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Thank you so much! Yes, I make all the signs and tombstones. There are only a couple of the larger ones that are purchased at the store, but a majority of what you see is hand made. I light all the signs with 12 volt LED strip lights. A lot of my props use some form of 12 volt LED, either strip lights or individual LED bulbs.

@@MrJuskau thank you!

No, we don't do a haunted house, setting up this graveyard is all the work I need for 30-40 days a year!

@@MrJuskau well that’s professional work you did a great job

@@Hardwhite716 much appreciated!

Did you make them signs?

@@Hardwhite716 yes, we made all of the signs ourselves.

We are just about at max capacity! I'm sure the neighbors would really appreciate that! Some are really supportive of our efforts and others, not so much! Thanks again!!

Thank you!

Thanks so much, we try to keep it to a single theme. A little creepy, yet a little humorous at the same time!

thank you

Entire front yard this year, not much room for anything else!

Thanks so much, we really appreciate it!

thanks little dude!

@@tylerhair9067 thanks so much

Thank you so much for all your feedback! We’ll certainly check out your haunt for some inspiring ideas as we get ready for the 2024 season. We started this adventure back in 2013, although it was only a few inflatables and a couple of jack o'lanterns we place out the day before Halloween. Probably in 2015 I got a wild hair and built a coffin from foam board and a small fence from a few cedar pickets. The next year it was a few columns and more fence with foam board tombstones and it kind of went from there. We try to add something new each year. Each year we take about a week to ten days to start our setup. Placing the props isn’t so much the issue, its getting all the wire placed and setting up the electrical. That alone takes me about 2-3 days to get set and another day to troubleshoot issues. Our house isn’t on the beaten path, so not many people knew about it the first few years we set up, but over the past couple of years we really have seen an up tick in the traffic that comes by to see the setup. Halloween night we can see a lot of trick or treaters and everyone is really in awe with the detail we have put into our setup. Last year we probably had 75-80 people at the display at one time looking at all the stuff we have in our haunt. We’re quickly approaching this years setup and I intend on doing another completed setup video for this year’s haunt. Again, we appreciate your time in sending out some good feedback and comments! Makes it all worthwhile to have support from the community. We appreciate it!

@MrJuskau sounds like we followed a similar path. The neighborhood we first lived in didn't have any kids nearby, so very few trick or treaters the first few years. Each year, adding a few things. Started with a small cemetery with homemade headstones in the front yard with some fencing around it. Later, I turned our foyer into a mortuary. On the 6th Halloween, my stepdaughter started walking around in the cemetery, creeping people out that walked up. So, the next year, I made the cemetery area bigger for her to perform in. By our twelfth Halloween, we got too much of a bottleneck going in and out of the foyer that I made a minnie haunted trail going up our walk through our porch and out the cemetery. In 2020 we bought a house. The first question everyone asked us was what about Halloween. I told them not to worry. every house we looked at. I would think about how to set it up. Thou I had thought about ending it in 2026 when it falls on a Saturday. But now that I have a nearly 3 year old grandson who already really loves Halloween, I can't do that to him. So the show must go on. I look forward to your 2024 setup. I agreed that laying out all the extension cords is time-consuming. I always buy green ones, so they blend into the yard better. I cut up wire hangers and bend u-shaped stakes to hold them down so no one trips on them. They're easy to retive if you pull the cords up slowly. Also, write the length on the ends. I don't remember which year I started doing this, but I draw up maps of where things go and what length of cords I need to reach them.

Thank you!!

Thank you

You can send me a message at justin.r.kautz@gmail.com

Is there going to be another season this year?

Thanks so much. I takes us a full week to make sure everything is setup and working, but well worth the effort!!

I'll say. What a great tsunami of Halloween fun. Fantastic job.@@MrJuskau

Appreciate that@@robote7679

Thanks a bunch, they have really stepped up the amount of Halloween decorations over the past few years. There is some really cool stuff out there. I'm with you on the tricker treating as a kid. I was an early 70's kid and no one decorated for Halloween, but everyone participated in the Trick or Treating then! You would make a killing on candy!!

Thank you, we appreciate it!

Thank you!!

Thank you!

