Ghastly Displays Haunt Romeo's Tillson

ROMEO, Mich. (myFOXDetroit.com) - You might say one local neighborhood scares away the competition when it comes to decorating for Halloween. Their ghastly displays date back more than 20 years.

Hidden away in the village of Romeo is a place where you're worst fears come true. Tillson Street already has enough frightening decorations to put Elm Street to shame.

"Skeletons and pirate ships," said five-year-old Kylie Hug. "A lot of people are putting up the Halloween stuff, and we love it."

Kylie can't wait for Halloween and neither can her mom. "Halloween night is the best night to come by... when everything's dark and they have the fog machines going and the electric chair down the street," said Elizabeth Hug.

"What's the creepiest thing here," Simon Shaykhet asked organizer Vicki Lee. She responded, "Probably the electric chair up the street."

Like most of the scary sites on this street, "Sparky" is a custom built.

"The guy shakes. Everything is really good," Elizabeth Hug said.

"Scares everybody. Scares the adults, which I kind of like that," Lee said.

"Everything from a laugh to their screaming all the way down the street wanting to go home," said Matt Ponke, who designed "Sparky". "So... some people love it, some people hate it."

The tradition on Tillson has gone on for many years and now attracts 2,000 trick or treaters. The street is blocked off from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Halloween, and there are tee shirt sales to fund a scholarship for kids to go to vocational school.

The skeletons, pirate ships, tomb stones and coffins take weeks to put up, but there's a lot more history than that.

"When I was child, my mom used to decorate extra because my birthday's Halloween, and so when I had my children, I did the same thing," said Lee.

If you want to find out more of what you can see on Tillson Street, visit www.terrorontillson.com .