Its Halloween night in Western New York, filled with tricks and treats, including a homemade haunted house that's finally allowed to open. The Tonawanda house brings together all the scary names. "You name it, from Hannibal Lector to a dentist scene, to clowns, to Chuckie, you name it, we got it," said Paul Deck, home owner and creator of the haunted house.
Multimedia Watch The Video The Deck family has been spooking trick-or-treaters for years in the Town of Tonawanda. But this year, their haunted house almost didn't open its doors because of code violations. It was a story you saw First on 7. "The Town of Tonawanda worked with me and they called the fire department and said, yeah, they will come out and make sure everything is safe for the kids and that is where we are right now," said Deck.
So it was a happy ending for this haunted house, just like it was 'Til Death Do Us Part" for some Halloween newlyweds. "We both love the holiday and it was easy for him to remember as an anniversary and we had decided we wanted a fall wedding so it just made sense for us," said Heather Reszka, now Heather Miller, of her Halloween-themed wedding.
The newly married couple partied with spirits dead and alive at their wedding reception at Shanghai Reds, in downtown Buffalo. Even the cake fit in with the creepy theme. "We had a cake that was designed like the theme for the Shining with blood dripping down the sides and footprints going up the cake," said Miller.
Well, if your celebration is full of blood and gore, it might make you think it's the end of the world - which it is, in Blasdell, where people are celebrating the anniversary of the famous Orson Wells broadcast.
"We're here to celebrate the 41st anniversary of War of the Worlds," said Dennis DiPaolo, owner of Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant, which was hosting the party. The original Orson Welles broadcast was done in 1938 in New York City and has no connection to Buffalo. But the 1968 WKBW version of War of the Worlds was an original broadcast done in Buffalo and featured legendary WKBW-TV anchor Irv Weinstein.
Tonight's party at DiPaolo's was part of Buffalo being proclaimed the War of the Worlds radio capital of the world, which was announced on back on October 16th. Everyone came to the War of the Worlds party dressed in Halloween costumes. The Blues Brother sang, Elvis shook his hips and everyone raised some money for charity at this Halloween shindig. "We're hoping to raise as much as we can, like my father used to say, 'A dollar today is a dollar more than you had yesterday' when you're raising funds for your community," said DiPaolo.
The money will go toward the Kids Escaping Drugs Program and the DiPaolo Scholarship Fund
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