Halloween 2017: Submit Your Haunt For Patch's Tour of the Southland's Scariest Yards

It’s that time of year again when goblins, crazy clowns, butchered bodies and zombie towns start popping up on lawns all across the Southland. Patch is compiling its annual Halloween list of yard haunts that are worth driving by and gaping. We’re also interested in kid-friendly, whimsical Halloween-decorated yards where little ones aren’t likely to be chased by a maniac with a chainsaw.

If your yard is worth a drive-by this Halloween, complete the form and shoot it back to us. We’ll keep adding to the 2017 tour o’ haunted yards leading up to Halloween, which this year falls on TUESDAY, OCT. 31. Please include the following information:

• We prefer that the homeowner submit his or her own yard, or an immediate neighbor or close relative.
• Include the exact address of the yard haunt.
• Let us know the dates and hours when your display will be available for viewing, so people aren’t ringing your doorbell or bothering your neighbors in the middle of the night.
• Please don’t submit a Halloween-decorated home you recall from five or ten years ago. That person may no longer be decorating their house for Halloween and we don’t want people wasting gas.
• Does your yard haunt have a name, like 101st Street Massacre or Erie Acres? Be sure to include it.
• Tell us about any special effects, live actors, walk-throughs or other features that makes your yard haunt special.
• Does your display have a Facebook page or website? Be sure to include the links.
• Are you collecting at-will donations for a charity, food pantry or pet shelter? Let us know.
• Include a phone number (not for publication) in case Patch needs to contact you.
• Most important: what kind of Halloween candy are you passing out to trick-or-treaters?

Send your information and pictures to lorraine.swanson@patch.com. We’ll be running the list and updated it every weekend through Halloween.

Image: Loretto Cemetery in Hometown | Reader submitted