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Imitating a grisly death by hanging is an annual feature of many Halloween haunt shows and spooky decorative displays, usually implemented by securing the victim in a harness that supports his weight when he drops from the gallows so that the noose placed over his head doesn't actually snap his neck or constrict his windpipe and prevent him from breathing. Unfortunately, on more than one occasion such stunts have gone wrong and resulted in actual deaths. One such fatality was reported by the Chicago Tribune in October 1990: Other related fatalities involve incidents of Halloween celebrants dying after putting their necks into decorative nooses that had no harnesses or other protective mechanisms to prevent accidental choking. The Associated Press reported such a fatal hanging accident in October 2001, this one involving a 14-year-old boy named Caleb Rebh who was working a haunted hayride attraction at Alpine Ridge Farms in Sparta, Michigan. According to reports, Rebh felt awkward simply jumping out of the woods to scare passers-by and decided to take the place of a skeleton that was hanging by a noose in a nearby tree: In September 2013, a Kentucky teenager died in similar fashion after prankishly inserting his neck into a decorative noose he had put up in his home's front yard as part of a Halloween display:
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