How would you react, if you woke up to a dead body – wrapped inside a garbage bag – hanging upside down from a tree in your neighborhood? It would be frightening! This is exactly how residents of Bowie City in Prince George’s County, Maryland, reacted on seeing a cold-hearted Halloween display one Juan Estrada had set up in his yard.
It’s that time of the year when residences turn into haunted houses and front yards become frightening zones. People go all out for Halloween, creating horrifying scenarios with zombies, skeletons, graveyards, and a lot more.
Some even go to the length of making fake severed heads, but this idea of hanging a body-like prop from the tree has freaked some neighbors out. Even though children are quite inquisitive and believe the display is pretty cool.
While some adults believe the effigy, hanging upside down from the tree, is disturbing and not something you’d see in typical displays. It reminds them of lynching and it is not appropriate for the kids in the neighborhood to see.
We might have varied opinions but Estrada, the creator of this Halloween display clarifies, that it is a normal display like any other anyone else would set up outside their home. Our thoughts resonate with Estrada’s. Halloween is about being crafty with displays and décor.
Estrada told NBC4 Washington that he has been making scary displays for quite some time. When his children were young, he would make several haunting displays for them, he said. These include a crime scene with a severely injured head smashed by a car.
Regarding this year’s display, getting its share of attention for not-so-good reasons, he informs; it is just a piece of decoration. In fact, he bought it online on Amazon just like it is in the pictures. Wrapped in a garbage bag! If such props are available on marketplaces, using them in the Halloween display doesn’t seem a big deal.
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One of the neighbors shared that she is not against Halloween, but doesn’t like this decoration. We believe agitated residents may have involved the police, but how things may have transpired, we do not have a report. A spokesperson from Bowie Police Department was however noted saying, “The display is on private property and there is no ordinance applying to this kind of display.”
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