They needed to find a new way to ply their trade.
What he was offering, at heart, was a seance.
It was the birth of a new entertainment form.
But lets back up a second.
Oh, and there were a few solid scares dropped in along the way, too.
The Asylum of Horrorsalso upped the number of blackout scares from one to two or three per show.
The stage was bathed in green light punctuated with lightning flashes and thunder.
Pandemonium was all but guaranteed by that point.
The real innovation the Bakers brought to the form was clever, gimmicky promotions.
to contests where someone in the audience could win a real dead body!
(it turned out to be a frozen chicken).
Silkinis show was so wildly popular it led to a practice known as bicycling.
Then, when both were finished the audiences would trade places.
Of course the shows popularity also had a downside.
By the late 50s and early 60s other Ghost Masters like Philip (Dr. Also, as the audiences and national mindset changed, the shows had to change with them.
the acts across the board grew a bit more bloody and gruesome, complete with beheadings.
In 1963 Baker got out of the Midnight Spook Show business, but not show business completely.
The acts were self-contained and easy to operate.
He worked the stunts until his retirement in 1969.
Although the shows in their original form disappeared, they didnt exactly vanish completely.
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