What treachery! We were out of town for business during the premier weekend for Houston’s haunted houses, thus, we have nothing to report back to you. Of course, if any of you would like to, we invite you to leave an informative review about the weekend (see below on how to comment).

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Other confessions…
…We realized we had not updated the calendars on The Carnage and Nightmare on the Bayou pages. That situation has now been resolved.
…We love baseball and would like to congratulate the Astros on winning the NL Wild Card. Go ‘Stros!

Today, packaged with the Houston Chronicle was a set of 3D anaglyph glasses. These red and blue viewers happen to be the most original concept for a coupon we have ever seen. With the glasses a visitor can get $2.00 off an adult ticket to “Mummy: the inside story” at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

So with that, we decided to take advantage of this opportunity…we decided to make our own 3D pic to post right here. So we got on the net and Googled “how to make 3D images.” We found a site, downloaded a couple of programs, took several photographs, tinkered around a bit and came up with something decent to show you. This is a picture of the computer that puts HoustonHaunts.com together (that head is my door knob cover).

If any of you out there have some extra time on your hands and end up putting together your own “scary” 3D pic, send them our way, we’ll see what we can do to post them here. HH

This is a big weekend coming up for haunted houses in Houston! The Carnage, Castle of Doom, The Haunted Trails, Phobia, The Sanitarium, and Screamworld all kick off the rain-delayed season this Friday, September 30th. Nightmare on the Bayou opens its doors on Saturday, and on Sunday, we get to see the debut of a new haunt…The Mansion. By the way, if you haven’t seen their website, you should.

In other news, apparently Stephen King doesn’t like Halloween. Who would have figured? We wonder what would happen if King channeled all of that dark creativity into a haunted house. We don’t know about you guys, but we would shell out 30 clams or more to venture in.

ScreamWorld has notified us that they will not be open tonight (Sunday, September 25th), but said they will be up and ready to go next weekend. We’ll keep you updated here if we hear from the others.

Well, our relationship with Hurricane Rita was short lived. I stayed up until about 1am Friday night to watch some very powerful wind, fell asleep and didn’t wake until 9am the next morning. Sad to see that nothing woke me from my slumber. There was plenty of tree debris litered on most of the streets, but in all honesty, I have experienced worse thunderstorms than this. I went to our FM 1960 perch one last time for a follow up photo.

FM 1960 – Saturday, Sep 24, 9:15am

As you can see, nothing big to show. Through this experience I’ve thought about one hitting us in the future. I can’t say first hand what those out on our highways experienced, but I’m afraid it may convince some who shouldn’t stay put, to ride out the next hurricane.

Good luck to those coming home, we’ll be here waiting. HH

It’s about 9:30 now and we are starting to feel the much-less-than anticipated effects of Hurricane Rita. We are not letting down our guard quite yet though, the bulk of it is still supposed to come. Below are a few more shots of FM 1960. There isn’t much to see aside from the dwindling population on the road.

FM 1960 – Friday, Sep 23, 12:15pm

FM 1960 – Friday, Sep 23, 7:30pm

“Impending doom.” Those couple of words repeat over and over in my head when I think about Hurricane Rita. I find it fascinating that we know that a storm is most definitely coming our way so many days ahead of time. Looking up at the sky, seeing how nice it is (aside from all the exhausting heat) knowing that before long, all of this will change. It really doesn’t seem like such a surprise that so many died in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. One day you have nice weather on the beach, the next day your house is being blown over and then covered in water by a huge storm surge. What a drastic change.

We are sticking it out up here in north Houston, mostly because we are excitement junkies. Secondly, because I think there is definitely something spooky about deserted streets, lightning, thunder, and tornadoes. Thirdly, because I used to want to be a meteorologist, and finally because I didn’t want to get stuck in traffic. So, here are some pictures we’ve taken from the same spot on FM 1960 over the last 2 days. We’ll try to show the change…

FM 1960 – Wednesday, Sep 21, 1:00pm

FM 1960 – Thursday, Sep 22, 8:45am

FM 1960 – Thursday, Sep 22, 7:00pm

For those of you who are sticking around, we’ll try to get some more updates before we pack up the computer tomorrow. Good luck to everyone and PLEASE be careful out there!

Well, after a long day hearing how everybody is getting off of work and school for the rest of the week, it would seem safe to assume that only the dead will be walking the halls of the 4 attractions that were to open this weekend. Of course, we looked at their websites and listened to their recorded phone messages and they gave us no reason to believe otherwise. Any attraction actors or owners out there that would like to give us an update?

The calender page is finally seeing the light of day and we are supposed to have 3 attractions open this weekend. Of course, unless you live under a rock, you also know that we are supposed to have some wild weather this weekend. If we get any new information regarding the haunts and the storm known as Rita, we’ll let you know asap. See you soon… HH

What is the one candy that makes you think about Halloween? For many, it is those little white, red and yellow striped candies known as candy corn. I can’t stand them, but regardless, they have become so engraved into our concept of Halloween that the Jones Soda Company has done something we consider cool but frightening. They went and made themselves a candy corn concoction. At first glance, I felt the urge to barf and gulp one down all at the same time (I am a sucker for new original drinks to drink). I prepared myself a cup with ice and popped open one these shot-sized sodas. What did it taste like? Kind of like maple syrup. And the color? I was hoping they some how magically packaged the soda so that the liquid would seperate out into 3 color bands after pouring, but alas, it was only a single rich yellow color. I can’t help but think that kids would profess to love this stuff just because of it’s great novelty. Heck, I profess to like the stuff because it’s a great novelty, but my taste buds would argue otherwise. HH

Almost forgot, apparently you can only find this stuff at Target.