Mariah Carey might have just emerged from her Christmas storage box, signalling the beginning of the festive season, but let’s not forget there are coffins of people dying keep Halloween alive.
A retirement home in Newfoundland, Canada just led a week-long haunted house to celebrate Halloween.
While the thought of climbing in a coffin would sound as appealing to a nonagenarian as a mortgage would to a millennial, the Alderwood Estates residents had a wicked sense of humour about their Club Med turns to Club Dead event.
coffin. (Picture: CBC)
‘I’m 91 but some days I feel like 90,’ resident, spookstress and absolute legend Teresa Lawrence told CBC.
The opportunity to be dead for a week was so appealing that many residents volunteered to hop in the coffins. There ended up being more bodies than caskets, so a lottery had to be held.
Other residents donned costumes like gory makeup and creepy clown kits.
Their decision to run the epic house of horrors came after their smashing success last Halloween.
In 2018, the seniors decided to give out sweets to trick-or-treaters, anticipating around 30-40 grandkids. Then 13 times that number showed up.
So this year they decided to get the community in on it again. Even local business Dalton’s Caskets donated coffins to their haunted house.
A nearby parlour, Ryan’s Funeral Home, also arranged for a legit hearse to be parked out the front of the home in order to up the spooks. We imagine a few oblivious residents’ relatives might have got a shock when visiting!
The Club Med turns to Club Dead haunted house enjoyed a great turnout, with each participant basically delivering Oscar-worthy performances by staying in place till the end of the night.
Apparently, some of the portrayals were a little too convincing. According to Teresa, cheeky kids attempted to see whether she had died or was in fact just asleep.
‘They’d pull my hair, pinch my face…shake my shoulders, and I had to still make like I was dead,’ Teresa told CTV.
Hey, anything for the kids.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/02/90-year-olds-in-retirement-home-run-a-haunted-house-for-halloween-11030768/
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