Orbs 'r' Us

Part Four:

Saturday: another nice night, a little colder, with no snow.

176 go through haunt! More dismal turnout!

My brother “Tank” [a childhood nickname], my sister-in-law “Sew Lady”, great nephew “Evil Boy” [16] and great niece “Bad Fairy” [14] arrived from Devon, AB to help us in the haunt. They were amazed to see that we had no snow [from the border to here] as they came from a lot. And yes…they brought it with them, although it wasn’t until late evening when it finally arrived!

They were anxious to see the building that I had been talking about and we went to view it first. They wanted to make the walk-through in the day light as my sister-in-law doesn’t like scary stuff.

That evening their jobs were:

“Tank & Evil Boy” to man the Mine Shaft #1…the “White Spider Lair”:

In this place my brother manned the “White Spider”.

This was a huge 3’ x 3’spider that I had made to sit on a skateboard. The operator sat on a chair and ran the spider back and forth with his foot pushing the skateboard. The area was dimly lit by red LED lights and the “Victims” could only see the spider. If they saw the operator, all they would see was a person dressed to look like a dummy with a scary mask. “Tank” also had a few other areas that he could scare from and he even sounded like a snake at times…which I heard later from some victim that she thought it was special sound effect that made her worry that a snake would drop down and scare her…thanks “Tank” for the extra scares!

“Evil Boy” was another one of those “Evil Midgets” that scared quite a few “Victims”! He helped his grandfather in the Spider Mine and helped scare at the entrance and down the “Mine Shaft #2. The “Evil Minions, AJ & JD, were unable to be there that night so he took over their jobs. He wore all black with a glow-in-the-dark mask and held a big plastic machete. He popped out from all places and he added his own screams along with theirs. Thanks “Evil Boy” for a job well done!

“Sew Lady” was stairwell guard #1 and who also provided the haunt workers with 3 different types of yummy chicken wings and a really sweet dessert. All enjoyed the food…thanks “Sew Lady”!

When she came she had planned on not working the haunt and wanted just to be cook/bottle washer. We have no kitchen and our resting/dressing room was in the Judge’s Chambers and they were right next to the start of the haunt so….I talked her into being the stairwell security and it was a better lit area. We had to have the lights off in the Judge’s Chamber because it would shine under the door and would be seen by the victims going through the courtroom.

She scared quite a few people and even gave PoD a good startle when she wasn’t expecting her to be there! Thanks “Sew Lady” for the goodies and good job scarring all…hope you enjoyed it!

“Bad Fairy” was the main floor security and she sat in a basket type chair. She was so tiny and the wings that she wore made her look like a big phony bat until you got closer. Then you saw that it had long black hair that covered its face…real creepy…kind of like “Samara” off of the movie “The Ring”! Sometimes she moved and sometimes not…she sure made a lot scream! Thanks “Bad Fairy” for being so creepy!

A BIG THANK YOU to my family for coming all that way to help in our last production! Thanks guys!

A REAL BIG THANK YOU TO WILMA!

Not only did she help with the décor…she was the one who was instrumental in getting us “Workers” to work the haunt and I heard that she could be very persuasive! We would have all died of thirst if it wasn’t for her remembering to bring water, ice and we even had food/goodies! Thanks girl…you’re the greatest!

So all ran smoothly and we were out of there by 11:00 pm.

I did notice that the courthouse was starting to cool off and wasn’t so hot anymore.