A Halloween-obsessed Oldbury family transformed their home for charity

A Halloween-obsessed mum and son decked out their home to raise money for charity.

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00:00Halloween gives a perfect excuse to carve a pumpkin, indulge in sweets or watch a scary

00:10film. But for mum and son duo Adam Rickards and Ellen Kendall, it is the chance to open

00:16up their doors to their home in Aldbury and showcase thousands of pounds worth of spooky

00:20decorations to raise money for charity.

00:22We're at our house, this is the Haunted House in B69. We've done it for five years now.

00:26We used to decorate for parties every year. And in 2019, mum said, let's leave it all

00:31up and open the house to the community. And since then, it's turned to this. I took two

00:36weeks off work. Me and mum have been doing it since, I'd say the second week in October

00:40we put the roof up in the back garden. And we started decorating properly last Monday

00:45and we finished today.

00:49As you can see, the queues have already started building. I think I'm more excited than these

00:54if I'm honest, yeah. It's just something we enjoy doing every year. It brings the community

00:58together and do it for charity. And doing it for the Ambulance Insurance. And my partner

01:04did break his back back in February 2009 and he was airlifted to hospital. So if we can

01:10raise significant amounts of money for him this evening, that'd be fantastic.

01:15The Halloween house attracts dozens of families each year who line the streets and wait their

01:19turn to take a look inside.

01:21We come every single year and it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger every year. We

01:25base our route of trick-or-treating around this being about the middle ground. Yeah,

01:30every year we do the same.

01:31The one time when I went, there was like a spider that jumped out and that was quite

01:36good. But yeah, it's just a fun time.

01:39We've come for the last couple of years and obviously they pull it all out every year.

01:43It's really nice what they do.

01:45It's nice to be back because not many people do Halloween anymore. It's a shame because

01:51it's normal. It's fun to hear. It's just to enjoy. And like you said, everybody gets

01:56together. So yeah, I think it's good to be back. And it's all for charity as well, what

02:01they do.