How did you get your user name?

[Hauntful]

Okay I am curious on how some of you got your user name. I have three names which I use at different boards but they came with me over the years but my friends know all of them. Here are the names.

Trippers: I pick this name actually from my mothers favorite song she always played remember "Day Tripper". So when I first came online I used Trippers as a fast name pick. Believe it or not some people mistaken me for a guy with that name and called me dude until I corrected them lolz.

Hauntedmistress: I pick this name because it sounded cool sence I love horror and Halloween.

CryptMistress: This is my new name I created it to kind of blend in with my site, The Spiderweb Crypt.

Now that's all my names and why I pick them.

[Zombie-F]

For the past four years I've used one name exclusively Zombie-F, or if there is a character restriction, sometimes ZombieF or Zombie_F.

I used to go by the name Funkenstein for a while, and when the band I was in started playing more and more spooky themed songs, I went through a "transformation" and my full "band name" became The Hideous Zombie Funkenstein. That's a mouthful to utter, so it eventually got shortened to Zombie-F. People always draw their own conclusion as to what the "F" means. ;)

[Lilith]

I had many many screen names in the past.... The first one I had was VampirePrincess which just shows my love for vampires and based on the anime Vampire Princess Miyu. Then I had LadyPegUnicorn. PegUnicorn stands for Pegasus Unicorn. Fantasy bascly is my life. Then I had YaoiFanGirl... Yaoi stands for gay love and Fan Girl refers to an extreme fan. And know Lilith based on the first wife of Adam and became a demon goddess.... Some say vampire. It ussaully refers to the strength of women all around the world. :D

[Sinister]

My love for comics and such, are the origins of both my web names, and a Vampire movie the origin of my first.
When I first started out, my name was Radu Vladislas, after the the Vampire in Subspecies. Eventually I tired of it and changed it to the mysterious mutant villian of the X-Men, Mr. Sinister, which I shortened later to Sinister. It remains my name on other sites.
When Zombie created this board, I decided to have another name change right then because there's no telling what Mr. Funkenstein will make you go through to get another board name. :rolleyes: Keeping with a theme of mysterious evil villians, I decided Helspont, Daemonite Overlord, villian of Image comics characters, WildC.A.T's would be THE name. So, there you have it!

[Citizen Tallee]

I used to be called "The Tall Man", but then a lot of other "Tall Men" started showing up at various horror boards and things got confusing. On a different messageboard I started to be called "Tallee" for short, and a few months ago it occured to me that if I take the name of my favourite Troma film, "Citizen Toxie", and replace the Toxie with my nickname, it would make a pretty cool name, assuming that people know WHY it's a funny name. :D

[DEATH]

....hhhmm...well ill have to think on that one for the time being.... :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Dreamdemon]

Well I use Dreamdemon on most horror boards I go to since I am a huge Freddy fan and it is also what I decided to name the first Freddy mask I started selling.

On some other boards I am Punisher or Punisher75 due to the fact I am a Punisher nut! I have been collecting and reading the comics for 15 years.

Aaron

[DEATH]

well i guess that im a real Big fan of all things that are related to....hhhmm....just let me think some more...;)

[Rocky]

I took my name in a sort of hommage to one of my favorite movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show! :D I love this movie! It's just so funny and just crazy and... Janet? Brad? Janet? Doctor Scott! Janet? Oups, it's just that I know almost every line of this movie! :p :D Needless to say I own the DVD and the CD.

[Omega]

My first name was Dark_Omega then after people started using dark as their first names then it got too cliched and I decided to change to Omega..Black, but the first one came from a dream I had about the end of the world. There you have it.

[dougspaulding]

Doug Spaulding is the literary alter ego of my favourite writer Ray Bradbury. His childhood in Green Town was the very epitome of all things Halloween in my mind: small midwestern town, magical summer becoming hazy October, pre-teen childhood. It's a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant. Doug eventually grows up and becomes an adult character in stories like "One Timeless Spring," "The Utterly Perfect Murder," & "The Burning Man", but he will always be twelve years old to me, and he will always mean Halloween.

I guess I'm not quite so dark as some of my fellow horror fans, but that's alright; I like eclectic!

[Pete]

You know that Star Trek episode with the mirror universe full of evil Enterprise crew and Spock with a van dyke? Well, my name is kinda like that. In this universe I'm Alex--musician, husband, and all-around great guy. But in that dark universe, I'm Pete.

Does any of that make sense?

[DarkEmpress]

Hmmm...I guess I chose my name because it just came to me and because I like darkness and everything that is dark...ie: vampires,lycans,things of that sort...if that makes since to anyone. :p

[Anachronism]

I used to be Cemetery Man over here but with my morbid attraction to Kill Bill I thought I'd go with Bill... which is my real name anyway. :cool:

~~Bill~~

[VtheVamp]

Well my name is Vanessa and I love Vampires and in my fantasy world I am a Vamp and my friends call me "V" so there ya go. :p

[Forbidden Crypts]

Mine is taken from the Midnight Syndicate song of the same name.I just thought it would make a good Halloween Home Page title.

[Sera]

I just made it up, because I can.

[RAXL]

There's probably already a thread for this somewhere, but I'm too damn lazy to look for it.:p
Every other forum on the internet seems to have one, so, here goes:

How did you come up with your user name? God knows, there are some pretty cool ones on this forum, and it just makes me wonder.

Mine came from the now legendary MEGA-ROCK group, BADASS. How 'bout yours?

[Sinister]

I can relate to one of the X-Men's arch-villains, Mr. Sinister, and my forum name is a derivative of that.

[TipoDeemin]

Mine's just a play on spelling I came up with years ago... Had a running joke about demons being responsible for all typos, and thus the name was born.

[scarface]

Say hello to my little friend!!

[claymud]

Mines rather self explanatory... Names Clay... Nickname mud... so mix the two and walla!

[Vlad]

Vlad The Impaler, hehehe, I can't say, it's a family forum............LOL Actually, He's the immortal Vampire, and this life of mine seems to be going on forever.

[dougspaulding]

There's probably already a thread for this somewhere, but I'm too damn lazy to look for it.

You're right - such a thread does exist - I remember replying to it. Not unlike you, I am also too lazy to look for it buried under past years of multitudinous posts somewhere in Post Heaven.

In my opinion, the two coolest guys in Hollywood are Uncle 4E and Ray Bradbury, hence my online doppelganger is a combination of the two: My avatar is an image of Forrest J., in a rather sinister pose, and my user name is a rip-off of Douglas Spaulding, Bradbury's alter-ego and the name of the lead character in my favourite novel, his "Dandelion Wine".

So there.

PS: Couple weeks ago I attended Uncle 4E's 89th birthday bash, and while there, was annoying Mr Bradbury (as I am wont to do), when he told me that he had finally (after forty-some years) finished the sequel to "Dandelion Wine" called "Farewell Summer", and it will be out this coming summer! (Yes - I'm mighty excited!) Just FYI for Bradbury fans on the board.

[Dr Morbius]

I'm into Sci-Fi as well as Horror..

