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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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#1
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
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
What? THIS is okay but the obviously fake bodies are too much? I'm so confused...
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wandile dludlu 4 years ago
It's cool until it keeps being reported and the firefighters don't actually know if the call is real now or not
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
Fire is no joke. People lose their lives, homes and all their worldly possessions. What if there was a real fire elsewhere and the fire fighters forces were slowed down and divided because this house was reported first? Not cool
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Yeah. I have no problem with dead corpses, but this is definitely the wrong choice.
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DEKU x TODOROKI 4 years ago
oop. not the BEST one to go with, for exactly that reason. XD LMAO
Kelly Salazar 4 years ago
It is funny. April Fools on Halloween. Who would've thought?
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Mariam Donzo 4 years ago
I realize now the comment are right. Sometimes too realistic is actually inconvenient for some people.
Angela S. 3 years ago
I hope the homeowners have to pay for all the time and resources wasted by firefighters and other professionals having to come out for this s**t 👎🏽
Imtiredandiwannagotobed 3 years ago
Yeah, being the neighbors they would want to have
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Gail Nicholson 3 years ago
Here in the UK, the firefighters hate Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes celebration). It sounds like in America, the police and fire crews hate Halloween! 😂
David Herz 3 years ago
only a complete self-centered a hole would conceive of such entertainment. Frightening the neighbors, needlessly involving the fire department, this is supposed to be entertaining? Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Next time he has a real fire in his house let's all ignore it...
Diandra “Mss Didi” Blackthorn 3 years ago
Halloween is My absolute favorite holiday but that is irresponsible and a drain on tax dollars. A fake fire is completely disrespectful and DANGEROUS all the way around. While fire department is rushing to this fake, someone could die in a real fire
Marshmellow fan 4 years ago
You had me scared but really even I would call 911 that is so realistic
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago
Wow, I found it. "DIY Halloween Props - Realistic Fake Fire Special Effects" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DustMUjfk58
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Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
I'm not too keen on this one, simply because it looks so real. Potentially taking firemen away from what could be an actual emergency for a prank, isn't cool (to me).
Sam T Godfrey 4 years ago
Pretty well done, realistic enough for the average bear, but needs something. Should have a dummy with head and arms out a window not moving. This would make it an obvious decoration and not real. Does remind me of my house burning when I was 12. It was daytime, but sort of looked like this!
#6
Deadly Halloween Tableau Too Realistic For Some. Neighbours Called 911
#7
Neighbors Subtle Halloween Decor
#8
Terrifying And Realistic Halloween Decorations
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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
#15
Creepy Clown Hanging The Whole Family
#16
When Halloween Decorations Go Too Far
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hobbitly 4 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.
4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 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 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I feel sorry for the humanity. This is the case.
arsonistofthemonth jr 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
These comments restored my respect for people. Those displays were disgusting
Brooke Weber 4 years ago
There’s a difference between “fun and spooky” and “straight up gore.”
A Dumbo Octopus 4 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.
Star 3 years ago
If I ever move somewhere, I would love to have a fun neighborhood like this!
Load More Replies... Billy the kid 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 years ago
This makes me sad to see that my favourite holiday, Samhain, has come to this.
Willow Anderson 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
Star 3 years ago
Def agree. Halloween is about spooky fun and for some people about respecting the dead. Plus, kids seeing this would be frickin terrified! Especially if they have seen these things and they weren’t just decorations.
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Lyone Fein 4 years ago
These pictures of bodies hanging from trees all look like lynchings to me.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
How do they look like lynchings as opposed to other hangings?
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Tracey Tucker 4 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) 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 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 3 years ago
I love Halloween, but these decorations have nothing to do with Halloween. These decorations are just a tad too much.
Claire Harper 3 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 4 years ago
I thought halloween shoud be about ghost and monsters. Not murder theme halloween.
Tammy Luth 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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. 4 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 4 years ago
These are all so awful, I’m really unhappy that I clicked on this post, just ewww
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
Kind of scary that so many people know how to wrap up a body lol
Abigail Nagel 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
People who just have body bags and no jack o lanterns I feel like it seems less halloweeny
jevais 4 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 4 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 years ago
gore and body bags have nothing to do with Halloween. This is just self indulgence
Marley Pierre 3 years ago
honestly i like the decor but to scary for children maybe they should tone it down a bit
Lovin' Life 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago
I found this, right after finding, "Jenny Jinya"; what a lift!!
danilily REVETTE 3 years ago
IN House Halloween deco XXX Outside. . MUST consider ppls Ignorance Gullibility & babies 🧚♂️
Fluff the demented dragon 3 years ago
Wildberry quit being a smart a**e and a nerd you retarded, peice of S**t
Fluff the demented dragon 3 years ago
Ok weres my face why is it not on there 👌 just joke btw for all those fake theripists on bp
Jim Ellington 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
I just don't understand the need to show off this stuff in public. At any age.
