Video Tag
Every video tagged “yard haunt” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
488 videos
A quick short-form teaser announcing the start of a creator's 2022 Halloween yard haunt setup. The video offers a brief early look at the display as it begins to take shape, with a mix of store-bought props from retailers like Home Depot and Spirit Halloween. It's a casual, community-style update rather than a step-by-step tutorial.
A short walkthrough clip showcasing a home yard haunt display for Halloween 2023. The video highlights spooky outdoor decorations and props arranged to create an eerie nighttime atmosphere. Creepy dolls appear to be a featured element of the setup.
A short teaser clip from SpookYouLaterz announcing the imminent launch of their 2023 Halloween yard haunt, with a clown theme front and center. The creator hints at a large collection of new animatronics sourced from major Halloween retailers. It serves as a hype-building preview rather than a full walkthrough or tutorial.
GMHaunts unboxes and sets up the Morris Costumes 2025 Corroded Reaper, a groundbreaker-style animatronic prop. The video walks viewers through the full process from opening the box to assembly, live demos, and a final review. It offers a thorough first look at a new 2025 Halloween season release for home haunters and collectors evaluating the prop.
This one-minute showcase clip reveals a DIY animated floating candles prop built using a deer motor and crafting sleight-of-hand techniques to sell the levitation illusion. The video serves as a teaser pointing viewers toward a full step-by-step tutorial for building the prop. It is designed for home haunters and DIY crafters looking to add an eerie, magical centerpiece to their Halloween displays indoors or outdoors.
SpookYouLaterz shares an in-progress look at their 2025 Halloween yard haunt as it gradually takes shape. The creator notes a preference for a simpler, more manageable setup that's easy to break down and store once the season ends. The video offers a casual, relatable peek at the ongoing process of building a home yard display.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Kreepy Kids Kiddyland Teeter-Totter, a professionally manufactured Halloween animatronic prop designed to bring unsettling childhood imagery to life. The short demo highlights the prop's movement and creepy aesthetic, making it suitable for haunted attractions, yard haunts, or large-scale Halloween events. Distortions Unlimited is a US-based manufacturer with a reputation for high-quality animatronics, notably featured on the Travel Channel series Making Monsters.
This short showcase video reveals a finished animated levitating teapot prop in motion, giving viewers a tantalizing preview before directing them to a dedicated full how-to build video. The prop appears designed for home haunts, haunted houses, or outdoor graveyard displays and fits a ghostly or enchanted aesthetic. It is part of a broader series of DIY Halloween prop tutorials from the same channel, covering a range of animated and decorative effects.
This short video from the Hauntcast channel showcases a completed Corn Stalker prop built for a themed Halloween display called the Village Mire. The clip appears to be a finished-product reveal rather than a step-by-step build tutorial. It offers a look at how a cornfield-horror character can anchor a cohesive Halloween scene.
A Disney Imagineer and art director shares professional-grade creative principles for building an engaging home haunt or yard haunt. The core insight is that a great haunt is a story, not just a collection of jump scares — it should follow a three-act narrative structure with a clear beginning, middle, and resolution. The host then begins applying this advice hands-on, planning the space, building an entryway, crafting signage, laying out pathways, and testing lighting. The result is a practical bridge between high-level theme-park design thinking and a backyard Halloween build.
A showcase of Chris Baker's 2012 Village Mire yard haunt located on Cape Cod, produced in association with Hauntcast. The video documents the finished Halloween display, highlighting the atmospheric village-and-mire themed environment. Professional photography by Julia Cumes accompanies the production, lending a polished look to the walkthrough.
This one-minute preview teases three upcoming DIY tutorial projects from the Halloween DIY & HOW-TO channel: a Moving Disembodied Head, a Floating Candelabra, and an Animated Zombie Skeleton. All three are mechanical or animated props aimed at haunters and home decorators. The clip serves as a trailer for the full how-to series rather than a step-by-step build video itself.
