The demon babies started as a halloween display in 2023. Since then, they’ve been decorated for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patty’s Day, Easter and Pride month. The babies have become a true Baker neighborhood monument, even being featured on r/Denver (for better or worse).
Since their inception, I’ve had DOZENS of friends help me in painting more babies, DIYing the sh*t out of goodwill toys, decorating for Halloween ‘24 and ‘25, and brainstorming how to continue growing the legacy of the demon babies.
How it began
In 2023, I decided I wanted to make a spooky halloween display in my side yard. I got inspired by some Pinterest images of demonic baby dolls, and the rest is history. I took to the thrift, finding as many baby dolls as I could. With the magic of paint, I transformed these cute toys into creepy creatures. Skeletons, clowns, decapitated monsters…nothing was off limits. Most of these demon babies were conceived while watching scary movies in the living room with friends. Best way to make babies in my opinion!
2023
The babies made their debut for Halloween ‘23, drawing lots of attention from passerbys. We get a lot of foot traffic on our corner, so these little fellas were noticed pretty quickly.
The gag is, I left them up through new years, adding little Santa hats and wrapping them in tinsel. That’s when some concerned neighbor posted on reddit, pondering, “What is the message here?”
Comments ranged from “Message is "We are lazy" to “One person’s “lazy” is another person’s “hilarious!””
Here’s a few others that i loved:
-KEEP BAKER WEIRD
-Hail Santa
-It’s giving me “we love Halloween but I guess it’s Christmas now”
-Do you not celebrate Christoween?
-Sid from Toy Story is all grown up now and this is just how he spreads his Holiday cheer.
After all the hubbub, of COURSE I had to leave the babies up FOREVER!!! Duhhh.
2024
The babies were here to stay in 2024. They were decorated for Valentine’s Day, St. Patty’s Day, Easter, Pride month, and then BAM. Halloween was back! For the 2024 display, I rallied the homies to create even more babies, hang up spiderwebs, and add to the madness. It was cute, but nothing like 2025…
2025
By 2025, the whole neighborhood was well-acquainted with the demon babies. I’d be outside watering my plants and hear: “I love the babies! Keep them forever!” Or I’d be inside working from home with the window open and hear a little kid say: “Mommy, look at the babies!”
There is endless joy that comes from seeing gawking dog-walkers, disturbed older-folks and wide-eyed children observing the never-ending display. I really feel like a part of the community. At this point, I’ll meet neighbors and say “oh yeah, I live at the one with the demon babies!” and they say “OMG that’s you?!” It’s great. What a way to bond with your neighbors.
For this year’s Halloween display, everything changed when I found a giant toy horse on springs at Goodwill. When I asked my friends what I should do with it, one of my besties, Ali, suggested we turn it into Blucifer. And thus, the Nightmare at DIA theme was born.
We got to work turning this ordinary horse into a demonic, blue beast of a thing. My friend Jeff, always with the big ideas and tools to make them happen, suggested we drill holes in Blucifer’s eyes to install red lights so they really glowed like the real one. And so we did! We drilled through its eyes, strung wire through its head and connected it to a rechargeable battery pack. Literally. Perfect.
To fit the Nightmare at DIA theme, I knew we had to lean into the lizard-people theory. Shoutout to my coworker, Juicy, for providing us dozens of her childhood porcelain dolls to help make our lizard demon baby army as strong as it is today. We painted all kinds of creepy lizard babies, rats, dinosaurs and more. Their numbers were growing.
Along with Blucifer and the lizard babies, we added lights, spider webs, a wooden “Nightmare at DIA” sign, an old suitcase full of babies and sawn-off-limbs, spooky dresses and a skeleton boiling in a cauldron for good measure. Oh and don’t forget about the life-size lizard guy! Shoutout to the random neighbor who gave us a blucifer t-shirt when he saw us working on the display one day.
This year’s display started cooking on September 10th. We got to it EARLY! There is still more to be done, but we’ll save that for next year ;)
Thank you SO SO SO much to the gigantic team of helping hands who made this year’s display come to life.
Thank you to:
Liz Amici
Hanna Anderson
August
Rayna Berinhout
Emily Bessette
Maya Boustany
Lucy Bullen
Caroline Bullock
Erica Caulibaly
Stephen Danielson
Mikayla Drost
Caryln Elizabeth
Lauren Fazah
Cidney Fisk
Jeff Ginger
Ali Graulty
Molly Haag
Mikaela Hall
Carson Hann
Rachel Hoyt
Paige Koenig
Rachel Kurt
Veronica Ledezma
Danny Pauta
Ana Paula Pinto
Tanner Scott
Austen Sharp
Isabella Del Signore
Sunny Sundstrom
Juicy Wells
David Hart Lilly Wollins
Alizah Yrigolla
Today’s Show - November 15, 2025
This display is merely a snippet of the full display that was on my lawn for this Halloween. I plan to continue the Nightmare at DIA theme, building out more detailed displays and growing my demon baby army.
Many of the babies/details you see here today were done by people on the list above. Thank you so much for the team behind me who has made my dreams and visions of weird halloween displays come to life! Your support truly means so much to this HalloQueen.