Home Gallery Projects About Products News Links Contact Events	Archived Grave Happenings October 30, 2008 Halloween Night is our Last Night The last night of the display is Halloween Night. We will be taking down the display starting Saturday morning. The MHS Dancers will be performing from 6m-9pm Friday Night and the street will be closed from 5pm-11pm for trick or treaters. We will be turning off the display at 11pm. October 29, 2008 We are featured on the Today Show We are one of 3 halloween displays in the nation featured in a photo contest on the Today Show. Vote for us HERE. October 28, 2008 Voting is closed for FEARnet Thanks to everyone. There is a lot of competition this year and we appreciate your support of Davis Graveyard. Davis Graveyard Gallery Updated Thanks so much to our friend who took amazing pictures of our yard. Check out the 2008 link on the Gallery page. Davis Graveyard on KPTV Fox 12 Halloween Morning Joe V from Good Day Oregon will be back at the Graveyard on Halloween morning. We will be up at 5:00 am getting everything ready, if you are up early check it out. Chris Davis on KNRK Halloween Afternoon Chris will be playing her "perfect playlist" on Friday, Halloween on KNRK at 5:00. She will be playing her songs and talking to Gustav about the Graveyard. Jeff Davis on KPAM Radio Tomorrow Jeff will be interviewd by Bob Miller at 7:10am on KPAM 860am about the graveyard display October 22, 2008 FEARnet 25K Contest 2008 It is back again, the best yard haunt in the US contest from our friends at FEARnet. The voting on this one is very different from last year. Here is what you do. Create an account, one per email - very simple Find the Davis Graveyard entry (http://www.fearnet.com/HH2008/index.html) Vote 5 stars Tell everyone you know to do the same :) You are done and we thank you!! The judging is done by popular vote and a panel of judges who will pick from the top five. VOTING END OCTOBER 27!!! The winner's video will appear on GOOD MORNING AMERICA Halloween morning. BTW - one of our favorite Haunts - Mitchell Mausoleum is on there - check out their video, there stuff is creepy and beautiful. October 21, 2008 Davis Graveyard on the Web People are blogging about Davis Graveyard Raven's Barrow Pumpkin Rot Mom's Like Me (Portland area) Hub Pages Grim Hallow Haunt Style Oregon Davis Graveyard Featured In the first edition of Home Haunter New online magazine October 20, 2008 PCS Fundraiser update Last Friday was our fundraiser for PCS at the Graveyard. As of today we estimate we have raised about $1,100 from the event. We thank everyone that came and helped us raise money for the Promising Playwrights Program. There are still raffle tickets available for the Mud Man. Contact Jessy at (503) 445-3744 jessyf@pcs.org or flag one of us down when we are out in the yard and we will be happy to sell you a ticket or two or 10. Update to the Frequently Asked Questions Here is a new one - What do your neighbors think of all this? In general they are very supportive, but they are not happy when our visitors cars block their driveways. Please be courteous by not block their driveways even for a few minutes. The police have given tickets to visitors that block driveways or park in the street. Graveyard Dancers will be back on Halloween Night Please note that the street will be closed off from Johnson Creek to Roswell from 5:00 to 11:00 on Halloween. The dancers will be back performing from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. October 16, 2008 Fundraiser tickets still available Help us support the Portland Center State Promising Playwrights program by attending our private party in the graveyard this Friday. Tickets are $50 each and 100% of the proceeds goes to the theater. There will handmade props available in our silent auction, as well as gift baskets and wine and each attendee will receive a gift bag full of goodies! Contact Jessy Friedt at PCS to reserve your space now. (503) 445-3744 jessyf@pcs.org KOIN 6 News at the Graveyard KOIN 6 news broadcasted from the graveyard from 5:00am to 7:00am. The dancers performed and the lights and effects were on. Featured on Fox 12 The Graveyard was featured on the news on Sunday night talking about our open house. It was a beautiful day and the camera guy took some great footage of the yard and the dancers. Check out Chloe's blog. Fundraiser October 12 was a great success Thanks to everyone who helped up make our Community Open House Fundraiser for the Milwaukie High School Dance team such a great success. We had great time sharing our creations with the community. The dancers did a great job and we raised almost $400 for the dance team. Check out the dance team performance during the open house. To continue to support the dance team, we will continue to sell raffle tickets for the skeleton until the 25th (we will draw for the skeleton on the 26th.) We will be accepting donations through the 