Soddy-Daisy couple’s home temporarily possessed by marauding skeletons

Staff photo by Olivia Ross / The floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room offer a panoramic view of the skeletal invasion Adam and Emilie Mullins have set up outside. Staff photo by Olivia Ross / The floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room offer a panoramic view of the skeletal invasion Adam and Emilie Mullins have set up outside.

By Lisa Denton October 14, 2023 3 min read

For the past few weeks, the house at 10010 Dayton Pike in Soddy-Daisy has been under assault. In September, the scattered tombstones of a cemetery emerged in the front yard. A 12-foot-tall skeleton sprang up as its sentry. Other skeletons began clawing at the home’s boarded-up front windows, while more of the undead attacked from a catwalk on the south side of the house.

For homeowners Adam and Emilie Mullins, the scene is … exactly what they envisioned.

“We’re both really happy with it,” says Adam Mullins, a horror-movie fan and collector whose decorating decisions were inspired by a 1992 film from the Evil Dead franchise.

“One of my favorite movies is ‘Army of Darkness,'” he says. “It’s set in medieval times, and there’s a scene of skeletons trying to break into a castle.”