Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a real haunted house?
Mark Collester and Jennifer Luevano have some idea.
And you thought parenthood was scary?
Along with Luevano?s two sons, ages 8 and 15, and a half-dozen familial recruits, this clan of gore fans transforms the yard around their little brick house in north Denver into a spooky neighborhood attraction that has been scaring the bejesus out of even the coolest Halloween revelers.
Mmm, brains.
?I know we had someone pee his pants last night,? Collester says during a daylight tour of his frightful yard. ?Tomorrow (on Halloween), the line will be down the block!?
What began as a fun family tradition ?that gets worse and worse each year,? Collester says, has become a fundraiser for a nearby school, Trevista at Horace Mann. A member of the school?s Parent Teacher Organization collects a $1 admission and a can for Food Bank of the Rockies.
After being open just one night, the family had collected a storage tub full of food donations.
That admission is peanuts for the barrel of spooks Collester and Luevano have in store for their visitors, who enter through a creaky gate covered with spider webs and creepy-crawlies before arriving in a front yard populated by monsters and killers. Follow a scary path around the house, past dismembered body parts and baby goblins and through a spooky twisted forest. Then guests arrive in a demented butcher?s lair where the only escape is through a bloody (cutout) refrigerator and a gore-covered bathroom.
Jennifer Luevano peeks through the bloody, cut-through refrigerator near ?the butcher?s room? at the haunted house in the yard outside of her real house. Luevano?s boyfriend, Mark Collester, and friends begin constructing the popular neighborhood attraction weeks before Halloween.
All of this is staffed by relatives who make up a motley cast that includes a werewolf, a ?dead bather,? a live skeleton, a butcher and, Luevano says, ?We have the little one inside the cage.?
(The little one is a pint-sized relative who acts like a zombie kid inhabiting a broken-down old reptile cage.
Where do all the props come from? The trees for the twisted forest were salvaged from a defunct community theater, Collester says. A construction worker by trade, he builds this outdoor maze. Many of the decorations ? especially those that move and speak ? are scored during post-Halloween sales. And the rest? ?We?re CraigsList fanatics!?
See it all for yourself through Wednesday night at 4326 Wyandot St. Admission to the house is $1 plus a can of food, and benefits Trevista at Horace Mann and Food Bank of the Rockies.
Source: http://blogs.denverpost.com/coloradoathome/2012/10/30/denver-familys-haunted-halloween-house/
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