HAUNTED CLOCKS



How It Started Out:

Attention to detail is always the key. A haunted clock is the perfect quick and easy prop that helps add a small measure of fear to any room. The reason for this is simple, clocks are common, everyday items that can be found in every room of the house, and it is one item that can draw a persons attention right to itself.



IDEA 1
Create Your Own 'Disney's Haunted Mansion' Clock

- STEP 1 -

Right Click the above image and choose 'SAVE AS TYPE' = Bitmap (*.bmp)
to download the image of Disneys Haunted Mansion clock.
Special thanks to Wraith of the HOWL/Halloween-L list for supplying the image!
email Wraith at: mickeymouse@cts.com If you require the image in a larger/clearer format.

- STEP 2 -
Re-size the image in Windows Paintbrush to the approximate size of your clock and print out on a color printer.

- STEP 3 -

Cut out the image and poke out a hole in the dead center using a needle.

- STEP 4 -

REMOVE THE BATTERY OR UNPLUG THE CLOCK !

- STEP 5 -

Then carefully remove the faceplate,

- STEP 6 -

EVEN MORE CAREFULLY remove the second hand, then the minute hand, then the hour hand.

- STEP 7 -

Place some looped scotch tape ( if you dont want to ruin your clock ) or glue ( if this is a permanent prop ) on the clocks face at the hours of 12 - 3 - 6 - 9. Slide the image of the clocks face onto the clock, with the axel that the hands were on going thru the hole you made in the image. Press down on the image firmly to attach to the scotch tape or glue.

- STEP 8 -

Carefully place back in this order-the hour hand, the minute hand, then the second hand. Replace the faceplate and then replace the battery or plug the clock back in.

- STEP 9 -

Display your clock, step back and enjoy ! If you feel the hands are too 'dark' try painting them with glow-in-the-dark paint and color in the clock numerals with a yellow highlighter and illuminate with a black light. ( Quick haunter tidbit - Things written in yellow highlighter glow under blacklight. )

- NOTE: To make this effect EVEN more interesting, instead of using the standard clock, purchase a backwards running clock and/or combine it with the other effects listed - like using Tiny Tim arms for clock hands!



IDEA 2
Take a normal cuckoo clock and replace the bird with a tiny skull that pops out and screams on the hour. The tiny tim skull can be purchased at Boneyard Bargains

Some additional work would be required to make the event trigger every two minutes instead of every hour.



IDEA 3 A
Take a normal pendulum clock, which can be purchased at Scientific Surplus and replace the pendulum with a small hanged man. ( A childs action figure toy can be used with some burlap wrapped around the head and string tying his hands behind its back. )



IDEA 3 B
Take that same pendulum clock and instead of a hanged man figure, use a tiny tim skeleton from Boneyard Bargains as a pendulum. Use a second tiny tim skeletons arms as the hands of the clock.



IDEA 4
Make a clock that runs REALLY fast (about 1 minute clock time per 1 second real time) (This would be good for any Twilight Zone / Time Machine Room) Now, before someone speaks up and says 'REPLACE THE CLOCK MECHANISM WITH A FASTER MOTOR', thats a tricky proposistion at best. Now someone is going to say 'CHANGE THE GEARS' but have you TRIED to change the gears of a clock? Well, I have and it is darn near impossible. The best solution that I have tried was gluing the minute hand on top of the second hand, trimming the excess off the second hand and moving the hour hand to the minute hand location, (some epoxy was required) but there is one drawback to this process in that you no longer have a second hand.



IDEA 5
A backwards running clock -> now these DO exist, but they have the numbers on the clock face backwards as well (Please see pic below...) so it can still be a useable clock, so you will need to purchase a normal clock that has exactly the same size clock face and switch the faces of the two clocks. This will give you two clocks where their behavior isnt 'normal.' Very creepy effect too when they are placed side by side.



IDEA 6
An L.E.D. clock that will flash KILL, DIE, FEAR and other short words about once every 30 seconds.
Luckily, Fantazein makes a clock that can do just this, which can be purchased below.



