CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Travis Dove set out the supplies he’d need — garden stakes, ties, towels and chairs — in his front yard. But he prepared the stars of his Halloween show in the privacy of his home.
There, he dressed his $38 skeletons in a mix of his clothes, secondhand clothes or costumes purchased online.
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Once the day’s light began to fade, he carried them outside and began assembling his tableaus under the cover of darkness. A little after 2 a.m. and around 12 hours of work later, his masterpiece was complete.
This October, his modest front yard features a skeleton in a yellow jacket holding a fishing rod next to a skeleton mermaid. There’s also a skeleton on a beach towel, holding another skeleton in the air with its feet. Elsewhere in the yard, a gray-haired skeleton in a blue Navy sweatshirt sits in a chair, next to a skeleton posing as a reporter with a microphone.
Behind them, in the bushes, a skeleton in a gray Navy sweatshirt lurks. And near a door, there’s a shirtless skeleton leaving the house — bag over shoulder and thermos in hand.
The offseason stories and social media posts of first-year North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, inspired this year’
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