Our attraction is a front yard display that is free for all to visit. It's a cemetery theme with tombstones, mausoleum, flying ghosts, and cemetery fence with a gated entrance. Suitable for young and old as our haunt is tame, but very fascinating to see!

We usually run the display after dark for 3 nights a year, October 29 - 31. Look for specific times and location each October.

You can post comments or questions to us from our Guestbook. Or you may e-mail us.



Map to Raven Manor

Raven Manor 2007

When:
Monday October 29th - Wednesday October 31st, 2007
The display runs from 7 to 10 PM each night


Where:
9556 South 4240 West
South Jordan, Utah


Directions:
-From Bangerter HWY head west at either 9000 South or 9800 South until you reach 4000 West (first traffic light west of Bangerter HWY)

-Turn onto 4000 West and head to 9580 South

-Turn onto 9580 South (you will be heading west)

-Turn RIGHT at 4240 West (2nd street past Welby Elementary School)

-We are on the west side of the street at 9556 South. Just look for the house with the ghosts!



Frequently Asked Questions:

How long have you been doing this kind of thing?
The theme and name of Raven Manor was created for Halloween 2001, and continues to grow some each year. I started creating Halloween displays when I was about 10 years old. As a teenager a couple of friends and I always did a walk through haunt at our family home. This ended when I got married and moved from home as I didn't have the time and space to keep it going. It was 10 years later, Halloween 1999 that I started up again with a front yard display at our home. Now that the Raven Manor theme is established, we can re-use the same props every year and continue to add to it.

Where did your display items come from?
Just about all of it is hand made, with ideas from the Internet. The tombstones are made of extruded foam board, cut, glued, and painted. The epitaphs are carved out of the foam by hand with a hobby knife. The ghosts are made from Styrofoam heads and covered in sheer fabric. The eyes are LED's powered by 9V batteries. The mausoleum, cemetery gate and fence were custom made from wood and some PVC. Read more about each project in the Projects section.

Where do you store all of this stuff?
Where don't I store it? If storage weren't a concern I would be building a lot more! It takes up a considerable amount of storage space. Everything so far is stored at my home here and there. The mausoleum breaks down into pieces to make it more manageable to store. All the cemetery gate and fence is on a shelf I built above our garage door. Some of the mausoleum walls are there too, and the rest is in the basement. Below are some pictures of the shelves I had built above my garage door. There's only about 27" of height clearance, but it gives me 128 square feet of storage and works quite well.


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