Our FIRST PLACE winner, winning $100 from the Blue Hare Magic Company, it’s Joan Kolk at 486 4th. St. in Manistee! Joan used as much space as she had, with a weird character hanging down, down, down and a line of pumpkins stretching across her yard. Each pumpkin has a different face – did that one just wink an eye? Lights accented vario
us points of her display, including a decorated tree and torches. The centerpiece is her cobweb-infested cemetery!
In SECOND PLACE, winning gift certificates from Wahr Hardware and Northern Spirits Gift Shoppe, it's Renee & Chris Myers at 1424 Timber Ridge in Manistee. Renee and her family showed great imagination and created unsettling effects! Their message: be careful when you send text messages! A witch has learned this lesson the hard way, and silhouettes across the garage doors seem life-like. Plus, several lineups of gourds and their decorated front door are on hand to greet you.
We have a Special Merit award for another Halloween Haunt that doesn’t quite qualify for the contest. The Arlt & Edel home at 196 East Hoague Rd. in Freesoil is located just over the border, in Mason County. But they have decorated their yard to the hilt, with hanging skeletons, bats flying overhead, ghouls emerging from their graves and more spooks that you can imagine. The Gatekeeper has a special gift basket for the family, in recognition of their efforts!
Plus three honorable mentions: the Welch family at 2300 Filer City Rd. in Filer Township was our big winner in 2010. It's only fair for them to step aside for one more year, but they're back with a full graveyard (read the inscriptions out loud), cavorting goblins and much more. They always decorate just for the fun of it. Visit them after the Filer Township Halloween Parade to see the family get into the act! Great job!
Also, the residence of Dan and Cindy Zatarga at 6542 Railroad Ave. in Bear Lake. Dan and Cindy have a scarecrow gathering (are they drinking moonshine?), pumpkin-face planters and a meddlesome spider. She’s tipped over the wheelbarrow! A great display to see during the daytime. Again, Dan and Cindy Zatarga for third place.
And last but not least, John and Laura Kaser at 605 Browning Ave. in Manistee. Big black cats, dancing creatures in the windows, spooky ghosts and Dracula opening his coffin (from inside)! They’re past winners of the contest and now committee members for Macabre Manistee County, so it’s really not fair to let them win. Not that John didn’t try to influence the outcome. Thanks for the case of Flintstones vitamins, John!
Pictures coming soon! Thanks to all for taking part in the fun!
In SECOND PLACE, winning gift certificates from Wahr Hardware and Northern Spirits Gift Shoppe, it's Renee & Chris Myers at 1424 Timber Ridge in Manistee. Renee and her family showed great imagination and created unsettling effects! Their message: be careful when you send text messages! A witch has learned this lesson the hard way, and silhouettes across the garage doors seem life-like. Plus, several lineups of gourds and their decorated front door are on hand to greet you.
We have a Special Merit award for another Halloween Haunt that doesn’t quite qualify for the contest. The Arlt & Edel home at 196 East Hoague Rd. in Freesoil is located just over the border, in Mason County. But they have decorated their yard to the hilt, with hanging skeletons, bats flying overhead, ghouls emerging from their graves and more spooks that you can imagine. The Gatekeeper has a special gift basket for the family, in recognition of their efforts!
Plus three honorable mentions: the Welch family at 2300 Filer City Rd. in Filer Township was our big winner in 2010. It's only fair for them to step aside for one more year, but they're back with a full graveyard (read the inscriptions out loud), cavorting goblins and much more. They always decorate just for the fun of it. Visit them after the Filer Township Halloween Parade to see the family get into the act! Great job!
Also, the residence of Dan and Cindy Zatarga at 6542 Railroad Ave. in Bear Lake. Dan and Cindy have a scarecrow gathering (are they drinking moonshine?), pumpkin-face planters and a meddlesome spider. She’s tipped over the wheelbarrow! A great display to see during the daytime. Again, Dan and Cindy Zatarga for third place.
And last but not least, John and Laura Kaser at 605 Browning Ave. in Manistee. Big black cats, dancing creatures in the windows, spooky ghosts and Dracula opening his coffin (from inside)! They’re past winners of the contest and now committee members for Macabre Manistee County, so it’s really not fair to let them win. Not that John didn’t try to influence the outcome. Thanks for the case of Flintstones vitamins, John!
Pictures coming soon! Thanks to all for taking part in the fun!
