A message to the world.

[squamous]

When I was visiting Chicago, I wound up hanging out at a Cub Scout meeting. I mostly read during it, but I did hear this one older kid make a general announcement that people should drive by his house to see the cool Halloween display. It was nearby so I got curious and drove by. Holy shit these people went crazy. Pictures below. Note that several of the figures were animated.

Comments

[gooddreams.livejournal.com]

holy shit!!

[xauenmurph.livejournal.com]

subtle.

[tinymammoth.livejournal.com]

That kind of frightens me to look at and I'm an adult. If that were on my block when I was a child I would never have left my house again.

[heyjana.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! There was a house kinda like that around the corner from where we live, and the guy who lived there was chasing us and everyone else around with a chainsaw on halloween night. It was the most fun house in Crowley.

[lorifury.livejournal.com]

Sweet Maria! We used to have a family here that went wild and put up like 30 corny gravestones every October, and we thought THAT was extreme, but that house is MADNESS! I wonder what it looks like at Christmas?

[boonedog.livejournal.com]

My first thought was, "how much did it cost to buy all that stuff???"
Second thought was that when I was really little that house would've scared the hell out of me.

There's a house about a mile away that put up a grim reaper outside their house that was at least 15 feet tall and made of some sort of black, gauzy material and metal. It was AMAZING. I wish I'd gone to take a picture of it befoer they took it down because it wasn't just cool Halloween stuff, it was really artistic. I can't adequately describe it with words, unfortunately.

[not-taxi.livejournal.com]

wow, that is pretty cool. I bet it was even more scary at night!!

Y'know what made it really super-weird, for me?

[paulcurtis.livejournal.com]

The American flag, displayed among all the gruesome figures. It added just the right "What the HELL!?" touch to the tableaux.