31st. October 6, 2008 The Display is up This is our 10th year of doing the display. We have added a few new things to the display and spent a lot more time on a lot of details you might not notice. You can view the display from sunrise to 10pm every day (11pm on Fri/Sat). The lights come on at dusk. The effects (sound, fog, video, and animations) run every Fri-Sun dusk to 11pm (10pm on Sunday). The first night of effects will be this Friday October 10th at dusk. Check our calendar for specific events. Don't forget that this Sunday the 12th is our Open House where the graveyard dancers perform and we will be selling some tombstones and other stuff to raise money for the MHS dance team. October 3, 2008 Win Me This Monster Mud creation is on display at Portland Center Stage's Gerding Theater at 128 NW 11th Ave. You can buy tickets for $5ea at their box office or call (503) 445-3700. We will also be selling tickets at our upcoming open house and on the weekends. The drawing will be Saturday October 25th. Free delivery for winner within the Portland area otherwise pickup arrangements can be made. 100% of the proceeds go to the Promising Playwrights program. September 12, 2008 Would you like to spend an evening at the Graveyard? We will be hosting an exclusive fundraiser event Friday October 17th from 6-9pm to benefit Portland Center Stage's Promising Playwrights program. You will be treated to a private performance of the Graveyard Dancers while enjoying light food and beverages. You will also get to meet and mingle with some the creators of the Display and be given a special "behind the scenes" tour. There will be a silent auction of many custom made props and unique season related items. Plus you will receive your very own Davis Graveyard gift bag with lots of goodies. Tickets are $50 per person. Admission is limited. Contact Jessy Friedt at PCS to reserve your space now. (503) 445-3744 jessyf@pcs.org 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Promising Playwrights program. August 19, 2008 Davis Graveyard was awarded a grant from Clackamas County Cultural Coalition After many years of funding the Graveyard ourselves and with the increased popularity the costs of doing some of our events has risen. We decided to apply for a grant to help out with costs. We heard about this program and decided to give it a try. And to our amazement we were awarded the grant! Awards Press Release July 19, 2008 The Graveyard Supports Portland Center Stage This year the Graveyard will hold a fundraiser for Portland Center Stages Promising Playwrights program. Promising Playwrights are four exceptionally talented young writers, drawn from the PCS Visions & Voices programs at Cleveland,Lincoln, Wilson and Alliance High Schools FOCUS program. These writers spend all 10 days of the JAW festival working alongside professional actors, directors and dramaturgs, who show them the inside workings of the theater. Watch here for more information! Dance team fans don't worry! The team will be back this year to dance in the graveyard - we have great fundraising ideas in store for them too! We will keep you posted as things develop. July 18, 2008 Both tombstone making classes are full We added a second class on the same day, and it filled up right away. The two classes are on Saturday, August 2, the first one from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and the next class is from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m... If you are interested in class please email us and we will put you on the waiting list. Now get working, it is only a little over 3 months until Halloween!!!! June 25, 2008 Join us at FrighFest Northwest July 10 - 14! FFNW is the the annual gathering for local haunters from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Canada. Come down to Champoeg Park (day passes are avaliable at the park) and meet other haunters and learn to make cool props! Jeff and I will be teaching several classes including a corpsifying demonstartion (learn to make your own corpse) and how to do video effects. There will be gift bags, door prizes and a dance on Saturday. Sign up for the group and meet everyone. See the site for more details FFNW June 13, 2008 The tombstone workshop is already full! We have created a waiting list. We will use this for alternates or if we get enough people we will hold a 2nd class. June 10, 2008 You asked for it, you got it. We are going to show you how to make tombstones! In response to requests for us to teach how to make our display tombstones, we are holding our first ever Davis Graveyard Tombstone Class! After completing our 4 hour workshop you will go home with your very own custom tombstone and the know how to make a graveyard full of them. What could be better? Sign up today, space is limited. Saturday, August 2nd 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Maximum of 12 people in the class Cost $25 per person (cost of supplies and tools that you can take home.) Pay through our PayPal link or cash when you arrive The first 12 people to respond get a slot in the class. If you respond after the class has been filed we will create a waiting list. If the waiting list has at least 12 people on it we will likely hold another class. The waiting list will also be used as alternates if there are cancellations. You must pre-register to attend. Due to the sharp tools and lots of messy paint, no children under 12 please. May 21, 2008 (Almost) Everyone should have their HauntX trophies - congratulations to all the winners! Special thanks to Propmaster and Robbie (the web guy), Will (the owner/creator of the HauntX awards) and to all of you that voted. The 2007 inductee for the House of Pain Award is: Pumpkin Rot. (Sorry, we have no way of duplicating the custom award that Will makes.) The haunt got a certificate and we will get the information on the website. Well done! Now get working..there are only 5 months until Halloween!! April 28, 2008 We just got back from a 6 day trip attending HAuNTcon. Check out our blog entries of the trip. We gave a seminar on video effects in the graveyard. For those that attended here is the handout. We also mentioned a digital player called a DiGi Viewer DV-325 and lots of people wanted to know where we got ours. We had a great time and learned a lot. Febuary 6, 2008 The 2007 Worlds Best home Haunts DVD set is now available for sale here. We sumbitted a video to this set along with our FrearNet video. There are over 100 videos on this 5 disc set from all over the world. There will be a few contests starting soon that will be based on votes from people who purchase this set of DVDs. We have also updated our Products page to include 2 DVDs for sale. We make DVD's each year for our family and friends that help us with the display. The DVD includes the video we submit to the larger set along with lots of content that didn't make it in the video. There are photos, news coverage, extended video and other extras. We are offering our 2007 DVD by itself or with our award winning 2006 DVD. The price includes shipping and covers our cost. Any money left over we will donate to the MHS Dancers for their great participation in last years display. January 7, 2008 Thanks to our neighbors. Thanks to our friends in the Ardenwald Neighborhood Association for recognizing The Davis Graveyard for "putting Milwaukie on the map on a national level" with our graveyard display. We love doing this for our community and appreciate all the support we have received from our neighborhood, we could not do this without you. Looking forward to 2008! Workshops for 2008. Check back here in early May for information on our "Tombstone" creating workshop. We are ironing out the details and will have a "how to" chapter from our upcoming book to help you create your tombstones. If you have not contacted us with your interest in the workshop, please send us an email through the contact page and we will add you to the list. We have added a few new projects to the page and update the video effect project. Check back for more updates. November 6, 2007 The graveyard is in storage. Thanks to everyone who helped make this the best year ever for the Davis Graveyard. From the dancers to the photographers, from the helpers to the Hearse Club, from the press support to the police cadets and everyone else in between - We could not have done it without you. November 3, 2007 Congratulations to the dance team at their win Saturday (with a little help from our props). They are great dancers and we enjoyed having them in our yard this year. They have a new competition coming up in a few weeks, join us in wishing them "good luck." We also want to thank the community for helping us raise over $1,100 for the dance team during the month of October. November 2, 2007 We will be running the effects in the graveyard one last time before we take it down. The yard will have all the video, animation effects and fog running tonight from dusk until 10:00 p.m. We will have the donation box out for the Milwaukie High School Prancing Ponies - please help us support the team that did such a fantastic job "haunting" our graveyard this year. November 1, 2007 Thanks to everyone who supported us in the FearNet completion. We are sorry to find that we did not win the competition, but it was a great experience to participate and the winner, DC Cemetery, puts on an amazing haunt and is quite deserving of the honor. Check our Links page for links to some of our favorite yard haunts. October 31, 2007 Halloween night was a big hit. We had the street blocked off and the Milwaukie Police Cadets had 2 cars parked at each roadblock to keep traffic redirected. The Milwaukie HS Dance team performed their "Thriller" routine ever 20 minutes all night and hung out along the fence. There were 100's of people enjoying the view from the street. We even had a couple of Hearses show up for a little while. October 30, 2007 We were on PDX 49 tonight from 6-9pm during the breaks betweeen shows. October 28, 2007 We have a winner! Some lucky person won the Mud-man raffle. Now it is sitting on their doorstep to scare the trick-or-treaters. