This haunted bayou takes you into a chilling swamp scene, dripping with mossy vines, alligators, frogs, and even a couple of cajun skeleton friends. An animated creepy tree warns all who enter as a battered wood rowboat carries a banjo playing skeleton, offering free swamp tours. On the dock of the bayou, a harmonica playing skeleton plays a soulful tune; he's joined by a frog skeleton on a putrid lily pad, and a few gruesome crocodile skeletons. Don't forget to catch the gator feedings every hour, but do enter at your own risk, he's always hungry for fresh meat!
Enter if you dare, to an eerie haunted bayou. This scary Halloween yard design takes you into the darkest depths of the Louisiana swamp, where the trees are dripping with mossy vines and a terrifying spider or two.
Creepy Crawlies Deliver Major Scares
Alligators, frogs, and snake skeletons inhabit the bayou, and they're hanging out all around the swamp. Putrid lily pads brimming with moldy moss are a perfect perch for a friendly frog skeleton. Alligator skeletons swim through the water, as do horrifying snake skeletons with sinister visible spinal columns.
Follow the Lure of the Music
Dressed in overalls and a red bandana, a skeleton playing a banjo is seated in a battered wood row boat. He really plays; quite an eerie tune, his boat is lit by a rattan lantern with handle. The boat was crafted from cardboard scrap, then overlaid with wood look paper, and painted with the words, "Free Swamp Tours". I don't know about you, but this is one tour guide I wouldn't want to be alone on in a dark bayou! Creepy cloth hangs over the sides of the boat, drifting into the brown, swampy water below.
Terrifying Tree Folk Inhabit the Swamp
A Deadwood animated creepy tree moves with red glowing eyes, as it bellows in a deathly voice a warning to all who enter. The terrifying animatronic tree moves and sways with moss hanging from its wicked branches. Spooky tombstones appear to be rising to the surface and are turned in different directions haphazardly. The tree is a perfect addition to your Halloween decor that can be used year after year in nearly any haunted Halloween yard design. It's packed compactly, and assembles quickly and easily, offering major scares for Halloween!
Gator Feedings, At Your Own Risk
From a long branch of the tree, a Mossy Bayou Sign hangs crookedly. Covered in creepy cloth and green moss, the hand painted wood sign reads, "Gator Feedings Every Hour, Enter at Your Own Risk". What appears to be blood spatter covers the lower half of the sign. Will this deter Halloween trick or treaters? Only the brave will tell.
A Sinister Reptilian Snack Station
A wood pallet is arranged beneath the boughs of the scary tree. On top, a hungry gator is poised ready for a snack... but wait, it looks like he's already found himself a treat to gnaw on, a freakish severed leg! A pile of bones nearby is even more evidence of this reptile's favorite meal. Perhaps the free swamp tour was a better idea after all.
Bone on the Bayou
On the dock of the bayou, a harmonica playing skeleton plays a soulful tune; he's joined by a frog skeleton on a putrid lily pad, and a few gruesome crocodile skeletons. A pile of pumpkins sit nearby, illuminated by a black metal lantern with a battery operated candle.
The haunted dock and posts are easy to craft up, and are topped with realistic looking skeleton heads, sunk into mossy sludge and draped with creepy cloth.
Follow the path, created from offset plank rustic wood signs, but do watch your step, for zombie hands reach out from beneath the murky swamp surface, ready to grab onto any passersby that they can manage to reach!
What Lies Beneath
Watch yourself as you wander through the marshy swamplands, for creepy and dreadful terrors lurk beneath the surface. A lantern holding skeleton groundbreaker is surrounded with moss, and appears to be floating up from under the surface of the water. His lantern casts an eerie glow on the cat tails and snake skeletons nearby.
Hopefully you'll find your way out of this ghastly haunted bayou scene, and live to tell the tale. Please check your clothing for any clinging spiders that may have dropped down from their dangling swampy vines. Happy haunting!
To create this whole look be sure to see my DIY Halloween Bayou Dock and Haunted Mossy Bayou Sign.
