THANKS to our awesome Rebel Yell Crew for our best season yet!
Photos from this year's haunt coming soon
Questions about the haunt or the website? Contact us.
11/4/09
"Better than Disneyland!"
"Better than Great America!"
"Incredible."
"The best haunted house I have ever seen!"
"By far your best effort yet."
These are just a few of the comments from visitors to the 2009 Rebel Yell Haunted House. We truly believe it was our best season yet.
Huge thanks to Paul, Mike, Adana, Tom, Justin, Brian and the rest of the Rebel Yell Crew, as well to all of our fans, friends and neighbors who came out to see us this year. We look forward to scaring you all again next Halloween.
10/30/09
Happy Halloween everyone!
We just finished our first haunting night of the season and it was great fun. Our haunt is better than ever and we got excellent reviews from the nearly 100 attendees who stopped by for our preview night. We're looking forward to the big night tomorrow. Hope to see you there!
9/9/09
THE REBEL YELL IS BACK! For 2009 we will be returning to our roots as one of America's Scariest Home Haunts with an updated version of our original haunt on Rebel Way. We have a new location, one block up the street. Check the Details page for more info.
We are also hard at work on bigger, better pro-haunt for 2010 so check back after Halloween for more info on that.
1/25/08
NEW PHOTOS! Finally!
Check out the Photos page for new pics from our 2007 haunt in Fremont.
10/7/07
Rebel Yell featured on FEARnet!
About 3 weeks ago, DJ, Ernie and Todd were interviewed for a series called Route 666: America's Scariest Home Haunts! The series is available at FEARnet.com and the episode featuring the Rebel Yell was posted yesterday. Check it out here.
While you're there, check out FEARnet's other original programming, horror reviews and message boards.
8/15/07
NEW - Check out our new online store!
All of the cool kids need a Rebel Yell T-Shirt for back to school.
8/13/07
Lots of website updates, especially to the Details and Story pages.
New construction photos coming soon.
11/06/06
Thanks everyone for another great year! We opened for a total of 4 nights including our preview night and a VIP tour the day after Halloween.
Our estimated attendance was 600 people over the 4 nights. And the reviews were all good.
Check out the Photos page for some new pics, and check back soon for new on next year's haunt.
10/18/06
Trick out your computer with cool new Rebel Yell desktop wallpaper! Visit the Photos page for the links
10/8/06
With three weekends left before Halloween, the haunt is starting to come together. Click here for new pictures.
NEW THIS YEAR:
Don't miss it! Check the Details page for times and dates.
9/2/06
We are hard at work on our new effects and renovations for the 7th annual Rebel Yell. And since this may be our last year at our home on Rebel Way (more on that later), we are going to make sure it is our best... haunt... EVER.
In the meantime, we highly recommend checking out Callson Manor in San Jose and Pirates Of Emerson in Fremont. And for a list of other home and pro haunts in Northern California check out CalHaunts.com
8/28/06
Lots of news. I haven't updated the site in a while so here goes:
Todd has been working on some hands for Otis, the pop-up zombie in the cemetery. They have a steel skeleton with cotton and latex forming the skin. Very cool. Check them out.
We have finished the box for the air compressor, painted the furniture for the new frozen bedroom and Ernie has been welding the frame for the new pop-up for the bed. Still a lot of projects to finish before we start to build the haunt in October but things are looking good.
Our next build meeting is Saturday, September 9th. Following that we will meet every weekend in October.
This year's haunt is going to be our best by far, don't miss it!
3/19/06
We have completed our second planning meeting for the 06 Rebel Yell. Our accomplishments included naming our characters, starting construction of a sound proof box for the air compressor, and bronzing the Corpseapult.
The Corpseapult was our first mechanical prop. Something I made out of screen door closers, hinged wood and a gate latch circa 1996. It has found it's way into almost every Rebel Yell since then, but is now officially retired.
