For those who want to make their own spider, here's how I made it: The legs are PVC pipe which I slid into "Funnoodles", a long foam swimming pool toy you can buy at most stores. The legs attach to a PVC pipe frame for easy storage. The body is more Funnoodles duct-taped together in a...
Thanks guys! Yeah, we Pittsburghers like our spooky stuff--after all, this is the town that brought you George Romero and Tom Savini, "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Mothman Prophecies" (and, uh, "Flashdance"). I bought a lot of the masks you see in my display at the Monroeville Mall where...
Okay, here are some images of what drove this woman to madness. So far, no incidents tonight. By the way, the ghost is lit up with black light and has a motor that makes it slowly float up and down. Like I said, this looks much better at night. This was too panoramic to show in one picture...
Hilarious, Mark! I'm a sucker for a Simpsons reference. We Yanks put up our Halloween decorations earlier every year, it seems. I start seeing Halloween merchandise as soon as the back-to-school sales are over. No trip to Transylvania this year--we had a baby instead. We really were...
Actually I was inside my house watching Monday Night Football, my neighbor was on his front porch so he heard the lady and called the police. The odd thing is that the police didn't even come talk to me, my neighbor called me and told me all about it. I know our borough police will keep an...
Last night my neighbors called and said they had called the police. Apparently there was a woman standing in front of my house screaming at my Halloween decorations. (I have a pretty elaborate Halloween display in my front yard, in fact the local hayride rerouted so it could come past my house.)...