Bates Haunt

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Bates Haunt Halloween Show
Bates Haunt in 2015
Status	active
Genre	Halloween Show
Frequency	Annually
Location(s)	1233 Morning Oaks Drive, Taylorsville, UT
Years active	21
Inaugurated	October 31, 2002 (2002-10-31)
Founder	Dave Bates
Most recent	2023
Website	Official website

Bates Haunt, an annual Halloween display in Taylorsville, Utah, is the first and longest running^{[citation needed]} video projection mapping show on a building. The first show was on October 31, 2002. It continues to hold performances each October.

The first performance was on October 31, 2002, using a borrowed 1200 lumen projector projecting from the home across the street.^[1] Each year additional elements were added. In 2005 a quartet of leaf bag pumpkins were added singing an original song.^[2] The haunt drew the attention of one of the first DIY haunter's conventions HauntX in 2006. There the haunt was awarded two awards: "Best Home Haunt" and "Halloween Enthusiast of the Year".^[3] The next year the haunt was featured on Comcast's new digital TV channel Fearnet. Since then the show has continued to grow adding additional original songs and content.^[4] It was featured in 2013 on Good Morning America's website in the top 10 Outrageous Halloween Homes Across America^[5] as well as various local media outlets.^[6]

Bates Haunt pioneered a technique which used a common drawing program Adobe Photoshop to trace 3D objects using a projector.^[7] The resulting image is then brought into a video program and used to precisely align video elements to the projection surface. The show is a single 30 minute video running in a seamless loop.^[8]