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Our Own Haunted Mansion is now CLOSED

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Our Own Haunted Mansion is now CLOSED after 5732 guests in 9 nights and just over $7000 raised for Give Kids the World Village! You can find at least one livestream per night on our Facebook page , and stay tuned as we organize so many frigthfully fun photos & videos after some much-needed rest. Our tours are closed for the season, but our fundraiser is still open at least through this week, so you still have time to add your Halloween cheer to spread joy ever farther away to critically-ill children and their families who really need it! No donation is too small, every little bit helps, and huge thanks for all your generous donations so far!

Order Your Free Tickets Now for Our Own Haunted Mansion!

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Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Order Free Tickets Now   "Make final arrangements now if you decide to join us..." Welcome Foolish Mortals! For Halloween 2024, Eerie Elegance presents Our Own Haunted Mansion based on the iconic Disneyland attraction. October 23rd to November 2nd 7-10pm Greater Rose Garden near The Alameda & 880 San Jose California Free Tickets Required -  Order Here ! Watch walls stretch before your very eyes Follow the Ghost Host through haunted hallways See a spooky séance with Madame Leota Glimpse a glowing graveyard of happy haunts ...but beware of hitchhikers following you home! Thank You for Supporting  Our Fundraiser If you appreciate what you see, please join us in supporting Give Kids the World where we will match the first $10,000 donated at our fundraising page here.  Give Kids the World Village®  is an 84-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort located near Central Florida’s most beloved attractions, where critically-ill children a

Our Own Haunted Mansion 2024 is Beginning to Materialize...

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Oh, we didn't mean to frighten you prematurely; the real chills come later!       Happy Friday the 13th with spooky season well underway! Team Eerie Elegance has been working all summer with our Halloween Helpers to make it delightfully unlivable here in this ghostly retreat. Every room has wall-to-wall creeps, and hot and cold running chills. There’s no turning back now...      New for Halloween 2024 will be FREE TICKETS REQUIRED for timed entry to help limit long lines and make room for everyone, so stay tuned here for how to order tickets, along with our full Halloween haunt dates, times & other details...Until then, keep watching our progress on  Instagram and Facebook as we make final arrangements, and we’ll see you all a little later...

Make Your Own Infinity Illusions!

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  Yes, it is already past Halfway to Halloween, and it's been such a crazy spring that I'm still finishing videos from Halloween 2023, but we are well underway with plans & projects for Halloween 2024, including hosting our first Make & Take for NorCal Haunters Group!  For our May meeting of NorCal Haunters, we hosted our “Infinity Illusions Bottomless Pit Kit” at the Eerie Elegance Estate, and it went well enough in person to provide  our full instructions and multiple examples  as a PDF download for other haunters!   We had created our  bottomless well for Halloween 2016 Castle Brittahytta , so we had personal experience, plus we scoured online for other similar effects, studying how & why which setups worked better than others. Screenshots and links are provided in the PDF download . This basic kit is plain wood 2x4s repeated as plank walls, but I also dressed ours as a bottomless pit with crumpled packing paper around programmable red lights as a quickie lava t

Happy Holidays from the Eerie Elegance Estate!

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Come see our snowy Victorian Christmas decor from our sidewalk December 23rd through New Year’s Day! During daytime you can enjoy our festive garlands & wreaths with red & gold bows, you may see our antique sleigh with friendly reindeer, and you can Step Here to Start the Singing, but every night from dusk until 10pm the Victorian carolers appear on our balcony and snow falls on the Eerie Elegance Estate! Our gates are closed and our display quiet hours are from 10pm to 10am so please be courteous to our neighborhood. Hope everyone has a Happy Holiday season! #EerieElegance #EerieEleganceEstate #VictorianChristmas #HappyHolidays #snowflakes #snow #sleigh #antiquesleigh #reindeer #animatronics #carolers #VictorianCarolers #ChristmasDecor #ChristmasDecorations #ChristmasCheer #Christmas2023 #Christmas

Happy Halloween 2023!

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"It's over! We did it! Wasn't it terrifying? What a night! Great Halloween, everybody!" After 10 show nights including our local ABC news crew joining us on Halloween night for our Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary Celebration , our grand totals were 5588 visitors and $11,534 for Give Kids the World Village! Our YouTube Halloween 2023 video playlist has updates, scroll back on our Facebook page for all the live videos posted each night, and Instagram & Facebook have lots of fun photo highlights from each show night. Huge thanks to all our guests who kindly donated to our fundraiser for Give Kids the Word Village for critically-ill children and their families to enjoy week-long, cost-free dream vacations! Our dollar total finally matched the total number of attendees by the end of Halloween night, not well above our guest count like last Halloween. You can still contribute through the end of November, and GKTW will send you tax deduction details!

Halloween 2023 - The Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary Celebration!

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Countdown to Halloween! This Halloween come celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas with Eerie Elegance starting Oct 19th! Click here for full details! Sing along with the Pumpkin Chorus Meet Jack Skellington and friends Stroll through your favorite scenes Win treats at Oogie Boogie's Lair Creep through the moonlit graveyard Cross over the holiday lines and experience this FREE, family-friendly event for all ages!