Published October 28, 2009 12:15 am - Remember when you were young and Halloween was scary?
Remember that one person or that one house?
Moore resident Gary Berger remembers and wants to have the house everyone else remembers. He has made a hobby out of Halloween and for the past five years, he has built a cemetery in his front yard and a haunted house with a mad scientist labratory in his garage.
Beware of the Berger Man
By Peggy Laizure
Remember when you were young and Halloween was scary?
Remember that one person or that one house?
Moore resident Gary Berger remembers and wants to have the house everyone else remembers. He has made a hobby out of Halloween and for the past five years, he has built a cemetery in his front yard and a haunted house with a mad scientist labratory in his garage.
This year, he has extended the terrors into his back yard at 1512 Turtle Lake Road.
"We will be open from 7:30 or 8 until 11 Friday night," Berger said. "And Saturday from 8 until we don't know. Until people don't show up anymore."
There is no charge to go through his yard.
"I can't imagine charging people," he said.
Berger's haunted yard has an electric chair, torture chamber, haunted forest, toxic dump with zombies and a large spider area complete with spiderwebs.
Seven actors will be at the cemetery. Berger will be the first individual people see when they enter.
"And sometimes the last they see because they turn around and leave," he said.
Working with Berger will be his wife, Sandra, sister-in-law Nettie, her boyfriend Chuck, Berger's daughter Kara and her friends.
"Kara is a sophomore at Moore High School -- the original," Berger said.
"They better be there," Berger said. "Last year we had over 400 people go through and we just keep growing. We expect a lot more this year since it is the first time we've been open two days.
"This year we have been featured in a few magazines (www.homehauntnews.com/issues/june-2009/june093.html) and mentioned on the nation's No. 1 Halloween podcast Rotting Flesh Radio," he said. "You can see a lot of the props we build at www.myspace.com/ 1512terrorlakeroad."
Other photos can be seen on www.myspace.com/1512terrorlakeroad or www.homehauntnews.com.