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16 Times People Overdid Halloween Decorations And Got The Cops Called On Them
The Halloween tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people used to light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. So I guess nothing says 'Happy Halloween!' like something that scares you to death and makes you forget the world is celebrating in the first place.
Bored Panda decided to pay tribute to those who go above and beyond to create the right atmosphere for this spooky occasion. Whether it's an extremely gory massacre scene or a subtle, half-buried body bag, these Halloween displays were so next-level, some people thought there actually was something wrong and called the police to investigate. Continue scrolling and enjoy!
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When You Go "Too Far" With The Halloween Decorations
Texas resident Steven Novak is one of the people who went all out for Halloween this year. In his yard, one dummy lies with his head pulverized, one lies with a scale where his or her head used to be, and a few more lie in bloodied trash bags fallen off a wheelbarrow. All the while, in the window of the house, a zombie horde attempts to break out.
"I'm most proud of the wheelbarrow tipped over by the street full of Hefty bags, looking like a failed attempt to dispose of the dismembered bodies in the middle of the night," Novak told Dallas Observer. "A kid walked by and asked me what happened to them; I said they ate too many Skittles."
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#2
Life-Size Michael Myers House
Novak's decorations have brought the police to his house multiple times. "Neighbors told me cop cars were in front of my house a lot during the day," he explained. "I was only home twice to receive them. They told met hey thought it was cool and that they were only there because they were required to reply to complaints from the sergeant."
"They were in formation at the door and when I opened it they asked me if it was all mine. I asked, 'You mean the blood and the bodies? Yeah, that’s me.'"
"Honestly, though, I think I could’ve used more. [My plans] were way worse on paper. Next year though!"
#3
Now That Is How You Do Halloween Right. This Guy Got The Cops Called On Him Several Times In Dallas
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France. They celebrated their new year on November 1.
This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead got blurred.
In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Celtic priests to predict the future. Considering the Celts were entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies must've been really comforting in the face of a long, dark winter.
#4
Woke Up This Morning To 6 Cops, A Fire Truck, And An Ambulance At My Door Because A Passing Car Was Concerned About The One Halloween Decoration I Neglected To Take Down
To commemorate the event, the priests built huge sacred bonfires, where everyone would gather to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically made of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes.
Who knows, Maybe Novak has some Celtic blood? Either way, his display sure looks like a modern version of the old celebration.
#5
Fake Fire Got People Calling 911
#6
Deadly Halloween Tableau Too Realistic For Some. Neighbours Called 911
#7
Neighbors Subtle Halloween Decor
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Terrifying And Realistic Halloween Decorations
Ani-87 5 years ago
I love bloody stuff, the creepier the better but this would make small children so confused. It’s not worth giving them nightmares...
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Kim Shannon 5 years ago
Ummm...no. Halloween is supposed to be scary/fun, not a torture crime scene.
StrawberryParfait 5 years ago
When did Halloween become about torture porn? This is grotesque, and not festive at all.
Full Name 5 years ago
Um....Halloween has ALWAYS been about dead people. Literally always.
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deanna woods 5 years ago
If you live in an adult neighborhood this is fine, but this is very inappropriate for a neighborhood full of children. It's called "Halloween" not "Show Everyone How Sadistic I Am"
deanna woods 5 years ago
They don't know what is appropriate decorations.
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Among Us 5 years ago
WHAT'S WITH THE BODIES? Plus, usually it's little kids going Trick-or-Treating, not the adults and the CORRECT audience that should be seeing this...
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
and just what is the 'correct audience' for this garbage?
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Moezarella 5 years ago
The Purge comes to mind when I saw this...and while it is amazing, I dont really like it either
Amanda Bischof 5 years ago
Yikes don’t have people hanging from trees, there’s too much of that already and it’s more horrifying than any Halloween decor could ever be
Billy the kid 5 years ago
its cool but not sure about the last picture though. That looks to me like a kid on that pole
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
And those who have lost loved ones or are about to lose one don't need this garbage either! My neighbor may be about to lose the 5th family member in the last couple of years.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Halloween is for giving children a break, some fun ,they have enough reality in their life that would scare a person far more than decorations. Leave their little holiday for them , keep your morbid things in places for adults only. please.
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Sam T Godfrey 5 years ago
I'm surprised about the arguments here! At the first picture I thought that commenters would be going ballistic over the upside-down cross! Shows how little I know about religion... Seemed to me the idea was to make a display as scary as possible, but yeah, this is kind of morbid... I remember a century ago, the big deal was to create a surprise for the trick or treaters, much more fun! My uncle set up a ghost on a cable and pulleys that would fly past when kids walked up, worked great! So did getting dressed as a dummy and sit on the porch ready to move and growl when kids came up. Good fun!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Yes, your uncle did halloween! That is what it's for , children. Keep the dead people in the paid haunted houses for grown ups. Let the children have a squeel and a giggle and candy.
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Petros Vrasivanopoulos 5 years ago
only kareans are complaining, wonder why? on second thought that what you karens do, complain when others are having fun. you hate that
arryana webwolf 5 years ago
any parent getting bent out of shape about this is missing a golden teaching moment. 'see, this is what happens to kids who don't listen to their parents...'.
Zak McDonald 5 years ago
I’m 13 when I was Younger I loved horror and I still do just tell your kids it’s not real
XxxPotatoes_rockxxX 5 years ago
although, the only thing i don't like is the upside down cross. That's why to fair!!Like yes some people have there own opion of god but what you just did is a plain up "NO" if you dont know what the upside down cross mean search it up. my family studies abt god and jesus alot and this just made me very upset- again i dont blame you its just for fun..but please stop ;n;
Joshua Topash 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah and when your kids get scared it's YOUR job as a parent to tell them it's not real you know like any person with COMMON SENSE would do and if you don't like it DON'T GO NEAR THE GODDAMN HOUSE IT'S HALLOWEEN IV'E SCARIER S**T IN MY TOILET AND ON TV. but that's just my opinion I don't like the pole one though it look's like a kid and that is kinda messed up.
that rando_;) 5 years ago
I'd bring my family to this house every year just for this kind of scare.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
knowing the kids in my neighborhood, yes even the small ones, this would be the most popular house on the street. The younger parents might even take their kids there if they asked to go lmao
Emmanuel Gates 5 years ago
Everyone gangster until Lucifer pops up and says that’s their a big fan
Sophia Eressea 5 years ago
it being "realistic" to have hanged/impaled people in your front yard is kind of sad...
