October 24, 2024 • Volume 39, No. 11
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Orléans home to spine-chilling Hallowe’en houses
After a two-year hiatus, Jesana and Jean-Marc Guertin have once again decorated their Mockingbird Drive front yard in spook-tacular fashion for this Hallowe’en season. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
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By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star Area trick-or-treaters enjoy a wealth of riches when it comes to spooky Hallowe’en attractions in Orléans and top among them is the Albert residence on Pintail Terrace in Queenswood Village. The father and son team of Brian and Patrick Albert have been entertaining trick-or-treaters from far and wide with their Hallowe’en menagerie for years. The attraction takes up every inch of both their front and back yards as well as the entire garage, which also serves as the entrance to the walk-through display. Upon entering the garage, visitors get to pass through eight different themed rooms that are filled with animatronic witches, goblins, skeletons, vampires and every sort of creepy character you can imagine. You also have to navigate through severed limbs hanging from
the ceiling and skulls...lots and lots of skulls. Brian and Patrick start setting up the display in August. It takes hundreds of hours to get everything ready in time to open to the public on Oct. 1. In the early days, they would only welcome visitors on weekends, but the attraction has become so popular that they have to open it up every night of the week except Mondays. “Monday is our bowling night,” explains Brian. On Hallowe’en night last year, more than 650 people lined up around the block for a chance to pass through the popular attraction. Besides providing a spook-tacularly entertaining location for Hallowe’en fans, the display also doubles as a means to raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. In fact, the Alberts managed to raise over $15,000 for CHEO last year alone. But the Pintail Terrace home isn’t the only CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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