When vehicles pass by Elinor Mason’s house on De la Vina Street in Santa Barbara and passengers yell, “Eww!” out the windows, she takes it as a compliment.
Her home is decorated for Halloween with creepy animatronics of a headless horseman maniacally laughing, a tall vampire-like figure speaking in a deep, growly voice with his mouth and eyes sewn together, and cobwebs and skeletons lining the wooden fence.
Mason said her Victorian-style home looks “haunted anyway,” so she just plays into it for the spooky season…