Lyra Fortune 5 years ago
Hell yeah! I didn't even notice it untill just now XD
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Rosemary Paul 5 years ago
Given us ideas for this Halloween! If you had figured a way to make some of the bodies wrapped in black plastic to wriggle. Not a lot, just once in awhile. Maybe rigged to a motion detector, so when an unsuspecting delivery person or dog walker passes by the body tries to move. To add a bit more macabre by putting a voice box in it so everytime it wiggles, a low moan or raspy, "Help me. Oh god. Please, help me" comes out of the bag! We got an honorable mention last year for our display. 2021 miIght be a good year to amp it up!
Smiley Rie 5 years ago
errrr I'd be pretty concerned about the state of mind of those neighbours
invisible sheep 5 years ago
this is terrifying, what if your neighbors have kids?? this could be very traumatizing!
Jean Thompson 5 years ago
This is horrible, over the top and would upset a lot of people. Yuck!
Eagle Girl 5 years ago
It's almost biblical. Downvote if you must but you know The Romans let lions rip a man to shreds for sport & punished anti-followers by hammering them to a cross.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
And did it for those heathen adults not for a childrens night out!
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Vivianne De La Garza 5 years ago
I WOULD LIKE TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU I WANNA KNOW HOW TO DO THIS SO I CAN SCARE MY FRIENDS
WildBerry 5 years ago
Do you have any black friends? They usually get uptight about people hanging.
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Polly Culberson 5 years ago
This is just too much. Kids or people driving past would be grossed out.
Rita Shapiro 5 years ago
I had a neighbor steal a pumpkin of mine once because she thought it was too gruesome. A pumpkin. Seriously. There will always be tight lipped prudish women worried about 'what will the children think?' who wish to be the neighborhood decoration nazi. The problem with these scenarios is that they occur in neighborhoods full of a) stupid people who cannot tell reality from fantasy, or b) folks who delight in being judgemental and controlling.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago (edited)
And thiefs who steal peoples pumpkins tell their children not to steel, hypocrite!. Moderation in all things people.
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Todd Hollfelder 5 years ago
Oh c'mon now! Children see this on TV/movies/church/the streets. Also, I wouldn't pass out candy and would have an adult party.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
NOT ALL children see this on tv, they see it in their hospital room quit trying to group everything in one big pot of untruth.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Okay.... I know this sounds weird because I loved the gory one with the blood-spatter, but this is actually too much for me. I think it's the kid on the spike that does it for me. Shows that a subtle thing can make all the difference between "cool" and "Hell no!"
Full Name 5 years ago
I would do this for sure. I may be ugly, but I have a sense of humour, and perspective. Nobody cares when someone dresses up as zombie so what's the difference? Stop cherry picking.
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Stille20 5 years ago
It's a kid on a spike.... most people should have an issue with it.
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H Edwards 5 years ago
I have two little kids living next door to me, and I can imagine how upsetting this would be for them to see. Some people do need to dial it back a notch.
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Fake Car Crash
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Crime Scene
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Halloween Decor Gore
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Dead Body Hanging From Roof
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Body Bags Hanging From A Tree
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Suspended Dead Man
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Creepy Clown Hanging The Whole Family
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When Halloween Decorations Go Too Far
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hobbitly 5 years ago
There is a difference between spooky and a horror scene. Little kids also see these things, so I would not make it too scary.
5 years ago
@kubu: I am a US citizen, and I full on agree. sorry about all the downvotes, bud (also don't come after me please)
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Chez 5 years ago
So let's just forget about the kids going trick or treating and launch straight into horror? What happened to the fun ghosties and goblins and things like that?
soni w 5 years ago (edited)
The entire concept of America s "version" of Halloween is freaky af. For 364 days of the year you tell your kids NOT to accept candy from strangers, especially those in masks! Same as Christmas... Don't talk to strangers! But sit on this perverts knee while we take a photo. Yeah I see why these guy's go over the top on horror, because that's what Halloween is.
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Lola 5 years ago
I don’t think it’s very normal for all these people to have such gruesome murder fantasies. There is nothing funny or creative about this.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I was under the impression that Halloween was meant to be funny and a bit creepy for the children. It seems like somehow it's turned into a "Who can come up with the most gory and shocking decorations" contest.
Christian N/A 5 years ago
No, first of all, it was a pagan holiday called Samhain and Christians decided to twist it so they could have more control. Most people don't even know what the true meaning of Halloween is, either that or they think it's a myth. And second of all, people will have their own decorations and you have no right to judge them for it. They are also not trying to have a contest, the whole point of decorations in the first place is to be SCARY. Not accommodate to the people who are too scared or sensitive.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
My husband went full-out without any restraint our first year in our current home. Children ran crying from our yard. He is NEVER allowed to go unsupervised into Halloween yard decorating again. NEVER. Now it's fun, and cool, and *not Eli Roth movie set*! These made even him blink, however, so.... Yeah. TOO FAR.
Star-Light Star-Bright 5 years ago
"Overdid" is an understatement for some of these. They skipped the skeletons and went to outright murder scenes. What's wrong with these people?
Simon Vidal 5 years ago
there’s nothing wrong with them they just have different tastes than you, it’s ok to disagree with people but why insult them, it’s not going to fix anything
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Kinga Złotkowska 5 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I feel sorry for the humanity. This is the case.
arsonistofthemonth jr 5 years ago
I always feel sorry for humanity because we're f*****g stupid, but this is not one of those scenarios
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Toni 5 years ago
everyone puts filled body bags in the garden as decoration. this is not spooky. this is bizarr. a real murderer could come up with the idea of putting a real corpse in the garden to the fake ones .. just sain' ....
