Haunted House 2009

Every year Michelle's cousins do a big Haunted House here in Boise. Steve and his neighbor use both of their back yards and turn them in to this great Haunted House. We ran the Haunted House Friday and Saturday night, the 30th and 31st, and between the two nights took close to 600 people (I think) through the attraction. It's a very popular (and FREE) haunted house, and people line up out front and often wait up to two hours to get in. We take groups of 4-6 through at a time, guided by three tour guides. This first photo here are Steve Sr. and his sons Steve Jr. and Mike (from left to right), whom were our guides Saturday night.

We have tarps and other barriers constructed as walls to take victims... er... guests though a route that features many sections: a head table, a creepy bridge, a graveyard, a funeral, a guillotine execution area, a torso table, a dot room, a headless poker tournament, a butcher... lots and lots of different sections. To the left here is from the mental ward infirmary. I won't say what happens in this "room," but let's just say it's kind of disheartening. I worked in the guillotine area, and had the honor of beheading Mark over and over and over again - we had great fun! I actually had one of the few speaking parts in the Haunted House, and you know me... I can't do anything like that without spewing corny joke after corny joke. At any rate, I highly recommend you come to Boise next year and check out the Haunted House. Boise is a great place to beheaded anyway. :-)

I've posted 90 photos from both nights - some of these are not for the faint of heart. You can check them out on Facebook (click here) or on Flickr (click here). And below you can see an embedded video from YouTube (or click here) of me doing a practice run at the guillotine with Mark and Andrew.