Andy Grubb has kind of a love/hate relationship with his neighbors. The kids there love him while some of the adults keep their distance. You see for 14 years now he's been turning his house on Ambush Circle in Wingfield Springs into a spooktacular attraction for Halloween.
"It's a hobby," he tells me as he checks the fog machines and the animatronics tombstones in his yard. "I mean some people go out and play golf, right? I like scary stuff and to me this is fun. Every year it's bigger, better, scarier. It's fun!"
This year he has a dungeon set up in his yard along side the zombie graveyard, black light ghosts and he's added four rooms onto his garage where revelers can walk through and see quite a collection of gore. He says he thought he was done last weekend but then his wife said she could see it getting bigger.
"I told her to do that I'd need to take over the garage," he said. "She was fine with that and that was on Sunday. So I got up at 4:30 in the morning went and got supplies and started adding on. Ha ha ha ha!"
He's spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours since the beginning of September on this year's offering. And it's all free. He's got barrels set up to collect food for Evelyn Mount and he's put about $500 into candy for the night. But he says it's worth every penny.
You can find him at 7450 Ambush Circle in Wingfield Springs near Van Gorder Elementary school and he plans to be giving out tours and candy until 10:00 p.m.
