Mapping out Halloween Spirit: Festive Pacific Northwest Displays

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,760Last year Gina's, um,200:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,320Gina's theme was,300:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,600"Scooby-Doo."400:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,360She had all those "Scooby-Doo" characters,500:00:09,360 --> 00:00:10,960but she had them as skeletons,600:00:10,960 --> 00:00:11,840and then she had,700:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,400she had a custom built mystery machine.800:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,600There was a photo off.900:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,680You could actually get it and take pictures.1000:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,840That is making her reappearance this year.1100:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,840That is so cool.1200:00:21,840 --> 00:00:39,440[Music]1300:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,200Hello creepy people.1400:00:41,200 --> 00:00:42,400My name is Cassie,1500:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,200and this is PNW Haunts and Homicides,1600:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,120where me and my co-host Caitlyn1700:00:47,120 --> 00:00:48,800usually chat about true crime,1800:00:48,800 --> 00:00:49,680the paranormal,1900:00:49,680 --> 00:00:50,880and all things creepy2000:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,800in the Pacific Northwest.2100:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,480She will not be joining me today,2200:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,840but I have a very fun bonus for you guys.2300:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,960We're going to be talking about Halloween display maps2400:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,320in the Pacific Northwest in Beyond.2500:01:04,320 --> 00:01:05,760Hello, this is Jason.2600:01:05,760 --> 00:01:07,120Hi, this is Diana.2700:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,120We are with PNWCL.2800:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,160What's PNW stand for?2900:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,400Pacific Northwest.3000:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,600Silly person.3100:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,200We have PNW in our name too,3200:01:17,200 --> 00:01:18,640and everyone's like, "What does that mean?"3300:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,160[Laughter]3400:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,080Pacific Northwest.3500:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,920So what is the CL stand for?3600:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,200Christmas lights.3700:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,400That's what we started with.3800:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,680Oh, okay.3900:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,040But now you're doing Halloween stuff.4000:01:31,040 --> 00:01:32,080Is that correct?4100:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,080We do Christmas, Halloween, Easter.4200:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,320We've done St. Patrick's Day.4300:01:38,320 --> 00:01:39,840We've done Veterans Day.4400:01:39,840 --> 00:01:40,640Fourth of July.4500:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,360Fourth of July.4600:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,120Whatever people want to put up a display for,4700:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,960we'll do a map.4800:01:44,960 --> 00:01:47,200We even did one year during COVID,4900:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,000a decorated porch parade for mardi gras.5000:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,160Oh my gosh, that is so fun.5100:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,120I missed that.5200:01:55,120 --> 00:01:55,920Where was I?5300:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,480That one was mostly in Portland.5400:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,840I was dealing with the Portland mardi gras crew.5500:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,000Great folks.5600:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,480We actually zoomed chat while I was driving off the McLeod heel fairy.5700:02:08,480 --> 00:02:08,960That was fun.5800:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,640Oh my goodness.5900:02:10,640 --> 00:02:11,200Remember that.6000:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,160That was interesting.6100:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,840So tell us a little bit more about this map,6200:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,520because I'm a very intrigued.6300:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,360Well, we've been mapping holiday displays now going on.6400:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,640This is our 11th year.6500:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,280Eight of those we've done Halloween.6600:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,360So far this year, we have 50 unique Halloween displays6700:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,480so far on a non-published map.6800:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,640Last year, we had close to three or 400 at the end of the season.6900:02:40,640 --> 00:02:41,520Oh my goodness.7000:02:41,520 --> 00:02:42,480That is a