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PHOTOS: Halloween house on East California Street

CASEY KREIDER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 month AGO
by CASEY KREIDER
Casey Kreider is a photographer for the Daily Inter Lake and was awarded the 2024 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year from the Montana Newspaper Association. He is a graduate of Penn State University and previously worked as a photographer for Lancaster Newspapers in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at [email protected]. | October 30, 2025 11:55 PM

Kalispell resident Trevor Caudill has been decorating his front yard at 340 East California Street for Halloween for the last 12 years. Each year he adds a few pieces to the elaborate, neon-lit display divided into sections adorning his front yard. 

A flickering light shines on a mannequin's face, its body partially covered by a sheet on a makeshift operating table surrounded by severed limbs.

An angry cadre of skeletons, two standing 12-feet tall with glowing chests towering over the backyard, flanking a giant werewolf.

Perhaps the most startling is the motion-activated dummy, created by Caudill, that hangs from a tree and jerks and kicks and swings when approached.

It's definitely worth a visit if you're in the area trick-or-treating tonight.


    A motion-activated dummy hangs from a tree as part of Trevor Caudill's front yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    A dummy lays on a makeshift operating table as part of Trevor Caudill's front yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    A dummy lays on a Skeletal hounds and witches guard a coffin as part of Trevor Caudill's front yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    A zombie digs out of a gravesite as part of Trevor Caudill's front yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Trevor Caudill's front-yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Trevor Caudill's front-yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Decorated mannequin heads on spikes as part of Trevor Caudill's front yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Trevor Caudill's front-yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Trevor Caudill's front-yard Halloween display at 340 East California Street in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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