A quick tour of a standout residential Halloween yard display in San Antonio, Texas, themed around a creepy carnival aesthetic. The homeowner put together an eye-catching carnevil-style setup that caught enough attention to be shared on social media. The video is part of SpookYouLaterz's ongoing 2024 Halloween house tour series, with the creator also teasing a visit to Menefee Manor next.
This short tutorial from Hauntcast walks through building inexpensive DIY flickering LED candles using PVC pipe and flicker LED bulbs. The build relies on basic materials and simple soldering to create convincing candle props suitable for home haunts and yard haunts. At only four minutes, it is a quick, accessible project for haunters of any skill level looking to add atmospheric lighting on a tight budget.
This short teaser trailer previews an upcoming full DIY tutorial for a homemade animated Ghost Bride Halloween prop. The prop appears to float and move, making it suitable for front-yard cemetery displays or indoor haunted house hallways. No build details are revealed in this clip — it serves purely as a promotional preview for the forthcoming how-to video.
This short teaser video offers a quick preview of a DIY optical illusion Halloween prop from a channel specializing in homemade haunt effects. The clip is designed to build anticipation for a full step-by-step how-to tutorial available separately. The prop appears suited for a range of Halloween settings including home haunts, graveyard displays, and indoor decor. The channel produces a variety of beginner-friendly DIY Halloween prop projects targeting crafters and haunters alike.
Village Mire is a 2015 yard haunt showcase from the Hauntcast channel, presenting a creature-filled outdoor Halloween display set to an eerie swamp atmosphere. The video captures the haunt coming alive on Halloween night, with various monsters and props populating the mire-themed environment. It serves as both an inspirational walkthrough and a cinematic documentation of a fully realized home haunt production.
Hauntcast showcases a Vincent Price-themed tombstone prop added to their haunt setup for the 2010 season. The short video highlights the finished piece as a graveyard display element. It appears to be part of a broader haunted village or mire-themed yard haunt environment.
FrightProps showcases Poopdeck Pete, an animatronic pirate prop designed for Halloween displays. The video highlights the prop's movement and character detail, making it suitable for yard haunts and seasonal decorating. Viewers are directed to the FrightProps website for full specifications and additional pirate prop options.
This short tutorial from Hauntcast walks viewers through building inexpensive LED spotlights from basic PVC fittings and pre-wired LEDs. The build uses a belled end elbow and end cap as a housing, with the LED soldered in place and sealed with heat shrink tubing for outdoor durability. The finished fixtures are designed to be low-cost, easy to replicate, and suitable for illuminating yard haunt props and scenes.
Distortions Unlimited previews the Corpse Legend, a new-for-2026 life-size zombie prop standing approximately six feet tall. Crafted from latex over a foam-filled metal armature, it features hand-painted detail work and a hand-distressed costume that varies between units. The prop offers poseable arms and one poseable leg, and its head and legs detach for easy transport and storage. It is designed to meet the durability demands of both professional haunted attractions and home haunters alike.
This short clip showcases animatronic skull routines for a Village Mire haunt scene, built using a Skulltronix skull by Jerry Jewell. The creator walks through a workflow that moves from programming VAS routines in TrackSkull (MonkeyBasic) to importing them into VSA and finally exporting the finished sequences into a RAPU controller. The result is a fully synchronized, controller-driven skull performance ready for deployment in a yard or home haunt.
This short preview clip showcases a motorized animated grave prop that simulates breathing and movement, designed for outdoor graveyard Halloween displays. The effect creates an eerie atmosphere with rustling grass and shifting ground around a grave marker. It is part of a broader series of DIY Halloween prop tutorials from the channel. Viewers are directed to the full how-to video for complete build instructions.
This is the fourth and final episode in a backyard haunt build series, delivering the full operational walkthrough of 'Camp Arachnid' — a spider-themed haunted maze built in the creator's yard. The video covers last-minute prep work including set dressing, prop placement, and body cocoon finishing touches before opening to guests. Viewers get a complete tour of the finished haunt followed by infrared jump-scare footage and candid guest reaction testimonials, providing a satisfying payoff to the entire build series.
