Haunts of 2009

In order to keep my haunt production streak intact, I helped my friend Kyle Thompson from Splatterfx.net on his glorious Monsterland haunt in Queen Creek, AZ. If you haven't yet, go there. www.monsterlandaz.com. Amazing props, great acting, and it's damned inexpensive (I'd heard $11 or something--compare that to the other "big-budget" haunts in AZ).

Secondly, I'm once again directing a tour of Belleville, Illinois's most haunted places. Thanks to Zia Nizami, Beck, Dave and Sandy at Lincoln Theater, Maureen Morris, Rick Ortiz and Allison. Pics are below.

I'll try to check out Larry Kirchner's KreepyWorld while I'm here in the St Louis area.

_{Your host. Photo by Zia Nizami}

 

_{The Koerner House. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{The Koerner House, from the back. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{Allison's Common Scents shoppe. At the turn of the nineteenth century, it was a pharmacy.
Now haunted by something cold. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{Allison's guard dogs, who don't like to go near the staircase in the back of the Shoppe. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{Keil's, home of the ghost Lulu. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{LOTS of ghosts here, including a woman killed in the Hindenburg tragedy.
Possibly part of the reason the building's name's changed so many times over the past 100 years. Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

_{Occasionally the Lincoln Theater staff will hear the sounds of a little boy scampering up these stairs
near the projection booth. He's one of at least three benevolent ghosts that reside in the theater building.
Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

Bevo Mill in St Louis. Not on the tour, but was a haunted old, beautiful place I fell in love with.
You should see the inside.

_{Bevo Mill, Augustus Busch's old "house." Photo by Nicholas Holthaus}

 

Lastly, when I realized I wouldn't be directing Doomtown, I offered to help my friends at
Haunt of the Living Dead in Mesa, as your favorite lech, of course.

_{I've come for your daughter, Chuck. Photo by Scott @ Haunt of the Living Dead}