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My reason for writing this post it to ask for your help. Readers of the world: Do you know a website that clearly explains how one would write a "class" with methods and properties in javascript? Despite my googling, I had to figure this one out myself by trial and error. Perhaps I just need a good JS reference. Where is the JavaScript manual?

Hauntmore Estate 07

Every year for the past 10 years I've done a haunted house for Halloween with the help of my family and friends. This year we continued that trend, but we went all out. We had 5 rooms, 4 actors, and 320 square feet of terror. Here's pictures and a description of the rooms.

Goodies

Haunt 07 Construction
Haunt07 In The Dark
Haunt07 Lights On Tour
Haunt07 Video
Previous Years

Rooms

Unliving Room
This room was lit by flicker lights until the group was in. The flicker lights went off and blacklights come on, showing lots of scary writing on the walls, etc. There were 2 dummies in chairs, one of them me, and a pair of shoes behind a curtain. Actor would stand up, scream "Get Out" and scare the group into next room. We had several people who started into this room and then walked back out the entrance, too scared to continue.

Child Deadroom
This room has a painted groundbreaker in a bed. The bed was supposed to shake, but that device broke at the last minute. We had a couple of spooky dolls and some rats eating a skull. After the group got in, an actor playing werewolf would come out from behind some burlap howling and scare them into the next room.

Dark Room
This room had no light, it was pitch black and monitored by an infrared camera. As the group entered ankle ticklers were triggered. After they started down the hallway, surround sound speakers played the sound of a chainsaw. A lot of people thought it was real, as you couldn't see anything. At the end of the hall was an air cannon. A zombie head could be lighted up at the end of the hallway if the group had trouble finding their way out.

Funeral Parlor
This room had a fan head animatronic and a casket. We had bats hung from the ceiling, spooky pictures on the wall, and a cage with snake hanging out of it. After the group got in, an actor playing zombie would come out of the coffin and scare them into next room.

Shrine Room
This room had hockey masks hung around the room, with a painting of a skeleton wearing a hockey mask. As the group entered, the painting would drop and an actor wearing hockey mask would come through with a glow in the dark cleaver. The painting would go back up and a strobe light came on. There was a guy on the floor chopped in half, his hand still crawling for the exit. Another actor already in the room wearing a Jason mask would chase the group out the exit with a blood covered machete.

Howdy,

I've uploaded the pics from my vacation to the smoky mountains, earlier this year during spring. On the trip I visited Asheville, NC and the Biltmore estate; Clingmans dome in the Smoky Mountains National Park; Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN; and the town of Gatlinburg, TN.

Smoky Mountains 2007 Pictures

I'll hopefully be posting further thoughts on the trip in upcoming posts. Hope you enjoy the pictures.