Thank you, hope you all do the same!!

Thank you for watching, we super appreciate it!

Thank you for watching, we appreciate the feedback.

Some were purchased at Hobby Lobby and some work done on them to give them a little spook factor. The ones hanging in the trees are home made with mason jars, twine and creepy cloth. We did get a couple from Home Depot about 3-4 years ago and have been able to find any like them anywhere.

I haven't done any tutorials yet on making this stuff. My video making skills are a little less than desirable. All our signs and tombstones are made from Owens Corning FOAMULAR pink foam board. The tombstones are made from 2" and the signs are made from 1" and 1/2" sizes. I normally design the words on a computer, print them out, transfer them to the foam board, and use a Dremel to cut them out. I also use the Dremel to hollow out the back side of the sign and mount 12 V LED strip lights to the inside. I close it up with another piece of 1/2" foam board and then paint them to look like wood or stone.

Thanks so much, we really appreciate it. Knock on wood, we really haven't had an issue to this point. We used to pull in everything every night that could be easily lifted and taken, but that soon got to be too much of a chore on a nightly basis. I think we had someone take one of our post pumpkins this year though. I chalked it up to wind at first, but there were other things that would have taken flight way before those guys. SO, to answer the question, we're running at risk right now. I'm sure if this turns into a problem, we'll have to figure a way to either secure stuff down, or deter them some other way.

Thanks so much for watching and providing feedback. We really appreciate it!

We're in Central Texas

Appreciate that! I’ve seen some really awesome setups that give us the inspiration to do this.

Thank you very much!

It certainly does! We’re about out of room to place stuff. We might have to convert the drive next year!

Thanks so much!

Thank you very much, we really appreciate that!

Thanks so much. The lights are just RGB low voltage landscape lights that I’m able to control with a remote. Makes a world of difference in the look and feel during the dark hours.

Thanks so much. We use a combination of low voltage RGB landscape lights and 12V LED in single and strip type. The electrical is vary frustrating for me at times trying to trace down why something isn't working and chasing bad connections, but when it works, I do think it adds to the effect.

I really appreciate it! There is so much room for improvements but I run out of time with setup and repairing stuff from the previous year. Certain props have met their end of life and I will need to find time to replace and rebuild those. Thanks again for your comments and watching the video.

I keep saying to myself that first part of the summer I'm going to pull things out and get things rebuilt and get the new stuff made and I'll be ready to roll and I go through the same headaches putting things off until it's time to set up

@@pauldinehart9059 i'm absolutely with you on that. time seems to fly when there is somewhat of a deadline on getting stuff done.

I really appreciate it! This is our 5th year setting up like this so we have a pretty good idea where most stuff is going to go. We do plan on running fog and having those animated props running Halloween night. I also pipe in some creepy music with haunting sounds just to help set the mood. Again, thanks for watching and taking the time to post feedback.

I really appreciate it! Inside the mausoleum, I have two CCTV power distribution boxes. One for all my low voltage stuff on the right and one for the left side. All the candles on the right side are connected to a channel and all the ones on the left are connected to the other box on a channel. I think each of my boxes has 18 separate channels that can handle 1 amp each and they are almost all used. If I expand any more, I will have to get an additional box. I have already had to install a separate circuit to handle all the power requirements.

Hey thanks, we really appreciate it!! This setup took us two solid weekends of work to get totally setup. I never will be completely done! Every time I look at it I see another thing that needs some attention.

What lights do you use for the flicker effect?

Hey, appreciate the comments! This little project takes a lot of work and effort and we are still learning the tricks to the trade. We try to improve the setup each year! Thanks again and Happy Haunting!

Definite need for improvement, but thank you all the same.

Thank you! We'll be adding a couple of videos for the day and night walk through's for the 2017 Haunt soon.

Never too late to see this stuff! We're currently working the 2017 setup, adding a few new props. Stay tuned, we'll post a walk through video about the last week of September, first week of October.

cool I'll be sure to check it out. and you're right, never too late or early to check anything Halloween related out :)

Lapse'time Photography thanks! More to come as this was just a simple test to see how well the GoPro did. So far so good!

Thanks!! Happy Halloween!!