{"id":20225,"date":"2025-10-30T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:52:06","slug":"coolest-thing-spooky-spectacle-in-wyomissing-thrills-visitors-with-chucky-dolls-and-animatronics-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20225\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Coolest thing&#8217;: Spooky spectacle in Wyomissing thrills visitors with Chucky dolls and animatronics | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8211; As darkness falls on a Wyomissing home, it attracts a ghoulish crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the coolest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; said a vistor of the Squire Cout property.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 6th season, thousands traverse through the properties primrose path.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those things where all the stuff I wanted to see as a kid come to life,&#8221; father of four Chris Harris told us while touring the space.<\/p>\n<p>Here, demonic dolls like Chucky and his bride, headless houseguests, and curtains of chaos make this trip a real scream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you guys a hit in the neighborhood or a horror show in the neighborhood?&#8221;69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably a little bit of both, depending who you ask,&#8221; chuckled Tanya and Chris Grilli.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 weatherized animatronics, dug up in stores and online are their nefarious extended family.<\/p>\n<p>A terrifying circus tent is their newest attraction. The Skeleton&#8217;s in retired IT pro Grilli&#8217;s closet are kept in storage unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is the enjoyment for you?&#8221; Koltnow asked Chris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kids,&#8221; he said. &#8220;From the second I put the first thing out, the school bus goes by, they start clapping and cheering and everything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a Saturday night when we drive by, it&#8217;s packed in there with kids and parents, it&#8217;s really cool,&#8221; said another family who braves their fate yearly.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Robinson and Doug Beaver are from Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a spectacular area,&#8221; Beaver said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you mean spooktacular?&#8221; Koltnow replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, spooktacular also,&#8221; Beaver sheepishly said.<\/p>\n<p>But not a horrifying electricity bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It costs more to run the AC in the summer. It&#8217;s all low voltage, low power,&#8221; Tanya said.<\/p>\n<p>A display sure to take your breath away that will be on display through Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8211; As darkness falls on a Wyomissing home, it attracts a ghoulish crowd. &#8220;This is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}