HELL, MICHIGAN — A lot of people spend Scary Christmas, better known as Halloween to mortals, filled with skin and organs, but not everyone has a scalp on their head. This is why Pumpkin Street Mission Ministries opened its doors to skinless skeletons on Halloween night.
It was a full night of food, fun, and dermectomies for all. Pumpkin Street Mission Ministries hosted a Halloween skin removal and attachment for the skinless on Monday, thanks to the help of several volunteers, including Tom “Jangly Bones” McGee.
“These skeletons deserve to have a good Halloween as well as anyone else, and it’s the least I can do. I’m retired. I don’t need my skin.” said McGee. When asked how it felt to finally be receiving a home of flesh, one of the lucky skeletons responded with a jovial clatter of teeth.
Throughout the night, Pumpkin Street welcomed in skeletons during the cold night to participate in spooking, rattling and shivering, which was followed with a mass donation of human pelts to the boney ones. Because of donations, both from the morgue and living volunteers, Pumpkin Street was able to provide enough hides for 1,000 skeletons.
“I think this serves a very useful function. A lot of these skeletors would not have skin otherwise and being dead shouldn’t stop someone from slinking around on their favorite night,” said McGee.
He has been happily volunteering since August and plans to donate more skin as soon as it grows back. McGee asked “That’s how skin works, right?” as he headed to the back to get the full body scalping, for charity.
If you have any extra skin laying around, please call 1-800-HOMES- NOT-BONES to donate.
Written by Quinn Wright, Staff Member