Spooky Alley Halloween Yard Haunt

Spooky Alley Halloween Yard Haunt Halloween night only. The monsters are scarier than ever before!

Are we counting this as October 32nd? Did you eat all your candy yet?Today a new countdown begins: 365 days until Spoo...
11/01/2025

Are we counting this as October 32nd? Did you eat all your candy yet?
Today a new countdown begins: 365 days until Spooky Alley 2026. Details coming very soon.

As the Jack O'Lanterns fade into the night, we dream of Halloweens to come!Spooky Alley 2026 is already being planned.
11/01/2025

As the Jack O'Lanterns fade into the night, we dream of Halloweens to come!

Spooky Alley 2026 is already being planned.

Spooky Alley of the past. 💜🎃
11/01/2025

Spooky Alley of the past. 💜🎃

Spooky Alley 2021 The Headless Horseman rides
11/01/2025

Spooky Alley 2021 The Headless Horseman rides

Spooky Alley 2022 Cemetery
10/31/2025

Spooky Alley 2022 Cemetery

Happy Halloween 2025!Tonight is so strange. Everything is too quiet, too still. No haunt in the yard, no house full of m...
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 2025!
Tonight is so strange. Everything is too quiet, too still. No haunt in the yard, no house full of monsters getting ready to take their places, no line down the block waiting for the gates to open. After 12 seasons of Spooky Alley, quiet on Halloween night is just wrong.
Our haunt started from nothing in 2013. We’re not in one of the “candy zones”, so only 6 neighbors came, but we kept going. Got bigger and told anyone who would listen to come to our house. The next year: 12. I almost quit, but a neighbor’s granddaughter saved Spooky Alley. She made her parents return over and over and over, alternatingly scared and delighted. In 2015, thanks to FB posts: 201 visitors. We had no idea it would grow like it did - the haunt & the visitor count. By Season 11 (2023) we passed 3,000. It’s mind blowing to look back.

So let’s talk about YOU- our visitors, supporters, fans. You have cheered us on online & in person. One weird year, you fought for us. Waves & shouts from passers by as we built. Enthusiastic congratulations on Halloween. Gifts of cookies, jello shots, & wine; candy donations; & surprise deliveries of decorations we could maybe use. You have asked for the owners or told our Trick or Treat station crew to share your thanks. We’ve had kids write letters & draw pictures to thank us. (We still have them.)
People have planned their vacations around Spooky Alley, coming from other states & all over Florida. We have had visitors from other countries too - France, Germany, England. One set of inspired past visitors even started “Spooky Neighborhood” in Germany!!

Some have said you’ll visit us in the new location- that would be amazing. We hope to be sharing info about our new location soon & are itching to get started on so many new ideas.
Thank you to all of you for your support over the years. Thank you to everyone that visited on Halloween night - your screams & smiles made all the hard work worth it. You inspired us to keep building - our skills, our props, our story, our haunt. THANK YOU for an amazing first 12 chapters of the Spooky Alley story; we aren’t finished yet…

Happy Halloween 2025 & looking forward to Spooky Alley 2026. 🎃

Flashback #1This was supposed to post on the night before Halloween... Perfect timing to share photos of some of the v...
10/31/2025

Flashback #1
This was supposed to post on the night before Halloween... Perfect timing to share photos of some of the volunteer crews of scare actors, Trick or Treat station people, and show night helpers that have made Spooky Alley possible. In the chaos of show night, we didn’t always get photos or the photos were more shadow than anything else, but we remember them all.
Friends and friends of friends,neighbors, family members, and fellow scouting families. Some of our earliest younger actors have now grown and graduated, moved or married. ♥️
Spooky Alley couldn’t have grown into what it is without them volunteering their time. Some came from an hour away, some flew in from other states. They were “paid” in desserts on pre show planning nights and then pizza and Halloween candy on Halloween night. They did it for the fun of Halloween- the scares and the joy.
Some of these amazing people have already said they will make the trip north to be part of Spooky Alley 2026 in its new location! Wow.