The Pansexual MELONLORD 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
It's scary and makes sense to me. All the lame unscary costumes people make are trash.
Patrick Walsh 4 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 4 years ago
I laughed...at first. Then I realised there's a reason why the US has such a high murder rate..
arsonistofthemonth jr 3 years ago
Oh my gods guys how can you not like these they were smurfing amazing--
Judy Lipford 4 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🦊 3 years ago
Can we make my comment the most downvoted one ever? (Apparently, pressing upvote is harder than downvote :/)
I am avoiding my homework 3 years ago
Don’t say that your jack-o-lanterns are way better
Load More Replies... The Pansexual MELONLORD 4 years ago
Plus, am I the only one who still celebrates Samhain? Like, don't forget Halloween's origins. It was originally intended to be a sort of a yearly ritual to ward off evil spirits, not a my-house-is-way-scarier-than-yours competition with candy crazed kids running everywhere.
Tiffany Zhu 4 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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TheWitchNaru 4 years ago
Samhain and Halloween aren't related. Samhain is a Pagan New Year & Halloween comes from All Hallows Eve.
WildBerry 4 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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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
I think it's funny when people call police on stuff like this, like have you looked at your calendar? I get erring on the side of caution but come on.....
Nora Mei 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 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 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes I feel sorry for the humanity. This is the case.
arsonistofthemonth jr 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
These comments restored my respect for people. Those displays were disgusting
Brooke Weber 4 years ago
There’s a difference between “fun and spooky” and “straight up gore.”
A Dumbo Octopus 4 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.
Star 3 years ago
If I ever move somewhere, I would love to have a fun neighborhood like this!
Load More Replies... Billy the kid 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 years ago
This makes me sad to see that my favourite holiday, Samhain, has come to this.
Willow Anderson 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
Star 3 years ago
Def agree. Halloween is about spooky fun and for some people about respecting the dead. Plus, kids seeing this would be frickin terrified! Especially if they have seen these things and they weren’t just decorations.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 4 years ago
These pictures of bodies hanging from trees all look like lynchings to me.
Jim Ellington 4 years ago
How do they look like lynchings as opposed to other hangings?
Load More Replies... Tracey Tucker 4 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) 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 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 3 years ago
I love Halloween, but these decorations have nothing to do with Halloween. These decorations are just a tad too much.
Claire Harper 3 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 4 years ago
I thought halloween shoud be about ghost and monsters. Not murder theme halloween.
Tammy Luth 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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. 4 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 4 years ago
These are all so awful, I’m really unhappy that I clicked on this post, just ewww
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
Kind of scary that so many people know how to wrap up a body lol
Abigail Nagel 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
People who just have body bags and no jack o lanterns I feel like it seems less halloweeny
jevais 4 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 4 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 years ago
gore and body bags have nothing to do with Halloween. This is just self indulgence
Marley Pierre 3 years ago
honestly i like the decor but to scary for children maybe they should tone it down a bit
Lovin' Life 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago
I found this, right after finding, "Jenny Jinya"; what a lift!!
danilily REVETTE 3 years ago
IN House Halloween deco XXX Outside. . MUST consider ppls Ignorance Gullibility & babies 🧚♂️
Fluff the demented dragon 3 years ago
Wildberry quit being a smart a**e and a nerd you retarded, peice of S**t
Fluff the demented dragon 3 years ago
Ok weres my face why is it not on there 👌 just joke btw for all those fake theripists on bp
Jim Ellington 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
I just don't understand the need to show off this stuff in public. At any age.
The Pansexual MELONLORD 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
It's scary and makes sense to me. All the lame unscary costumes people make are trash.
Patrick Walsh 4 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 4 years ago
I laughed...at first. Then I realised there's a reason why the US has such a high murder rate..
arsonistofthemonth jr 3 years ago
Oh my gods guys how can you not like these they were smurfing amazing--
Judy Lipford 4 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🦊 3 years ago
Can we make my comment the most downvoted one ever? (Apparently, pressing upvote is harder than downvote :/)
I am avoiding my homework 3 years ago
Don’t say that your jack-o-lanterns are way better
Load More Replies... The Pansexual MELONLORD 4 years ago
Plus, am I the only one who still celebrates Samhain? Like, don't forget Halloween's origins. It was originally intended to be a sort of a yearly ritual to ward off evil spirits, not a my-house-is-way-scarier-than-yours competition with candy crazed kids running everywhere.
Tiffany Zhu 4 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... TheWitchNaru 4 years ago
Samhain and Halloween aren't related. Samhain is a Pagan New Year & Halloween comes from All Hallows Eve.
WildBerry 4 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... AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
I think it's funny when people call police on stuff like this, like have you looked at your calendar? I get erring on the side of caution but come on.....
Nora Mei 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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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