IDEA 7
A clock with 'Dancing' hour and minute hands swaying in beat to the song 'Lets do the Time Warp Again' Just hide a tape player in infinite loop with the song playing, and rip out the clock mechanism entirely and replace with a small motor that oscillates back and forth ( like a metronome.)



HAUNTED CLOCKS THAT YOU CAN BUY




Cute Halloween Clock - Click Here to buy this clock!

Makes every hour the witching hour! A spooky sound announces the hour, while the moon lights up behind a gnarled tree. Eerie figures encircle this scary scene and mark each hour. Uses 3 AA batteries (not incl.). 9-1/2" diameter.
Price: $12.98




Digital Message Clock - Click Here to buy this clock!

Program your own messages that float in the air!
Price $99.00




Hanging Man Clock - Click Here to buy this clock!

This working polyfoam clock features a hanging man that swings as the pendulum. (Requires (1)AA battery not included)
Price $44.99




Backwards Clock - Click Here to buy this clock!

This working clock runs backwards! (Requires (1)AA battery not included)
Price $20.00




MIDNIGHT MADNESS - Click Here to buy this clock!

This is a giant Grandfather Clock with a secrete surprise hiding inside. When you walk up to the clock it looks normal. When customers walk past the motion sensor you'll first see inside the clock revealing a ghoul. Then all of a sudden two doors swing open on the clock and the ghoul leaps out scaring the customer. ***Motion Sensor not included. ***Special Order - please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.
Price $4,399.00




GRANDCRYPTER CLOCK - Click Here to buy this clock!

Own one of the most traditional props in a haunted house with a screaming twist. One minute it's just an ordinary haunted grandfather clock when customers walk past this clock a light is activated inside which reveals a full body skeleton.
Price $1,887.00




GRIM REAPER CLOCK - Click Here to buy this clock!

Grim Reaper Clock - It really works and you will know when your time is up! Collector Item! Measures 12" high by 8.5" wide, operates on two AA batteries(NOT Included).
Price $10.95



Here would be an interesting clock to build for your haunt!
The Coffin Clock from the movie 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'




Room Idea for a Haunted House
‘THE CLOCK ROOM’



A room filled from wall to cieling with various kinds of clocks. The hands are permanently stuck at midnight (glued ? ), but all seconds hands and pendulums move as normal.

A sound effect of TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK plays VERY loudly in the background.

When the patrons reach the center of the room, the sound effect of chimes striking 12 starts to go off.

An actor (dressed in a victorian suit or a lab scientist coat) runs up to the patrons and starts to scream on the verge of panic;

"What are you still doing here?"
"You need to get out of here, it's midnight already!"
"Oh NO! There isn't enough TIME! THEY will be here at any moment!"
"Didn't you all notice that your watches run slower when you came here?"
"Oh my goodness, you don't KNOW! Didn't you realize that TIME is passing differently for you!!!!"


At which point the actor wipes his brow and looks at his watch until the chimes stop.

(All references to what is arriving and when it arrives will be deliberately vague)

(When the chimes stop at 12, the TICK-TOCK sounds stop and it becomes dead quiet)

At which point the actor starts to shuttle everyone out of the room muttering...
"You need to get out of here now! You need to go! Go! Go! Go!"
"Dear me, dear me.... You won't make it out of here fast enough! You won't make it out of here at all!"


To make this work, have all clocks be AC powered and simply ("flip the switch" or use a timer) to stop the power (and thus stopping all the clocks and TICK-TOCK audio in unison)

When they leave, turn power back on and reset cd track/cassette tape for next group.

What is nice about this room it that it wouldn't be that hard to build and pull off. One actor in the room, one person controlling audio and power. And the only props you would need to purchase is many, many clocks along the walls. Many of which could be purchased at Goodwill / Salvation Army.

Even if you had to rely on multiple DC powered clocks, simply have the actor point out to the patrons...

"It's happened! They got time to stop at midnight!"
"It will be night TIME forever!"
"THEY will never have to fear sunlight again!"


That way you don't have to worry about stopping the clocks at all. The clocks will LOOK like they stopped at midnight since you glued the hands at 12:00.









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