Welcome to the
HAUNTED HOUSE
Wa ha ha ha ha!

Why don't you let yourself in...
if you dare!

Sounds

    The house was near the beach. It was a big old place where nobody had lived for years. From time to time somebody would force open a window or a door and spend a night or two there. But never longer.
    Three fishermen caught in a storm took shelter there one night. With some dry wood they found inside, they made a fire in the fireplace. They lay down on the floor and tried to get some sleep, none of them slept that night.
First they heard footsteps upstairs. It sounded like there were several people moving back and forth, back and forth. When one of the fishermen called, "Who's up there?" the footsteps stopped.  Then they heard a woman scream. The scream turned into a groan, then died away. Blood began to drip from the ceiling into the room where the fishermen huddled.  A small red pool formed on the floor and soaked into the wood.
    A door upstairs crashed shut., and again the woman screamed. "Not me!" she cried. It sounded as if she was running., her high heels tapping wildly down the hall. "I'll get you!" A man shouted, and the floor shook as he chased her.
    Then silence. There wasn't a sound until the man who had shouted began to laugh. Long peals of horrible laughter filled the house. It went on and on until the fishermen thought they would go mad.
    When finally it stopped, the fishermen heard something coming down the stairs, dragging something heavy that bumped on each step. They heard him drag it through the front hall and out the front door. The door opened; then it slammed shut. Again, silence.
    Suddenly, a flash of lightning filled the house with a green blaze of light. A ghastly face stared at the fishermen from the hallway. Then came a crash of thunder. Terrified, they ran out into the storm.

Thumpity Thump!

    When we moved to Schenectady from Schoharie, we rented a house awful cheep 'cause it was spooked and nobody wood live in it. We didn't care, 'cause we didn't take no stock in spooks.
    We has just gone to bed the first night, dog tired from riding in a wagon all day. We hadn't had time to shut our eyes when we heard a thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump comin' down the attic stairs. I covered my head with blankets, but I couldn't shut out the sound. Thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump, it went. I could hear it plain as day.
Past the bedroom door thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump, and down the stairs thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump, and down the cellar stairs thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump, makin' the most awful racket you ever heard. It was more than we could stand. So we followed the sound to see what was goin' on.
    When we got down the cellar stairs, we saw that it was a chair that had made all of the racket. There is was, with one of its legs pointin' to a place on the dirt floor. We all just stood and gawped till my brother Ike said that he believed the chair was trying to tell us something about the place it was pointing at.
    So Ike went and a got a shovel and started diggin'. He didn't have to dig far before his shovel struck somethin' hard. Pretty soon we could see the edge of a box stickin' out. We all hollered for him to hurry up and uncover the rest of it. And the chair-- it got so excited, it jumped up and down like it had gone plumb crazy.
    When Ike got the box uncovered, Pop and the boys pried off the lid. And there was a body of a man all smooched with blood. It was plain as the nose on your face that he had been murdered, and the chair wanted folks to know it. Right then and there we decided to leave. Bein' strangers, everybody would think that we had murdered him and some there to hide the body.  It didn't take us long to fill up the hole and get out of that house.
    The chair was awful mad about our leavin', and it went up the cellar stairs thumpity-thump, thumpity-thump louder than it when it had gone down. Then it thumpity-thumped up the next set of stairs and the next louder still. When we got back to the attic, it THUMPITY-THUMPED so loud we thought it would thump all the plasterin' down on our heads.
    Nobody asked us why we were movin' out so soon, 'cause nobody ever stayed more than one night in that place, and most not that long. But I can tell you we were thankful to get back to Schoharie where chairs stay where they're put and don't go rarin' and rampagin' 'roun, scarin' folks out of their wits, pointin' out murders and goodness knows what!

 



Water Tank filled with Bugs!

Items you will need:

- 1 1/2 cups Ginger Ale
- 12 Raisins

  1. 1. Fill serving glass with soda.

  2. 2. Drop in the raisins 3 at a time.

  3. 2. Watch the raisins turn into bugs, dancing in the water!

Sewer Surprise!

Items you will need:

- 1/2 cup lime jell-O
- Whipped Topping or Whipped Cream
- Chocolate Chips
- Waffle, Toasted

  1. 1. With a serving glass, cut a toasted waffle to the size of the top of the glass by turning a glass  upside down on top of the waffle and twisting.

  2. 2. Mix up 1 pkg. of lime gelatin as directed on pkg. but do not refrigerate

  3. 3. Blend 1/2 cup of lime gelatin with 1/2 cup of whip topping and pour into serving glass.

  4. 4. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top or mix them in with the jello and whip topping.

  5. 5. Place waffle on top for the manhole cover and serve.

Graham's Haunted  House!

Items you will need:

-black liquorish
-chocolate or maple syrup
-hardened frosting (sugar & water)
- gram crackers
-toothpick
-chocolate chips
-candy corn
-marshmallows
-M&Ms
-green cake frosting
-orange cake frosting
-clean cardboard


1. Organize all your materials in cups or what every you wish to hold them with.
2. Start spreading and layering the  green frosting all around the cardboard for grass.
House:
3. Use half of the board (other half for graveyard),
put excessive white white frosting over the green frosting in the shape of a square.
4. Take four pieces of graham cracker and place each of them on the sides of the square to form the walls (make sure they are standing up straight and are touching each other)
5. Place the fifth graham cracker on top of walls to form the roof.
6. Take the white frosting and rub it on the corners of the walls so they stick. Wait until it hardens.
7. Spread orange frosting over the walls and roof.
8. Dab some white frosting of the roof and place a piece of candy corn on it, to be the roof.
9. Use the licorish to put doors and windows on your house.
10. Decorate the walls and roof using chocolate chips, M&Ms and syrup!
Graveyard:
11. Place the marshmallows wherever you want in front of the house for tombstones.
12. Poke tooth picks into the card board surrounding the house and graveyard. This will be the fence.  For extra support, put the dabs of white frosting where you are going to poke.

Put your haunted house on display, and if you like...
eat it!

 

 

Why does the ghost only haunt the basement in the Haunted House?
He has low spirits.

What do spooks eat?
Spook-etti, Halloweenies, Devil's Food Cake, and Boo-berry pie.

Why was the boy unhappy to win the prize for
 the best Halloween Costume at the party?
Because he just came to pick up his little sister.

Why don't the apples in the haunted house smile?
Because they're crab apples.

What happened when a girl dressed as a spoon left the Halloween party?
No one moved.  They couldn't stir without her.


Out the gates you go!

Hope your stay in the Haunted House
 was awfully spooky!
 
Continue the Halloween parade...

 

Graphics from Halloween Queen

Stories from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark II by Alvin Schwartz taken without permission
Do not copy!