Dr Morbius, the infamous character from my favorite Sci-Fi movie of all time, The Forbidden Planet. I also work in a clinical lab at a hospital, so the nickname just stuck..although I am not a real doctor, I get some outpatients actually thinking I am from overhearing the nickname..I just hope nobody grabs me into maternity to have me deliver (not removing a liver) a baby for them! I also had a website on how to build a Robby the Robot replica...Had to remove it for legal reasons..but that is another story.

[Zombie-F]

You're right - such a thread does exist - I remember replying to it. Not unlike you, I am also too lazy to look for it buried under past years of multitudinous posts somewhere in Post Heaven.

I just dug around for it and it does not exist. There's a "How did you get here" thread, but not one for names.

Mine, like Raxl's, came from my time in the MEGA ROCK group BADASS. It evolved from "The Mysterious Ninja Funkenstein" into "The Hideous Zombie Funkenstein" which shortened into "Zombie-F."

[Pete]

I was out drinkin' with Raxl and some barefoot hillbilly broad started hitting on me. She was old and toothless. She asked me my name and I said "Pete."

I don't even know anybody named Pete. So why did I say it?

I remember this one time when I used to play MEGA-ROCK.....

[HibLaGrande]

My buddies in my last band started calling me that. It was just Hib but they decided to super size it after seening the way I sling around large amplifiers. I guess I look very intimidating when Im pissed. Although within the last 5 years I have gotten a little on the squishy side."Don't make me hungry...you won't like me when I'm hungry!". HIbLaSquishy don't really work for me.

[Blackwidow]

Well mine is pretty obvious ;)
That particular arachnid is my favorite.

[grapegrl]

By popular demand (*ahem* Vlad ;) ):

I go by "grapegrl" because I own a 3 1/2 acre vineyard. My dad, who handles my wholesale transactions as well as about half of my vineyard maintenance ususally introduces me to people as "the grape girl". When I got involved in a couple of other online forums, I thought it would be a cute handle. Everyone usually ends up calling me "grapey".

[Vlad]

>>>Vlad<<< Biting tongue and holding back all of the other grape names that spring to mind, lol. Well, grapey (heehee) lol, all my attempts at growing grapes here in NJ have gone "sour". Come springtime I'll be "picking" your brains for help, maybe I'll give them another try.

[grapegrl]

>>>Vlad<<< Biting tongue and holding back all of the other grape names that spring to mind, lol. Well, grapey (heehee) lol, all my attempts at growing grapes here in NJ have gone "sour". Come springtime I'll be "picking" your brains for help, maybe I'll give them another try.

:D I'll be happy to try to help you put the "squeeze" on your grape growing dilemma, Vlad! (yikes, that was pretty bad! :googly: )

[Papa Bones]

I hope this is the right forum for this thread.. the real name thread got me wondering.. where does you screen name come from? since I started, I guess I'll answer first. I named myself after the voodoo god of death, Baron Samedi,aka Baron Cemetiere, Baron la Croix, Papa Ghede, and Papa Bones. When I registered here,I was originally going to call myself Baron Samedi and then decided Papa Bones sounded cooler.

[claymud]

I think there tis a thread for this but I don't mind telling this story over and over. This is my name scince I started signing up for stuff on the net. Whats my name? Clay, Whats Clay (Real stuff) Basicly? Mud, mix the two Claymud.

[Zombie-F]

Ok, I have all three of these threads merged now. :)

[feldjager]

mine is german for feild hunter. which is what the greamn military police are called. i was an army m.p. from 82 to 85,thus the handle.

[Frighteners Entertainment]

mine is german for feild hunter. which is what the greamn military police are called. i was an army m.p. from 82 to 85,thus the handle.
Funny, I thought it had something to do with how much you liked the Rolling Stones.....:D
You never know?

[strange1]

People who don't know me well and co-workers say I'm strange because I like Halloween and have seen some of the props I've made.
So I just put the number 1 on the end of it instead of using the word ONE.:D
Or could it be my strange sense of humor, hummmm

[Da Weiner]

Instead of using "The Halloweiner" I shortened it to "Da Weiner" Just a little play on words

[Frighteners Entertainment]

Instead of using "The Halloweiner" I shortened it to "Da Weiner" Just a little play on words
Makes sense to me now!

[Johnny Thunder]

DC Comics' character who has been around in one form or another since 1940.

[Otaku]

While the Japanese word "Otaku" generally means someone who is a serious fan of anime and manga, it can also be used to describe one who is obsessed with something. Since all things Halloween definitely fall into that category for me, I bent the definition a bit and took the name.

[Sinister]

Instead of using "The Halloweiner" I shortened it to "Da Weiner" Just a little play on words

What Jeff sez.

[Hella]

Hella is the daughter of Angerboda and Loki and she rules the Norse Realm of the Dead. She is the keeper of the souls of the departed and determines the fate of the deceased.

sounded just like me...:devil: so I started using it on the different boards I am on.

[Sinister]

I love Norse Mythology too. I even considered Loki for a forum name at one time, but so many were using it in different variations that I changed my mind. I like Sinister better. THAT sort of fits me. :D

[morgan8586]

I was bored and reading old threads....My name is actually Morgan and 85 & 86 were two great years in my life. Nothing magical or special...sorry.

[Johnny Thunder]

I was bored and reading old threads....My name is actually Morgan and 85 & 86 were two great years in my life. Nothing magical or special...sorry.

Brother Morgan did finally solve one of the great mysteries of this board for me :D

[slimy]

I want to play too:


For years, I was an independant professional wrestling character: "Slimy Sam Slither". I wanted the name to relate to snakes without actually using the word 'snake'. I carried a large python to the ring, and I was a bad guy. I loved to get people to hate me. It was soooo much fun. The words 'Slimy Sam Slither' make a pretty good tongue twister, so it gave me great fodder to make fun of anyone trying to say it.

When I joined this forum, I could have just as easliy been 'Slither'. But I went with 'slimy' .

[pyro]

PYRO is my vanity plate on my car its white with purple flames, its a 1966 impala supersport---but everyone thinks i was born in 66 and im a fireman -lol

[Brad Green]

It's the one my mommy stenciled on my underwear.

[Ghostess]

Everyone used to (and still does) call me the "hostess with the mostest" cuz I tend to overdo it for parties and such. Then it got switched one year to ghostess with the mostess. Now it's just ghostess cuz I figured I needed a "handle" a few years ago and ghostess just fit. Sometimes I hafta throw in deanna at the end because apparently ghostess is taken on some forums and stuff. Before that it was annadee (just my name in assbackwardspeak) or annadannabobanna.

[DeadSpider]

I am absolutely terrified of real spiders, yet I love having lots in all my displays...the only good spider in my books is a ....

[DeathTouch]

I work for Honeywell in the Research and Development section. My job is to do the testing before U.L. gets our fire detection devices. You have probably seen them in Dr’s offices and such. Anyway, I have a way of messing with them enough that they will die. I normally find problems before they get out in the field. In other words I have the Deathtouch. I really like pissing Engineers off when they have software or Hardware issues that they don’t know about.

[Fangs]

That was tooo funny DT! :D hehehe......

When I joined I asked my hubby and son for ideas, son said Dark Fang--because he was into the Dark Cloud game for the playstation 2, and he knows I LOVE vampires.... Hubby says "how about Bat Lady, because of your love for Bats"..... I shouted "I love it!" and there ya go! :> :devil:

[DeathTouch]

That was tooo funny DT! :D hehehe......

