Video Tag
Every video tagged “yard haunt” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
488 videos
Baker from Hauntcast reviews the VFX Creates Puppet Master Sound System, a dedicated audio device aimed at scare actors and haunters. The review covers the product's features and practical applications for home haunts, yard haunts, and professional haunted attractions. At just five minutes, it offers a concise look at whether this SFX tool earns a place in a haunter's arsenal.
This video captures hidden scare cam footage from the Village Mire yard haunt's 2010 season, showcasing real guest reactions to live scares. It offers an authentic behind-the-scenes perspective on how a home haunt performer delivers frights to unsuspecting visitors. The footage provides a fun, candid look at the effectiveness of the haunt's scare zones.
Bloodcrest House of God is a 2022 home haunt showcasing an elaborately themed Halloween display filmed at night. The nighttime tour highlights a variety of commercial props and decorations arranged into a cohesive spooky environment. The darkness of the setting amplifies the atmosphere, putting the lighting and prop selection front and center.
A brief teaser glimpse at the Village Mire home haunt for 2011, offering an early preview of what the yard display has in store. The clip is intentionally short, building anticipation for the full Halloween season reveal. Village Mire appears to be a themed outdoor haunt with a dark, atmospheric village aesthetic.
Hauntcast sits down with Derek Young of Van Oaks Props for a wide-ranging conversation about his home haunt, his approach to prop building, and the YouTube channel he uses to share tutorials with the haunting community. Derek offers insight into his creative process and the projects that define his work, including a floating lantern build. The episode is part of Hauntcast's ongoing series spotlighting influential voices in the home haunt world.
This short video from FrightProps showcases a tombstone prop featuring a moving head animatronic element. The clip appears to be a product demonstration intended to highlight the prop's motion effect for potential buyers. FrightProps is a well-known Halloween prop and haunt supply company, and this listing-style video directs viewers to their online store.
This short Hauntcast video covers the components involved in building a Flying Crank Ghost (FCG), a classic motorized Halloween prop popular in home and yard haunts. The FCG is a beloved DIY staple that uses a crank mechanism to animate a ghostly figure in a realistic floating motion. The video appears to serve as a quick reference or teaser tied to deeper content available through the Hauntcast podcast network.
This video offers a daytime walk-through of The Village Mire, a 2025 home yard haunt featured by the Hauntcast channel. Viewers get an unobstructed look at the full scope of the outdoor display in daylight, revealing the layout, props, and thematic details that night lighting would otherwise conceal. The Village Mire appears to carry a dark, swamp-village aesthetic built across a residential outdoor space. The Hauntcast brand connects this content to a broader community of home haunters and Halloween enthusiasts.
A short-form clip from Horror 365 showcasing what appears to be a homemade potato or air cannon used as a Halloween prop, with the creator teasing a larger version for next year. The video is likely a quick, lighthearted reveal or demonstration rather than a full build tutorial. Very little technical detail is available given the minimal metadata provided.
This short nighttime tour showcases a home yard haunt called 'The Fields,' captured during Halloween 2021. The display appears to run across multiple weeks, suggesting a substantial seasonal setup with outdoor theming. The nighttime filming highlights the atmospheric lighting and overall spooky ambiance of the haunt. With only a title to go on and no source description, specific details about props or construction remain unknown.
This tutorial walks through the creation of a Cthulhu Spawn prop built for the Village Mire 2024 yard haunt display. The video covers the prop construction process from a Lovecraftian horror theme, resulting in a creature suitable for outdoor haunt environments. It is a re-upload with corrected audio from the original posting.
This slideshow showcases the Village Mire, an elaborate residential yard haunt located in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The haunt's backstory centers on corporate toxic dumping that mutates local wildlife and resurrects the buried dead, who emerge each Halloween seeking revenge. The display was open for drive-by viewing across two weeks in October 2011, with a full trick-or-treat experience on Halloween night. The video serves as a promotional teaser for the event rather than a build or tutorial.