Each year just before we would open the gates to the crowd, all the volunteers would come together backstage and I would read a quote from Canadian haunter Christopher Weeks, “We are the memory makers. We are the creators of magic and myth. We help to inspire the creative spark in others, and most of all we help to keep the spiritual flame of Halloween alive for future generations.”

Can I please get a round of applause for our past Scare Crews?

Flashback #2This was supposed to post on Witchy Wednesday! The Green WitchOur Green Witch was gifted to us by fellow h...
10/31/2025

Flashback #2

This was supposed to post on Witchy Wednesday! The Green Witch
Our Green Witch was gifted to us by fellow haunters.
Haunting is a club of sorts. Most of us get to know each other, cheer each other’s haunts or displays on, help brainstorm solutions for prop build problems, and generally share knowledge. It’s all about sharing the love of Halloween. As displays and haunts change, some props are no longer needed, and, while some may get sold, many others are offered to our fellow haunters who can put them to good use. Thru the years we have been the lucky recipient of many prop hand offs and also handed many of our props off to others.
Technically, our friends didn’t give us a witch. When we got it, the green tinged skeleton-style upper body was in an open weave multi part brown cloak with hood and held a staff. It was more of a brown and green reaper. But we had plenty of reapers and I was feeling inspired by the 1990’s Halloween Classic The Witches. Anjelica Huston’s reveal isn’t exactly skeletonized, but with a wig and witch hat, I could see a similarity. This tall figure would join our coven of witches.
For the last few years, Greenie has been the mistress of the spell book next to the large cauldron tripod. Ingredient bottle in hand and gargoyle minion perch a top the book edge, it’s clear that whatever she is brewing is trouble.

Haunt Tip Tuesday! *started by Bob KowalOne of my absolute favorite (and FREE) tips for giving your display or haunt a s...
10/29/2025

Haunt Tip Tuesday! *started by Bob Kowal

One of my absolute favorite (and FREE) tips for giving your display or haunt a spooky effect is DEADSCAPING.
Deadscaping is my own term for landscaping with dead branches. We have used our own trimmings, but also collected them from neighbors and friends. People are more than happy to have you take them away (especially they didn’t follow the rules for waste collection) and its free decor.
Especially in areas where there are no large trees and super manicured all grass lawns are the norm, those branches quickly make your yard look overgrown and scary. Tuck them around tombstones, zip tie them to a fence, or bundle them to give the look of a deadbush in front of your witch shack.
Use a post hole digger to “plant” larger ones. Add some spanish moss or cuttings of creepy cloth draped like spanish moss to add to the effect. The suggestion of a tree is sometimes all you need to take the scene to the next level.
We have even timed our annual cutting back of the lemongrass to give us swamp grasses for the Witch Swamp. And yes, I once asked permission to take a long dead new construction “starter” tree off someones hands. During haunt season our neighbors have seen us dragging branches home by hand, by wagon, towed behind our car, and piled onto a trailer.
Deadscaping is the biggest zero dollar change we can make to our yard.

Bonus: The shadows cast by led lights hitting those branches are a whole other level of spookiness too.

Flashback #3Tombstone Tuesday! Thee Bell StoneIn the late 1800’s worries about the possibility of being buried alive l...
10/28/2025

Flashback #3

Tombstone Tuesday! Thee Bell Stone
In the late 1800’s worries about the possibility of being buried alive led to the creation of a bell system in which strings were tied to the body and to a bell, so that if the bell rung the person could be dug up.
Having thrifted a wedding cake topper of a functioning bell, we decided to incorporate it into this stone, as well as the last lines of the classic John Donne Poem for the epitaph and name.
The stone itself is a blended build of shaped trailer hitch block, hot tub foam mid section, thrifted plastic wall clock frame at the top, and pink foam plaque for the epitaph. Once cracked, painted and aged; it was complete. On windy October nights, the bell can be heard ringing across Spooky Alley… or is that the ghosts playing?

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