Halloween-loving family creates spooky charity trail

This spooky doll forms part of the trail

A family has taken its Halloween decorations to the next level by creating a spooky garden walk-through experience to raise money for charity.

Theresa Warren and her family have created the display in their garden on a residential street in Anstey, Leicestershire, and she said people living nearby love to visit the spooky attraction.

Mrs Warren told the BBC she wanted the trail to have a theme so she has based it around a murderous butcher and a graveyard.

Her children have even been enlisted to help with jump scares.

Mrs Warren said she had always been a fan of Halloween.

"It's been one of my things that I've just really liked and so as part of that, I've always just decorated the house," she said.

"Then some of our decorations kind of spilled out into the garden and then the last two years we decided to just go nuts and decorate the whole garden.

"Last year we had a whole garden walk-round for people instead of just trick or treating at the door.

"We wanted to make it more interactive and the kids love to scare people."

Count Dracula is among the figures in the trail

The trail includes classic spooky characters, fake fog, skeletons and a grim reaper figure which terrified a neighbour.

"It was the middle of the day," she said. "But when he saw it, it scared him so much he ran off."

Her children have active roles in the experience, which her youngest acting as a scary statue.

"Last year, he stood still in the alleyway and someone actually tapped him on the head and he didn't move and I heard them say, 'oh no, that one's a statue'," she said.

"Then on the way out he jumped out at them and they actually screamed and ran off down the alleyway."

Money raised from the trail is due to donated to St John Ambulance's Charnwood branch.