lot.7100:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,760Across Oregon, Washington, Idaho,7200:02:45,760 --> 00:02:51,840British Columbia, and last year, we expanded included parts of Utah, Montana,7300:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,160other parts of Montana, Denver,7400:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,600Nevada, Northern California.7500:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,600Yeah, it kind of blew up.7600:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,600Oh, this is so cool.7700:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,360Request of the display owners themselves, but why not?7800:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,680Yeah, I love that.7900:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,120So can anyone be on this map?8000:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,800If they decide to be on the map, they can be on the map.8100:03:16,800 --> 00:03:23,120We prefer to take submissions from the owners themselves just for the sake of8200:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,040their approval and all that.8300:03:25,040 --> 00:03:25,520Right.8400:03:25,520 --> 00:03:25,920That makes sense.8500:03:25,920 --> 00:03:28,480We have open to community submissions.8600:03:28,480 --> 00:03:34,320When we get those, we're going to personally vet them before we actually publicly host them,8700:03:34,320 --> 00:03:40,560just because we have had some issues in the past where display was on the map and8800:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,240they didn't want to be and it was causing them undo issues.8900:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,880So you're very respectful of the display owners if they don't want to be on the map,9000:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,160they're not going to be on the map, but I do keep a record of them.9100:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,040I have a private map that I keep for my personal use.9200:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,560So what's the purpose of this map?9300:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,680What do people use it for?9400:03:59,680 --> 00:04:07,840To just for family fun, getting out, you know, doing things during COVID,9500:04:07,840 --> 00:04:13,120it was a great thing to get people out of the house without having to necessarily be in a crowd of people,9600:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,160things like that.9700:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,920But for years and years, I'd be at a display, you know, that my friends were on or anything like that.9800:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,320One of the biggest things they'd always ask is, "Hey, do you know of any other cool displays in the9900:04:24,320 --> 00:04:24,640area?"10000:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,000And they're really, after Steve Poole stopped doing the Parade of Lights on Como 4,10100:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,880for Christmas, there really wasn't a resource.10200:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,440We felt that we were going to be that community resource. It started with Washington and well,10300:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,360his kind of grown to be a uncontrollable beast.10400:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,440We love that uncontrollable beast.10500:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,080Yes, it should be barely controlled.10600:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,240Yeah, it's mostly been me and Diana running things.10700:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,120What we have had a, a couple of editors that have helped in the past,10800:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,640unfortunately, they have moved on and it's back to us doing10900:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,000three times the size of map that we had then with just the two of us.11000:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,880Oh my gosh, do you guys need volunteers or anything like that?11100:05:12,880 --> 00:05:19,040We always are looking for people that are willing to scout and report back.11200:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,520You know, if I've got displays that I have from last year that I don't have any information11300:05:23,520 --> 00:05:28,480this year, yeah, we love, we love scouting, we love, you know, we love the community.11400:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,040I mean, we're not doing this for ourselves.11500:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,080We're doing this for the community.11600:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,480We're not out to make a buck by doing this.11700:05:34,480 --> 00:05:35,280Yeah, right.11800:05:35,280 --> 00:05:36,720Because you guys don't make anything, right?11900:05:36,720 --> 00:05:37,360It's free.12000:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,560It's free.12100:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,840We don't charge anything for it though in the last few years,12200:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,960we have been taking some sponsorships from some local businesses.12300:05:44,960 --> 00:05:45,360Love that.12400:05:45,360 --> 00:05:52,000We love our costs because running a website and 40 to 60 hours of work for Christmas,12500:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,840on top of a 40 hour week job, the money's got