2019 Haunt Photos Part II: Set Up
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
The floor plan
SALEM HAUNT FUN FACT:
We used Google Maps to print out an overview of the home. Then the photo was laminated. The laminated photo allowed us to use a dry erase marker to make changes.
Halloween decorations prior to SH construction
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This year we received so much donations that it can no longer fit in CEO's truck and COO's SUV.
Time to unload
First day of set up, Saturday Oct. 26......
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.....Continued onto the night
SALEM HAUNTS FUN FACT:
The actor in the black....try to find him in other photos JUST STANDING AROUND!
The Butcher and his brother setting up the Werewolf room.
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Walls are beginning to be placed
"Doors" are being placed
Even the CEO is helping set up walls
COO helping out
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Maze being set up
Rooms are being set up
Board member Larry sets up his room: "The Cemetery"
Crew members Tara and Jesse setting up "Jason's" Room
Larry setting up "The Cemetery"
Rich setting up "IT" room
Andrew and Rich setting up "IT" room
Another set up going onto nightfall
COO does equipment check on fog machines
CEO AT WORK
Other than all the other typical duties the CEO does every year for SH, 2019 is the first year she has put together her own room. Her room theme was "The Handmaid's Tale."
CEO also helped with the drop down wall in the maze.
Checking how the bonnet looks on live characters
Mock up of entire Handmaid costume for the replicas
Cutting out arms
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Cutting out shoulders
Adding shoulders to replicas
Adding bonnets
All body structures are done
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Final replica set up
Mock up for final room
CEO Selfie
Proud moment (pat on back)
FINAL SET UP
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Overview of entire SH layout
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ROOM WALK THROUGH
Entrance to Salem Haunts. First room: "IT"
Leaving the IT room, you'll find EVIL lurking in the hallway
The hallway will lead you to the next room
Room 2: CHUCKY
SH devil baby laying on Chucky's bed
Leaving Chucky's room, you'll enter "The Handmaid's Tale" room
There were 2 live characters and 10 replicas in this room
Leaving The Handmaid's Tale, you'll enter SH's first outdoor maze
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Hay was rented to help guide hauntees around the corner....
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....where you'll find SH's mascot The Drunk Pumpkin
SALEM HAUNTS FUN FACT:
This is Drunk Pumpkin's debut inside the haunt. Unfortunately he didn't get alot of drinks this year. He also was a lightweight, he only had three Modelo's!
Leaving the Maze onto the next room
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After the Maze you will enter The Werewolf's room
A victim of the Werewolf
Exiting The Werewolf room, you'll find The Headless Horseman waiting for you
After running from The Headless Horseman, you'll find yourself in SH Cemetery