(wolf howls)
My name's Joe Allocco.
I live in Franklin Square, New York
and I do a haunted house.
Been doing it for 23 years.
I'm in my own business, Joe Faux Designs.
When it comes to my haunted house,
it allows me the freedom
to showcase my artistic abilities.
Over the years I noticed that I might have the opportunity
to put a donation bucket out for autism and cerebral palsy.
And being that my son Joseph is afflicted
with both of those disabilities,
You know, I thought maybe this was a way
that I can give back to those organizations
that helped my son.
We've had literally thousands of people
and we've raised thousands and thousands of dollars
for the organizations.
I looked at different types of old-style fireplaces
and I tried to recreate it.
(haunting music)
Take this and dip it in the glow in the dark paint,
put a little bit like that.
When the lights go off, her eyes are gonna glow.
I actually purchased a medical skeleton online,
took pantyhose, I pulled it over the entire skeleton,
and then I cut some of the pantyhose
and painted over it with liquid latex.
When it dried, it gave a very rubbery,
deteriorating-skin-like affect.
I added some moss to it, some hair,
and I really brought it to that extra level.
I like hanging out in the tent
getting donations for Autism.
We're the Stewarts and welcome to our Halloween maze.
(cackles)
Come on in, if you dare!
(screams)
I'm Tyler Stewart from Ridgewood, New Jersey.
And every year, my family turns our backyard
into a Halloween maze.
And we've been doing our Halloween maze for 24 years.
It started on my fourth birthday.
He wanted an obstacle course in the backyard.
And I did not want to spend the afternoon
in the emergency room.
So we talked Tyler into having a maze
instead of an obstacle course.
Here we have one of the doors in the maze.
You'll notice that on the front side
it looks like part of the walls.
It's covered up so that it's hidden.
People have to feel the walls
to figure out where they're going.
You better watch out; I'm getting faster!
(organ music)
Some of the things we've added to the maze over the years
include one-way doors.
We've also added one-way mirrors,
we've added roofing.
(witch cackles)
(organ music)
So this is one of our favorite effects
at the Ridgewood Halloween Maze.
It's called Pepper's Ghost.
The maze absolutely brings the community together.
It's a wonderful thing.
It's open for everyone, it's free.
A lot of people have learned about it
and so we get enormous crowds now.
Chains that bind you here for eternity!
(intense music)
Hi, I'm Laura Restivo, this is my husband Zach Restivo.
Welcome to Westbury's Field of Screams!
(screams and laughs)
When Laura and I first met,
we both found out that we love going to haunted houses.
And we figured, why not start one ourselves?
And we started collecting.
We've been doing this for about ten years.
It has gone from just props on a lawn
to a full walkthrough.
We wanted to share it more with the community
because haunted houses are so expensive.
We get about 400 people every year, maybe more.
Every year it gets bigger and bigger.
We have a doll room, floating candles, clown room.
There's jungles, vines, spiders crawling on the wall,
zombies lurching at you.
We have this hallway of sheets and you walk through it
and you just don't know what's gonna be coming.
It's mind-oggling.
I wanna give kudos to my wife on that;
that was her idea.
Thank you.
(both laugh)
If you take your time and look at everything,
it's about a 20-minute walkthrough.
We have three actual pumpkins where we shine faces onto them
to look like they're carved and singing
as you're waiting on line.
We are by far the best house in the neighborhood
for Halloween.
(cheering)
(chimes)