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets to help support the Milwaukie High School Dance team. October 26, 2007 We are going to be on the news! KOIN 6 is broadcasting their earlier weather report from the yard tonight! How does the FearNet voting work? We feel your pain - they are using a pairing algorithm instead of just choosing. Here is how it works: got to this site and sign in with your Yahoo login, or create a yahoo login. You will then see a pair of haunts. Choose your favorite, and then another pair will come up...keep doing this all the time choosing "The Davis Graveyard" each time it comes up. You will see your entry count to the right - you want to keep voting until the unseen entries is "0" and in the "your favorites" box, Davis Graveyard is the number one. If you are going to pick a second choice, some friends of ours have Lowe Manor, vote for them, of course unless we are one of the pair. Make up as many yahoo accounts as you can. Don't sleep - just vote! October 21, 2007 We are featured in the Oregonian Metro section! There is a great article in the Metro section of Sunday's Oregonian. We were interviewed on Saturday and there we are - Laura is fast. We had a great time, both Laura Gunderson and Motoya Nakamura (the photographer) were great to talk to on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The article talks about our support of the dance team and mentions Darkwing Manor - our fellow haunters in the Ashland area that were kind enough to talk with Laura during their busy weekend. October 20, 2007 Fundraiser open house was a big success! Thanks to everyone that turned out for the fund raiser on Friday night and helped us raiser over $750 for the Milwaukie Dance team - The Prancing Ponies! Special thanks to the dance team who preformed not once, but twice in the rain! October 19, 2007 Thanks Daria! Daria from the Buzz 105.1 took time to interview Jeff on Friday night about the graveyard and to help us promote the fundraising for the dance team! October 17, 2007 So you want your own grim reaper? We are selling raffle tickets for one of our large "grim reaper" type characters - 100% of the sales benefit the Milwaukie Dance and Drill team. If you want to purchase tickets they are $2 each or 3 for $5. You can purchase them at the graveyard (just stop one of us while we are outside) or you can purchase them online through PayPal. KPDX filming today!, Channel 49 will be filming a segment in the graveyard this afternoon and early evening. The dancers will be performing from 5:00 to 5:30 (at the latest - no promises!) so if you missed them this weekend, now is your chance. October 16, 2007 We have a new website! Pretty much the same content but no more flash and easier navigation. (Thanks Allan) October 15, 2007 Second Annual Open House a big success! Sunday was our community open house day. We had hundreds of people got the behind the scenes tour of the yard. The Milwaukie High School Dance and Drill Team preformed a zombified dance routine to help raise money for their scholarship fund. 100% of the money donated at the event along with the concession and raffle ticket sales went directly to the dance team. Special thanks to all the dancers (and their families), to the make-up man, Matt Huntley from Scream at the Beach, Cheryl and Roman for their photo and video expertise, and to all our volunteers who made this such a memorable event! Check out YouTube for the zombie dance routine and our gallery page for pictures of the dancers. October 13, 2007 New Driver No, the driver did not come back. Thanks to Vern and Sue for helping use replace our driver (with fancy new alarm) and get some eerie cobwebs up in the yard just in time for our open house. Oh, yeah, and seven outdoor speakers were also stolen off the fence. October 11, 2007 We are featured on Fearnet.com Check out our Webisode on Fearnet's Route 666 to America's Scariest Home Haunts feature. October 9, 2007 Graveyard robbery on FOX Fox came out today to film a bit about our driver being stolen. May this will guilt the thieves into returning him. Check it out on their website. October 7, 2007 The Graveyard was robbed! Sometime in the night, the skeleton driver on our new hearse was stolen. If you see a very well dressed skeleton around, could you get him back to the graveyard - the ghouls are unruly without supervision. October 1, 2007 The display will be up October 1st - November 2nd this year Sound, Lights, Fog, video, and Animations are on Friday-Saturday dusk-11pm, Sunday dusk-10pm and Halloween Night 5-10pm Thanks to everyone who helped! We could not do it without you!