As the night of Halloween draws nearer, neighborhoods have seen more ghoulish gatherings and creepy characters coming to life to create haunted houses.

Perfectly happy suburban homes have been transformed into spooky spectacles that tell tales of zombies, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, witches and plenty more. Some of these Halloween displays incorporate lights that dance to music, animatronics that come to life and graveyards full of tombstones. Others play on nightmares and stir up clinical cases of the heebie jeebies.

For our fourth annual Orlando Sentinel Spooky Awards, we’re highlighting 20 haunted homes that stand out during the 2025 Halloween season.

The home at 205 Celebration Blvd. in Celebration is decorated with the facade of a castle, an animatronic band, a mad scientist's lab an

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