His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
We've always gone a little overboard with the scary stuff. One year I made a bunch of life sized dummies with those plastic masks that fit over the entire head. Had the "wolf man" sitting on our front porch bench all week and then on Halloween wore the wolf man's cloths and mask and sat on that bench, motionless. We were a block from the middle school so everyone got used to the wolf man on the bench that year. I would turn my toes inward so it looked like it wasn't something a human would do. When someone would come up on the porch I'd wait till they rang the doorbell before "waking" and growling "let me get that for you"! It worked out so well one woman ran off the porch and left her two little ones on the porch when she bolted. That young lady cried hysterically for a minute or so and my next door neighbor's wife came out and gave me a serious talking too and told me not to do it anymore but her husband came out, told her to mind her own business and said that my prank was epic and I should continue. We even had some folks we got good bring back other people to see them get scared too by telling them we were giving out large sized candy. One woman brought her two little ones (6 and 8 years old) and I could tell she knew I was in that costume when she convinced them to do this house themselves while she stood on the stoop. We haven't done the costume caper where we live now but I've considered it.
I have about a dozen different animatronic things that scream, move and talk, a couple blue-tooth speakers doing the scary sounds, two movie projectors playing scary scenes. A 8 foot fire breathing dragon whose wings go back and forth. The decorations that look similar to the others that don't do anything other than look scary are positioned up front to cause the visitor to get used to nothing happening and then when they turn the corner toward the door a very loud, angry, grim reaper reaches out and a 6 foot witch also reaches out and starts yelling.
Here's my concern.....This year I've been seeing some social media posts I've never seen before. One asked that strobe lights not be used because some people have induced seizures. Another asked that folks limit the animatronics, sounds and flashing LEDs because it causes an overload for some autistic children. Last year we did have two families tell us they had to pass on our house because it was a little too much for their kids.
I've asked my family (Wife and two adult daughters, one with a 4 year old and a 1 year old) and they all said pretty much the same thing....nobody is forcing anyone to trick or treat at our house so just do what you want.
I have about a dozen different animatronic things that scream, move and talk, a couple blue-tooth speakers doing the scary sounds, two movie projectors playing scary scenes. A 8 foot fire breathing dragon whose wings go back and forth. The decorations that look similar to the others that don't do anything other than look scary are positioned up front to cause the visitor to get used to nothing happening and then when they turn the corner toward the door a very loud, angry, grim reaper reaches out and a 6 foot witch also reaches out and starts yelling.
Here's my concern.....This year I've been seeing some social media posts I've never seen before. One asked that strobe lights not be used because some people have induced seizures. Another asked that folks limit the animatronics, sounds and flashing LEDs because it causes an overload for some autistic children. Last year we did have two families tell us they had to pass on our house because it was a little too much for their kids.
I've asked my family (Wife and two adult daughters, one with a 4 year old and a 1 year old) and they all said pretty much the same thing....nobody is forcing anyone to trick or treat at our house so just do what you want.
