The Truax family puts together quite a Halloween display at their home in Schuyler New York, that continues to get bigger and better each year.

The elaborate Halloween house began as a hobby for Sheldon Truax. ‘It started as just a normal light display.’ Now there's decorations inside and out, with more props this year, new music and the addition of a haunted house walk through in his garage. Meet one of the newcomers, Nester.

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Sheldon says to hear and see the display, 'tune to 104.9 so the music matches the mouths. It’s time consuming to program and you’d better like the songs because you’re going to listen to them three to four hundred times before you get it right.’

Sheldon says the display doesn’t cost as much as people think. ‘We’ve been changing the display over to LED lights which increases the electric bill 15-20 bucks. Plus 80 percent of the stuff is homemade. It’s like any other hobby. Some spend thousands on a snowmobile we spend it on the holiday displays everyone can enjoy.’

The Truax home is also decked out for Christmas. He’s happy he has great neighbors who don’t complain about all the lights, music and extra kids in the neighborhood, coming to see the display.

Sheldon Truax says his family loves the holidays, but ‘Halloween is our favorite. We love seeing the familiar faces come back year after year or seeing how excited the kids and their parents get when seeing the house for the first time. Some nights you look out the window and see 4 or 5 cars lined up listening to the show.

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The Truax Halloween display is on Westgate Drive, behind G&I Homes in Shuyler.

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