A spooktacular display in Renton for Halloween

Published 8:46 am Thursday, October 27, 2011

Just a year after an electrical fire destroyed his home, Peter Moore is treating the whole neighborhood to a frightening bit of community spirit.

Moore, with help from his wife Joanne, has constructed a huge Halloween castle 20-feet-long and 8-feet-wide in his front yard on Monterey Drive in Monterey Terrace.

Spookie things come to life in the castle with mechanical vampires and witches. Handmade monsters, which Moore constructed along with store-bought masks, have overrun his yard. Devil babies and flying things now populate the graveyard in front of his house.

Lit up with eight spotlights, the display is visible from Bronson Way and Interstate 405. Moore’s house is close to Renton Airport and he has even noticed small planes angling toward his house he suspects to get a better view.

It’s more like a California studio set out there, Moore said.

“It’s pretty overwhelming for a child,” he said.

Since the display went up, Moore says his house gets an average of about 100 people dropping by each night.

“It’s fun for the neighborhood,” he said.

Moore is using the spectacle to gather food for the Renton food bank by asking those that stop by to donate canned goods.

This is the first time in 10 years that Moore has constructed the haunted house.

He just decided it was time to do it again to help out people that need food, he said.

Moore wants to make it an annual event.

“Next year will be bigger,” he said.