When I joined I asked my hubby and son for ideas, son said Dark Fang--because he was into the Dark Cloud game for the playstation 2, and he knows I LOVE vampires.... Hubby says "how about Bat Lady, because of your love for Bats"..... I shouted "I love it!" and there ya go! :> :devil:


I always thought your hubby named you that. Because of all the hickys he was getting from you. LOL.

[slimy]

This, by the way, is a fun thread to read. Getting to know each of you a little more.

[Ms. Wicked]

There is no unique connection about my user name - I just came up with when I registered on another forum. I liked how it sounded. :)

[edwood saucer]

Ed Wood fan - no real puzzle there!

[ScareFX]

I was searching for a relatively short domain name that could be related to prop building and Halloween... this one was available.

[Spider Rider]

My first prop was the large spider riden by a blucky. My daughter came up with Spider Rider so I stole it. This was before I found out about a cartoon of the same name. Maybe they stole the idea from my daughter too!:xbones:

[roadkill]

My nick was "issued" to me while I was in the (ch)Air Force. I was a network technician and had to work a circuit outage with the Navy out of London. When I was done they wanted my "chops" for their logs. "Chops? What are chops?". The Petty Officer I was talking to explained that they are your initials used to spell out a word or two. Since my initials are "RK" I immediately thought of "Road Kill" (since "romeo kilo" is rather boring). The Petty Officer said he'd enter that in the log for now but would check back once he'd cleared the name through (apparently the Navy is kinda serious about this).

About two weeks later he called my shop and asked for "roadkill". My NCOIC had no clue what the Petty Officer was talking about but asked around the shop - I raised my hand saying "That's for me".

I then got a "talking to" about the idea of using project names (but that is an entirely other discussion) when you're not on a classified project (and that is a conversation I will never have).

[Peanut5150]

My nick is just my nickname given to me by the Nurses when I was born.... Peanut ... with 5150 both for me being a fan of Van Halen and the fact that it refers to the police code for crazy person in the street... I'm told that the latter is fitting LOL....I added the 5150 because Peanut was always used on-line.

[Wyatt Furr]

My name is a combo of the famous gunfighter Wyatt Earp and my love for wolves. And all my life people have always said,"Eeeeewww, look at your arms, your so furry,are you like that all over?" To which I reply,"Thats none of your business". Then I usually cough up a hairball and that runs them off.....

[Anachronism]

My user name at the old Badass board and hm.com was/is Cemetery Man, when this board opened I joined under my first name Bill than I had Z-F change it back to Cemetery Man and then back to Bill and back to Cemetery Man, just as he was about to ring my neck I re-joined under the moniker Anachronism... no real reason, shits and giggles I guess

[Lady Nyxie]

I think it would be interesting to hear how people came up with the names that they use here in the forum and for their haunt.

The name of my haunt is "Lady Nyxie's Emporium of Mischief and Mayhem on Justification Lane, just off Denial Highway."

For me it began with picking my "witch" name Nyxie, which in here became Lady Nyxie (or just Nyx). When I decided I wanted to name my haunt, I wrote a couple hundred individual words that spoke to me of Halloween. Then I put those words together into different combinations for voting by myself and friends and family. Ultimately MysticWitch came up with the Emporium of Mischief and Mayhem part. As for the Justification Lane and Denial Highway portion... I don't smoke, drink really heavily, do drugs or have kids so I can blow my money on something else... Justification Lane. And, we all know that Justification Lane is just off of Denial Highway.

Share your story.

[NJWilk]

These aren't your real names??

Actually, I'm just lazy - NJWilk has been my user name since I first had an aol account many many moons ago. Initials plus part of my last name. I'm always just me online.

Never named the haunt, but I named my pirate ship last year - the "Merry Gin". For my mom, Mary Jane, who got me into the holidays when I was a kid.

[Fright Zone]

^^ Wow that's some mind mapping brainstorming going on there ; )

I think this topic comes up on any forum after a while "How did you pick your name?"

"Fright Zone" is the name of one of the outdoor haunted attractions during HalloWeekends at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, OH on the Lake Erie (or is it EErie) pennisula during the Fall. The avatar is taken from a photo of the sign out front of that area. It's their Frontier Trail that's transformed with fog machines, Screamster actors, Halloween music and colored and patterned stage quality flood lights. A simple but effective walk-thru. There's other places that use the name and do Halloween events. But mine was inspired by CP because I have a season pass and was impressed how much they transform the park. They put a lot of time and effort into it. 100-plus LeMaitre stage quality 1400W to 4400W constant foggers hooked to a control board via DMX - woohoo! They do some things that gave me good ideas to use in my small yard haunt like forcing backlit fog to hit black tarp border fences to combat the wind and define the space so people know where (not) to walk. And just general inspiration.

I don't have a name for my yard haunt. It won't be at my Grandma's house this year becasue she passed away a couple years ago and we sold her house. There goes the 250 annual ToT's along with it ; ( If I have time to do one at all, my aunt may let us put up a small display this year in her yard. She claims to get as many ToT's. Otherwise I'll do it at my parent's house where they get 15 ToT's just use it as an excuse to videotape my fog chillers in action. I'm not sure what I would name that yard haunt. Maybe "The Excuse to Videotape my Fog Chillers in Action on Halloween with 15 ToT's Annual Roving Yard Haunt" LOL

[heresjohnny]

My name is John, and I have always loved the scene from the Shining where Jack axes a hole in the door, sticks his face in and says "Heres Johnny!" My avatar used to be from that scene, I might change it back soon ;)

Haunt name, well I have been thinking about that. I used to build a haunt in a small town community center, but now we have moved and I need to pick a name for my 'home' haunt. I live on Royal Oaks, best I have come up with so far is 'Dead Oaks'.

[Dreadnight]

Mine (both forum and haunt) is pretty simple. Represents Halloween, that Night you get the feeling of Dread spreading up your spine as the sun goes down (or at least that's what our TOT's should get if us haunters are doing our job right!). So, Dreadnight Cemetery, Dreadnight Bay.... :eek:

[JohnnyL]

My name's John (Johnny) Love, so that's where I got my forum name from, JohnnyL.

As for the haunt name, since our last name is Love, we decided to go with Love Manor.

[mikeq91]

mikeq91, i've used it for just about every username, email, etc. since I've used a computer... My name is mike quill, and i was born in '91, pretty simple. not nearly as creative as most of the names on here though!

[Samhain]

My real name is Sam
Samhain is the original pagan name for the holiday that is now know as hallowe'en
Go figure

[turtle2778]

Well lets see, ive been asked this question about 1000 times so i got this answer down pat. Why TURTLE??? Its not scary and certainly doesnt invoke any thoughts of halloween. Well in highschool i was best friends with a blonde girl and one day on the local radio station i heard a joke that said.."what do blondes and turtles have in common?... Once they're on their backs, they're screwed." SOOO being a teenager i started calling my girlfriend a turtle. She wasnt particually promiscuous, but it was just funny to call her turtle and she hated it LOL. So in return she started calling me murtle turtle. Long story short the names stuck all through highschool and beyond. I am still turtle and so is she and the 2778 is the phone number my parents had when i was a kid. As for my haunt...Turtle's Terror....I believe it was hauntiholic that came up with that one. And the We'll Scare the shell out of you was from someone else on here too. I also call my cemetary Turtle Creek Cemetary which was also from hauntie since she said they have a turtle creek in CO. Okay so there ya go the "real" story behind why im a turtle

[Spartan005]

Well my name is Spartan005 because I'm obsessed with the game "Halo" .... and my haunt is named Darkness Rising because it sounds bad ass. Simple.

