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Pandemic can't keep Halloween down at home
Some people are taking a pass on passing out candy to trick-or-treaters this year — thanks again, COVID-19 — but the scariest Halloween in our lifetimes will withstand the coronavirus pandemic, scathed or not by closed front doors that are usually open and dark porch lights that are usually on.
Look around as you drive around. There are skeletons and tombstones and coffins and witches and ghosts everywhere in people's yards. Maybe it's because people have spent so much time cooped up at home, but creepy yard decks seem to be more popular than ever.
“Decorating the outside of your home for Halloween is almost more important that decorating the inside,” retailer Halloween Express says on its website. “These days, there are all sorts of Halloween decorations that are designed specifically for outdoor use and will quickly transform the look of your ordinary home into something that appears a lot more eerie and frightful.”
Yards turned graveyards, witches' covens and other frights are ready to freak you out day or night.
“Imagine a row of illuminated skulls marking the pathway up to your front door? Or how about a pair of eerie, glowing eyes staring at you from the face of one of the creepiest monsters you've ever seen?
From lanterns, light strings and lamps to ghastly lighted freaks that are meant to scare, or even the use of black or strobe lights to set that perfect frightening Halloween mood — the use of lighting is an effective way to create an extra scary sort of Halloween fun.”
We hope you dig (!) the scary scenes in these freaky photos from across Oklahoma City.