Alongside an aqueduct on a farm in the central valley was this object tied up in rope. It could have been a head or a chopped up human body, but was actually just a pump head.

Just as elephants are rumored to gather in a common place to die, so it is with pumpkins. However, as a member of the squash family, they share that graveyard with other squashes as well. Another way to view this scene is as a compost pile.

After the explosion and fire on the farm, flesh was found stuck to and peeling off nearby trees. Of course this illusion breaks down when you realize this is simply tree bark peeling.

A giant spider attacked this home in a neighborhood bordering Lake Tahoe. In the bright light of day one can clearly see that this spider was constructed of plastic.

A ghoul climbed under the bars of a prison window and into the cell with the prisoners. That would have been true but for the fact that the prison was now a museum and the ghoul was made of clay.

Someone had drawn a ghoulish scarecrow wearing a hat on the window of a Starbucks store. This scarecrow face was complete with button eyes and straw hair.

Dead and dried out cats were on display under glass and among Christmas lights in one of the booths at the Burning Man Decompression Street Fair. In this instance there was no curtain to pull back to reveal how the trick was done.