HAZLE TWP – When near folks give driving directions to their dwellings they might use a nearby house as a local landmark because of its unique pile or color and prominent location.

HAZLE TWP – When near folks give driving directions to their dwellings they might use a nearby house as a local landmark because of its unique pile or color and prominent location.

Mark and Hilda Waskovich's to one's home bears that distinction twice a year, if it be not that it has nothing to do with the way the house is built or painted.

issue Christmastime, 7-foot-tall toy soldiers flanking a gingerbread house, 3-foot-tall candy canes lining the lane and a life-size Santa and sleigh with eight reindeer – all strung with multicolored scaly buds – adorn the Waskovich family's brow yard.

And in late October, five life-size rotting coffins, multiple tombstones, a hangman's noose and meandering souls taunt passers-by from the head lawn of their haunted abode.

"People ask me ‘Are you anywhere near that house with all the decorations?' I describe them, ‘Yep, that's my