Photo Gallery: 25th year turning home and property into haunted experience
Diane and Preston Meyer stand at the corner of their Burbank home property at the theshold to the silver mine entrance of the Rotton Apple Hollow haunted house they are building on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
For the silver anniversary of their homemade haunting, Burbank residents Diane and Preston Meyer are transforming their lawn and driveway into a ghost town and, appropriately, silver mine.
Diane and Preston Meyer stand at the corner of their Burbank home property at the theshold to the silver mine entrance of the Rotton Apple Hollow haunted house they are building on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The neighborhood of North California Street in Burbank with the haunted house Rotten Apple Hollow being built by Diane and Preston Meyer on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Preston Meyer, of Burbank, in one of the rooms he and his wife are creating in the haunted house Rotten Apple Hollow on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Preston Meyer, of Burbank, exits the silver mine area of his Rotten Apple Hollow haunted house on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The entrance to the church inside the Rotton Apple Hollow haunted house in Burbank on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is Preston and Diane Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The long to-do list for the Rotten Apple Hollow haunted house being built by Diane and Preston Meyer in Burbank on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Preston Meyer holds a stock hook in one of the rooms he and his wife Diane are using inside the haunted house Rotten Apple Hollow in Burbank on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Diane Meyer, of Burbank, in the threshold of a doorway to one of the rooms she and her husbank Preston are turning into a haunted house on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The entrance to the Rotten Apple Hollow haunted house in Burbank on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
A prop inside the silver mine of the Rotton Apple Hollow haunted house being built by Diane and Preston Meyer in Burbank on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The flyer for Rotten Apple Hollow, a haunted tour at the home of Diane and Preston Meyer, of Burbank, on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. This is the Meyer’s 25th year making a haunted house on their home property, evolving from a tour through their home to an elaborate, self-built project derived from plans that start getting conceptualized in January. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)