Picture of Ghostride Productions corpse. They are a Seattle haunted house supplier

Seattle haunted house proprietor and Ghostride Productions head Michael Chaille probably thought I was exaggerating when I told him that March 10, 2008 was one of the best days of my life. I wasn’t. It was not a great time in my life. I had lost my life savings in a startup and dropped by Ghostride Productions because I’m a Halloween nut. Chatting with a hardheaded businessman whose job is “making monsters” is one of the great joys of my life. And if you’re in the haunted house business, you know Ghostride. Their products aren’t cheap, because Michael simply refused to do anything that won’t hold up for many seasons in a haunted house. If you plan to buy a scare from Ghostride, you know it will last for years to come.

On March 10, 2008 I sauntered in as they were getting ready for a trade show.  They were packing up animatronics, their ever-popular animal carcass line, and any number of zombies and corpses. I pitched in and helped with the packing for a couple hours. I almost certainly impeded their progress, but was quietly having an absolute ball while people said things like “If we take out the turkeys and one of the pigs and detach the zombie’s arms, we can save a crate.”

Michael doesn’t know I’ve had these shots on my iPhone for the last year and that I whip them out almost as often as the pictures of my kids. So here you go: the first unauthorized pictures from the Seattle House of Horrors, the newest of the WA haunted houses.

–Tom Campbell