The Quickest of Welcomes

Welcome to the Southern Spooks blog page, a place where I will be documenting and discussing my journey into the world of haunted houses and haunted attractions. There will be fun stories, insider information, regurgitated training courses and classes, and even a few creative ideas trickled in. To protect myself, you can just refer to me as Jaz, your resident Wicked Witch of the South. I'm sure no one will be interested enough to try and figure out who I am (and if you do find out, don't ruin the mystery for everyone else, okay?) Hell, I'm sure not many people will even see this blog, but who cares? This is going to be fun and it'll help keep the creative juices flowing during the off season. To whoever is reading this, thank you for checking out the blog. I hope you enjoy it.

-Jaz ☾

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"Know Your Place"

So, I'm sure a few of you are wondering why I stopped writing my blog for a while now. Sure, I can say that "I got busy during haunt season" or "I've been working on blah blah blah..." (insert terrible excuse here). But I think it's better to be honest. I mean, we're all one big haunt family, right? When I first started haunt, I used to have this spark. I would talk about it non-stop. I'd want to learn everything I could. I would get these butterflies in my stomach every time I thought about it. I was so passionate that I didn't care what anyone thought. Haunt was my life. I thought it would always be like that. I'm not saying I lost that spark, but it's very true to say that some people wanted to snuff out my spark. Some people snuffed it out without even realizing they did it. It really hit me when I went to my first haunt convention...and then it just spiraled out of control from there. For years, I had worked my ass off...

Diamond In The Rough

To close out this month’s theme centered around auditioning, I thought I’d recognize a special kind of person in the haunt community. The kind of person who just seems to stumble their way into this crazy and weird world we live in for three months out of the year. And it’s a shame I forgot about these kind of people before since, well, I was one of those people. So, it’s time to go back to my roots and speak directly to you, walk-on haunters. Just like me, walk-ons are those people who seem to magically appear in the middle of the season and just fit into the haunt world, as if they were born to scare. Rarely do walk-ons every really audition. Now, you may be thinking, “but, Jaz, if I don’t audition, how do I get a part?” Well, kids, gather around and let me tell you a little story about how I did just that. If you’ve been reading the blog since the beginning, you probably know I started off as a volunteer behind the scenes. I was the last person anyone would exp...

A Little Update

I've written this post almost a dozen times, but I'm not even sure where to begin. Do I write from the heart? Do I write about the state of the world? Do I pretend nothing has changed? What do I do? It feels like that's the overall thought. "What do I do?" With haunt season approaching, a lot is still up in the air and things appear uncertain. One thing that I do know for certain is that us haunters will find a way to do what we love. I've been seeing people showing off their makeup and set building skills online. Classes that would normally be exclusive to haunt conventions have been streaming for free on Facebook.(Which is an amazing opportunity for those who are wanting to make it in the industry. So, thank you to any companies that have been giving classes and plan on giving classes online!) Even little things, like making spooky themed face masks and decorating your yard with skulls and tombstones have proven that the haunt community will survive the...

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