# Skeletal Dioramas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608 "2023-10-15T19:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/1 "2023-10-15T19:12:37Z")
Halloween is approaching, and folks are starting to decorate their yards. In the last few years, arranging skeletons in the front yard has really started to get elaborate. I’m starting to see some wild dioramas. Just today, I’ve seen: Skeletons doing yard work. One was pushing a mower, another wielding a rake, and two more were leaning over bushes with hedge clippers. Two skeletons dressed as a bride and groom. The bride was carrying the groom over a garden gate threshold. Skeletons climbing up the front of a house and posed as though they were trying to open windows. And now I’m seeing colossal Jack Skellington skeletons. I saw one today posed on the “widow’s walk” of a Victorian home, and did a big double-take. He looked very appropriate up there, in an Addams Family kind of way. How about your neighborhood? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/2 "2023-10-15T19:57:01Z")
Some people around here definitely put some effort into it… [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/a/ace9cba7a41a07faf37b50bc3de1c36ae2b1c57c.jpeg) ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/a/ace9cba7a41a07faf37b50bc3de1c36ae2b1c57c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/3 "2023-10-15T20:31:37Z")
Someone years ago did a whole _Deadwood_ themed yard display in our area. With skeletons. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/4 "2023-10-15T23:22:48Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Skeletons doing yard work. One was pushing a mower, another wielding a rake, and two more were leaning over bushes with hedge clippers. I only saw a picture of such a display, but with the skeleton trapped under the mower, with parts sprewn all about. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/5 "2023-10-16T00:59:29Z")
New this year in my 'hood – The Barbie Boneyard and the Skeleton Soccer Match: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHeDWxFwJaT8m-bxgRTymcLWQqS4EuaeUWH4x0i1uznq8ID6wdNrNJIe7wwvrvDdJyiGyl11gjx0UpmFiezq2F4DmXGL7NRGc0DhDhRJ70xAg-JaONX7=w600-h315-p-k "New item by Dave Carter") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/P2NtZocmCeKvkWHj9) [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHfsor3q6J0A8bkJXHx_9IGJz2A4Quc0GKTXIUspzAT3mZwjRGVwF_1-3IOfsSMexI9-fu83rKESBsUoeOLhZJSEbu3WeZd5r3zkMcCSbKK9PTxXVtcC=w600-h315-p-k "New item by Dave Carter") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/nAfgNdMcymGXnT7s5) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeletal-dioramas/991608/6 "2023-10-16T01:18:58Z")
The past couple of years, giant (15’ or so) skeletons have been popular in Cleveland. There are a few good ones, and a few houses I still intend to check out sometime because they’ve been good in past years, but so far, I think the winner is a house whose giant skeleton is made up to look like Tim Misny, a local plaintiff-attorney whose ads are ubiquitous.