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(30,849 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:34 AM Oct 27

Had A Fantastic Trick Or Treat Day Yesterday

I do Halloween up big, I live at the end of a street. I have a regular horror show with animatronics with the main character a witch who holds the bowl of candy, but don't wake her up when reaching for the candy. My grandson comes from Pittsburgh to be a part of the action, we got 396 kids show up yesterday, they come from surrounding towns.

A little girl dressed up as a good witch holding a wand walked up to the witch with her mother, the mother tripped the witch and the witch howled, but the little girl wasn't scared. I have a remote control spider that I bumped against the little girl's foot, the mother tells the girl, that was a spider, and then mom tells me, she's blind. I take the spider and let her feel it, feel the 8 legs as she counts them. Mom then took her around to my other animatronics as I tripped them and mom let her touch them all.

The little girl was so intelligent, she waved her wand and said she was going to make the world so happy. I almost cried, what a beautiful happy child. I told mom she should be proud of her. Our best trick or treater ever, she gave me the best treat of all, my eyes are watery now.

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Had A Fantastic Trick Or Treat Day Yesterday (Original Post) gab13by13 Oct 27 OP

And the little girl probably had a trick or treat she will never forget. Irish_Dem Oct 27 #1

I am wishing she was a real witch gab13by13 Oct 27 #3

Same here. Put a good spell on the planet. Irish_Dem Oct 27 #4

Oh how I miss our local Halloween house!! Nittersing Oct 27 #2

Yes! We have a fog machine, we were outside on the street. gab13by13 Oct 27 #5

I love all of this so much! Nittersing Oct 27 #6

The bad part of adding is taking them all down. gab13by13 Oct 27 #7

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Irish_Dem

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1. And the little girl probably had a trick or treat she will never forget.

Reply to gab13by13 (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:09 AM

Oct 27

The kind man who let her touch all the exhibits and gave her a personal tour.

gab13by13

(30,849 posts)

3. I am wishing she was a real witch

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:20 AM

Oct 27

and her spell would work.

Irish_Dem

(78,536 posts)

4. Same here. Put a good spell on the planet.

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:26 AM

Oct 27

A pure good little witch with the power.

Nittersing

(7,993 posts)

2. Oh how I miss our local Halloween house!!

Reply to gab13by13 (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:15 AM

Oct 27

I used to have a neighbor who went all out for Halloween. Spooky music, fog out the front door, a witch or bat that would fly across the sidewalk on a bit of fishing line... And the Mom would do fortune telling or palm reading in her wonderfully bohemian outfits.

gab13by13

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5. Yes! We have a fog machine, we were outside on the street.

Reply to Nittersing (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 12:33 PM

Oct 27

We had a bat with a sensor hanging from a tree. A crow sitting atop the mailbox. A 4 foot 2 inch sewer rat, the fog was supposed to be sewer gas. A 9 foot tall spider and a small jumping spider, a remote control spider hiding under the witches dress.

The big draw is the witch holding the bowl of candy whose head flies back and her eyes glow white as she screeches. We have a 2nd bowl of candy for little ones who are afraid of the witch.

A mother told me that her son told her he wanted to come back to prove he wasn't afraid of the witch.

We made up fake foot pads in front of the animatronics to get them close to the critters when grandson and I controlled the real foot pads.

One mother told me that her son made her bring him back this year to show he wasn't afraid of the witch.

Nittersing

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6. I love all of this so much!

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:20 PM

Oct 27

Another neighbor had a 8' tall werewolf on his front porch. Not animatronic or anything... just big and hairy and scary!! They were only here for a couple of years... I think they were planning on adding stuff every year.

gab13by13

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7. The bad part of adding is taking them all down.

Reply to Nittersing (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:23 PM

Oct 27

Getting good at it though.

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