Mimi777 5 years ago
I was just thinking that!!! If they become so common, someone who is really sick in the head could put a real one out like that and everyone would think it was just a decoration.
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Jaekry 5 years ago
I responded to some posts the same: NO TOO MUCH!! I might sound salty here (Ok, so be it) but small children passing by, and/or service people being called to check (police or so) ... Do you really want to burden them with your "sense of humo(u)r"?
Victoria Swift 5 years ago
This is getting dumb. Fun and creative is fine, but gore for the sake of gore I can't support. My 5 yo daughter for the past two Halloweens tells me how much she hates it because all the over the top decorations scare her. She won't even go.up to the decorated houses during trick or treat anymore because of all the assholes who think it's funny to make things pop out at kids. It seems Halloween is becoming less about kids getting a chance to enjoy their childhood and more about dreadful adults who insist making it all about them. I'm tired of it. So are my kids.
Harriet Cooper 5 years ago
I'm surprised that Bored Panda pandered to these sick scenes. Isn't there enough violence these days without glorifying it? Plus, it wasted police and firefighters' time responding to these scenes. There is a fine line between artistic impression and downright nastiness. These scenes stepped way over the line.
Barbara Baldwin 5 years ago
These comments restored my respect for people. Those displays were disgusting
Brooke Weber 5 years ago
There’s a difference between “fun and spooky” and “straight up gore.”
A Dumbo Octopus 5 years ago
I'm glad my neighborhood was just nice and chill this year. Me and my friend were each in one of those inflatable t rex costumes and we just goofed off! Everyone was passing out candy on disinfected tables in goody bags, including us. When my costume got a hole in it I told the kids "Don't worry! I was only hit by a meteor!" Oh, that was a good night. Halloween shouldn't be scary, it should be fun.
Claire Harper 5 years ago
"I was only hit by a meteor!" oml so CUTE!!! 🦖🙃
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Its good for the adults but NOT for the kids. If things like this should be displayed then it should be kept for adult private parties only. And to use dummies like kids is totally wrong. What about parents that have just lost a child seeing this.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Imo the hanging ones were not ok period. The others I think were fine, depending on your point of view. Yes, excessive gore is not kid-friendly, but then again it depends on what actually happens for that particular street. Like one example would be I know people who live places that get literally 0 kids every year because they’re out of the way. If those people have halloween parties with their adult friends, and that’s what theyre decorating for, then I say it’s a cool idea that works.
Khadeja 5 years ago (edited)
People talking about how we should 'tell our kids not to be scared of this,'.. have you ever spoken to a child?? Second of all, I'm not a young child and this is still too much in my opinion. There's a line between loving halloween and traumatizing people, whether children or adults. This is just gore for the sake of gore. And so many hangings! The number of people who have lost family members and friends to suicide makes me feel sick, and the lynching refrences are disgusting. Third, the 'well it's MY house' argument doesn't work. You shouldn't be allowed to do this for the same reason your not allowed to have sex in front of your house, as a community you have to uphold the virtues of that community. Some, like the fire and the Micheal Myers house, were cool and very creative! Those were in good taste! Others, sadly, were not.
Maripat Webber 5 years ago
Ghosts, fake skeletons, cliche witches, spiderwebs, yeah. That stuff is all in good fun. Gore, hangings, body bags—-sick and disturbed, that is.
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
All Hallows Night or Halloween in these modern times has come from verneration of dead ancestors and spirits to outright blatant disrespect like the above ridiculous tableaux. These do NOT represent Halloween. These represent a few people's ideas from stupid movies and misrepresented ideas about what Halloween is. These photos are reprehensible.
Tiffany Zhu 5 years ago
I love macabre halloween decorations, but when people, especially little kids get affected by this it's not fun anymore. They should have done it in their backyard so the whole neighborhood wouldn't have to stare at it until it's taken down.
Kitty Luna Darrow 5 years ago
This makes me sad to see that my favourite holiday, Samhain, has come to this.
Willow Anderson 5 years ago (edited)
I agree with all you people saying kids should learn not to be scared but this is not how you do it. Most of these decorations would traumatize a young child, making them paranoid in the end.
AnnSmithJones 5 years ago
It's all fun & games until one of them starts stinking and everyone realizes they're not just decorations anymore. The one with the upside down cross is disturbing but the "crime scene" ones could literally traumatize someone, especially if they've actually seen something like that in real life. What's wrong with people?
Faith Bratcher 5 years ago
One time when I was really little maybe 9,10, years of age me and my mother stop at a house while trick or treating and a man dressed in a Texas Chainsaw Costume started running at me and some other kids with a real chainsaw my mom was so scared she called the cops he was arrested for attempted attack/murder, I will tell you that scared he ever loving Sh*t out of me.
Le Box of Shame 5 years ago
These are just gross and tasteless. Even as a 16 year old who loves Halloween, I think whoever made these needs help or needs to keep their talents in the film industry.
Lyone Fein 5 years ago
These pictures of bodies hanging from trees all look like lynchings to me.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
How do they look like lynchings as opposed to other hangings?
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Tracey Tucker 5 years ago
I actually wish more of us celebrated Halloween in the way it was intended - to remember our ancestors and lost loved ones. I think going to a graveyard to put flowers and candles on the graves and to raise a glass a lovely way to celebrate. I don't have creepy decorations, I just put out photos of grandparents, brother, friends who have passed on, even the pets I've had over the years, I light candles and put lovely autumnal decorations around the pictures and I spend the time to remember them. Historically an extra place for ancestors would be laid at a table on this day too. You can still party and enjoy yourselves, but in celebration of real people and love and not horror films and psychopathy.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
What the hell is wrong with these people?! Are we that desensitised now, that people think it's ok to have hanged people in their front yards? Horror, yes. Realistic violence, no.
ChickyChicky 5 years ago
It's not just kids, I find these too gory and disgusting. I just don't find scenes of murder and suicide funny.
pebs 5 years ago
For anyone who says there's nothing wrong with it and it's all about celebrating Halloween, I think the Halloween theme is about communion with the dead and not fear them, not staging disgusting murders or tortures.
