Welcome To howtohaunt.com

This site is all about extreme Halloween decorating and is dedicated to helping you haunt any area you'd like. This website is not a how-to for ghosts looking to frighten the living out of their humble abodes, but rather to help those of you who are interested in "spooking up" an area for a certain amount of time. Be it for a costume party, a midnight madness horror film showing, or even your own home for the Halloween season, this site will be here to guide you through planning, construction, creating storylines, and whatever else your ghoulish little mind can dream up.

Whether you call it haunting or extreme Halloween decorating, it is a hobby that can be done by anyone with time, money, and/or motivation. If you are wondering why someone might choose such an interesting hobby, you can read the story of my personal descent into madness here.

Haunting isn't easy. It can be a lot of work and may take a serious time commitment as well. But, when you see the look on the trick-or-treater's faces on Halloween night, it makes it all worthwhile.

Please keep in mind that a lot of the props, decorations, and electrical circuits on these pages were not designed by me. I am not an engineer. Some of these projects have the potential to cause great physical harm. I can not be held responsible for any death, dismemberment, bodily injury, or the making of your haunt a bit too realistic by adding a restless spirit, namely yours, to the area. I will try to outline safety precautions to follow and protective gear to wear but please try to use some common sense.

Also, as I have previously stated, a number of these props and their construction methods were not devised by me. With this in mind, I will attempt to give credit to the original designers and include links to their site to allow you to see what the original vision was.

Above all, this site is about having some fun. So, get the kids together and try a project or two. Try to enjoy yourself, it's supposed to be a hobby. If it feels too much like work, you're trying too hard.

This site is a little graphic intensive due to the nature of the content. My apologies in advance to those of you without broadband access.