New from your Walmart sports department, 3D zombie targets!

Saw this picture on M's Facebook and snagged it.

Photo courtesy of Travis Chestnut.

 At $74.98 is a bit pricey and they are not overly detailed to use in most yard haunts, but if you money is no object and you are pressed for time, why not? You could easily creep them up with a little work and you can shoot at them in the off season too!

What does it take to make The Wicked? 5 meats, 3 cheeses, and over 60 toppings of course!

My best buddy and DJ supreme, Coach Toney, sent this to me today:

There is a new sandwich shop, WhichWich, that has impeccable taste when naming their food. I did not say which witch or witch witch but it sure is a funny conversation when trying to explain all this over the phone.

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The signs of Autumn are all around....some in the strangest places.

Foud this work of Fall artwork in a bathroom of a Marriott.

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Just as the haunting season starts getting up to steam, life happens. For the rest of the month of August I will be partaking in some pretty intense training for a new job I recently accepted. That means my blog posts may be few and far between for the next 4 weeks. I will try to drop a quick post as often as possible, but they may not be the large scale posts you are used to. I hope things can return to semi normal by September when I start the careful balancing act of work, life, and haunt!

There will be more work than ever at The Wicked Woods to prep for haunting season as I hope to review local haunted attractions, make new and horrid props for my haunt, and get ready for the wicKED weeKEnD Halloween party.

When I do return to full steam, I will be having my first giveaway of the season and there will be quite a few Halloween prizes involved!

Till next time..HAUNT ON and may your season be truly wicKED!

One man's junk is a yard haunter's treasure.

It's less than 3 months till the big day. Time to start rolling out ideas, projects, and props. I just happened to have lucked into a few good items recently for next to nothing! Behold my super cheap treasures I have collected!

One fully functional Shiatsu Massager. Not sure if I will use this to animate a ground breaker or a breathing grave. Found this in my mother's yard sale junk for free.

The two bottles were thrift store finds and I paid a dollar for them both. They will be filled with disgusting liquid and added to the apothecary. The lantern was another mom yard sale find. I will paint it black and add it to the ground breaking coffin and shovel scene from last year. 

I also plan on adding a grave robber to this so I am looking forward to how it all ties in

Gothic shelf perfect for a skull, candle, and raven (1 buck at a thrift store). Large candle holder for another skull or pumpkin and a tarnished, twisted candle holder which I will creep up a bit and put a nice black candle in (both for a buck at a yard sale). 

I won this on a bid from ebay for 9.99. 

I now have official Friday the 13th wear as well as a good convo shirt for Superbowl!

Found this bargain at a teachers supply outlet. They had 3 for 50 cents each.. I got em all. 

I was shocked to find Bath Salts at a yard sale, but for 50 cents, how can you go wrong. I plan on dressing as a zombie, then taking the bath salts and eating my neighbors faces off. Not really.... The bottle was just cool looking and M said it needed to go into the apothecary (after disposing of the zombie drug inside). 

M found this at Dollar Tree for a buck. It's large and a great door knocker cover. In a pinch, you could also add this to a bathroom as a towel holder! Dollar Tree also has large pieces of creepy cloth, die cut bats, spider, and ravens like Martha Stewart, and black roses. I am going to send M back to make some creepy arrangements soon.

M found black duct tape for half off marked price at Rue21. 99 cent duct tape at a teeny bopper clothing store? Don't ask, just take it! 

M got this for me a while back. A glow in the dark pointer. It will come in handy for Halloween party games. 

This is the crown jewel of my bargain haunting finds. This is one of those light boxes they put in basements or center offices to give the illusion of a window. It has two large curved florescent lights (as you can see through the plexi) to give the illusion of a window to the outside. When I saw it, it screamed X-RAY BOX and will be perfect to display my collection of x rays.

The only problem is, it is designed to be hard wired as a wall fixture. I will be able to rewire it with an old toaster's cord, pull the window slats out of the front and paint the box black for a perfectly wicked x ray box to go along with my apothecary/bar area for the Halloween party. The lights alone would run me close to 30 bucks, not to mention the light housing and hardware, plexi-glass, and wood frame. This is an easy 50 dollar or more project found at a yard sale for a mere 2 bucks!

Maybe adding a small plaque which reads, "Exploring the brain of a serial killer"  

It's official...zombies cannot fit into society so just shoot them in the head.

You may have already seen this video of the NYC zombie experiment. Zombies just don't fit in, which may explain their poor attitude towards the living.

I think this video may have to do with some of the satellite TV providers not carrying the AMC channel and thus denying millions of their beloved Walking Dead. It's still pretty awesome regardless. Here at the wicKED Woods, we try to be an equal opportunity employer, but zombies just suck at certain thing as we have found out over the years:

Laundry

Cooking

Handing out Halloween candy.

Plumbing

Beauty Pageants.

Giving you a hand while you work (they take it quite literally).

Pet care.

Zombie reviews local cemetery.

We have a rather large and very old cemetery in the center of our town called Glencoe Cemetery. It's in a beautiful place with rolling hillside and nature all around. My Great Grandfather was the caretaker of this cemetery up until the point he was found murdered in the tool shed by the Mausoleum many years ago. I was using Google Maps to double check some of my links on my haunted places page to verify I had the correct directions for Glencoe Cemetery. Imagine my surprise when I saw somebody had written a review under the location marker.

Of course I thought it was rather strange for somebody to review a cemetery so I clicked it right away. I was expecting somebody to commend the beauty of the cemetery, or the peaceful area it is in, even to pay respects for a beautiful service of a loved one. Instead, I found what appears to be a well written account of a local zombie that inhabits the area.

Greg Man, I am not sure who you are or where you live or even if you are alive, but I salute you! Feel free to check it out for yourself. Makes me wonder if there are other Zombie ratings of cemeteries around. Here are a few stock photos of the cemetery so you can see why the Zombie rated it 3 out of 3.