Halloween-obsessed dad spends £20,000 building a haunted house at his home in Preston
A MAN from Preston has turned his house into a Halloween horror scene in an effort to create the scariest house in the country.
Chris Walton has spent over £20,000 on decorations that take up the front and back garden as well as his entire house.
Not a Pumpkin in sight, however Chris has turned his home on Howick Park Avenue, Preston into "Howick Cemetery" with a driveway full of gravestones that lead to a home made hearse with a real coffin that opens to music.
Gravestones and other ghoulish items can be found across the property and the house number displayed through the "cemetery" gates reads 666.
Once visitors have walked the graveyard and through cemetery doors they will find a cave of scary monsters including a operating theatre complete with table, patient and a blood soaked doctor.
Chris said he got the idea from his time working in the United States and said: "they are massive on Halloween in the US and I think slowly but surly we are catching up".
As the Brits celebrate Halloween at events across the country, Chris has to put cones outside the house to help passing motorists and said last year over 2000 people filed through the door.
But it's not all for the fun of it, a donation bucket displayed on the way out sees all profits go to cancer research.
Halloween is not until October 31 due to its Pagan past, but many keen to have the wits scared out of them will trick or treat on Saturday night.
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