The Tell-Tale Heart

This is a video of one room of our haunted house in our garage. It's a shortened version of Edgar Allen Poe's Tell-Tale Heart, with a pulsating red light under the floorboards.

I used the audio from this awesome video of Vincent Price performing the entire stroy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNjgv5p3Ek . I edited it down based on this shorter version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTKrB9oGpB8 . I also used this great heartbeat sound effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFn8Cgcx8g .

We put Vincent Price's narration on the left channel, and the heart beat on the right channel. We split the channels and sent the left to the talking skull controller, and the right to a color organ (which we got on eBay from user magikgas) with the red light plugged in to it. We also sent the audio to a pair of small speakers, the left one under the skull, the right one under the floor near the beating heart.

It's not as awesome as I envisioned it, but it is still pretty good, and we are happy with it. Surprised how few people recognize either Edgar Allen Poe or Vincent Price, though.

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• Tell-tale heart
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• Halloween 2011
• haunted house
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• talking skull
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• color organ