A brief look at the early stages of setting up a yard haunt, beginning with placing tombstones and fencing to establish the graveyard scene. This short clip captures the initial groundwork of what appears to be the Village Mire home haunt. It offers a quick glimpse into how a Halloween yard display comes together from the ground up.
This short preview clip offers a glimpse at the Village Mire, a 2013 yard haunt production featured on Hauntcast. The display centers on a village-and-mire theme populated with creature-based props and atmospheric horror elements. As a brief teaser, it showcases the overall mood and scope of the setup rather than providing build or tutorial detail.
Lew Gorman of GraveRot Studios joins the Hauntcast Prop Shop segment to walk through his approach to creating ultra-realistic corpsed props. The tutorial covers techniques aimed at achieving convincing decay and decomposition effects on haunt props. Viewers are directed to GraveRot Studios' Instagram for reference images of the finished results.
A brief early-stage lighting test for the Village Mire yard haunt display, captured in a grainy, atmospheric style that the creator finds appealing. The setup is still a work in progress, with more footage promised as the display develops. At just one minute, this clip offers a quick atmospheric preview rather than a full walkthrough or tutorial.
A first-year yard haunt showcase featuring a crypt-themed Halloween display along 'Spooky Lane.' The footage is brief and dimly lit, offering a quick glimpse of the creator's inaugural seasonal setup. The creator acknowledges the lighting limitations and hints at a more detailed walkthrough in future years.
This short tip from Hauntcast highlights lever nut wire connectors as a fast, tool-free solution for connecting LEDs in home haunt and yard haunt setups. Sourced from Neds LEDs, these connectors are presented as a convenient alternative to soldering or traditional terminal blocks. The one-minute format makes it a quick practical reference for haunters wiring up lighting displays.
Rotten Apple 907 is a long-running Burbank, California home haunt celebrating its 31st year with a serpent-cult themed experience titled 'Sssss.' The walkthrough follows the host Philip as he navigates the 2022 event and is dramatically rejected by the cult. Donations collected at the haunt benefit the Burbank Animal Shelter, adding a charitable dimension to this neighborhood Halloween institution.
Host Philip tours six standout Los Angeles home haunts on Halloween night, ranging from elaborately decorated yard displays to fully immersive walk-through experiences featuring live actors. Highlights include Nightmare on Linda Vista Street, Beware the Dark Realm, the Beetlejuice House, Pumpkin Hallow, Rotten Apple 907, and Circus of Nightmares. Each haunt showcases a distinct theme and demonstrates the remarkable creativity that passionate home haunters bring to their neighborhoods every season.
This quick one-minute tutorial from Hauntcast shows how to craft a realistic, creepy pumpkin stem for a jack o'lantern Halloween prop. The technique uses a wire armature wrapped in aluminum foil as a base, then finished with Free-Form Air sculpting compound to build up organic texture. It's a fast, low-cost method that can elevate a simple pumpkin prop into something far more convincing and spooky.
Tombstone Trickery is a short promotional showcase from FrightProps featuring a digital download product by Hi-Rez Designs. The video appears to demonstrate projection or video content designed to add animated tombstone effects to Halloween displays. It is available as a digital download directly through the FrightProps website.
This short Hauntcast clip demonstrates how to distress wood using a blow torch to achieve an aged, weathered look for Halloween props — specifically in the context of a Monster in a Box home haunt build. The technique adds convincing texture and character to wooden prop components. Despite its brief runtime, it delivers a focused, practical tip for haunters looking to elevate their prop aesthetics.
This short-form clip from HauntScene presents what appears to be a Halloween haunt entrance or yard display, posing the question of whether viewers would dare to enter. With no description provided and a very brief runtime, the content seems designed to showcase atmospheric Halloween decorating and generate engagement. The "would you enter?" framing suggests a visually striking or intimidating setup meant to impress and inspire fellow Halloween enthusiasts.
