When actress Stephanie Dees enters the attic to broadcast live with her laptop - that's connected to a phone cord for dial up access to the internet - the phone cord gets stuck. Stephanie has to jiggle the cord several times until it is freed so her character can continue searching the attic. The director decided to leave this unintentional action in for realism.
The Halloween shaker was a gift to director Mike Costanza from his mother Theresa. He was so creeped out by the antique shaker and decided to make it a prop in "The Collingswood Story".
Each actor's scenes were all shot on separate days. There never was any "live" or continuous video chatting between any of the actors during the filming. This led to a huge amount of work in the editing room.
The entire film was shot on a Sony Hi-8 camcorder.
The two antique postcards Rebecca finds in a bookshelf in the old house are replicas of actual "Halloween Greetings" postcards from the turn of the century. In one postcard a girl who is reading a book is frightened by a ghost holding a Halloween Shaker. In the other postcard a young boy reading by candlelight is haunted by a Halloween Shaker peering in at him through a window. Director Mike Costanza found the postcards in an antique shop in San Juan Capistrano. He had his brother Stephen, a talented children's book illustrator and author, replicate the postcards adding the Halloween Shaker to each of them. Attention was given to the replicas to loosely resemble characters Rebecca and John.