Flying Crank Ghost

The instructions for creating this awesome beauty can be found at Phantasmechanics , where Doug Ferguson continues to inspire haunters around the world.

For *my* FCG, time didn't permit building the actual crank so in reality she was kind of a 'hanging dangle ghost' but that really doesn't sound as good does it?

That actually worked out better for where I had her though. I created a 'dark portal' room using creative lighting in our front upstairs room. What worked really well was that it became REALLY hard to see what was holding her up. I had a small fan and the blacklight *below* the ghost. The fan caused just enough breeze to really get some creepy motion. Lots of positive comments on her!

The basic ghost was built essentially 'by the book'- foam wig head, cheesecloth soaked with Rit whitener.

The first hands were my own hands traced onto thin foam and cut out. I wasn't happy with these.

The venerable work bench/coffee table.

Here's the original hand and the replacement one I decided to change to.

The new hands were fencing wire cut to shape and wrapped with duct tape.

The hands (along with a cemetary grabber forearm) were covered with Great Stuff foam which was pressed and streched as it cured. I wore gloves of course!

The finished hands were painted white then coated with glow-in-the-dark paint.

This is the basic light rig for the upstairs room. A red gel and a spinning disco ball, all set on the floor behind the FCG.

This is how it looked lit up, without the FCG hung up.

FCG in front of the window. Cool reflection!

The hands in action. The small fan was below the FCG.

From the driveway/street. One can see a ceiling fan but the fan wasn't on. No observable hanging wires or mechanism.

From directly below the window

How do she do dat? ;)

I decided I wasn't happy with the hands (a tracing of my own) so I re-did them with wire, duct tape and expanding foam ones. Much cooler and ghouler!