to come somewhere.12600:05:57,840 --> 00:06:01,680I can't, and I'm not going to work 60 hours for free.12700:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,080You know, you know, if I can help it.12800:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,320Oh, yeah, we totally get that here.12900:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,120This is just our passion project.13000:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,960We are, well, we didn't start off getting paid to do it.13100:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,200Now we're kind of starting to get ads and things.13200:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,320So it is nice to be able to fund your work that you love.13300:06:20,320 --> 00:06:27,840Yes, yes, and we're slowly trying to work our way into finding a way to make our community13400:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,800project into an actual 501C of some level.13500:06:32,800 --> 00:06:33,840What is that again?13600:06:33,840 --> 00:06:34,480I don't.13700:06:34,480 --> 00:06:35,440Charity.13800:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,400Okay, okay.13900:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,360Like a nonprofit.14000:06:37,360 --> 00:06:37,840So nonprofit.14100:06:37,840 --> 00:06:38,080Yeah.14200:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,240That is awesome.14300:06:40,240 --> 00:06:46,160So we will include contact information if anyone listening is interested in volunteering,14400:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,720so they know how to get in touch with you.14500:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,040We can put that in our show notes for you.14600:06:51,040 --> 00:06:56,800You'll also have like a submission form for people to submit their displays.14700:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,640We have a submission form on our website, pnwcl.com.14800:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,720And link is there for both Halloween and for Christmas.14900:07:04,720 --> 00:07:05,760Awesome.15000:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,120And the map isn't live yet for Halloween, correct?15100:07:09,120 --> 00:07:09,520Correct.15200:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,800The map will go live October 1st, even though I do have two or three displays that are already live.15300:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,320Oh my gosh.15400:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,440This is so exciting.15500:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,640I love spooky season.15600:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,080I'm wearing my, I'm just, I'm just here for the boos.15700:07:22,080 --> 00:07:23,200Sure.15800:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,880We're wearing branded.15900:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,160Yes.16000:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,840You got a rep, you know?16100:07:27,840 --> 00:07:28,640Absolutely.16200:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,560Well, so have a little witch hat.16300:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,440Don't have my signs behind me with our QR code or anything?16400:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,240No, no.16500:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,040Oh, perfect.16600:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,840That'll make it easy if anyone's watching or Patreon.16700:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,080They can just scan the QR code behind you.16800:07:40,080 --> 00:07:45,120What has your favorite display been?16900:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,680Every display has their own charm.17000:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,880It's like trying to say what is your favorite child?17100:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,840You know you have one, but you don't really want to say it.17200:07:55,840 --> 00:08:02,400But for absolute insanity of display, just the display itself.17300:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,440Historically.17400:08:03,440 --> 00:08:04,880Davis graveyard in Portland.17500:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,440Yes, I have heard of that.17600:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,680That is awesome.17700:08:09,680 --> 00:08:10,800That is very epic.17800:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,560It is, it is an absolute amazing, amazing display.17900:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,520Now for the fun changing theme every year,18000:08:19,520 --> 00:08:25,760display, I'm going to throw one of my good friends and display owners under the bus18100:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,080Gina laws who runs the spectacular Halloween house down in Covington.18200:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,800Where is Covington?18300:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,480Near Kent.18400:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,720Is that Washington?18500:08:36,720 --> 00:08:37,680It is Washington.18600:08:37,680 --> 00:08:38,800Okay, Washington.18700:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,080Yeah, I'm from Oregon.18800:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,280So, Portland area.18900:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,760So, southern part of Seattle, but East.19000:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,440Yeah, a lot of spooky