3/15/06
Thanks to John Leon of Salon Soulé in Campbell for donating this fabulous collection of heads! We will put them to good use
2/12/06
Happy new year! (OK a bit late, but this is my first post of 2006)
Our first planning meeting for the 7th annual Rebel Yell took place yesterday. We will be adding some exciting new props and effects and remodeling the bedroom this year. We also have a talented comic artist working on a new logo for us. Stay tuned for more details!
The photo page has been updated, and some new pics posted from 2005 - Click here!
We also have a new draft of the Rebel Yell Story - Read it here.
11/8/05
The 2005 Rebel Yell is all packed up. Attendance was down a bit from last year, probably due to the Monday night, but we collected about 30% more in donations. I think this indicates that more of our victims are coming specifically to see the haunt and bringing their wallets. Which is a good thing. Anyway we had a great time as always.
We're already working on the 7th annual Rebel Yell for 2006. More info coming soon
10.31.05
RED BULL - The Red Bull truck came by tonight and gave all the Rebel Yell crew
free Red Bull just before we opened. Cool! Just the little boost we needed to
crank up the scares!
The Red Bull folks said they read about us in The Wave magazine. I didn't know the Wave had listed us but I looked it up later, see pic at right ->
10.31.05
OPEN TONIGHT
6 - 10 PM
I just posted some new pics, check em out...
10.30.05
"BETTER THAN GYROS".
That's what 2 different groups told us this evening at our preview night. Everything went very smoothly with all of the props, sound and lighting working as planned. We have no doubt that tomorrow will be our best Halloween yet, thanks to an awesome Rebel Yell crew! (And BTW welcome to new member Stephen)
See you all tomorrow
10.21.05:
There are many, many different shades of "black".
I learned this last weekend, as I was tacking up the black fabric behind Ben (our 7ft tall grim reaper). You would think that black is black, but the flat black paint on the wall, the satin black rayon fabric and the black terrycloth fabric are three distinctly different "colors". Just thought I would pass on that bit of newly acquired haunt wisdom to you all.
Anyway - I have posted some pictures of the progress on the 2005 Rebel Yell. See them here.
10.23.04:
One week till we open! I have posted a few new pictures of the construction progress, check them out here.
10.14.04:
The interior walls are up, most of the furniture is in place and the haunt is looking GOOD. This weekend we'll be hanging lights & working on props and effects. Ernie & I worked last night on our first "monster mud" project and it is starting to take shape. You can see pics of it here.
10.02.04:
Construction began yesterday. The frame, newly painted walls and new pitched - waterproof - roof are up in the driveway, and we removed some roots from the side yard so that we can create a more winding path through the cemetery. We also welcomed 2 new crew members, Daniel Mason and Michael Reed.
Pics of the new and improved Rebel Yell Building here.
9.24.04:
We've almost finished our first new prop this year. Ernie built a pneumatic cylinder from PVC pipe and we've attached it to a corpse named Clyde.
Ernie, Lisa and I are out of town this weekend visiting Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. For those who don't know, Cedar Point is the roller coaster capital of the world, and this weekend they begin their HalloWeekends Halloween celebration. I'm sure it'll be a blast.
9.18.04:
A new member has joined the Rebel Yell team! Todd Faris, whom we tried to to recruit a few years ago, will be helping us out this year. Todd joins the outstanding crew of DJ, Ernie, Curt, John and Tom. We expect to add more names to this list before we begin construction in October.
9.11.04:
September already! I can't believe we only have 7 weeks before Halloween. Most of our September weekends are busy with family stuff, so we will be very busy in October. I'm trying to recruit some new volunteers this year, if you would like to help out please contact me.
7.25.04:
The Details page now states that we will be open for 2 nights this year:
Saturday, October 30th and Sunday the 31st
3.10.04:
We have arrived in Chicago for the TransWorld halloween expo!
LOOK! Pictures and info here.
2.20.04:
SITE UPDATES: Added a Links page, re-arranged the Photos page and posted some new photos from the very first Rebel Yell back in 2000. These are the first pics to be posted from that year.
10.30.03:
The 4th annual Rebel Yell is almost done! We will have a special Sneak Preview tonight from 6-7 PM for a few friends to make sure everything is ready for tomorrow.