[turtle2778]

My name is John, and I have always loved the scene from the Shining where Jack axes a hole in the door, sticks his face in and says "Heres Johnny!" My avatar used to be from that scene, I might change it back soon ;)

Haunt name, well I have been thinking about that. I used to build a haunt in a small town community center, but now we have moved and I need to pick a name for my 'home' haunt. I live on Royal Oaks, best I have come up with so far is 'Dead Oaks'.

What about "Overlook Manor" Since the hotel is Overlook Hotel in the movie?

[heresjohnny]

What about "Overlook Manor" Since the hotel is Overlook Hotel in the movie?

Hmm, that is an interesting idea, I had not thought of that. I will have to think about that one, thanks:confused:

[IshWitch]

I've always used Valkyrie as a name because I'm Valerie and Ride of the Valkyries is one of my favorite classical tunes.

But I wanted something a little more Halloweenesque for the Halloween forums. So my name came about in 2 ways, first was because of a joke between our oldest son and I because I am English, Irish, Scottish, German and French on Mom's side and Dad was Polish. So he called me an Ish-witch on one of his forums. The second because I always wanted to be a green faced witch for Halloween when I was a kid but my sister was a witch every single year. And I would die before I "copied" her! heheheh So the very first year I got to do a yard haunt I made my witch props and dressed as a witch to greet the kids. No sister in sight! Bwahahahaha!

I just named our backyard walk through in June! We live on the corner of Harvard St. and Lehigh Terrace, so I was torn between Lehigh Terror and Horror on Harvard. I was talking about this with Marilyn from ACC when I was putting in an order and she said she liked them both but Horror On Harvard better. Well, shoot! How can you argue with that kind of endorsement!
:D

(and if anyone was curious about the Baricuda name in my photobucket, well I played Baritone Bugle in a Sr. Drum & Bugle Corps from '90 'til '05)

[slightlymad]

Well we havent named our haunt yet and probably wont for a little while yet. However, slightlymad has been my nickname since jr high simply because once people really know me they usually think that I am.

[Lagrousome]

Joining just recently and not belonging to any other forums, "Lagrousome" just came to me. My last name is Lagrou ~ pronounced "La~Grew", so Lagrousome was pretty fitting I thought. We don't have a haunt, but we put on a Halloween party every year and so this year, I decided to call it "Lagrousomeville" ~ went well with the sign challenge....even won a prize, so it must be pretty good!
So anyone who stumbles my way during the season will be entering Lagrousomeville, Est. 1840 (which by the way is my house address) but hey, I wanted it to sound like an old town!

[Zombie-F]

Ok, my forum name comes from a very long, convoluted story involving ninjas, their demise, re-animation and a rock band.

My haunt name comes from the name of the street I live on, Pleasant Street. For one night out of the year, my address becomes 119 UNpleasant Street.

[Bone Dancer]

When I first joined the forum I seen I needed an avy and I didnt like any in the common file that was provided. I wanted a skeleton, but couldnt have anything animated. So I used the skelly I had on file and since it was dancing, welllll.
I do a private party for a few friends not a real haunt although the decorations have gotten way out of hand by now. But I have had a visitor or two drop by to look at the stuff in the yard so maybe I have a haunt in the early stages of development or something.

[PerfessorEvil]

When I was in the California Conservation Corps, many years ago, I was given the nickname "Perfessor" because I actually read books. Like, for fun even. LOL

When I joined the Halloween-L list in 2000, I needed a more Halloweeny nick, so PerfessorEvil it is.

My website/haunt is PerfessorEvil's Nightmare (http://www.perfessorevil.com)... mostly because we moved away from Nevada Street, so my original "Nevada St Nightmare" didn't make much sense anymore.

[Wyatt Furr]

Since I moved here to Nevada,the old west holds a certain appeal.
Wyatt is in honor of Wyatt Earp of Tombstone/OK Corral fame.
Furr ,well.....
So, people have said I am hairer than a, (insert furry creature here).
These people are either jealous or bald.....

As for my haunt,I wanted a named that reflected the old west.

I searched a map and found Vulture Hill.
Added to that the "Lost Wages Mine"( a parody of Las Vegas),
and the boomtown of Rio Secco,(named for the golf course behind the house).
all this makes for a great backstory.

Dead Cowboys, Indian Curses,Lost Gold,and a handsome werewolf...
Hmm, someone should write a screenplay.

I'm ready for my close-up ,Mr DeMille.....

[slimy]

My name is 'slimy' because of the residue I leave behind in the shower for my wife to clean up.

I call my haunt 'Slithering Heights' cause that is so dumb it makes me laugh.

Great stories by the way.

[GothicCandle]

my screen name: my freind gave me a battery powered candle. its very halloweeny so i call it my gothic candle. its pretty cool! i love it!

my haunt name: I live on a corner, one street leads one way the other another. so my haunt is called The Ghost Crossing. I think its a cool name, its very spooky.

[octoberist]

My name here is Octoberist because my favorite band is The Decemberists and Halloween falls on the 31st of October this year!
My haunt name is "Cemetery of the Dead" because the name is redundant, lame, and inappropriate - because my haunt is not a cemetery at all.

[Lady Nyxie]

Very cool stories indeed!

Thanks everyone for sharing.

[Hauntiholik]

My screen name is what I am - a "hauntaholic". I spelled it differently to be unique and since so many people say "hey, I'm a hauntaholic" I didn't want the spelling to be the same. It's also easier to find my posts on the internet! :devil:

My haunt's name is "Haunt's Belfry". I don't have a belfry or any bells for that matter but it refers to my Halloween "sickness". I needed a haunt name to place some orders at Hauntcon so I came up with it pretty quickly.

[buckaneerbabe]

I can dream can't I?

[NickG]

My name is Nick Gwozdz. - I'm very creative.

we live just over the knoll of a small hill in our subdivision, typically the wind blows across this area more than elsewhere as it makes the change in elevation, we had some neighbors across the street a few years ago who made a little sign for their front yard that read: "windy hill" when they moved they left it for the people who moved in. So... I thought haunt on windy hill was kinda cool... though afterwards I found out there are several haunts w/ a similar name.

[The Haunter]

Last year our Halloween party theme was come as your own origional superhero so The Haunter was invented.
My haunt is The Haunter Presents (so I can change my theme) Midnight at the museam

[tonguesandwich]

Tonguesandwich... Fitness and Haunting are my hobbies. The fitness end actually supports the haunting.
I thought of the grosses thing growing up and it related to both. I have been an EMT and police officer and seen plenty of gross stuff, but I thought it more important to relate to my youth.
When I was in JR High, many years ago, we used to wear those Lisa Simpson Braces...well a kid would eat a cow tongue sandwich everyday. Big old tongue. Well, chunks of the tongue would stick in his braces and the flesh would just hang there on his teeth. Food and Yuk, my 2 loves.....and that is Tonguesandwich....I can still see that kids face...I can still see the taste buds being pierced with the metal and saliva cocktail.

