EMMAUS, Pa. — A Halloween display in Lehigh County is giving people a good scare for a good cause.
For the past seven Octobers, a haunting display of towering skeletons, tricks and treats has taken over the front yard of Theresa Semendoff’s Macungie Avenue home in Emmaus.
“And every year it gets bigger and bigger,” she says.
“I hear the children go by and I can hear them laugh and it just makes me very excited and happy,” says Tanya Castello, Semendoff’s daughter.
And this year, the display comes with a charitable and meaningful twist.
“We’re doing this this year because my daughter went through so much in the past four years with her MS— we are doing the fundraiser,” says Semendoff.
Theresa takes care of her daughter, Tanya, who’s been battling multiple sclerosis for nearly two decades.
The past few months Theresa says have been especially hard on her family.
“This year she had for the first time a major organ shut down on her… which was her colon,” says Semendoff.
Donations from the display will go toward the MS Society. It’s an organization that allows people living with the disease afford utilities and find doctors.
“They’re very, very helpful, they’re very supportive,” says Semendoff.
Tanya and her family say they get that same feeling from the community from people stopping by to donate props.
“The people here are amazing on supporting and coming visiting to see how she’s doing,” says Semendoff.
Tanya and Theresa’s family is one full of Halloween fanatics, and this ghoulish turned generous tradition is one they’ll continue for years to come.