Once again, I attended the Midwest Haunters Convention in Columbus, OH. I hung out with Todd at the Fearscape Studios booth during the day on Saturday, June 4 and then attended the Masquerade Ball that night. I wore my recently updated costume called ‘The Experiment‘. I am very proud to have been selected as one of ten people for the Scariest Character Contest, and for the second time in my MHC history, I came in 2nd place! (The other time was with Jumbo the Clown at MHC 2009.) Seriously now, who do I have to throw in a deep pit in my basement to win 1st place in this costume contest?? I also want to congratulate The Tooth Fairy for winning the Ms. Scary Pageant. She works at a haunt in Cleveland, and her costume was sweet!

This is the first time I’ve revisited a past costume to make changes and improvements. When I made The Experiment back in October of 2009, I also turned my garage into a haunted house for Halloween. So when I got to the end of the design process on the costume, I had run out of time and energy, and the one piece blue jumpsuit was good enough to finish it off. Because I’ve never worn this costume to any of the Halloween conventions yet, I decided it would be a good one to focus my annual creative energies on, and try to bring it up to the same level of awesome as my other costumes. I think of this costume as a steampunk Frankenstein’s monster.

I turned my garage into a haunted house again this year. It consisted of a projection screen at the entrance showing various Halloween scenes, a pair of TVs showing “white noise” clips, and a table covered with real animal skulls and fake body parts. The final scare was a motion triggered metal grinder that made a loud noise and shot sparks. I wore my new giant jester costume called Freakshow.

June 5-7, 2010 ~ I wore my Freakshow costume and my wife came along to take pictures. I’m impressed each year by the creativity and quality of everyone’s costumes… and their ability to party hard all night long.