Teucer T 5 years ago
The original Halloween (Samhaon) involved building a huge bonfire and sacrificing people by tying them up and tossing them in... Their screams satisfying the appetites of evil spirits.
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Belinda Crum 5 years ago
I love Halloween, but these decorations have nothing to do with Halloween. These decorations are just a tad too much.
Claire Harper 5 years ago
Ok. These guys seriously gotta think of the children who might see this. Yes, these are kinda cool and definitely all very unique, but no wonder the police were called! You think people want their kids seeing something like that? They may be able to keep their kids from watching horror movies and reading things that might be too scary for them, but there's nothing they can do to stop their children from seeing those kinds of decor if you're in their neighborhood. Really, think of others around you, goshdangit.
Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago
I thought halloween shoud be about ghost and monsters. Not murder theme halloween.
Tammy Luth 5 years ago
I think stuff like this is over the top. Well done but not fun or funny. Also, if we get used to seeing this sort of thing, we become immune to it. What happens when it’s the real thing and the fire department or police stop responding. Having those people respond to a non event is expensive, taxpayers!
Rosemari Ferreira Gebbran 5 years ago
I mean, don't show hunging up fake kids to actual kids. It's scary as f because it's to close to the reality. The fun thing about Halloween is the "Do Witches really exist? Are real ghosts in here?" not some serial killer thing. It's the Hollows eve, not the assassins one.
1337 5 years ago (edited)
This is not just spooky, this is gross. I thought Halloween was more about spirits and about the dead as in souls. Not corpses and gore.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
Some of these are too f****d up and would traumatise young children when they go trick or treating. Personally if my neighbor does this I would take down their decor at night. Screw their messed up minds and horrible taste.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
Halloween must be the perfect time to get rid of a corpse - just toss it in the garbage on Nov 1st and nobody will suspect a thing...
Rae of sun 5 years ago
These are all so awful, I’m really unhappy that I clicked on this post, just ewww
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
I wonder if this year took on an even more macabre and detailed note due to the extra time provided by the lockdown?
Patrick Millet 5 years ago
I know im not being original but it's actually really messed up to do this in plain view of children, not to mention how triggering it might be for people who have witnessed such actual horrors. But congratulations, you won Halloween, I guess?
Fred Bigox 5 years ago
How stupid are some people? (Its rhetorical but very if you want to answer). Young children will have nightmares for ages seeing some of these sights. Try not to make it too gory and put happy Halloween up so people know its a prank. That said after cops been and you shown it to be fake good way to get rid of your enemies.
Lynda Britz 5 years ago
No. Not funny, not in the Halloween mode. These look too real! It’s a public street not a horror movie.
Barb Holland 5 years ago
Alright but just imagine if someone had an actual dead body in a body bag around a bunch of other innocent Halloween decorations, if people would think that it was just a decoration too...
Emma Galbraith 5 years ago
this is over the line gross. I hope the people who had gotten called on learned their lesson and don't put as much up next year
Lauri Funk 5 years ago
The Halloween displays are kind of gross. I applaud the designer's effort. I would also avoid any home 'decorated' in such a manner.
Carole-lea Dettman 5 years ago
Kind of scary that so many people know how to wrap up a body lol
Abigail Nagel 5 years ago
okay, how many children were these people trying to attract? my answer is ZERO. nobody wants to see a house that looks like it belongs to a person who murders people for Halloween decorations on purpose
Dayron Ramos Montes 5 years ago
how the heck could i know that the people that made those decorations that looks like a haunted house bro WHY
Marshmellow fan 5 years ago (edited)
This is just wrong the article was great but these people there is something seriously wrong with them they have to understand that people get emotional scars with this and kids see bro have some ding-dang sense.These 16 people are horrid
Draga Millani 5 years ago
People who just have body bags and no jack o lanterns I feel like it seems less halloweeny
jevais 5 years ago
I never liked this strange USA Halloween. it's a pegan ritual where nobody at the origin wore costumes. Turnips had a hole in them filled with oil and lit up, the were then put around the village to ward off the evils spirits. It was a pagan practice.
WildBerry 5 years ago
The celtic people of France and British of Isles began the tradition of Halloween some 2000 years back. On 31st October, the last day of summer is celebrated as the festival of Samhain, the lord of dead and is believed that the spirits are let free on this day. The name Halloween is not original. It started with “All Hallow’s Evening”, then it came to be known as “All Hallow’s Even”, then “All Hallow’en” and finally it got the name by which it is now common Halloween.
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Joseph Wagner 4 years ago
These are guys who don't know anything about horror so they just create a "violent" scene because they don't know the difference.
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
Halloween is especially fun for kids. This is not. Halloween is about the spirits of those past, not the bodies left by killers. Very disturbing.
CrazyRedHead 4 years ago
Why would people call the cops, its not like a serial killer is gonna hang up their body bags in the yard!!!!
Persp Gold 5 years ago
gore and body bags have nothing to do with Halloween. This is just self indulgence
Marley Pierre 5 years ago
honestly i like the decor but to scary for children maybe they should tone it down a bit
Lovin' Life 5 years ago
To each his own but too goory for me. I'd rather see this sort of thing in adult haunted houses or trails rather than in people's yard. There's a time and a place for everything
ThatOneWriter 5 years ago
I LOVE horror movies. I love scary stuff. I always have and always will. But I'm also a mother and some of these are a little too realistic for my taste. In the back yard or in a neighborhood where you don't have any kids (like a cul de sac where you know your neighbors)? Go for it! Be creepy AF, recreate horror movies. But when there are kids around, putting the realistic murder-themed stuff in the front yard is in poor taste at best. Yes it's your house but there also needs to be compassion/understanding for your neighbors, esp the young ones.
