NEW ORLEANS — “The Skeleton House,” with its dozens of skeletons dressed up in costumes and affixed with punny name tags, has become a cherished Halloween tradition on St. Charles Avenue each year.

But before fan favorites like “ET Bone Home,” “Pelvis Costello,” and “TromBONE Shorty” appear on the lawn, they take over the inside of the home.

“We don’t have many guests for two weeks,” Louellen Berger told WWL Louisiana, walking through a seemingly never-ending parade of skeletons leaned against walls, laid on the floor, and piled on tables.

Berger put her first skeleton out about twenty years ago. It was just one, reclining on a low branch of the oak tree in her yard.

“A couple years later, the local newspaper named him “Lazy Bones,” she said, “and my career was in marketing– I said, ‘o

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