[Revenant]

My favorite monsters are zombies, but the forum administrator is already named zombie and I wanted a less-used name for one. I like revenant because it's a zombie synonym that's descriptive; "one who returns." Also, hearkening back to the classic years of PC games, DOOM 2 had a creature called a revenant; it was a cyborged decaying animated corpse with attached weaponry. For years I wanted to make a masquerade costume of my vision of that monster for Archon; never ended up doing it but it's still an image that stands out in my mind.

I don't have a haunt; wouldn't be prudent in this neighborhood. Wish I did though.

[Beth]

Beth is my first name. (not too ingenius, huh?) Every year we rename our haunt. We don't get TOTers (too rural) but we throw a big party for the area kids every year the Saturday before Halloween. The last three years we have had at least 100 kids. Little brats are getting was too savvy so this year we plan on REALLY surprising them!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!! They're in for it this year!!! we are redoing the entire two story barn. There won't be anything familiar for them this year!! (They think htat they are so smart.......):p :p

[Lilly]

I also don't have a haunt per say but do have a party every yr..
This yr I will be making a sign for our cemetery "Highway to Hell"and since the party is Our every other yr annual Harleyween it sounded appropriate,
also my hubby picked it out of a bunch I wrote down.

[Lilly]

I also got my name from a friend yrs ago. She said my hubby and I looked like Lilly and Herman, on a kick asss trike we were riding at the time. So my name Lilly just stuck.

[Hellrazor]

Im Hellrazor because my yahoo name is cuddle_bunny_1999 and that didnt seem so scary. I had to come up with a new name and there you have it. I spelt it differently because it seemed more menacing that way.

My haunt name is "Montgomery Manor". My last name is Montgomery... so not so creative, but I can carry it whereever I go if we ever move.

[Hawks Hill Haunter]

My haunt is called Hawks Hill - hawk is part of my last name and I live on the corner of a neighborhood built on the "hillside" of town. thus comes the forum name - HawksHillHaunter. my haunt is primarily a graveyard but I couldn't come up with anything else that wasn't super cheesy or that I even liked. But if anyone's interested, take a look at the sign I've been working on (it's finally painted!) and plan to have completely done and up this year!!! Hawks Hill Sign pictures by hawkshillhaunter - Photobucket

[Lilly]

Nice sign Hawks..
good carving

[Lagrousome]

Love the sign hawkshillhaunter!
I'll look to see if that's in the how to section, but if not, what did you paint that with? That looks like that "stone" paint!
I may have to make one of those myself!
very classy!

[turtle2778]

Yes HHH...i like that sign as well. What font did you use?

[halloweengoddessrn]

I am HalloweenGoddessRN- I aquired the name of Goddess when I worked at the health dept from a young man..I love Halloween and I am a registered nurse

[Hawks Hill Haunter]

Thanks all for the positive comments.

Lagrousome - it's a faux stone spray paint from Michaels. I use all kinds of faux stone finishes for all my tombstones too. gotta love 'em!

Turtle - the font is called 'Demon'. I searched through many fonts until I found this one - it was love at first glance.

thanks again for the feedback. and great stories everyone!!!

[HalloweenZombie]

I got the name Halloween Zombie from my wife. I was moping around like a zombie the day after a particular Halloween.

I don't have a name for my haunt. All the good ones are taken. If anyone comes up with a name for me, let me know. My haunt is themed after anything undead. I live on Castle Ave., but my haunt just isn't big enough to include Castle in the name. My driveway is more like an alley unfortunately.

[Fright Zone]

From the site it looks like "16 ft of Terror" or "16 ft to the Portal to Hell" or something like that ; ) I like those haunted house elements inside the tunnel leading into the cemetary. Nice stuff!

Let's keep those names coming. It's interesting knowing where these screen names and yard haunt names come from. A lot of these I go "Oh, I get it now" ; )

[CerysCrow]

My screen name is a combination of my nickname Cerys (pronounced care-iss; it's Welsh-the C should sound like a K) and my business name, which is Clever Crow Design Studio (plus I absolutely adore crows!)

My given name is Christine, which is pretty boring - Cerys sounds similar to Chris, but is far more appealing to me.

As for our haunt name - The Haunting of Ivy Hall at Scarecrow Hill - it was created for a number of reasons. Firstly, I grew up reading books in which all the houses had names, so I decided to live out a childhood dream and name our house Ivy Hall (the house is painted green and I've planted English Ivy recently.)

The "Scarecrow Hill" part is pretty straightforward - our home is on a hill (we're outside of Pittsburgh) and also because we have many, many scarecrows as props.

[Wildomar]

Um, I live in Wildomar... sorry there isnt any spectacular story associated with some wild fiend only known as Omar... it is just the name of the town. :o

As for a haunt name... I have never been creative enough to come up with one. So that just basically leaves me boring and nameless. :)

[Daddy's Little Corpse]

I'm Daddy's Little Corpse because I am. I've always been "The Little Black Rain Cloud" or Wednesday or "The Queen of Darkness" in my house-- basically I am festering cuteness.
Plus, I was obsessed with Dracula's Daughter when I joined up, which I guess explains the avatar too.

I don't really have a haunt 'cause there's only so much I can do to the house, but if I did, it would be Blackthorn Manor, which is a whole other can of worms to explain.

[skeletonowl]

Skeletonowl
I love skeletons, I used to draw a weird character called Mr.Owl. I Draw a Owl now that looks like a real one with skeleton legs (kinda)
Dread Bro's Haunt- What I want to accomplish this year gives me good reason for this, view my thread.
It's bascically me and my best friend trick or treat and we got these masks with dreads.

[One of the Devils Rejects]

My name is simple, taken straight from the movie, simply because at the time I signed up I had recently seen the movie and loved it - looking to change it though if they let me, so any suggestions would be cool. Don't have a name for our haunt, but probably will in a couple years.

[fg4432]

Revanant said, I don't have a haunt; wouldn't be prudent in this neighborhood. Wish I did though. sorry to hear that. It's so much fun spending hundreds of dollars, finding way to use Great Stuff that possibly the inventor never intended, going to yard sales and wondering if something under a dollar would work in a prop or not, thinking ahead about the light bill increase at the end of the month, getting razzed for causing a neighborhood brown out or the dark around the eyes not being make up but the late nights doing building, setup and placement.

Beth said, They're in for it this year!!! we are redoing the entire two story barn. Lottery winner's dream, cars, house, trips, a butler, naw... an old prison like in PA where you can spend all year and millions of dollars playing Halloween for one months time. Ever since I saw how they converted the prison to a haunted house, I have been envious. Being able to leave all this up would be sooooo much easier.

Now that I have a haunt (this is 2nd yar), wife wants to do party but I told her I am already booked in october... oh and that month before it (june, july, august and september) doing Halloween stuff.

Cuddle_bunny_1999 to hellrazor, I see how one can be made into the other so easily, thanks for the laugh.

Hawks Hill sign, cool, looks great.

Halloween Zombie, name for the haunt is particularly hard, i will try to keep some ideas floating around. maybe something necro, like "necropolis", "necromancer _________" (fill in blank) or "your undeadly demise" where "your" flashes and "undeadly demise" is solid color? Which actually makes a good segway...