Zak McDonald 5 years ago
People got to stop getting so offended over some Halloween decorations think about how long it took to make these I think there pretty cool people got to toughen up
Bertram BRIAN Torch 5 years ago
I found this, right after finding, "Jenny Jinya"; what a lift!!
danilily REVETTE 5 years ago
IN House Halloween deco XXX Outside. . MUST consider ppls Ignorance Gullibility & babies 🧚♂️
Fluff the demented dragon 5 years ago
Wildberry quit being a smart a**e and a nerd you retarded, peice of S**t
Fluff the demented dragon 5 years ago
Ok weres my face why is it not on there 👌 just joke btw for all those fake theripists on bp
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
A lot of people are alright with depictions of guillotinings, burnings at the stake, chopping block beheadings, rack stretchings, pendulums, electric chairs, and other means of execution but when it comes to hanging, people get their panties in a bunch and assume it's a lynching. Apparently lives lost to lynching are somehow more precious than those lost to other purges.
Ottmar Straub 5 years ago
some go too far cause there are children and they have not seen horror-movies yet - most people have no idea about the impact onto childrens psyche
Lisa Corey 5 years ago
Yeahhh...... the lynching ones are the worst, like you’re doing this with complete ignorance that there’s part of the population who could be seriously triggered by that, as it was a reality in America.
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
I just don't understand the need to show off this stuff in public. At any age.
The Pansexual MELONLORD 5 years ago
What if your closet loved one was murdered? What if you got in a house fire? How would you feel if you saw houses like this and your scarring, horrifying memories that you did your best to bury deep down were brought to the surface? This isn't just about kids, this is about real, living, breathing people of all ages who have been involved against their wishes in this kind of stuff and will never be the same again. I mean, yeah, I get the concept of 'it's my yard and I do what I want' but these people are being very inconsiderate.
Todd Hollfelder 5 years ago
Where I live there is an entire block where everyone decorates like that. Each year it gets better (worse) depending on your perspective. Each neighbor tries to out-do everybody else's display. People come from all over the area, and bring their children, to see this exhibition. Major point; this is all done for charity.
Kitty Fenerty 5 years ago
Pitiful show of the mentality of too many Americans right now. Not big, not clever, just as fooked up as their crazy baby megalomaniac, narcissistic, racist, corrupt Trump. Trump - now that is real life horror!
Stan Chung 5 years ago
It's scary and makes sense to me. All the lame unscary costumes people make are trash.
Patrick Walsh 5 years ago
That’s not a good way to get people to come to ur house with their kids to trick or treat their taking it a little to far
El Dee 5 years ago
I laughed...at first. Then I realised there's a reason why the US has such a high murder rate..
arsonistofthemonth jr 5 years ago
Oh my gods guys how can you not like these they were smurfing amazing--
Judy Lipford 5 years ago
I liked them just for Halloween, kinda like real zombies in your neighborhood. But some of them reminded me of the riots we had, people said the left was behind the riots... but we all know the right had a big hand in all of that.
🦊Vivian Zhang🦊 5 years ago
Can we make my comment the most downvoted one ever? (Apparently, pressing upvote is harder than downvote :/)
I am avoiding my homework 5 years ago
Don’t say that your jack-o-lanterns are way better
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Tiffany Zhu 5 years ago
yeah. The body bags imo are fine, there isn't actually any blood and if a small kid were to look at it, they might just be confused at what it is.
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WildBerry 5 years ago
The celtic people of France and British of Isles began the tradition of Halloween some 2000 years back. On 31st October, the last day of summer is celebrated as the festival of Samhain, the lord of dead and is believed that the spirits are let free on this day. The name Halloween is not original. It started with “All Hallow’s Evening”, then it came to be known as “All Hallow’s Even”, then “All Hallow’en” and finally it got the name by which it is now common Halloween.
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Nora Mei 5 years ago
As a teacher you should know that desensitizing people (of any age but ESPECIALLY children and teenagers) to bloody crime scenes and hanging bodies, etc, is bad for them mentally, psychologically, and emotionally. It is also bad for them in the future if they ended up thinking, ‘this is normal’, because there is nothing normal about such things. As for the candy part you mentioned, this response proves your students’ understandable but problematic immaturity. Even a teenager who willingly chose to watch csi and other shows would be rightfully not ready mentally and psychologically if said teenager saw such scenes in real life, especially unexpectedly (like going into their friend’s neighborhood and witnessing such scenes).
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WildBerry 5 years ago
It's too sensitive of black people to be disturbed at fake bodies hanging from trees.
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Le Box of Shame 5 years ago
kids can voluntarily watch those movies. they are still at the mercy of their neighbors putting up distasteful decorations
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WildBerry 5 years ago
And when you have a house, after a while you get tired of pulling out decorations for holidays and then packing them back up again. Waste of time and money. Money better spent on taking a vacation. Or donating to an animal shelter or a shelter for the homeless.
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hobbitly 5 years ago
There is a difference between spooky and a horror scene. Little kids also see these things, so I would not make it too scary.
5 years ago
@kubu: I am a US citizen, and I full on agree. sorry about all the downvotes, bud (also don't come after me please)
Load More Replies... Chez 5 years ago
So let's just forget about the kids going trick or treating and launch straight into horror? What happened to the fun ghosties and goblins and things like that?
soni w 5 years ago (edited)
The entire concept of America s "version" of Halloween is freaky af. For 364 days of the year you tell your kids NOT to accept candy from strangers, especially those in masks! Same as Christmas... Don't talk to strangers! But sit on this perverts knee while we take a photo. Yeah I see why these guy's go over the top on horror, because that's what Halloween is.
Load More Replies... Lola 5 years ago
I don’t think it’s very normal for all these people to have such gruesome murder fantasies. There is nothing funny or creative about this.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I was under the impression that Halloween was meant to be funny and a bit creepy for the children. It seems like somehow it's turned into a "Who can come up with the most gory and shocking decorations" contest.