stuff up there.19100:08:47,440 --> 00:08:54,720Gina's been doing displays for both Halloween and Christmas going on 20 plus years.19200:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,360Oh, that is so cool.19300:08:57,360 --> 00:08:58,960Do you guys do any displays?19400:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,160Minor decorations here and there, nothing major with everything else we got going on.19500:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,000We don't have time to manage a display.19600:09:06,000 --> 00:09:06,880You're right.19700:09:06,880 --> 00:09:12,160But last year Gina's, Gina's theme was Scooby-Doo.19800:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,320She had all those Scooby-Doo characters, but she had them as skeletons.19900:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,440And then she had a custom built mystery machine that was a photo op.20000:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,440You could actually get it and take pictures.20100:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,680That is making reappearances here.20200:09:25,680 --> 00:09:27,120That is so cool.20300:09:27,120 --> 00:09:33,360A couple of years back she had a big devil statue on a throne and the theme was Shout of the Devil.20400:09:33,360 --> 00:09:34,880Nice.20500:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,640I love this.20600:09:36,640 --> 00:09:37,920I am so happy.20700:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,680I'm going to take a look at the map this year and maybe go on a little tour.20800:09:41,680 --> 00:09:46,640And the best thing about the map other than a couple of displays,20900:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,720they are all family, friendly.21000:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,160Oh, well, okay.21100:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,680Maybe I won't just give it.21200:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,360We try to keep it all ages.21300:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,360Once I have the intentional jump scares and other things like that,21400:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,960I'm thinking of the small children that, in a parent's,21500:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,160they're looking at my map for a family resource.21600:10:06,160 --> 00:10:13,120So, not that I don't have some more PG-13 or adult ones on their occasionally at request,21700:10:13,120 --> 00:10:17,200but I marked them differently than the other ones just so people are aware.21800:10:17,200 --> 00:10:17,680Okay.21900:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,920Yeah, I was going to ask you have a mark, does like, scary not for children or?22000:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,520Yeah, I had a handful of those last year on my map.22100:10:25,520 --> 00:10:31,680One of my favorites actually down in the Portland area, he's, I think he's an actual Milwaukee22200:10:31,680 --> 00:10:36,640address. He does an animated light display and he does Halloween and a few others.22300:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,440It's chilling lights on Lark.22400:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,600He puts on a fun show.22500:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,840He's got the big, the big Skellies and other, other aspects there.22600:10:47,840 --> 00:10:54,000He puts on a fun Halloween show, a little bit of a spook, a lot of fun.22700:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,360He just has a good old time with it.22800:10:57,360 --> 00:11:02,480Are most of these kind of interactive where you can kind of go through the display?22900:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,120Some are view from the street.23000:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,960There are a handful that are walk through.23100:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,640Then there's others that are actual light shows.23200:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,880Like you see on like, Great Christmas light fight.23300:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,720Were there any major to music?23400:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,920I love that.23500:11:15,920 --> 00:11:22,400That is like one of my favorite, one of those, you know, the tick-tock videos of the light displays.23600:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,760That's mainly where I've seen them.23700:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,000I don't think I've actually seen one in real life.23800:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,880There is a ton in the Portland area.23900:11:28,880 --> 00:11:34,400I'm going to have to go check, but I know last year I had a really cool house in the Portland area24000:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,200where you drive by the house of the day.24100:11:37,200 --> 00:11:38,720Can't see anything at night.24200:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,600He's got a projection map of all across this house.24300:11:42,560 --> 00:11:46,320When I saw that, I was literally blown away.24400:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,480I mean, I've seen projection mapping before,24500:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,960but I've not seen it done on a residential house, and that was amazing.24600:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,080I would love to see that. Is that on the map this year?24700:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,320I