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Welcome to Sassafras Farmhaunts, the Halloween love child of Chris & Heather Smith. We’ve been hosting Halloween bashes since 2006, and we’re dying to share some of our spooky, macabre, and whimsical ideas with you.
How it all started: As kids, Heather and her brother would set up a haunted forest behind their house spending all fall hanging up ghosts and stuffing scarecrows to decorate the path. Relatives would be led by flashlight down the trail with a dollar store spooky sounds cassette setting the mood. Chris’ Halloween experience was more official. His uncle built one of Nashville’s first haunted houses where Chris helped as an actor. Naturally, when Chris & Heather married in 2006, they combined forces to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.
As time marched on: In 2015, the Smiths bought a farmhouse that was built in 1921 and nicknamed it Sassafras Farmhouse. Not only did it allow the annual Halloween celebration to grow, but with each passing year, the house becomes slightly spookier year-round. Bat lithographs adorn the hallway walls and potions brew with harvests from the herb garden. Chris & Heather started to embrace the dark side of Sassafras Farmhouse.
Future plans: Chris & Heather plan to haunt the grounds of the farmhouse eternally.