. Around the corner right before the spiders is a scare door where an actor may enter the hallway. And for the spider room there are two latex bodies and one furry spider that act as a distraction. A latex spider drops from the roof for a scare. In the next hallway there are four tubes that the guests must duck under. After the fourth time a panel in the wall allows an actor to scare just as the guests is standing up. Around the corner is the chain box room. The boxes are pneumatic and the lids bang violently (they are very loud) operated via switches in the actor corridor. Next comes the bathroom. A skeleton sits on a toilet and can spray water on the guests as if taking a leak. (you’ll have to supply your own spraying device). There is a bathroom sink that is pneumatic and the doors bang when a switch is thrown. There are also two shower curtains on either side of the room and actors may scare from either side of the room. The kids room was next. There is a rocking horse and a plexi glass mirror for another peppers ghost illusion. There is a giant jack in the box pneumatic prop where the head jumps up. There is also an airburst in the box. I’m not sure if I’ll include this prop or not. It’s very nice, very large and hard to ship. I’ll let this be negotiable. The room also had a crib with Chucky in the crib moved via a pole through the actor hallway (this may not be included in the deal). After the hallway came some skeletons on the walls. One year we opened up a panel for an actor scare another we used a falling bat to scare. Either works nicely. There is a metal screen at the end of the room. A skeleton may be seen behind it. The actor scrapes the screen with a metal rod and sparks erupt from it via a battery charger attachment. Very loud and bright, a really nice scare. The last hallway had a panel open up to allow an actor to scare. This could be a chain saw area although in my state you couldn’t use a gas powered saw in a tent. I’ll let you come up with your own scare. I do have at least one electric saw that will come with the event. The other event was the haunted maze, the first room was a skeleton hallway with about a dozen skeletons screwed to the walls. Panels may be opened up for actor scares. There is also an airburst tank for the hallway. Next is the Jason mask room. Lit with black lights the glow in the dark hockey masks show up brightly and one is worn by an actor. After this room is the first maze. I used camo netting on the roof and walls for effect but it could just as easily be done with a toxic, or 3-D florescent paint motif. I will supply 4 or 5 garbage bags full of camo netting for your decorating pleasure. The maze is created in a way so you can put up ropes to make it a walk through around the edges during busy nights or remove the ropes and make the guests find there way out on slow nights. (They have to push a panel to get out.) The next area is the clown area. There are several florescent painted panels that allow the clowns to have their fun with the guests. I also have 4 or 5 corrugated tubes for the actors to hide behind. Rubbing a stick on the sides makes a loud sound and pushing one over will make a very loud banging sound. Next is another maze. One year we hung cloth drapes every few feet to confuse guests. On year we did camo netting. Use your imagination. Again this maze can act as a walk through where the guests go around the center where the actor scene may be set up or opened to act as a true maze. After the maze is the hanging vampire bat. A nice prop that can be moved from behind and an actor may scare from behind. The last room is the coffin room. The coffin in the middle is pneumatic and will bang via a switch in the actor corridor, but was really made as a distraction. The real scare comes from three panels on the wall that open up. There is also an airburst for under the coffin if desired. So that’s my creation, a really nice event and easy to adapt to your liking. I also thought I’d mention that there are several exit doors around the perimeter of the event to allow easy escape in case of emergency. The tops of the walls are secured with 1 by 2s that cross in an X like pattern. The sprinkler system bolts onto the top to the walls to provide complete coverage for the whole event. The event also includes clamp on lights for every room. Colored bulbs, and some black light bulbs. Extension cords, breaker switch strips and electrical wiring. There are two main outlets where all the extension cords run to one for each side of the haunt and a single switch that allows all sound and effects to be turned off. There are also 12 battery backed bug eye lights for the emergency lighting system. These attach to the tent poles high in the event and shine down into the maze. There are a lot of details and I’ll need to spend some time with the buyer to really explain everything in detail. The other props seen in the first pictures on the web site are also for sale. Somewhere I have a CD with pictures of all the stuff and will have to get it up sometime. If anyone is serious about obtaining some really nice props and other goodies and would like to take the whole lot (40 foot container worth of stuff). Lets talk and we can negotiate something, it’s bound to be a really sweet deal. I know we paid from $35,000 to $50,000 for all the stuff and I can most likely sell it for much less. |
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