{"id":538855,"date":"2025-10-31T02:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:01:29","slug":"visit-the-halloween-garden-if-you-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538855\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit the Halloween Garden… if you dare"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Scotland\u2019s spookiest Halloween houses is attracting brave visitors from miles around with an array of ghosts, ghouls, mummies, vampires, flying witches\u2026 and chess playing skeletons.<\/p>\n

Ruth Williamson, 70, and sibling Ian Briars, 56, have spent thousands of pounds adding hundreds of gruesome props for the garden in North Gyle Terrace, in Corstorphine.<\/p>\n

It has taken them a month to arrange the property into a Halloween spectacular to spook families on the scariest night of the year.<\/p>\n

Visitors are met with a sign reading \u201cNo trespassing, we\u2019re tired of hiding the bodies\u201d.<\/p>\n

But carer Ruth, who uses the annual display to raise money for a Fife cat rescue centre close to her heart, insisted that everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n

Families have already travelled from as far as East Lothian to get a fearsome fix. Some stop just to wind down a window and take a picture, but visitors brave enough to enter walk into a graveyard scene rising out of a mist of dry ice, with a real coffin and spooky lifesize Dracula.<\/p>\n

In \u201cCreepy Crescent\u201d, Witches on broomsticks, flying ghosts and skeletons are designed to give guisers the heebie-jeebies while they watch out for hairy spiders hiding in trees and bushes.<\/p>\n

The display also includes mannequin characters from The Addams Family, Ghostbusters and Harry Potter, the three witches from Macbeth and the Bride and Groom of Frankenstein. Elsewhere, a pair of skeletons play chess at a table.<\/p>\n

Ruth, whose six real cats add to the creepy atmosphere, leaves a collection box for Sunny Harbour Cat and Kitten Rescue Centre in Lochgelly, Fife.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI love doing the Halloween garden every year. We\u2019ve spent thousands of pounds \u2013 I don\u2019t want to think how much exactly \u2014 but it\u2019s all worth it to see the smiles on children\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere must be hundreds of props and we add more every year. We started putting it all together at the beginning of October, so it\u2019s taken a month, but there\u2019s nothing else like it in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamilies come from everywhere \u2013 all over Edinburgh and beyond \u2013 to see it. It\u2019s become part of their Halloween tradition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s all for a good cause as I collect donations for the Sunny Harbour Cat and Kitten Rescue Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The display will remain in place until Saturday.<\/p>\n

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