In August of 2006 we purchased our home. A major selling point of the home (for me at least) was that it had a bar and kitchenette in the basement. We had been attending a friend’s annual Halloween party for years, and I had helped him build props for it in the past. Since we had this nice new bar we figured that perhaps it should be our turn to host the party, and that is exactly what we did.
Being that it was August when we purchased the property we didn’t have a lot of time to prepare for the party. It was around this time that we discovered websites like the Monster List, Halloween Forum, Haunt Forum and the now defunct Haunt Project. We got ideas and did the best we could with the time we had available. We purchased some cheap Halloween decorations, including foam tombstones and placed them around the basement. I don’t think that we had anything outside except for maybe a couple flood lights. The party was a success…and we were hooked.