The Haunted Hearse Tour will be monitored using X10 technology so that the whole world can watch the winners driving around their hearses. They’ll have 4 XCam2’s on the front dashboard, two facing the front seat passengers and two facing the road. 2 XCam2’s mounted on the rear roof, to monitor any spirit activity in the "coffin area" of the car, and one NightOwl camera looking out the rear of the car. And of course all of those will be made available over the internet for the rest of us curious onlookers.

In order to retain Scan Power, they will use a DC/AC converter. This allows them to plug in all X10 devices as they would at home. The cameras will use the DC/AC converter. "Yes, so that's DC-to-AC-to-DC conversion."

So far they have 9000 applicants, and an expected audience of 750,000 who will view the give-away over the web, and watch the contestants as they try to do simple things... you know... like parallel parking a hearse. Or backing a hearse out of a driveway. They’d better not plan on parking in any "compact" parking stalls. Things could get ugly.

"Using X10 and a Real Haunt we’re going to get some true ’Blair Witch’ footage here." Christopher said. "No scripts; just real footage."

Then after one year the coffins will be opened and their contents revealed. That means that we, and everybody else watching the show will have to wait one whole year to see what the unpleasant surprises are, or what the great prizes are going to be. We’ll have to clear some time on our docket to write a story about it when it’s over.

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