During a recent visit to see friends & family in Connecticut, my mother showed me this old picture from our family home's front yard, circa mid to late 1990s.
The old "ghosts circling a tree" thing was kind of a new Halloween decor idea then, and we loved it so we did our own version. We spent nothing to make these, just used old household junk: broken broom handles & busted tent stakes for the ghost bases; grocery store plastic bags stuffed with old newspapers for the heads, and old sheets for their flowy bodies. We joined their "hands" together with safety pins.
Sadly, the ghosts kept disappearing from our front yard. First, one went missing, than another. We had no idea why anyone would want to vandalize or steal decorations that were made up of old junk and weren't worth anything.
We liked to wonder, did the ghosts disappear by themselves, back to their ethereal realms...?
I guess we will never know for sure... 👻👻👻⠀
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