Christian N/A 5 years ago
No, first of all, it was a pagan holiday called Samhain and Christians decided to twist it so they could have more control. Most people don't even know what the true meaning of Halloween is, either that or they think it's a myth. And second of all, people will have their own decorations and you have no right to judge them for it. They are also not trying to have a contest, the whole point of decorations in the first place is to be SCARY. Not accommodate to the people who are too scared or sensitive.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
My husband went full-out without any restraint our first year in our current home. Children ran crying from our yard. He is NEVER allowed to go unsupervised into Halloween yard decorating again. NEVER. Now it's fun, and cool, and *not Eli Roth movie set*! These made even him blink, however, so.... Yeah. TOO FAR.
Star-Light Star-Bright 5 years ago
"Overdid" is an understatement for some of these. They skipped the skeletons and went to outright murder scenes. What's wrong with these people?
Simon Vidal 5 years ago
there’s nothing wrong with them they just have different tastes than you, it’s ok to disagree with people but why insult them, it’s not going to fix anything
Load More Replies... Kinga Złotkowska 5 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I feel sorry for the humanity. This is the case.
arsonistofthemonth jr 5 years ago
I always feel sorry for humanity because we're f*****g stupid, but this is not one of those scenarios
Load More Replies... Toni 5 years ago
everyone puts filled body bags in the garden as decoration. this is not spooky. this is bizarr. a real murderer could come up with the idea of putting a real corpse in the garden to the fake ones .. just sain' ....
Mimi777 5 years ago
I was just thinking that!!! If they become so common, someone who is really sick in the head could put a real one out like that and everyone would think it was just a decoration.
Load More Replies... Jaekry 5 years ago
I responded to some posts the same: NO TOO MUCH!! I might sound salty here (Ok, so be it) but small children passing by, and/or service people being called to check (police or so) ... Do you really want to burden them with your "sense of humo(u)r"?
Victoria Swift 5 years ago
This is getting dumb. Fun and creative is fine, but gore for the sake of gore I can't support. My 5 yo daughter for the past two Halloweens tells me how much she hates it because all the over the top decorations scare her. She won't even go.up to the decorated houses during trick or treat anymore because of all the assholes who think it's funny to make things pop out at kids. It seems Halloween is becoming less about kids getting a chance to enjoy their childhood and more about dreadful adults who insist making it all about them. I'm tired of it. So are my kids.
Harriet Cooper 5 years ago
I'm surprised that Bored Panda pandered to these sick scenes. Isn't there enough violence these days without glorifying it? Plus, it wasted police and firefighters' time responding to these scenes. There is a fine line between artistic impression and downright nastiness. These scenes stepped way over the line.
Barbara Baldwin 5 years ago
These comments restored my respect for people. Those displays were disgusting
Brooke Weber 5 years ago
There’s a difference between “fun and spooky” and “straight up gore.”
A Dumbo Octopus 5 years ago
I'm glad my neighborhood was just nice and chill this year. Me and my friend were each in one of those inflatable t rex costumes and we just goofed off! Everyone was passing out candy on disinfected tables in goody bags, including us. When my costume got a hole in it I told the kids "Don't worry! I was only hit by a meteor!" Oh, that was a good night. Halloween shouldn't be scary, it should be fun.
Claire Harper 5 years ago
"I was only hit by a meteor!" oml so CUTE!!! 🦖🙃
Load More Replies... Billy the kid 5 years ago
Its good for the adults but NOT for the kids. If things like this should be displayed then it should be kept for adult private parties only. And to use dummies like kids is totally wrong. What about parents that have just lost a child seeing this.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Imo the hanging ones were not ok period. The others I think were fine, depending on your point of view. Yes, excessive gore is not kid-friendly, but then again it depends on what actually happens for that particular street. Like one example would be I know people who live places that get literally 0 kids every year because they’re out of the way. If those people have halloween parties with their adult friends, and that’s what theyre decorating for, then I say it’s a cool idea that works.
Khadeja 5 years ago (edited)
People talking about how we should 'tell our kids not to be scared of this,'.. have you ever spoken to a child?? Second of all, I'm not a young child and this is still too much in my opinion. There's a line between loving halloween and traumatizing people, whether children or adults. This is just gore for the sake of gore. And so many hangings! The number of people who have lost family members and friends to suicide makes me feel sick, and the lynching refrences are disgusting. Third, the 'well it's MY house' argument doesn't work. You shouldn't be allowed to do this for the same reason your not allowed to have sex in front of your house, as a community you have to uphold the virtues of that community. Some, like the fire and the Micheal Myers house, were cool and very creative! Those were in good taste! Others, sadly, were not.
Maripat Webber 5 years ago
Ghosts, fake skeletons, cliche witches, spiderwebs, yeah. That stuff is all in good fun. Gore, hangings, body bags—-sick and disturbed, that is.
Marie deHeryng 5 years ago
All Hallows Night or Halloween in these modern times has come from verneration of dead ancestors and spirits to outright blatant disrespect like the above ridiculous tableaux. These do NOT represent Halloween. These represent a few people's ideas from stupid movies and misrepresented ideas about what Halloween is. These photos are reprehensible.
Tiffany Zhu 5 years ago
I love macabre halloween decorations, but when people, especially little kids get affected by this it's not fun anymore. They should have done it in their backyard so the whole neighborhood wouldn't have to stare at it until it's taken down.
Kitty Luna Darrow 5 years ago
This makes me sad to see that my favourite holiday, Samhain, has come to this.
Willow Anderson 5 years ago (edited)
I agree with all you people saying kids should learn not to be scared but this is not how you do it. Most of these decorations would traumatize a young child, making them paranoid in the end.
AnnSmithJones 5 years ago
It's all fun & games until one of them starts stinking and everyone realizes they're not just decorations anymore. The one with the upside down cross is disturbing but the "crime scene" ones could literally traumatize someone, especially if they've actually seen something like that in real life. What's wrong with people?
Faith Bratcher 5 years ago
One time when I was really little maybe 9,10, years of age me and my mother stop at a house while trick or treating and a man dressed in a Texas Chainsaw Costume started running at me and some other kids with a real chainsaw my mom was so scared she called the cops he was arrested for attempted attack/murder, I will tell you that scared he ever loving Sh*t out of me.
