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( CNN) - - You know the house. The one with sinister animatronics, the fake smoke and a perfectly timed soundtrack of spooky noises. The one that makes small children think twice about ringing the doorbell.

That' s the & quot; home haunter' s& quot; house. Their obsession with Halloween drives them to create incredible experiences for trick- or- treaters; they are masters at creating a good scare. And they do it by dismantling off- the- shelf items and turning electronic parts into freaky Frankenstein decorations. & quot; For some reason, we all love to tear apart Christmas props, & quot; said Rik Cary, a software designer who lives in Hayward, California. One home haunter who goes by the online handle of & quot; Halloween Propmaster& quot; , Cary said. ( One can recognize Cary online as & quot; Perfessor Evil. & quot; ) & quot; There was a 5- foot- tall dancing Santa at Wal- Mart one year, and he picked up a number of these on clearance.

He' s made that into a pirate and a zombie. He used the dancing mechanism itself under one of those singing Douglas fir Christmas trees. & quot; The resulting mashup had the singing tree' s lips under a spooky mask atop the dancing Santa' s body - - a particularly ghoulish animatronic that synched its movements to sound. Cary runs , a website for home haunter projects, many of which are posted by the home haunter community. Most home haunters are motivated to make professional- looking props out of very affordable parts. & quot; The most common thing I' ve seen used is a windshield wiper motor, & quot; said home haunter Lawrence Sharp, a systems development engineer for Georgia Tech in Atlanta and a self- professed computer geek. & quot; It' s amazing what people have done with those things, and they' re cheap and easy to get.

A good [ project] is, if you put something on a line like a spider or a dead guy [ prop] , and you hook one end to a windshield wiper, it will shake the thing up and down. & quot; Sharp mentioned a project he was particularly impressed with: a witch figure standing above a caldron that hid a windshield wiper motor.

The witch' s paddle was attached to the wiper motor so it looked as though the witch was stirring the caldron. Sharp' s favorite Halloween project was making ghosts fly around his front yard, something Cary calls the & quot; holy grail of haunt projects. & quot; It' s a & quot; clothesline setup that' s on a switch, and it has a motor [ which] spins the line, and basically it moves this ghost from one position to another, & quot; Sharp said. & quot; They' ll see this thing coming towards them, and it' s really quiet, and it comes swooshing up out of the darkness. It' s great! & quot; It was really hard to tweak, though, figuring out an anchor point for the other side, getting the tension on the line right so it didn' t flop out of the gears yet it would still move smoothly. & quot; Sharp and his wife definitely have & quot; that house& quot; at Halloween, he said. They like to take Halloween decorations at their Atlanta, Georgia, home to the extreme, & quot; primarily because it' s her birthday. & quot; & quot; But also it' s just always been a really fun holiday. It' s a lot of fun because it' s so different.

It' s about dark, spooky stuff and scaring people, and I' ve always thought it was neat. I' ve always had a thing for ' the Addams Family' and ' the Munsters, ' and my wife is a horror fan. We just really get into it, & quot; Sharp said. Sharp develops project ideas with his wife: She says what she' d like to see, and he finds a way to engineer the resulting decoration. He also turns to the October edition of , which usually profiles a handful of Halloween projects to tinker with.

Other websites that provide elaborate decoration ideas include the , the , and . Ken Carlson, a producer in Los Angeles, California, whose annual front yard Halloween extravaganza regularly attracts more than 1, 000 visitors, said he' s all about lighting. . & quot; It really comes down to lighting and up- lighting everything so it becomes even larger and monstrous and takes on larger proportions. A lot of kids call us the haunted forest, even though we don' t have a forest; we have a lot of trees and monsters up high, and the lights on them give great depth and perspective, & quot; he said.

Cary is especially enamored of one of the lighting projects from . & quot; It takes a dusk- to- dawn power supply that has a photo cell on it to detect light. You plug that into the wall; you plug an extension cord into that and your [ outdoor] lights into the extension cord. Then you take a simple candelabra flicker bulb, put that in a box with this power supply, and the flickering causes the power to fluctuate on and off, and you' ve got these great flickering lights. & quot; Sharp also thinks lighting projects are fertile ground for resourceful home haunters. & quot; There' s this really neat trick where you take a fluorescent starter like for a long fluorescent tube, and you wire it in line to a light socket, & quot; he said. The light socket is then hooked up to a dimmer switch. & quot; The fluorescent starters are kind of like a capacitor, & quot; making the lights pop on and off, he said. & quot; You can dial up the speed of that popping with the dimmer. We use it for fire effects all the time, but also it' s just kind of creepy.

I put them in the bushes in front my porch, and you have all these crazy popping lights in the bushes. & quot; & quot; Another cool project is the ' attack of the mailbox, ' and I' ve got to do that one, & quot; Sharp said of a project he found online. & quot; This guy took a motor and a light and a remote- controlled whoopee cushion, took it all apart, hooked it together and put it in his mailbox so it slaps the mailbox door open and closed and flashes a green light inside of it. & quot; The best part?

It' s controlled by the whoopee cushion remote control, Sharp said. & quot; So when people walk by, he can hit the button, and the mailbox starts flapping, and the light is flashing. & quot; With Halloween only days away, Cary said a great last minute project can be achieved with, & quot; materials that every self respecting geek will have on hand. & quot; & quot; It' s a laser vortex, & quot; he said. & quot; It uses a mirror mounted to a muffin fan, a laser pointer, and a fog machine to create a nifty tunnel effect. & quot; Cary found the project from Robert Beech, who runs the Brandywine Cemetery web site. Instructions can be found . For those wanting to join the home haunter ranks next year, Sharp has this advice: & quot; You need to start a couple months beforehand to make sure you have enough time to tinker with it.

The decorative parts are what take the longest.

The internet is, of course, a great place to get ideas about how to put stuff together and where to get materials. Don' t be afraid to get some items you are comfortable working with, be it a motor or a circuit board or whatever, and start tinkering with it to see what you can make happen. & quot; Carlson said that having & quot; that yard& quot; is a true labor of love. & quot; It' s such a grand scale that every day, I have to tinker. Light bulbs go off; fuses need to be redone; I have to re- hang monsters cause they fall down, so it' s a lot of everyday tinkering. I' m somewhat obsessive about it, & quot; he said. & quot; All this geekdom is worth it, & quot; he said. & quot; I want the kids to have the ultimate experience like I did [ growing up] in Ohio. & quot; I used to cherish the opportunity of dressing up and being able to suspend reality and become someone else, to have fun and no one judge you, & quot; Carlson said. & quot; Now I take it to the extreme. & quot;

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