haven't verified him yet for this year, but I'm pretty sure he will be running.24800:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,120Okay. I'll be looking for that one.24900:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,800That would be pretty reliable.25000:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,360Yeah. We have in the past partnered with a25100:12:08,640 --> 00:12:15,840Halloween specific group called the Northwest Haunters. He's been doing Halloween about a year.25200:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,920He started his page about a year after I started25300:12:19,920 --> 00:12:25,120he and WCL. He's specifically Halloween and all that.25400:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,840There are differences in how we run things.25500:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,440He just maintains everything that's there and requires people to say,25600:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,840"Okay, if you change anything or update anything, let me know."25700:12:33,840 --> 00:12:34,480Okay.25800:12:35,440 --> 00:12:42,080Me, I vet everything every year. It more work, but it guarantees when somebody goes to a display25900:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,200that it's there. Yeah. You don't want someone showing up to like an empty yard and me like,26000:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,080"Well, what the heck?"26100:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,080In there, done that.26200:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,920They're ghosts. You can't see them.26300:12:51,920 --> 00:13:00,480Exactly. Exactly. So, yeah, it's a lot of extra work to develop a meat year, but I find it just26400:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,800it provides a better experience. Yeah. That is a ton of work. So that's very26500:13:04,800 --> 00:13:11,360understandable that you need volunteers and stuff. So, creepy people, listen up. If you need some extra26600:13:11,360 --> 00:13:16,960volunteer work, you know where to go. And we'll take them from all of our map areas.26700:13:16,960 --> 00:13:23,200So, you obviously probably don't visit the ones that are out of state, but do you try to actually26800:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,680physically visit most of them? We try to visit as many as we can every year.26900:13:27,680 --> 00:13:33,680For Halloween, we usually don't travel too far. We might do a trip to Portland.27000:13:34,400 --> 00:13:40,160And then we'll stay locally around the Seattle area. Christmas on the other hand, we go crazy.27100:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,120Oh, I bet.27200:13:41,120 --> 00:13:48,160Well, one year we literally drove from Seattle, scouted all of Vancouver, checked into our hotel,27300:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,840then drove to Albany. Oh my gosh. All in one day. And then back to the hotel in Portland.27400:13:53,840 --> 00:14:00,960Wow. That is not a day trip. But yeah, around Christmas, we're known to go as far south as like27500:14:00,960 --> 00:14:06,560Medford, as far north as Northern Vancouver, British Columbia, as far east as27600:14:06,560 --> 00:14:16,080Cordelaine, Post Falls, Idaho. Yeah, we've covered two thirds of the mileage of our map27700:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,240at one point or another. Some years, we get to all three points last year because of the weather.27800:14:22,240 --> 00:14:28,320We couldn't do anything with Spokane or Eastern Oregon. But snow and ice and all that.27900:14:29,280 --> 00:14:35,120I had three Christmas displays that literally could not set up because of the weather.28000:14:35,120 --> 00:14:41,440Oh my gosh. Well, that sucks. Yeah, because when you started much earlier than typical,28100:14:41,440 --> 00:14:48,160meant to a much higher severity that year. And one of them, it was there going to be their swan song year.28200:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,160It was going to be their final year. But they're like, yep, nope. Sorry. We can't do this.28300:14:52,160 --> 00:14:57,680Oh, did they do it again the next year or no? No, this would be the next year. No, they.28400:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,240Oh, I see. They have sent sold off the display to other display owners, which28500:15:02,240 --> 00:15:08,960that's one thing my community does is, you know, we, you know, we partner that we partner28600:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,760the display owners together as well, not just make a map. We have a group that has that's28700:15:13,760 --> 00:15:19,200all of our display owners like 300 300 strong display owners across the Northwest. It's a community.28800:15:19,200 --> 00:15:25,040We built of them and they can network with each other, feed off each other, get ideas of each other,28900:15:25,040 --> 00:15:31,200buy, sell, whatever they need to do. Oh, that is awesome. Do you have like a Facebook page where you29000:15:31,200 --> 00:15:38,080connect everyone or. Yep. Yep. Yep. It is called Pacific Northwest display owners.29100:15:38,080 --> 00:15:43,840It's a sub, it's a subgroup of the Pacific Northwest Christmas lights Facebook page.29200:15:43,840 --> 00:15:50,800Do you ever have any crossover with like the Halloween and Christmas kind of like a nightmare29300:15:50,800 --> 00:15:56,720before Christmas type five? Yes, I have multiple displays that have done nightmare before Christmas.29400:15:56,720 --> 00:16:04,320And some have actually done nightmare before Christmas for Christmas. I