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Haunts: 2001 Walkthrough Entire Walkthrough | Open Floor Plan in New Window 
Bug TunnelThe Tunnel The shelves in my garage make a very skinny walkway leading along the entire side and out of the garage. I noticed that, unlike any of the areas we had worked with before, this section was strong enough for people to actually bump into the walls without our entire haunt falling on top of them. For this reason, I decided to hang fabric from the entrance and exit and make this hallway as dark as possible.  Using a staple gun, I secured large, flattened cardboard boxes to the shelves to create the walls of the tunnel. The ceiling was added by laying large, flat peices of plywood across the top of the two shelf units. The Bugs After obtaining silouhette images of a spider, cockroach, and scorpion, I traced these bugs onto heavy paper and made cut out stencils using an Exacto knife. I then used the stencils and black spray paint to paint nearly a hundred bugs covering the walls. The Cobwebs Using long strips of duct tape, we hung many long black threads from the ceiling of the tunnel. When guests walked through these invisible threads, it felt as though they were walking through cobwebs. The Lighting As noted before, inside the tunnel it was extremely dark. To give the best possible effect, we cut a hole out of one of the walls and placed a strobe light there, directed into the tunnel. The strobe was set to a slower setting, so a little more than every second, it would flash, showing the guest walls covered in bugs. 
The floor of the Bug tunnel was made with two sturdy plywood boards. These boards were raised in the center by a thin length of wood, so the entire wooden floor would rock back and forth as guests walked across. To enhance the effect, the first board was stablized by adding supports to the sides. When a guest had walked through half of the tunnel, the floor would suddenly drop as they stepped on it, creating a very unsettling effect. Carpet was added over the length of the floor and duct taped to the floor on each side. This was so guests would not trip while stepping up onto the rickety floor. 
As with any effect, photographs do very little to show the overall effectiveness of the Bug Tunnel. 
Walking Through Cobwebs instructions can be found here.
Rickety Floor instructions can be found here.Index | Entire Walkthrough
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