Kamloops resident with her 6.5 m tall skeleton she's using as part of a haunted house experience that runs on Halloween.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Tammy Hanson

A Kamloops family that loves Halloween is startling the neighbours with their more than three-metre-tall skeletons.

For the last seven years, Westsyde resident Tammy Hanson and her daughter have collected and expanded upon their Halloween haunted house. This year’s addition includes two massive, towering skeletons she had to preorder last month from Home Depot, she said.

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The skeletons, along with five animatronics, a skeleton horse, five different tarp tents, witches, graveyards, fingers, eyeballs, intestines and more, can be viewed by everyone on the frightful night. Hanson’s daughter is also creating an animatronic.

“I was in Calgary for 16 years and we lived in a neighbourhood where we never got trick-or-treaters and it sucked,” Hanson said, adding when she moved back to Kamloops after growing up in the community, they decided “to go all out.”

“Every year we find something cool and we just keep adding and now we’re doing some DIY projects we found on the internet so I’m also doing a burned body and my son built some stairs in his TRU class so we might do something where someone is hanging… every year we see more and more stuff so it keeps getting bigger and bigger,” she said.

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Visitors can enter the yard at 704 McCurrach Road through the front gate and exit through the back yard on Halloween, Oct. 31.

“It was a pretty good crowd last year,” she said. “As it’s grown, people know a little bit about it.”

While they often set up scenes beforehand, the animatronics will be set up on the big day itself so the moisture and elements won’t take too much of a toll on the creatures.

Hanson doesn’t know where her love of Halloween comes from. “I don’t like being scared but I love scaring other people, it puts a smile on my face,” she laughed.

This year, they’ve spent $1,500 on additional equipment and planning has been in the works since August.

“We’re kind of crazy,” she said.

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Some of the displays from last year.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Tammy Hanson

Some of the displays from last year.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Tammy Hanson

Some of the displays from last year.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Tammy Hanson

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