Meadow Springs resident Mary Kartesz-Wardroper hasn’t celebrated Halloween for ten years since moving here from Pennsylvania in the United States, but now she’s retired she has time to give it her all.
“Back home, we used to do big displays,” she said.
“Everybody gets dressed up and goes trick or treating… you’d get hundreds of kids at your front door.”
This year Ms Kartesz-Wardroper has decked out her yard as “Deadow Springs Cemetery,” and gave me a tour of the haunted grounds.
Goblins, skeletons and ghosts abound, and at night special lighting brings the eerie scene to life.
Mary showed me her pun-scrawled tombstones, which she made from secondhand styrofoam, and the animatronic ghouls that cackled as I walked by.
The house, at 8 Meadow Springs Drive, will be open to the public on Sunday 30 and Monday 31 October.
“They can walk through, get their pictures taken, and we’ll have candies for them,” Ms Kartesz-Wadroper said.
She encourages everyone to dress up, and already has her and her husbands’ own outfits planned: the Grim Reaper and his wife.
So don’t let the clowns get you down: come spend Halloween in “Deadow Springs”!