I have been searching for months for a name for the haunt since last year I actually didn't do any front yard or Halloween type decos. It was kind of last minute with a 10x20 canopy and an empty garage and well I worked on the interior only. I haven't notified him but I am kind of paying tribute to a fellow member here.

RUAFRAID (to come) INN

Now here is the odd part. I was thinking a back lit sign (either cut out or painted plexiglass) where RUAFRAID INN is lit up solid color all the time and the (to come) is flashing like a broken fluorescent light, how it randomly tries to start. The (to come) would also be more like handwritten on an angle where it could be someone spray painting graffitti on the sign between RUAFRAID and INN, like how people do with road signs and such. I hadn't thought necessarily about a haunted hotel theme, but the more I look at it, certain elements can resemble a hotel or made to be.

I have an alternative idea that would place the (to come) in fluorescent paint and have it lit by black light for very short periods of time. I would place the fluorescent blacklight in a sleeve with one slit similar to an electric fireplace with the rolling (burning) log effect.

Name on this forum, fg as in my initials, 4432, an old last 4 of a phone number and has stuck with me for years. Besides, I was too busy working up a haunt name to bother with an avatar or a creative name and having to remember it for the logins everywhere.

[lewlew]

My last name is Lewis so it just became lewlew.

This is our third year doing the home haunt and we've finally come up with a good name I think.
We are the last house on out street and the road literally ends right in front or our house. Dead End was already
taken (Ghostess:D ) so... we've decided on "Road's End"
As in "Welcome to...Road's End"

[Beth]

To get off subject (just a little) fg4432 to make that sign blink with the "to come" part we have used the chaser christmas lights punched into foam. We have a tombstone that flashes with "vacancy".

The name of our haunt this year is going to be "Nightmare Theater". My friends always claim that this time of year with all of the work involved has become "Beth's nightmare" that they're stuck in!!! :googly: :p :p They're so funny..............

[Darkside]

A couple of years ago, at one of our Halloween parties (at that point in the evening when everyone is talking about all of the stuff you do for Halloween and how you must be just a little off :) ), well one of our good friends chimed in and said "your just everyone’s Darkside". I liked it, it stuck.

[jackielantern]

I just thought of things that related to my first name and Halloween hence Jackielantern. Well, really only one thing, & since I'm not the most imaginative I stopped there. :jol: Plus, I do like it. :)

[AzKittie74]

When I first started playing on the net I was a online pool JUNKIE! and the 1st thing always said was asl? (age,sex,location) so that is why my name is azkittie74 I'm in Arizona, Kittie meaning girl and I love cats and the band, and 74 was the year I was born. boring huh. but If I make up a cool new name I'll just end up forgetting it haha so I'm always AzKittie74

[edwood saucer]

I'm an Ed Wood fan and a fan of 50's sci-fi. So - mash'em together. The avatar is my wifes grandfather holding his prized rooster. I always thought the picture was grainy in a way flying saucer images are - so I put one in it.

I have about a dozen domains for my haunt - I just haven't decided on which one to use. I love the nostalgia of "Sleepy Hollow Graveyard (.com)" but then bought others like "CreepyVille Cemetery.com"

Just fun stuff.

[THeme ssaGE]

Theme ssaGE stands for THE MESSAGE.

My haunts name is The Haunted Manner and I changed it last year from "manor" to "manner". I changed it to manner because I believe the name lends itself to pretty much any theme I want.

[Ghostess]

Well, my nick came about several years ago from my friends who always called me the "hostess with the mostess" (did a stint as a caterer for a while and learned a lot).. and I finally decided while in my 2nd or so year on the Halloween-L that I needed a cool moniker to help distinguish me from the other Deanna (witchypoo), so I ran with the "hostess" thing and just added the g. Even my son's friends call me ghostess now.

The Dead End is my haunt, because I live on a dead end. I remember being so happy about that when we found this house 13 years ago it being on the dead end was just PERFECT. (Of course, it gets confused with FreakyDaddy's Dead End Cemetery sometimes..lol.. like on last year's Haunters DVDs done by propmaster. )

[Spooky1]

Well since I was born on Halloween I thought Spooky would be a good name, but it was often taken so it evolved into Spooky1.

[Scary Godmother]

Wow, this is an old thread that you revived Spooky!

My son suggested my name when I first joined. I did not know until Terror Master told me, that this is a character in his daughter's favorite Halloween movie! I still like the name though and I am a legitimate godmother.:jol:

[Sickie Ickie]

I just liked the way mine sounded. :D

[joker]

It just some to fit my somewhat morbid and twisted sense of humor.
Ah! Now that's good work! The skulls... the bodies... you give it all such a glow! I don't know if it's art, but I like it!
The Joker 1989

[RoxyBlue]

I was taking one of those on-line IQ tests and you needed to input a name. "RoxyBlue" was the first thing that popped into my head. I could probably analyze it and say that blue is my favorite color and "Roxy" is a theater name that might come naturally to someone who does a lot of community theater work, but I think it was just one of those idle moment spontaneous things.

[Don Givens]

Before I retired, so I could devote more time to Halloween, I was the head of an organized crime syndicate and they called me Don Givens.

One day my neighbor come to me complaining that the local kids were messing with her props. I told her I would take care of it but I warned her that maybe someday I would want to borrow some creepy cloth. I told her that day may never come but if I need the creepy cloth she should give it to me or she might wind up as part of her own display if you know what I mean.

Naw, really, I just used my own name becasue I have no imagination.

[RoxyBlue]

Naw, really, I just used my own name becasue I have no imagination.

LOL, I've seen your other posts - rest assured, you DO have an imagination - a twisted, off beat, very funny one.:googly:

[scareme]

I picked mine cause I like to be scared. So go ahead, scare me.

[Sickie Ickie]

Okay...Bush has been re-elected for a third term!

[Fiend4Halloween]

My name was given to me by numerous people. My home is decorated in a dark, Halloween/Goth theme. I'm always making props, usually take a few weeks off in October to attend conventions, haunted houses, visit cemetarys, always keeping Halloween in mind when I see things, wondering how I can work them into my haunt, just everything pertains to Halloween in my life, and I'm always being told, dude your a fiend for anything Halloween, so I put it together...Fiend4Halloween.

[RoxyBlue]

Okay...Bush has been re-elected for a third term!

LOL, I was wondering if someone would come up with a response to the "scare me" challenge:D

[Lady Nyxie]

The name Nyxie is part of my "witch" name. The Lady was just to make it appear as though I had some class... those of you who have met me know the truth.

[scareme]

Sickie, now I'll have nightmares tonight!

[Revenant]

Zombies are my favorite horror movie monster, but -- even though the term has come to mean any walking dead in the movies nowadays-- technically in folklore a "zombie" is someone killed and reanimated as a mindless slave. A revenant (from the french revenir, "to return") is a dead person who rises by his own force of will, retains his wits and personality, and is on a mission (usually vengeance... best examples are the vengeful dead in E.C. Comics or Nathan "I Want My Cake" Grantham from Creepshow.) Given the choice between mindless slave or self-motivated go-getter, the revenant was the clear choice.

