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Ghosts, Monsters Adorn Brahma Avenue Home

And children brave the snow to gather candy and other goodies.

It started as a Dunellen Rescue Squad tradition to create a haunted house every Halloween—and when that ended, Brahma Avenue resident Dave Fulton decided to bring the tradition home.

"We just decided to create the haunted house at my home," he said. "Whatever looks good, we use."

From moving ghosts to a cemetary and a monster named Herb, Fulton said he takes about two weeks of on and off work to complete the full effect of the haunted house. He said the decorations are basically the same every year, with a few additions.

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"It's all good ideas that we have to add to," he said.

For the monsters, Fulton said, he takes mannequins and adds masks and other clothing items to create the affects. And then, he said, he names them.

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"Herb is one of them and Jethro is another," he said. "And Gracie is the fortune teller."

As trick-or-treaters paraded up and down the driveway Halloween night, many stopped to sit in the "electric chair" Fulton created this year, and which actually shakes.

But for Fulton's granddaughter, 6-year-old Apryl, she already knew her favorite.

"Frankenstein is my favorite," she said with a laugh as she jumped up to check out the monster that stands glaring over the Fulton mailbox.


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