Le Box of Shame 5 years ago
These are just gross and tasteless. Even as a 16 year old who loves Halloween, I think whoever made these needs help or needs to keep their talents in the film industry.
Lyone Fein 5 years ago
These pictures of bodies hanging from trees all look like lynchings to me.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
How do they look like lynchings as opposed to other hangings?
Load More Replies... Tracey Tucker 5 years ago
I actually wish more of us celebrated Halloween in the way it was intended - to remember our ancestors and lost loved ones. I think going to a graveyard to put flowers and candles on the graves and to raise a glass a lovely way to celebrate. I don't have creepy decorations, I just put out photos of grandparents, brother, friends who have passed on, even the pets I've had over the years, I light candles and put lovely autumnal decorations around the pictures and I spend the time to remember them. Historically an extra place for ancestors would be laid at a table on this day too. You can still party and enjoy yourselves, but in celebration of real people and love and not horror films and psychopathy.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
What the hell is wrong with these people?! Are we that desensitised now, that people think it's ok to have hanged people in their front yards? Horror, yes. Realistic violence, no.
ChickyChicky 5 years ago
It's not just kids, I find these too gory and disgusting. I just don't find scenes of murder and suicide funny.
pebs 5 years ago
For anyone who says there's nothing wrong with it and it's all about celebrating Halloween, I think the Halloween theme is about communion with the dead and not fear them, not staging disgusting murders or tortures.
Teucer T 5 years ago
The original Halloween (Samhaon) involved building a huge bonfire and sacrificing people by tying them up and tossing them in... Their screams satisfying the appetites of evil spirits.
Load More Replies... Belinda Crum 5 years ago
I love Halloween, but these decorations have nothing to do with Halloween. These decorations are just a tad too much.
Claire Harper 5 years ago
Ok. These guys seriously gotta think of the children who might see this. Yes, these are kinda cool and definitely all very unique, but no wonder the police were called! You think people want their kids seeing something like that? They may be able to keep their kids from watching horror movies and reading things that might be too scary for them, but there's nothing they can do to stop their children from seeing those kinds of decor if you're in their neighborhood. Really, think of others around you, goshdangit.
Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago
I thought halloween shoud be about ghost and monsters. Not murder theme halloween.
Tammy Luth 5 years ago
I think stuff like this is over the top. Well done but not fun or funny. Also, if we get used to seeing this sort of thing, we become immune to it. What happens when it’s the real thing and the fire department or police stop responding. Having those people respond to a non event is expensive, taxpayers!
Rosemari Ferreira Gebbran 5 years ago
I mean, don't show hunging up fake kids to actual kids. It's scary as f because it's to close to the reality. The fun thing about Halloween is the "Do Witches really exist? Are real ghosts in here?" not some serial killer thing. It's the Hollows eve, not the assassins one.
1337 5 years ago (edited)
This is not just spooky, this is gross. I thought Halloween was more about spirits and about the dead as in souls. Not corpses and gore.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
Some of these are too f****d up and would traumatise young children when they go trick or treating. Personally if my neighbor does this I would take down their decor at night. Screw their messed up minds and horrible taste.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
Halloween must be the perfect time to get rid of a corpse - just toss it in the garbage on Nov 1st and nobody will suspect a thing...
Rae of sun 5 years ago
These are all so awful, I’m really unhappy that I clicked on this post, just ewww
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
I wonder if this year took on an even more macabre and detailed note due to the extra time provided by the lockdown?
Patrick Millet 5 years ago
I know im not being original but it's actually really messed up to do this in plain view of children, not to mention how triggering it might be for people who have witnessed such actual horrors. But congratulations, you won Halloween, I guess?
Fred Bigox 5 years ago
How stupid are some people? (Its rhetorical but very if you want to answer). Young children will have nightmares for ages seeing some of these sights. Try not to make it too gory and put happy Halloween up so people know its a prank. That said after cops been and you shown it to be fake good way to get rid of your enemies.
Lynda Britz 5 years ago
No. Not funny, not in the Halloween mode. These look too real! It’s a public street not a horror movie.
Barb Holland 5 years ago
Alright but just imagine if someone had an actual dead body in a body bag around a bunch of other innocent Halloween decorations, if people would think that it was just a decoration too...
Emma Galbraith 5 years ago
this is over the line gross. I hope the people who had gotten called on learned their lesson and don't put as much up next year
Lauri Funk 5 years ago
The Halloween displays are kind of gross. I applaud the designer's effort. I would also avoid any home 'decorated' in such a manner.
Carole-lea Dettman 5 years ago
Kind of scary that so many people know how to wrap up a body lol
Abigail Nagel 5 years ago
okay, how many children were these people trying to attract? my answer is ZERO. nobody wants to see a house that looks like it belongs to a person who murders people for Halloween decorations on purpose
Dayron Ramos Montes 5 years ago
how the heck could i know that the people that made those decorations that looks like a haunted house bro WHY
Marshmellow fan 5 years ago (edited)
This is just wrong the article was great but these people there is something seriously wrong with them they have to understand that people get emotional scars with this and kids see bro have some ding-dang sense.These 16 people are horrid
Draga Millani 5 years ago
People who just have body bags and no jack o lanterns I feel like it seems less halloweeny
jevais 5 years ago
I never liked this strange USA Halloween. it's a pegan ritual where nobody at the origin wore costumes. Turnips had a hole in them filled with oil and lit up, the were then put around the village to ward off the evils spirits. It was a pagan practice.
WildBerry 5 years ago
The celtic people of France and British of Isles began the tradition of Halloween some 2000 years back. On 31st October, the last day of summer is celebrated as the festival of Samhain, the lord of dead and is believed that the spirits are let free on this day. The name Halloween is not original. It started with “All Hallow’s Evening”, then it came to be known as “All Hallow’s Even”, then “All Hallow’en” and finally it got the name by which it is now common Halloween.
Load More Replies... Joseph Wagner 4 years ago
These are guys who don't know anything about horror so they just create a "violent" scene because they don't know the difference.
