The Daily Buzz‘Baxter Skeletons:’ Undead family entertains South Carolina neighbourhood
A skeleton family living on a porch in the Baxter neighbourhood of Fort Mill, South Carolina, is making headlines for appearing in different poses, costumes and scenarios every day.
The two skeletons and their skeletal dog named Fang — all dime-store purchases made by home owners Steve Miller and Tracy Adams, both graphic designers — can be seen rocking out with their band Fracture one day, and kayaking down the front steps the next.
Miller and Adams started posing their skeletons last fall. When the weather got too cold for them to sit out on their front porch as they often did, they put the skeletons in their place.
When they shifted their positions one day, a neighbour commented that the skeletons moved. So Miller started shifting the skeletons’ positions, and even giving them tasks.
Now Miller and Adams consider their skeletons’ daily changes a neighbourhood tradition.
"A lot of our neighbours thought all this was quite spectacular," Miller told TODAY.com. “We are now known as ‘The Skeleton People’ and live in ‘The Skeleton House.’”
Miller’s favourite scene so far was one in which the skeletons, dressed as construction workers, appear to be breaking up the sidewalk.
Neighbourhood children passing by were encouraged to write their names in sidewalk chalk beside the makeshift construction site.
"The sidewalk was soon covered with names of all the visiting kids," said Miller, who works from home and enjoys watching his neighbours react to the scenes on his front porch. “It was the interaction that made it cool.”
Neighbours often suggest new scenarios and even volunteer to lend props to the boney characters.
Miller and Adams plan to continue the October tradition for as long as they can.
"We go out and talk to visitors and they tell us how much they love that we do this," Miller said. “Or that they send (photos) to their son in Afghanistan and to sick children at St. Jude’s Hospital. That’s what keeps us going. Doing this every day takes its toll, but we just remember how much joy these two little dime-store skeletons bring to people.”
