Ever startle yourself with your own props?

[spinwitch]

My house is on a slope, so the crawl space underneath is high enough to stand upright in some areas. Lacking a basement, it's a good place to store the monster mud statues.

One day in mid-summer, one of my cats escaped and ran under the house. I ducked in after him--and then screeched at the group of "People" standing there. Why I thought a band of gypsies had moved in under the house . . .

[howlin mad jack]

Does'nt happen very often, but I've startled myself a few times when walking into the garage to get something and forgot I'd set one of my props out to work on, and jump and curse myself for forgetting it was out. Have to laugh and feel a bit foolish!! My wife loves the props when they're in the yard on display, but refuses to go into the shed, garage, or attic at night because the props have startled her so many times, she says one day her heart is going to just stop!!

[Haunted Bayou]

When I first got my Jason prop I put him on my front porch next to the door. He looked really creepy and approaching him gave me the willies. One night I was staring him down to go into the house when a couple of cats got in a fight across the street.
I bolted into the house....couldn't get in there fast enough.

[hedg12]

I usually set up my graveyard about a week before Halloween, & will put out a few props each evening & put them back in at night. A couple of years ago I was doing this & couldn't fit our Edwardian butler back in the storage shed for the evening, so I set him inside the door to my barn. My wife opened the door to the barn the next morning, saw
Ed standing there, & pretty much freaked. I heard the scream from the house. It took a while to live that one down...

[nixie]

I got my sister today with, of all things, the White Rabbit! I had him sitting in a chair in the living room for a costume fitting when she stoppped in to drop something off. We were all in the back of the house, so the first thing she saw was this human-sized rabbit in a derby hat staring at her! She freaked out a bit, but laughed about it.

I don't like packing and unpacking my props from the gypsy wagon where they're stored. Their packed in like sardines, and they all have those darn following eyes, so when I'm in the back, I feel like they've got me cornered and they're all staring at me. It's a bit unsettling.

[She_wolf]

That's a daily issue with me...since I am working on my props I keep them in my room with me. The only problem is when I wake up in the middle of the night, I get a little weird about them staring at me. I guess the nightlight wasn't such a great solution....lol

[Pumpkin5]

Okay, okay, you guys may be embarassed by being scared by one of your own props, but most of those are 3D characters... I have to admit I freaked out over a cardboard skeleton. I had hung a full size cardboard skeleton on my french door that leads into our sunroom and pretty much every morning in October I'd come downstairs bopping into the kitchen and forget the stupid thing was there and I'd scream when I saw it. You would think I would move it, but I have to admit, a little scare in the morning starts you out on your toes. Kind of sick and twisted, huh?

[Eeeekim]

A few week ago I got one of those talking pumpkin inserts from radio shack. I had purchased it on my lunch hr. and Thought it would be fun to try it out on my co-workers so i put it in the corner of a window in the bathroom. Will it worked great, Made a few people pee on the wall and a we all had a few laughs about it. Then I had to excuse myself from the conversation because Nature called, and somehow between the the break-room and the bathroom i forgot about the lurking pumpkin insert.

[LairMistress]

Originally Posted by Eeeekim

A few week ago I got one of those talking pumpkin inserts from radio shack. I had purchased it on my lunch hr. and Thought it would be fun to try it out on my co-workers so i put it in the corner of a window in the bathroom. Will it worked great, Made a few people pee on the wall and a we all had a few laughs about it. Then I had to excuse myself from the conversation because Nature called, and somehow between the the break-room and the bathroom i forgot about the lurking pumpkin insert.

That's too funny! I have a battery-op laugh box that came out of an old stuffed troll that I got one Halloween (1989). The poor troll got ruined, but the box still worked, so I kept it to make an imp with it someday (still haven't done that yet!). I guess I must have been testing it once to see if it still worked, and I forgot to remove the battery when I put it back. Some things shifted in the box when I was in the garage by myself one afternoon, and it went off, scared the heck out of me, I nearly dropped my groceries. I forgot all about that!

[Regions Beyond]

I have done it to myself a few times, with the "voodoo lady" as I call her: very creepy human sized rubber prop.



My girlfriend has freaked out at her too, if we have her out in the backyard in her spot and you see her in the morning, lurking in the bushes facing the house...