Also, my other favorite movie monster is cyborgs. And in the video game DOOM (or maybe it was DOOM II) there is a corpsified cyborg baddie called a Revenant. I love zombies and cyborgs, so clearly a cyber-zombie would become my favorite monster in the game. I haven't made one yet, but I'm planning to do my version of that creature as a costume for the masquerade at Archon one of these years.

[beelce]

I use mine everywhere I need a name online. It simply a phonetic spelling of my initials which are B. L. C. So I spelled like it sounds. B = be...L = el...C=ce...thus it became Beelce. I have often wanted to make a new more halloweeny sounding name like zombie F, but I never came up with one that I like, and so far beelce has worked well for me....and now that cassie has carved my name is foam stone, I see no need to change. actually Cassie did give it a more creepy spelling that I really like...she used BEE as in the insect and ICE as in the frozen water stuff....funny that it looks the same either way you type it out unless you use all caps.... BEELCE or BEEICE......whatever...

[Night Owl]

Insomniac in the house!

[Dark Angel 27]

my name is simple.

i always admired those characters that started out seemingly evil but then became the hero. though others may call them a monster or seek their death....they are always the ones saving every one else's butts.

i kind of like it and use those often when i write my stories.

so for my user name, i chose dark angel for my user name and the fact that i am 27.

does that make any sense?

[Goblin]

Many of you know me as the Halloween Goblin on Halloween Forum.
I shortened it to just Goblin when I joined here. My sister and I send each
other Halloween ecards everyday in October. She is Trick-Or-Treat and I am
The Halloween Goblin. When I was looking for a user name I decided to use
it. Since I refer to myself mostly as just Goblin I shortened it when I joined here.

[Master-Macabre]

MM just came in that I'm such a paranoid perfectionist at making my costumes and my makeup, if the tiniest thing isn't right, I have to fix it or I wont wear the costume :P Also that almost everything in my costumes is self made so I drag my ass to fabric stores and spend hours in front of a sewing machine so I feel (for an amateur) I've mastered this area of haunting. Many of my costumes are also my own invented characters and they're much more on the macabre side then the blood and gore all over the place type so yeah I've been using MM for a few years now. (still don't really consider myself a total master at it though :P I'm pretty sure that even with a lifetime of professional experience, there's still way more to learn)

[randomr8]

I don't know. I've used it as an alias for a long time. Probably came into being while doing arm curls. I really should have something more expressive of the site, huh?

[Terrormaster]

Man another old thread I hadn't seen... I've used a good handful of aliases over the last 15 years but only two have really stuck with me -- Spellbreaker and Terrormaster.

Spellbreaker comes from an old computer game of the same name by a little company called Infocom. Spellbreaker was the third part in the Enchanter trilogy. I used it for numerous years in the old BBS (predates the WWW) communities back in New Orleans. Eventually my friends in that community affectionately shortened it to just Spelly.

Terrormaster came after I moved to Connecticut around 2000-2001 when I opened DigitalNecropolis.com - a community for building horror and dark fantasy CRPGs. It was meant to be a play on Webmaster since I was the webmaster and admin of the site.

[Evil Andrew]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really........

[Joiseygal]

This is a cool thread. It is neat to see how people came across there screen names. Anyway I live in New Jersey, so I decided to use Jersey in my name. I thought since people think Jersey people have accents than I thought I would spell my screen name the way some people talk in Joisey! So that is why I came up with Joiseygal. I thought since I use it as my screen name for other sites than why not use it for this site. :)

[Toktorill]

Once upon a time, before World of Warcraft, Everquest, even before Ultima Online... people on the net who wanted to go on grand adventures with each other played text-based adventures called MUDs. One day back then I hit a few keys randomly while naming a new barbarian character. Fun ensued, and a few college buddies started calling me "Tok" IRL. 16 years later I still use the T-word almost everywhere online- photobucket, youtube, and forums.

[The_Caretaker]

Sincw my home haunt was manly a cemetery my name seemed to fit

[Jaybo]

I visit lots of forums, and was running into problems remembering what name I used for each site. Solution was to start consolidating and use the same name, or a derivative, on all of the sites.

My real name is Jayson. I grew up with two nicknames, Jack (for JackA$$) and Jaybo. I thought Jaybo might be a bit more socially acceptable. :D

[hedg12]

My last name is Hedges - hence the Hedg, and I'm the 12th of 13 children (lived in a small town - parents got bored easily), so that's where the 12 comes from. Used it for a Hotmail account years ago, & it stuck. Doesn't really fit in a Halloween forum, but I'm too lazy to change :)

[lowdwnrob]

I have always been into lowrider cars and my name is Rob. End of story

[nixie]

I'm rather obsessed with faerie folklore, and I find the Nixie to be one of the most fascinating of faerie beings. In Germanic mythology, Nixies are water sprites that dwell in beautiful underwater palaces, they can change their physical form or become invisible in order to beguile humans, and can grant wishes, but usually only do so for their own gain. Nixies have been known to abduct human children, lure humans into the water to drown, and can marry humans and bear human children. They have an insatiable of love music, are excellent dancers, and have the gift of prophecy. I love that they have both qualities of beauty and malevolence, and I share a few of their passions (water, dance, music... not the whole drowning and abducting business). I also love "The Nixie of the Mill Pond", one of the Grimm Brothers' darker tales.
I thought since I have a twisted fairytale haunt, a twisted faerie name would be fitting.

[CRAZYBOUTHALLOWEEN]

Well...... it pretty much explains itself I had not been on another forum until here and since I eat, breathe and sleep halloween and people tell me alot that I must be crazybouthalloween to have and do all the things that I do so guess that just kinda stuck

[DoomBuddy]

Mine came from my favorite thing, Disney World. Where better than the Haunted Mansion to get a name. But instead of DoomBuggy I made it Buddy because the reason I joined was to work on these projects with my best friend (wife) Sharpobject.

[DarkLore]

Mine came about from futility. I used to play an online game that had millions of players. Eventually...every name and word in the dictionary had been used. So I had to come up with something that didn't conflict with the game.

When I came to the forum, I didn't expect to stick around. I thought I was creating a nickname for a single message. I picked one of my game names that made me think of reading these forum threads. DarkLore...as in...scary legends/stories.

[Icy Feet of Death]

Umm. Because they are. Just ask the husband.

[fick209]

I have no good story about my name, when I joined the forum I expected to log in a few times a year so I used my last name "fick" which I knew I would never forget...as for the 209 part, well not sure why I ever included those numbers except that they are 3 numbers that I do use every single day and also knew I would never forget:)

[Bronx Banshee]

Well. I do live in the Bronx so that was an easy decision. Banshee, because I'm of Irish decent.

[howlin mad jack]

Well let's see, I thought up my handle because of my fascination with werewolves, hence the Howlin, Jack came from the fact that I love All things Tim Burton, especially Jack Skellington...and the mad part is due to the fact that I've lost my marbles somewhat, just ask the wife she'll agree. Actually, the mad part comes from the old saying He's howling mad!! Howling Mad Jack...wanted to be unique.

[ScreamingScarecrow]

Screaming Scarecrow - How else am I suppsed to keep them crows outta the fields?!
When I was looking around for a name for a production company I wanted to use Twisted Tree Productions but somebody already used that - Dam!
So I then came up with Screaming Scarecrow Studios - I like it therefore I use it!

