America's close-second favorite holiday is upon us and who doesn't love a good thrill or scare or both.
To celebrate the run-up to Oct. 31, we're asking readers to tell us where we can find the absolutely-can't-miss-it Halloween home displays so we can add them below.
To start, we picked a few of our favorites that don't disappoint. You might find them featured this year in the annual Lower Bucks Holiday Tour — Halloween, which kicks off officially this year on Oct. 10 with at least 70 houses participating.
If you know of a killer display we overlooked, send us your suggestions using the form below.
The Boo Crew
Go: 608 Avenue A, Trevose
This display likely wins for most original theme. This year Feasterville homeowner Stephanie Sides will lampoon the feels-like-forever
road construction along Brownsville Road "that's killing us here in the 'Vose."
Light Up 394
Go: 394 Hidden Oaks Drive, Lower Makefield.
This interactive walk-thru display features LED and projection lights, music and characters, fog machines and selfie photo-ops.
The front yard is where the walk-thru starts with a light tunnel. There's an array of skeletons and life-size animatronics including a werewolf, predator of the night and an expanded graveyard scene, new this year. Also new is an expanded pirate-themed area with new tunnels and animatronics.
Visitors, young and old(er), can receive goodies on opening night and other days posted in the Facebook and Instagrampages.
Weather permitting, the display opens Oct. 9. The lights are to be on from 6-9 p.m. Friday night events are to be held Oct. 16 (Spooky balloons), Oct. 23 (Meet a ghost hunter) Oct. 30 (Full-size candy bar night).
Donations are to be accepted for Team Foster, a Conshohocken-based nonprofit that purchases and trains service dogs for U.S. military veterans who have injuries or who are disabled.
The Scarecrow House
Go: 307 Clymer Ave., Morrisville.
The Scarecrow House has lights and music broadcast over 87.9 FM. There is also a photo-op with a Feeney's pumpkin sign.
Windsor Way Lights
Go: 253 Windsor Way, Doylestown.
This family-friendly synchronized Halloween light show combines music, animation and thousands of computer-controlled lights. This year's show includes animated singing pumpkins, matrix displays, moving-head spotlights, and synchronized lighting effects timed to music.
The show runs daily from 5:30–10 p.m. through Halloween, with a special Diwali show Nov. 6-9. Visitors can listen to the soundtrack from the comfort of their car by tuning into 96.7 FM or from the sidewalk through the outdoor push-button speakers.
Pipersville Projections
Go: 5056 Kratz Carriage Road, Pipersville.
Pipersville Projections delivers a family-friendly Halloween show digitally projected onto a home, featuring a lineup of shows inspired by the spooky season. Themes include Disney’s “Haunted Mansion,” "Hocus Pocus,” “Stranger Things,” Tim Burton’s “Dead Man’s Party” and "Beetlejuice."
Two new themes will be unveiled this year.
Starting Oct. 10 shows run from dusk to 10 p.m. daily. Visitors are asked to dim their car headlights for the enjoyment of others and tune to 92.7 FM.
Creepshow on Coral
Go: 17 Coral Lane, Levittown
A front yard in Bristol Township's Crabtree section of Levittown is transformed into a spooky experience. Two new additions this year and a couple of witchy women and more surprises. Stop by on Halloween and have your fortune told along with collecting treats.
Croydon Haunted Hollows
Go: 507 Girard Ave., Croydon.
This is the final year the show will take place on Girard Ave. The free, all-volunteer interactive walk-thru display has been around since 1996, and it was the first in the area to offer a sensory-friendly experience for special needs kids, meaning no strobe lights or fog, limited sound effects and friendly character interactions.
There are also special needs professionals on site to assist. The haunt is also wheelchair accessible. There's to be free candy and chips, plus a photo booth at the end of the haunted yard hunt.
This year's theme is The Hollow Files: Cold Cases of the Unknown. This is a two-day-only event — rain or shine Oct. 30 and 31 from 7-9 p.m. for the regular nighttime events.
The sensory-friendly haunt is to take place Oct. 30 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Oct. 21 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Lights on Lumpoc
Go: 2512 Lumpoc Court, Bensalem.
This digital projection LED lights display includes synchronized music available through car radios at 107.7 FM. The show is to run from 5-11 p.m. nightly. It starts Oct. 1. A one hour show is features from Oct. 31 through.
More Halloween displays around Bucks County
If you're looking to really make the rounds this October, here a few more Halloween displays worth checking out:
- Colonial Drive Lights — 155 Colonial Drive, Middletown features all pixels light show synchronized to music; facebook.com/coloniallights.
- The Blinkinghouse —Go: 9 Franklin St., Falls Perennial favorite features a 25-minute “Not so Spooky Muppet Halloween Party.” Kermit, Animal and their Muppet friends are to sing Halloween-themed songs, broadcast over 92.9 FM, while ghosts, skeletons and aliens dance to the music. The party is scheduled to begin Friday, Oct. 9. For more information visit theFacebook page.
- Nightmares on Lower Orchard — 72 Lower Orchard Drive, Levittown; facebook.com/nightmares.on.lower.orchard.drive. Display open daily from dusk to 10 p.m. Walk through open Friday through Sunday
- Nightmare Next Door — 335 Northpark Drive, Levittown
- One-Night-Only Haunted House — 3200 Ethan Allen Court, Bensalem. The Halloween decorating begins Oct. 31 at this one-night-only haunted house where the lights, props and surprises (weather permitting) all go up on Halloween night, and it features a walk-through "haunted house" experience downstairs.
Crime and Courts reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com. Reporter Michele Haddon covers local news, small business, food and drink, economic revitalization, art and culture for The Intelligencer and Bucks County Courier Times at PhillyBurbs.com.
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