Visit, if you DARE: A local man’s annual Halloween display is back and transforming a quiet street in Northern Kentucky with frightful fun.
Halloween Herm is the designer behind Dead Spring Cemetery, an immersive Halloween-themed display found on Villagegreen Drive in Cold Spring. The award-winning “frightscape” features hundreds of spooky props and animatronics, bone-chilling scenes and sinister surprises to both delight and scare all who are brave enough to approach.
“This isn’t just a Halloween display,” Halloween Herm shared. “It’s a living story. The Tri-State has never seen anything like this — and visitors won’t soon forget it. It’s a display that deserves to be seen in the day and night; that’s the only way to get the full experience.”
Halloween Herm says he’s been doing Halloween displays since the late ‘80s, but this year’s is by far the best. This year’s display features over a dozen giant animatronics and more than 70 skeletons, some of which are arranged in lifelike, controversial scenes, including one of a skeleton in a carriage — or hearse — with a sign that says “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” another sign that says “RIP Free Speech” and a figure that appears to be an angel of death with the nametag “FCC.”
There’s also a graveyard filled with hundreds of props and other eerie details, plus immersive and interactive soundscapes and an additional scene of a pumpkin patch overtaken by gruesome pumpkin creatures.
If you visit, you are asked to enjoy the display from the sidewalk or street. Admission is free, but there is a donation box set up to help support the Children’s Advocacy Center in Northern Kentucky.
You can follow Halloween Herm on social media (@holloweenherm on Instagram and @halloweenherm on TikTok) for more information.
