Jim Finneran of Eldersburg wants his children to remember how crazy their parents were. So for Halloween, he and his wife Carol transformed their Longleaf Pine Road home into a graveyard and haunted house with the help of their kids.

"It's a way for us to spend time together," said Finneran.

The family spent three weeks setting up a graveyard with pop-ups and gags and turned their garage into a haunted house of sorts, inviting neighborhood kids to watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and join the fun.

They worked right up until the debut at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 to make sure it was all going to plan for the neighborhood trick-or-treat. On Halloween night, the house was the hit of the neighborhood.

Debi Waeber lives near the Finnerans and enjoys the themes and the work put into display. "They got lights in the bushes with eyes watching you, they have Frankenstein laying down, then all of a sudden sits up," she said.

Though Waeber's children are all adults now, she still thinks it something that everyone can enjoy to walk over and see and ignore the worries of the world.

"This is one of those things that's good to go by and takes your minds off things for a few minutes," she said.

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