Reply #35: Dead trees are great props! [View All]

[Boomer]

A few years ago my partner and I were driving through a shopping mall parking lot and saw a pile of small dead trees that had been uprooted and cast aside by the grounds crew. We grabbed those, tossed them into the truck, and a few days later we had a haunted forest on our front porch. Hay and leaves were strewn on the flooring, and of course we had rats and spiders and bats in the branches.

That's also the year I dressed in black robes and pointy hat, put a rubber witche's mask on my face, and sat in a rocking chair on the porch. I stayed very, very still when the trick-or-treaters passed by on their way to the door, so everyone assumed I was just a stuffed figure.

Then, when they turned around to leave, I'd lunge forward and scare the ever lovin' beejeesus out of them.