love that. That is29500:16:04,320 --> 00:16:09,520that's what I do for Christmas. My tree and all my decorations it's nightmare before Christmas stuff.29600:16:09,520 --> 00:16:16,640So it's like starts October goes through Christmas. It's the easiest decorating. I even had one29700:16:16,640 --> 00:16:23,360one display one year. Do they're nightmare before Christmas for Easter for Easter? Oh, because they29800:16:23,360 --> 00:16:29,760do have an Easter bunny in it. Yeah. So they they wouldn't put bunny ears on Jack and Sally and29900:16:29,760 --> 00:16:35,600put some, you know, eggs and other things out. Yeah. They just they ran with it and made it hilarious.30000:16:35,600 --> 00:16:42,400I can't remember either, but it was years ago now. I love that. That's my kind of people for sure,30100:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,760because I feel like nightmare before Christmas in the beginning it shows all of the holidays, you30200:16:47,760 --> 00:16:53,920know, little doors on the trees. So I think that movie can be used for any holiday. Absolutely.30300:16:53,920 --> 00:17:02,160Is there requirements for how big the display has to be to get accepted? I don't set any set30400:17:02,160 --> 00:17:10,800requirement on size. If I let's say someone submits on display and then I go to and see the display30500:17:10,800 --> 00:17:16,720and it's one string of lights, I'm going to be like, yeah, no, sorry. And take you off the map. But no,30600:17:16,720 --> 00:17:21,280if you if you put your if you put your heart and soul into it and you you feel it's worthy,30700:17:21,280 --> 00:17:26,080I'm going to take your word at it and put it on the map. That's just what we do.30800:17:26,080 --> 00:17:31,440Awesome. That kind of reminds me though of the Grinch decorations, where it's just a Grinch and30900:17:31,440 --> 00:17:37,120then one strand of lights because he took all the decorations. Yeah. We've had a few of those. We've had31000:17:37,120 --> 00:17:45,360we've had one of my favorites at least for Christmas, this house up in Canada, this is monstrous31100:17:45,360 --> 00:17:50,160display every inch in other house, every inch of the yard and all their bushes was all covered31200:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,720in lights and they've even slotted over into the neighbor's yards a little bit. But they've got all31300:17:54,720 --> 00:18:01,280there. But then across the street, just this one little light up hippo, a little sign saying,31400:18:01,280 --> 00:18:07,520I'm lost. Oh, that is so cute. Yeah. Across from the mega display and then just,31500:18:07,520 --> 00:18:13,760it's a little hippo. I'm lost. Were they on the map too? Oh, yeah. That was31600:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,320there. They're on the Christmas map. They're called Rudolph and Friends. They're they're on31700:18:18,320 --> 00:18:24,320amazing display. Older couple have been doing it for 30, 40 years now. They amazing people.31800:18:24,720 --> 00:18:32,560Oh, I love that. Well, on our show, we usually do kind of a tarot reading or I have an31900:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,280Oracle deck. Are you guys interested in me pulling a card for you at all? I don't know how you32000:18:37,280 --> 00:18:45,760feel about tarot. Yeah. I do have an Oracle deck. It's not it's totally different from tarot. It's32100:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,240just the cards all have their own meanings and they're all generally positive. So there's nothing32200:18:50,240 --> 00:18:57,120like there's not like one of those death cards in there. But it's really pretty. It's Halloween32300:18:57,120 --> 00:19:02,000themed. Kind of witchy and cute. I thought it would be perfect. So I'll show you. It's called32400:19:02,000 --> 00:19:09,680a moon Oracle deck. That is definitely pretty from the visual. Have you guys ever played with32500:19:09,680 --> 00:19:16,320any of these Oracle cards or not in the slightest? Okay. So we're going to pull a card for32600:19:18,080 --> 00:19:30,400the Halloween display map. Diana and Jason? Yes. Okay. Let's see what we got here.32700:19:30,400 --> 00:19:40,320Ooh, we got the enchanted card. Me look. It's kind of interesting because this is kind of like one of32800:19:40,320 --> 00:19:45,520the least Halloween-y type of cards on there. It's like a little fairy lady with a cat.32900:19:46,720 --> 00:19:56,160Well, let's see what the definition says. Okay. Enchanted. Charmed mystery belief. It is your choice to33000:19:56,160 --> 00:20:02,320live an enchanted existence. Open the doors to mystery and magic in your life. Discover all that is33100:20:02,320 --> 00:20:10,240in store and waiting just for you like maybe a Halloween decoration. A life that is mysterious,33200:20:10,240 --> 00:20:16,480playful and filled with hidden treasure is waiting for you to unearth it. That's so cool because you're33300:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,200talking about kind of like a map and it's talking about treasure, like a treasure map.33400:20:21,200 --> 00:20:28,480Keep your mind open to all that is possible. Your world will be filled with many surprises,33500:20:28,480 --> 00:20:38,240like jump scares. Sometimes it is helpful to reminisce and look back on your childhood years.33600:20:38,240 --> 00:20:44,240Re-kendle your carefree natural feelings. Children seek out the extraordinary with inquisitive33700:20:44,240 --> 00:20:51,440imaginations. They believe in magic, fairies, unicorns and being able to fly just using their arms33800:20:51,440 --> 00:20:56,240as wings. They are not frightened and they know