Casual UK, I need your creative ideas!
My sister and I have a longstanding tradition of scaring eachother with a horse's head. She and her husband are annoyingly good at it, the pics are some of their setups, but I'm currently dogsitting at their house for a fortnight while they're on holiday so I have time for something elaborate!

by frusciantefango

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  3. Or don’t put it anywhere they can find it. Spend the three days leading up to their return with teasing text messages. Then watch them go insane trying to win the game of finding it- and failing

  4. Put it on a plate in the fridge, surrounded by ketchup (as a stand in for fake blood).

  5. Under the toilet lid, looking up.

    Inside the attic hatch, looking down. With a bulky, looming body.

    Somewhere it’ll only be seen when they look in a mirror.

    Outside a window, in the shadow of a bush or something so it’s visible only when the lights are on inside, and just barely then.

  6. The first image puts me in mind of the line from Rent-A-Ghost, “I’m a little hoarse.” Where upon the speaker turns into a horse.

  9. The classic option – behind a door, on a rope so that it swings at them when they open the door. You’ve got loads of time to get the length of the rope just right and work out which room will give the best effect.

  12. Make a body for it and then have it standing in their shower/bath or right behind the bathroom door.

  13. Step 1: Buy more horse heads.

    Step 2: Make the first one obvious and the others will scare them.

  15. Hide it under their bed, then get a really cheap phone or some sort of alarm device and set the alarm to go off on a specific time and date, like a week after they’re back, when you know they’ll both be in the house, and hide that alongside it.

    Or just break into the house in the middle of the night and put it in bed with them while they’re sleeping…

  16. Just picking out behind curtains so it takes them a couple of minutes to notice.

  17. Get a real horse. You place the fake one in a normal position near their house’s entrance, maybe sitting in the naughty step or peeping out the cupboard under the stairs. This may give them a fright when they first open the door, but they will think their troubles are over. They are not.

    You plant the real horse in the back garden with plenty of hay and oats and horse requirements. They may not see it as first, keep any curtains blocking the view from the outside closed. They may even go about their day for a bit, unpacking and stuff. But they then may hear a whinny or the stamp of hooves, or perhaps just pop into the garden to cut the grass after being away. They will see the horse standing there, with its faeces covering the once green lawn. They will be frantic and confused, wondering how you bought the horse and why you would do this. They may ring you or text you to ask “why?!”. And you will answer “oh, that’s just your new neigh-bour”

  23. You need to become the horse. Fashion some sort of hat out of the horse’s head and put it on when they’re about to come home along with the dressing gown, gloves and boots to cover your own head and body. Stuff in some cushions to give yourself an irregular body shape. Sit on the corner of their sofa dead still. As they “discover” you, remain still. Then, just as they’ve come to accept the horse as a part of the furniture, that’s when you leap up in the air, let out your best neigh and scare the living daylights out of them.

  25. Edit her family photos to include the head .

    Do they have a favourite movie, does it have a jumpscare or tense moment? Edit in a second of the horse head.

    Do you know your sisters Internet habits. Where does she tend to scroll the most? Get a post of just the head and no context, maybe just her name as a title. I’m sure the great people of redit would up vote it so she would see it. Now that would screw with her melon.

  26. Attach it to the toilet lid, so when you open the lid it’s facing the person.

    Bonus points if they don’t spot it until after they’re done…

  28. You have time to plant several, some obvious and others to find later.

    Stencilled in luminous paint on their bedroom ceiling would be nice.

  30. That is the most hilarious long standing tradition I have ever heard. How on earth did it start.??

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