A skeleton-suffused yard is bringing the "scEras Tour" to New Orleans. The Louisiana home — dubbed the Skeleton House on Yelp and Google Maps — is owned by Louellen and Darryl Berger. The spooky nickname comes from Louellen's massive collection of skeleton replicas.
Every fall, Louellen takes all of the skeletal spirits crammed in her garage and scatters them throughout her yard. The dead come to life with fun outfits crafted by the seamstress. The Berger family places hundreds of laminated signs containing "humerus" puns: "lazy bones," "attached at the hip," "bone dry," etc.
Berger is known as the Queen of Halloween among her family and the locals. Her frightening exhibits come with a theme, and past concepts have included Maison Maskquerade and E.T.
Bone Home. Every skeleton in her closet also has a clever named like "King Gore-ge," "Rolling Bones" and "Snoop Dogg-Gone." To celebrate Swiftmania coming to Caesars Superdome at the end of October, Louellen has brought "Terror Swift: The scEras Tour" to her home's grassy stage.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "It was the eureka moment," she says over Zoom. "We read in the newspaper that Taylor Swift was going to include New Orleans on the second phase of her tour.
" The Bergers have been planning their bedazzled, bejeweled and bedeviled arrangement since the summer of 2023. A 12-foot Swift skeleton dressed in her best fearless, frilled gown stands alongside an 8-foot Travis "Skelce." Every era is pre.