[michael myers]

Well, Michael Myers came really easy here...for the last 20 years I have played a very convincing MM for Halloween both at my house and at a friends haunted back yard, not to mention that I love all of the MM movies...except those damn remakes that Rob Zombie did, lol!

[papabear]

At first my wife called me Baloo because my oldest boy liked Jungle Book. My youngest son's was nick named "Bear" from the time he could walk. Every bear has a Papa Bear. At first just my wife started calling me that then my granddaughters and nieces and nephews started calling me that. It stuck. Not scary but it works.

[debbie5]

LOL @ Icy Feet of Death. I think we are clones!

[tot13]

I have NO imagination when it comes to things like this. I run a haunted trail called the Trail of Terror, and when I went to set up a web-site, e-mail, et al, Trail of Terror was already being used so I just stuck a "13" on the end for grins. "ToT13" has kinda become our logo, so it was the best I could come up with for a user-name.

As an aside, I was kinda confused at first when I would see posters referring to tot's. I've never denied being as slow as mud sometimes, but it took me a minute to realize they meant "trick-or-treaters", lol.

[Bascombe]

When I was a kid, there was a summer resident in our town (West Yellowstone, Montana) that was an eccentric old retired advertising man named Dave Bascombe. He was a humorist that had written many books and always published an annual calendar called "The Wretched Mess News Calendar" His pen name was Milford "Stanley" Poltroon.

He was the nicest guy you'd ever meet, but a little crazy. He used to drive an old VW bus that had moose antlers on top, a moose tail on the back, googly eyes in the windows and had a horn that sounded like a moose in heat. He loved to honk the horn. Anyway he was a friend of my Dad's and mine and I took my haunt name from him, Bascombe

[Perk-a-Dan]

I've kind of always wanted to work in a hospital, I find pills fascinating. And I think they mentioned percodan in a movie I loved when I was younger, Poison Ivy.

And because I'm a huge cheese-head.


(Sorry for double-posting, I don't see the option to edit my threads... I can't breathe if I can't edit)

[Tricia]

HA. My name is Tricia. That's it. It's easy to remember. I'm Tricia on the scooter forum, Tricia on the cooking forum, Tricia Tricia Tricia. I'm lazy.

[Tinman]

Umm. Because they are. Just ask the husband.
Icy Feet, Hmm, that reminds me of the time, just after we were married, that my wife informed me that she heard that husbands were a good place to warm your cold feet. Before she came to bed I placed a plastic frozen ice pack under the covers where my feet should have been. Her feet came over and... Well I thought it was funny, though It's hard to laugh and run at the same time.

Anyhow I came up with my user tag after a double bypass about 6 years ago. Plus the name Ironman (of Ironstock fame) was taken, so I figured maybe I could be Ironman light <grin>

[BroomRide]

Well I use Dreamdemon on most horror boards I go to since I am a huge Freddy fan and it is also what I decided to name the first Freddy mask I started selling.

On some other boards I am Punisher or Punisher75 due to the fact I am a Punisher nut! I have been collecting and reading the comics for 15 years.

Aaron

Speaking of Freddy...I found a poster that said Freddy born November 2nd. It had a picture of his razor glove. I bought it for 25 bucks. Then...my husband threw it out during a move. November 2nd is my birthday. I'm still not over that. :mad:

[scareme]

When I came to the forum, I didn't expect to stick around. I thought I was creating a nickname for a single message. I picked one of my game names that made me think of reading these forum threads. DarkLore...as in...scary legends/stories.

But then you fell in love with us cause you're just a big cuddly teddy bear kind of guy, and you decided to stick around. Awww, we're so glad you did. :D

[BobC]

My name is an ancient American Indian word that means Scary... j/k that would have been cool though. First names Bob last names Connors...BOBC My name should reflect me being a drunken Irishman...but if I change my name to whiskydik no one will know who I am..lol

[ZipperNeck]

Mine is Frankenstein's monster's nickname in "young Frankenstien"....Madeline Kahn calls him "lil Zipperneck" after experiencing her not so "lil" encounter. :-)

[sleepersatty99]

Well i got mine because im a car tuner.

[Doc Doom]

I go by Doc Holliday (a version of my name) on several other forums, so I kept with the "Doc" theme. Had watched Ice Age the night before and liked the buzzards and their "DOOM ON YOU" so went with it. PLus it's easy to type.

[highbury]

Any English football (soccer football, not football football) fans out there? I'm a huge Arsenal fan, and their famous, old stadium was called Highbury. I thought it had a nice, classic ring to it, so I named my home haunt cemetery Highbury Cemetery. And now I'm Highbury.

[JohnTerror]

Well, my name is actually John Terra. My wife Carol enjoys using the name "Carol Terror" in some online activities, so when I joined up here, I decided to follow suit, and go with "Terror". Fitting, yes?

[halloweengoddessrn]

When I worked for the local health department, a much younger man starting calling me "Goddess" because I always dressed so nice. I was flattered of course :-) Im also a registered nurse thus: HalloweenGoddessRN !

[LairMistress]

I started out back in 2000 as "Queen of Halloween", till I realized that there were *many* other women out there with that nickname. From there, I chose "LairKeeper", because the name of my haunt is The Revenants' Lair, and I'm the only one who sets up, so I "keep" the "Lair". However, over the last couple of years, I got tired of explaining that I was in fact, not male, hence my change to LairMistress.

I had to laugh at a couple of invitations that I got while using the name LairKeeper. Local guys on forums would write to me "Hey, come on over and we'll build sh*t and drink beer all day!" So, I'd write back "Thanks, but I'm not sure my husband would appreciate me doing that." and I'd never hear from them again. Either they were homophobic, or they were embarrassed that they mistook me for male. ;)

[spinwitch]

Mine is pretty simple. I do handspinning (making yarn) and I'm a pagan--hence, SpinWitch.

[corner haunt]

Well mine is lame but practical. I'm a corner house and we do a yard haunt. Pretty simple! Some people have guessed our house before I even told them the street we live on. That always makes you feel good!

[Revenant]

From there, I chose "LairKeeper", because the name of my haunt is The Revenants' Lair, and I'm the only one who sets up, so I "keep" the "Lair".

And what a spectacular, dignified, classy haunt name it is!

So if I'm passing through town, do I get to stay overnight for free? :biggrinkin:

[austenandrews]

My parents gave me this name.

[LairMistress]

And what a spectacular, dignified, classy haunt name it is!

So if I'm passing through town, do I get to stay overnight for free? :biggrinkin:

I'll be sure to reserve my best crypt for you, oh most awesome name-chooser! :D

[Eyes_in_the_dark]

Ha, gave it to myself and just thought it fit the forum.

[Glyphen2010]

Glyphen is a comic character I drew when I was about 15. He is a cybernetically altered mummy w/o a soul. The 2010 was just when I joined the forums!

[jdsteel82]

well mine is my first and middle initials and my last name with the year i was born. I usually go by ALTxF4, but I figured the meaning of it wouldn't be as comical here.

[daBOOhouse]

Well, I have the word "BOO" cut out of a 4'X8' sheet of plywood painted orange and green with purple polka-dots and backlit with purple rope light on the side of my house and overheard the neighborhood kids call my house "The BOO house" and ta-da, my username...