Welcome to Haunt Tech
There has been talk about the number of haunted houses totaling in at over 1500 in America alone and attracting 10 to 12 million patrons annually. And this is only an estimate as not every haunted house makes an official haunt listing or directory. With those kinds of numbers and few haunt blogs that I’m aware of, my thought was to begin my work here as another information resource for haunters such as myself.

My name is Kelly Anderson. I’m the owner and operator of a Halloween and haunted house supply website, www.HauntYourHouse.net which I began on my own in 2005 as another way to express my ever growing desire to play a bigger part within haunt industry a large.

I first began my involvement with haunting back in 2003 as I was asked to help with some construction of a charity fundraiser haunted house, named the “House of Shadows”. Though I was reluctant to actually work in it during operational hours as an actor, after I got a couple of nights under my belt, I quickly realized that this was now becoming an activity that was really growing on me. I found myself making the 100 mile drive from my house to the haunt every weekend throughout the following summer and all the way though October. I was definitely hooked.
By the end of year two I had been so wrapped up in my new pass time and attending the haunt tradeshows that I had started to think of running my own website selling Halloween and haunt supplies. Although my true desire was to be fabricating my own prop designs for resale, I chose to act more as a distributor to first off, get my business off the ground. And because my time was coming by allot cheaper than money for products to resell, I decided to take the time and dedicate a part of my website to talk about my involvement with the haunt I volunteer for, which has proved to be very worthwhile, as I now generate much traffic to my site with people looking for information on how to build haunted house rooms. I must also say I truly enjoy the questions and comments I get as well. No matter how much into the business and everyday life I get, an unexpected email question on how I built something is always great to bring me back to what I love doing, and that’s designing and building haunted attractions.

First off, I’d like to set a bit of direction for my blog so you have an idea what to expect. Every week or so (for now), I’d like to post a bit more about myself and my involvement with the haunt. I will explain a little on my style of designing and delivering scares, just to set a path so everyone knows where I’m coming from.

Secondly, I’ve used some pretty cool products I’ve found at tradeshows or other online sites. I found many other devices intended for other uses that can make for excellent products to build haunts with, and bring great scares. Some of the products I’ve used and liked, I’ve decided that if they are good for me that they were good enough to carry as a product line to offer to my customers. I have a few products in mind that I will mention in up coming blogs that I see fit. But I want to stress that the purpose of this blog, post after post, is not intended to be any only marketing campaign for my business, but to bring up many different aspects of operating a haunted attraction and elaborate on that point, with the intent to not only educate and promote the haunt industry, but to learn from all your comments as well.

Lastly I want to invite everyone to respond and ask questions. I respect each of your contributions to this blog and I ask for the same courtesy in return. I feel there is much knowledge to gain from all of you and I’m confident that this can be made a very worthwhile resource for new and seasoned haunters alike.

Kelly Anderson

HauntYourHouse.net