He’s 12-feet tall, perpetually naked, can never die, and loves Halloween. No, I’m not just talking about that weirdo who lives in the cul-de-sac. I’m talking about the Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton.

Skelly lives for Halloween. As an enormous, immobile skeleton, that’s basically all he’s got to live for. And you can buy a Skelly for $300 right now.

Skelly (opens in a new window)

Just a mononym, like Cher

He’s got posable limbs and “LCD eyes,” which sounds like the name of a shoegaze band you’d encounter in a Brooklyn bar at 8 p.m. on a Monday night. He towers over everybody, including NBA players.

Introduced in 2020 in the thick of the COVID pandemic lockdowns, he was the closest many of us got to family for the holiday. Skelly’s grown an entire family since then, including Skelly Do

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