Halloween creepy creatures fill this yard

Many people put out skeletons and graveyards for Halloween, but Cat Tallant’s decorations are so over the top, people wait in line to walk through her front yard.

This year’s theme is a haunted pumpkin patch, so Tallant’s display, on Carolyn Drive by Sleepy Hollow Road, includes animatronic scarecrows, a huge pile of pumpkins, a giant witch, jumping spiders, a carnivorous tree, eyeball soup (not edible), and much more.  

There’s a singing animatronic skeleton with a pumpkin head named Jabber Jack.  

A green goblin wears Tallant’s graduation robe from George Mason University where she recently earned a master’s degree as a nurse practitioner.

Tallant used to fill her whole backyard, as well as the front yard, with many more animatronics and other creepy creatures, “but it got to be too much.”

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Before the pandemic, she started working on Halloween in early August. “I used to make my own zombies,” she says.