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
Halloween is especially fun for kids. This is not. Halloween is about the spirits of those past, not the bodies left by killers. Very disturbing.
CrazyRedHead 4 years ago
Why would people call the cops, its not like a serial killer is gonna hang up their body bags in the yard!!!!
Persp Gold 5 years ago
gore and body bags have nothing to do with Halloween. This is just self indulgence
Marley Pierre 5 years ago
honestly i like the decor but to scary for children maybe they should tone it down a bit
Lovin' Life 5 years ago
To each his own but too goory for me. I'd rather see this sort of thing in adult haunted houses or trails rather than in people's yard. There's a time and a place for everything
ThatOneWriter 5 years ago
I LOVE horror movies. I love scary stuff. I always have and always will. But I'm also a mother and some of these are a little too realistic for my taste. In the back yard or in a neighborhood where you don't have any kids (like a cul de sac where you know your neighbors)? Go for it! Be creepy AF, recreate horror movies. But when there are kids around, putting the realistic murder-themed stuff in the front yard is in poor taste at best. Yes it's your house but there also needs to be compassion/understanding for your neighbors, esp the young ones.
Zak McDonald 5 years ago
People got to stop getting so offended over some Halloween decorations think about how long it took to make these I think there pretty cool people got to toughen up
Bertram BRIAN Torch 5 years ago
I found this, right after finding, "Jenny Jinya"; what a lift!!
danilily REVETTE 5 years ago
IN House Halloween deco XXX Outside. . MUST consider ppls Ignorance Gullibility & babies 🧚♂️
Fluff the demented dragon 5 years ago
Wildberry quit being a smart a**e and a nerd you retarded, peice of S**t
Fluff the demented dragon 5 years ago
Ok weres my face why is it not on there 👌 just joke btw for all those fake theripists on bp
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
A lot of people are alright with depictions of guillotinings, burnings at the stake, chopping block beheadings, rack stretchings, pendulums, electric chairs, and other means of execution but when it comes to hanging, people get their panties in a bunch and assume it's a lynching. Apparently lives lost to lynching are somehow more precious than those lost to other purges.
Ottmar Straub 5 years ago
some go too far cause there are children and they have not seen horror-movies yet - most people have no idea about the impact onto childrens psyche
Lisa Corey 5 years ago
Yeahhh...... the lynching ones are the worst, like you’re doing this with complete ignorance that there’s part of the population who could be seriously triggered by that, as it was a reality in America.
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
I just don't understand the need to show off this stuff in public. At any age.
The Pansexual MELONLORD 5 years ago
What if your closet loved one was murdered? What if you got in a house fire? How would you feel if you saw houses like this and your scarring, horrifying memories that you did your best to bury deep down were brought to the surface? This isn't just about kids, this is about real, living, breathing people of all ages who have been involved against their wishes in this kind of stuff and will never be the same again. I mean, yeah, I get the concept of 'it's my yard and I do what I want' but these people are being very inconsiderate.
Todd Hollfelder 5 years ago
Where I live there is an entire block where everyone decorates like that. Each year it gets better (worse) depending on your perspective. Each neighbor tries to out-do everybody else's display. People come from all over the area, and bring their children, to see this exhibition. Major point; this is all done for charity.
Kitty Fenerty 5 years ago
Pitiful show of the mentality of too many Americans right now. Not big, not clever, just as fooked up as their crazy baby megalomaniac, narcissistic, racist, corrupt Trump. Trump - now that is real life horror!
Stan Chung 5 years ago
It's scary and makes sense to me. All the lame unscary costumes people make are trash.
Patrick Walsh 5 years ago
That’s not a good way to get people to come to ur house with their kids to trick or treat their taking it a little to far
El Dee 5 years ago
I laughed...at first. Then I realised there's a reason why the US has such a high murder rate..
arsonistofthemonth jr 5 years ago
Oh my gods guys how can you not like these they were smurfing amazing--
Judy Lipford 5 years ago
I liked them just for Halloween, kinda like real zombies in your neighborhood. But some of them reminded me of the riots we had, people said the left was behind the riots... but we all know the right had a big hand in all of that.
🦊Vivian Zhang🦊 5 years ago
Can we make my comment the most downvoted one ever? (Apparently, pressing upvote is harder than downvote :/)
I am avoiding my homework 5 years ago
Don’t say that your jack-o-lanterns are way better
Load More Replies... Tiffany Zhu 5 years ago
yeah. The body bags imo are fine, there isn't actually any blood and if a small kid were to look at it, they might just be confused at what it is.
Load More Replies... WildBerry 5 years ago
The celtic people of France and British of Isles began the tradition of Halloween some 2000 years back. On 31st October, the last day of summer is celebrated as the festival of Samhain, the lord of dead and is believed that the spirits are let free on this day. The name Halloween is not original. It started with “All Hallow’s Evening”, then it came to be known as “All Hallow’s Even”, then “All Hallow’en” and finally it got the name by which it is now common Halloween.
Load More Replies... Nora Mei 5 years ago
As a teacher you should know that desensitizing people (of any age but ESPECIALLY children and teenagers) to bloody crime scenes and hanging bodies, etc, is bad for them mentally, psychologically, and emotionally. It is also bad for them in the future if they ended up thinking, ‘this is normal’, because there is nothing normal about such things. As for the candy part you mentioned, this response proves your students’ understandable but problematic immaturity. Even a teenager who willingly chose to watch csi and other shows would be rightfully not ready mentally and psychologically if said teenager saw such scenes in real life, especially unexpectedly (like going into their friend’s neighborhood and witnessing such scenes).
Load More Replies... WildBerry 5 years ago
It's too sensitive of black people to be disturbed at fake bodies hanging from trees.
Load More Replies... Le Box of Shame 5 years ago
kids can voluntarily watch those movies. they are still at the mercy of their neighbors putting up distasteful decorations
Load More Replies... WildBerry 5 years ago
And when you have a house, after a while you get tired of pulling out decorations for holidays and then packing them back up again. Waste of time and money. Money better spent on taking a vacation. Or donating to an animal shelter or a shelter for the homeless.
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