A lot of kids love Halloween because it's an opportunity to go house to house and get some candy. I'm in Ashtabula Township, Ohio visiting a 15-year old who does more than that on Halloween.

I’m not only visiting Anthony Savel, I’m also visiting his haunted house. He designed it. He constructed it.  Anthony has created a haunted house inside his family garage every year since he was nine years old. Even before that, he went with his dad to help with a family friend's haunted house. He did that every year starting when he was five.

"I learned a lot of stuff from his. I learned a lot of easy ways to do things like put up the walls. Just plastic. Just black plastic. Put up the walls and get some decorations and put them in there."

Anthony's haunted house has come a long way from some black plastic walls and a few decorations. It gets bigger every year. He even has a sponsor that donated a trailer that's used as a scary entrance way to the spooky garage. There's decorated wooden walls that glow in the dark. Visitors, walking in blackness, bump into a number of mysterious things hanging from the ceiling. Skeletons are everywhere. They’re in a boat. They’re on the ceiling. Live ghouls will suddenly pop out of the darkness to scare the pants off you. Who are these ghouls?

"I get a lot of helpers from school and a lot of family helps out,” answers Anthony. “That's really where I get a lot of people that help."

Yes, the Anthony Savel haunted house is a treasured Halloween tradition in his South Maple Lane neighborhood. Family, friends, and neighbors are invited to a reveal party every year. They are the first to walk through. The haunted house is then open to the public on the township's trick or treat night. This year, it's on Saturday November 2.  Anthony accepts donations.  Each year the money goes to a different cause.

"One year we donated to one of my grandma's friend's kids,” says Anthony. “It was a baby. She got diagnosed with something. So we raised money for her hospital bills and stuff.”

When he was nine, Anthony never thought his haunted house would someday be a neighborhood phenomenon with hundreds of people visiting. It's scary, it's creative. "The Curse on Maple Lane" is a lot of fun.

"I hope it goes on forever,” says Anthony with a laugh.

Anthony's haunted house is located at 3344 South Maple Lane in Ashtabula Township. It will be open Saturday, November 2 from six to nine pm. That's the official trick or treat day in Ashtabula Township. Donations are accepted. This year, all proceeds will go to Hurricane Relief.