Owner of the NEW HAUNTED HOUSE IN HANOVER!

Running haunted houses for longer than she probably cares to count, Rusty has 1000 ideas and enough skill at crafts to pull off all of them.  She's offered up her ideas, her talents and her house for assembling our Halloween treats.  Plus she cooks like you wouldn't believe.

Jeff put on his first Haunted House back in the 1970s, and he's got some tremendous ideas of how best to terrify kids.  While we can't use all of them, he's helped us a lot with thoughts on timings, lightings and effects.  We think of him as a sort of "Brooks Street:  West Coast Annex".  When we get fabulously wealthy, we'll all fly him out for Halloween someday...

Our behind the scenes guru.  The creative genius, Lesley is always thinking about what she can do to make the house better.  The queen of the graveyard, Lesley put days into building the gravestones.  She also handles the fog work, the fire in the windows, lighting, the ghost screen, painting, costumes, pumpkin-carving and the list goes on.  Since 2003, she's been making personal appearances at Brooks, and can usually be found lurking behind the scenes.

Kali handles the younger set, and is the artist of the group.  Her creativity knows no bounds.  From her gypsy days (complete with fortunes), Kali graduated to her wicked witch world, where she handed bug infested potions out to children.  Recently Kali could be found handing out balloons, as well.  She too is an expert pumpkin carver  With her photoshop expertise, she's constantly helping out with flyers, handouts and creative ideas.

Ok, so here we go.  Steve is the newcomer of the bunch, and to be honest, we weren't quite sure how he was going to work out.  He seemed quiet and reserved, as lawyers will do, so we were curious.  Throwing him in the deep end, we asked him to be the main pirate (Barbossa) last year, and Steve was easily the hit of the show.  EASILY.  A combination of scary and nice, Steve had youngsters coming up to him smiling and teenagers a little nervous.  Hollywood definitely lost out when he became a lawyer.

Kelly, the beautiful owner of our former haunted house.  She allowed us to have our house in Medford from 2000-07, and was always very helpful in both providing the candy as well as handing it out to the more leery patrons.  She's also one of the more fabulous pirates you'll ever see.  And she's carved her share of pumpkins..

Ahhhh, yes.  Kim.  Where would we be without her?  She's always handling the audio/visual part of things, and does a lot of our artwork.  With her creative ideas, and last minute problem solving, she's a huge part of what makes our haunted house work.  And we can't even BEGIN to describe her jack-o-lantern expertise.  After a slow start, she is hands down the Queen Carver of brookwood road.

Some guy we found.

Lisa is a co-habitant of the Brooks home.  Since 2000, she's been helping out with carving pumpkins, creative ideas, the fire in the windows, and handing out candy and treats.  Always more than willing to chat with the folks visiting, she's a whiz at reassuring the younger set when they get a little scared about approaching the house.

Nick is a master at changing his appearance, and was extremely convincing as Jason.  With excellent ideas and a near perfect attitude, Nick sold not only the kids, but almost all of the adults, in his role as a bloodthirsty killer.  In reality, he's a great guy with a lot of enthusiasm, and we love having him on the crew.

Since almost the very beginning, Laura has been an extremely vital part of the hauntings.  Starting with the dry ice fiasco back in Weymouth, Laura has willingly subjected herself to the most ridiculous elements of Halloween without complaint.  And she always brings a beer 2 seconds before you need one.  We love Laura.

Creative consultants extraordinaire, these folks have some of the best ideas going.  Judy has come up repeatedly with Martha Stewart moments that turn a normal house into a haunted one (but not TOO haunted).  She's also handed out more candy with more smiles than anyone we know.  Dick, from the very first, has done tons to make Halloweens memorable.  He's picked up dry ice and stored it in his freezer for days, he's built coffins, dressed skeletons, helped with 20 foot screens, lighting, sounds, and handed out candy.  Last year's project?  The Treasure Chest.

Allison has the perfect brain for Halloween planning.  Over the years she's contributed thousands of ideas, including tips for the graveyard, costumes, lighting, audio, surprises, and one of our best effects:  Mrs. Bates.  Always on the lookout for new ideas, you never know what her warped mind will come up with next.  We think it comes from her mother.

Shawn and Nicole combined to scare and feed kids extremely effectively.  While Nicole handed out candy in her cute little costume, Shawn frightened parents and children alike in his Scream outfit.  All part of the fun.

Michelle has come by a number of times, always offering a non-scary alternative to kids who were a little afraid of the house.  She'd deliver candy all the way across the street if she had to.  Recently she brought Dan with her, who helped out by doing just about everything.  We love those kind of people.

KJ has been helping us out off and on for years now, and we always look forward to having her.  She's ALWAYS helping out however she can, whether it's setting up, dressing up, handing out candy, or putting stuff away.  All this and 400 years of school, too!

A shout-out to Mike, our Consulting Canuck.  It was Mike's idea first to go high-tech in our Halloween endeavors.  He found some great contraptions, introducing sounds, motion detection, iPods, AC relays and audio/visual synching.  His expertise and suggestions have resulted in talking gravestones, interactive lighting, fire effects and contributed to Mrs. Bates.

Our Michaels connection, Sue has helped us select some of the best crafts for our house.  She's also come over and helped out with a ton of different things on Halloween night.  She's got some great ideas, smiles almost constantly, and helps clean up.  How can you beat that?

Patty came over and was constantly looking for ways to help out.  Whether it was sorting out balloons, handing out candy, keeping people company, helping to clean up, making sure that the people on the roof got food, chatting with neighbors, or anything else.  She was wonderful.