Du Quoin Family hooked on halloween

There are a lot of great yard decorations and displays around Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Tamaroa, Dowell and Elkville these days.

But, nothing beats what you'll find at the home of Carolyn Spiller Wiggins at 418 Cedar Avenue on Du Quoin's east side.

"It takes us about two weeks to get it all done," says Carolyn's mother, Sheila Spiller, a young 68-years-old, who enjoys the Halloween season.

"I had a brain aneurism six years ago," and she feels blessed to have fully recovered. She enjoys life and doing things for the kids during the Halloween and Christmas holidays.

There are more than a dozen displays in the yard that include a foggy cemetery, a cauldron that bubbles with an upside down witch, a skeleton in a casket, Halloween figures everywhere, a crime scene marked off in the yard with a creature in a "body bag," and her favorite--a skeletal couple fishing and camping with the family dog.

There are lights and sounds coming from all corners of the yard.

The mother and daughter, employed by the VA hospital in Marion, were helped by granddaughter Jadene Perryman and friend Misty Walker.

When the holidays are over, it takes two days to take everything down and pack it back into the basement. "A fourth of the basement is Halloween and a fourth of it is Christmas," Sheila says.