A real-life nightmare before Halloween happened when two thieves allegedly stole a 13-foot-tall animatronic Jack Skellington, swiping the spooky showstopper straight from a Corona, California, front yard.
Avelina Rodriguez of Corona, California, told Fox 11 that the towering Halloween decoration was the centerpiece of her family’s Halloween and Christmas displays — and a neighborhood favorite.
The decoration, based on Tim Burton’s 1993 classic The Nightmare before Christmas, also had sentimental value. Rodriguez said her granddaughter has been obsessed with it since she could talk — literally. Her very first word was “Jack.”…