From the enchanting Christmas miracle to the horror house: The Peitinger decoration family Maurus/Schott from Peiting showed how to give even adults goosebumps just in time for Halloween.
Peiting
- There is only one way to the sweets: Through the white shredded curtain and straight into a spooky creepy passage.
"Mom, it's like a ghost train," says a little witch on a candy-collecting walk through the Peitinger Lexe.
Nina Maurus (28), her mother Sylvia Schott (51) and her husband Richy (56) have once again redecorated their house.
Last winter, Peiting was able to look forward to what was probably the brightest Christmas house far and wide, but now visitors to Wanderhofstraße could really get the creeps out just in time for Halloween.
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Just in time for Halloween: the horror house on Peitinger Wanderhofstraße.
© Hans-Helmut Herold
Motorists stop and get a guide
Cobwebs around the fence and the house.
A witch in a round arch, plus horrible masks that you know from horror film classics like "Saw".
The family spent a whole week decorating and doing handicrafts here with friends.
The result: people stop their cars on the street to take a closer look at the horror house and to get a taste of a bit of the scary factor.
"Many of us gave us a tour of the whole house, everything is decorated all around," explains Sylvia Schott, explaining that not all of the atrocities are visible from the street.
Fog, Flashing Lights and the "Angel of Death"
The family has put a lot of effort into the entrance area, where the children get the sweets.
Anyone who has left the mummy scraps behind them will find themselves in the dark.
Blue, red, green lights flash.
Visitors are immersed in an eerie fog.
And suddenly there, very close, to the right, close enough to touch: A life-size skeleton with a creepy grimace and a dark cloak.
"This is our angel of death," Sylvia Schott introduces the dark fellow the next day.
In the daylight: He has already lost a large part of his terror.
But in the dark: your blood can freeze in your veins.
Not to mention the horrible noises the skeleton is making.
So quickly past the blood-smeared windows to the sweets.
It's a mixture of fascination and horror
Many children want to go into the "ghost train" tunnel twice
The reactions are different this Halloween evening.
"Many children were terribly scared," says Nina Maurus.
A little girl, she says, stood crying in the hallway with them.
"She didn't dare go back to Mama on the street." Many children, however, love the ghost train tunnel at the horror house so much that they dared to go through the ragged curtain past the scary skeleton a second time.
Then the effort was worth it.
After all, the Maurus/Schott family didn't just tinker and decorate as much as they could.
A hole was even drilled into the garage door to make things really spooky.
"So that the fog system is hidden and no one knows where the fog is coming from," reveals Sylvia Schott with a wink.
Yesterday the family put an end to the horror and undecorated everything.
Many children will certainly not forget the creepy walk to the horror house on this Halloween night.
