Halloween home decor is now part of a $1-billion industry that’s ‘creepin’ it real’ for Halloween

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While skeletons are now popular props on fright night, it was 17th-century jack-o’-lanterns that started the whole spooky home decor thing.

But this year everything will be bigger and ghastlier, at least for Burlington’s Osborne family. Close to 40 creepy creatures — werewolves, devils and mad scientists with severed heads among them — are dying to bust out of the garage to occupy their front yard and driveway at 2113 Headon Rd., according to Devon Osborne.

Fresh blood will be added when her husband Tim transforms himself into “something scary,” like previous incarnations as a gargoyle and zombie on stilts, she says. For the family of six, including Maddison, 14, Owen, 11, Dylan, 5, and Gavin, 3, Halloween is “awesome — kind of like our hobby,” she explains. “It’s just the excitement of everything.”in a video on his “My Flippin Life” channel back in May.If getting the bony dude upright in his garage was a tall order for the animatronics collector, a second pair of hands would help bring Skelly to life, points out Home Depot’s spokesperson.

To “heighten the scream factor,” two more fearsome figures have been added, says Sevastos: the 12-foot “Inferno Pumpkin King” and animated “Hovering Witch.” In Milton, low-tech terror steals the show as more than 6,000 hand-carved pumpkins put on their worst face for gawkers. Called

 

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