these are good spirits who bring joy.33900:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,960And then the intention says seek out the mystical and magical feelings and life of enchantment.34000:21:02,960 --> 00:21:11,440That was so perfect. Like the childhood feelings and stuff that is all about like Christmas lights34100:21:11,440 --> 00:21:18,080and you were even talking about that. Child-friendly and always keep a family friendly but you know there's34200:21:18,080 --> 00:21:26,640those displays that have a lot of blood and gourd and we have them too but it's not our focus.34300:21:26,640 --> 00:21:32,480Yeah, but definitely when you go see something like that you're going to have this at least I do34400:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,960anyway because I love Halloween and decorations and stuff but you get like this child like34500:21:36,960 --> 00:21:46,720gettiness and excitement. Absolutely. We feed on the feeling that we get from people when we're at34600:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,440displays. So we're out visiting display and we feel people getting excited over the display and34700:21:51,440 --> 00:21:57,840all that. And then if we hear that actually used our map to get there that just feeds our soul.34800:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,960I mean it doesn't get the better feeling than that.34900:22:01,520 --> 00:22:07,520Do people take pictures and post them of all the displays or do you guys do pictures of them?35000:22:07,520 --> 00:22:16,720Yes and yes. One of our other subgroups is we have the PNW CL fan group which is a community group35100:22:16,720 --> 00:22:23,360where anybody can post up pictures or other things in there. It's all moderated so anything35200:22:23,360 --> 00:22:29,120that comes in we have to physically approve just because spam happens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.35300:22:30,240 --> 00:22:36,160People have people try to post to the main page all that gets denied flat out because I don't35400:22:36,160 --> 00:22:42,400it's a page not a group not a public group. That makes sense. But yes and we do post up35500:22:42,400 --> 00:22:48,560hundreds if not thousands of pictures every year of displays we visited and all the galleries are35600:22:48,560 --> 00:22:54,480still there from last year. So you know there's plenty to see. Do you keep those up or do you delete them35700:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,880as a whole? After a couple of years I usually will archive them. I'll use you move them to an35800:23:00,880 --> 00:23:10,640archive folder. Otherwise I do maintain copies of them digitally in my inventory but not always35900:23:10,640 --> 00:23:16,560on the Facebook they're going back too far. But I usually keep two or three years with the photos up36000:23:16,560 --> 00:23:23,520there. Okay. Awesome. So you can kind of look back on past years and maybe get ideas and inspiration36100:23:23,520 --> 00:23:30,480of what to do maybe what not to do if it's already been done that's kind of cool. And you know there's36200:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,240there's nothing around with doing the same thing someone else has done. I mean36300:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,520last two years ago I had three nightmare before Christmas displays. They were almost36400:23:39,520 --> 00:23:45,920identical within 10 miles each other. Oh wow. But I mean you can never get too much nightmare before36500:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,960Christmas. Yeah. Well it's a call they all went to Walmart and got the same things. So36600:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,960is there anything else that you guys want to put out there that you want people to know?36700:23:56,960 --> 00:24:06,240Well here we can be found on the web on Facebook Twitter/x whatever you want to call it these days36800:24:06,240 --> 00:24:14,000we're on there not as active. Yeah. And um through Instagram and also threads.36900:24:14,000 --> 00:24:22,000Threads. What is threads? Threads is Facebook's version of Twitter. Okay. I'll make it easy for you.37000:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,040Just go to our website pnwcl.com and in the corner I have links to the Facebook, the Instagram37100:24:29,040 --> 00:24:36,480and the Twitter all right there. All the things. All the things. Awesome. What is so nice chatting37200:24:36,480 --> 00:24:43,520with you? Oh when does the map go live? October 1st. Okay. I feel like we talked about it but just37300:24:43,520 --> 00:24:50,800saw it just saw me make sure. Well that was mentioned at the end of the show too. Yeah. So October 1st37400:24:51,360 --> 00:24:58,320map goes live everyone check it out if you are interested in being featured on the map you can submit37500:24:58,320 --> 00:25:07,200your display. And if you want to just help out and scout just then this email which is also linked37600:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,640on the website with any displays you might find preferably as much information as possible.37700:25:12,640 --> 00:25:20,480Have a creepy day. Yeah. And as we always like to say on our page happy haunting. Yes happy haunting.37800:25:20,480 --> 00:25:28,480[Music]37900:25:28,480 --> 00:25:52,480[Music]38000:25:52,480 --> 00:25:59,680I feel like a another question for you. Was it? This is why we edit.38100:25:59,680 --> 00:26:06,880There's also a dog whining next to me. Hey Molly you need to be quiet.38200:26:06,880 --> 00:26:14,320Shh. Her mom left my co-host left me alone. How do she? I don't. Oh okay I remember.