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The best Halloween decorations at Walmart this year are ghoulishly good
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With Halloween coming up scarily fast, it’s time to get your home ready for spooky season. If you’re looking to impress with eerie decor, Walmart has everything you need, from huuuuuuuuge skeletons to an inflatable Bluey in an adorable costume. Whether you’re aiming for frightful or fun, inside or out, you’re going to want to shop Walmart for all the Halloween decorations you’re looking for.
We’ve chosen a few fun picks to help bring your Halloween vision to life. Check out the best Halloween decorations you can get at Walmart for 2024, and be sure to check out Sam’s Club, Wayfair and Anthropologie for more.
Animated 8′ giant skeleton: $308
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Sometimes you have to go all out and get yourself a giant 8-foot skeleton for your yard. And this Halloween seems like as good of a time as any.
This plastic skeleton features flashing, motion-sensor-activated LEDs for eyes, and its jaw moves when activated. You can pose its arms however you’d like, so it’s easy to dress if you want to put it in a fun costume.
It has a metal base and support poles to keep it standing indoors or outdoors.
Joyin pumpkin inflatables: $39 and up
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It’s a pumpkin jamboree! Adorn your lawn with the sunny orange gourds complete with wicked grins and a black cat in a witch hat. These outdoor polyester pumpkins blow up with a built-in air blower.
The pumpkins are lit with bright white LED lights, so they can be seen at night. Plus, the fabric is waterproof and durable, so you can leave your pumpkin squad outside even when the weather gets a bit… spooky.
Everyone loves pumpkins on Halloween, so just put some smiles on people’s faces while you can with this delightful yard decoration. Multiple sizes are available (up to 12.5 foot), price varies by size.
Animated shaking mummy: $67
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Mummies aren’t just for tombs anymore. This one is free-standing, and shuffling toward you in your yard. This 5-foot tall mummy is crafted from polyester and wears a dirty brown shroud. Its hands are gnarled and its face grotesque. And it starts shaking when there’s noise around to trigger it.
This creepy shaking mummy runs on three AA batteries. That means you can put it just about anywhere you might want to try and catch guests off-guard. It works both indoors and outdoors, so if you want to plant a mummy somewhere, this is your guy.
Jinchang Halloween ghost walking dog statue: $16
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Have you ever seen a ghost walking its dog? Now you have. This fun little resin statue features a ghost going out on a stroll with its favorite pet. It’s clad in a flower crown, with a dog that resembles Zero from Disney’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and it might be one of the cutest things ever.
It doesn’t light up and it doesn’t make any scary noises, but it’s family-friendly and appropriate for any home to add a little Halloween charm into the mix. Use it as a centerpiece on your table or put it up in your window where everyone can see it when walking by. It’s absolutely adorable, after all.
Skeletons carrying coffin statue: $190
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Want something a little more creepy than cute ghosts or fun pumpkins? How about skeletons carrying a coffin? These 5-foot-tall spooky boys can be placed indoors or out in the yard as part of your Halloween display.
The skeletons themselves are supported by metal frames, so they’ll stay put. The skeletons’ coffin is a good place to put drinks and ice during parties — it doubles as a cooler.
Creepy and useful at the same time!
Groundbreaker skeleton clown with lights and sound, $40
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We’ll admit it. Clowns are creepy. And clowns are even creepier when they’re sprouting from the ground in front of you. This indoor and outdoor clown groundbreaker looks like it’s rising from the dead, and it makes some pretty convincing storm noises, too.
Claw the clown has eyes that flash green. His entire body moves and he chuckles, then calls out “I see you” to unsuspecting visitors. Plant him somewhere in the yard or hide him in your home where someone may not be expecting him to maximize the scares.
Inflatable Bluey in vampire costume, $50
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Not into a super scary Halloween? Delight the kids and younger visitors with a blow-up Bluey from the series of the same name, clad in a vampire costume. This 3.5-feet tall self-inflating figure blows up completely in just seconds and deflates quickly for simple storage as well. Bluey lights up and comes with stakes and tethers so you can keep the blow-up figure anchored to the ground.
The vampire costume consists of a fun vampire cape as well as a cute little pumpkin — there’s nothing scary about a little blue dog. Grab little Bluey to celebrate Halloween if you have little ones around who may be a bit too afraid of the typical monsters seen around the holiday.
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Paul Whelan, freed in prisoner swap with Russia, tells other American detainees: “We’re coming for you”
Washington — Nearly seven weeks after the Russians handed over Paul Whelan on a tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, the Marine veteran stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with a message for other Americans who are held abroad.
“We’re coming for you,” he told reporters Tuesday night after he met with lawmakers. “It might take time, but we’re coming.”
Whelan said he spoke with lawmakers about how the government can better support detainees after they’re released.
“We spoke about how the next person’s experience could be better,” he said. “What the government could do for the next person that’s held hostage and comes home — the care and support that other people might need, especially people that are in a worse situation. There are people coming back that lived in the dirt without shoes for three years, people that were locked up in hideous conditions for 20 years. They need support.”
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The U.S. secured Whelan’s release in August in one of the largest prisoner swaps since the end of the Cold War. The complex deal came after months of sensitive negotiations between the U.S., Russia, Germany, Slovenia, Poland and Norway.
As part of the deal, Russia released 16 prisoners while the Western countries released eight Russians. Whelan was released alongside Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. green card holder and Kremlin critic.
Whelan, who had been the longest-held American detainee in Russia, was arrested in December 2018 when he traveled to the country to attend a friend’s wedding. He was convicted of espionage in a secret trial and sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020.
Whelan, his family and the U.S. government vehemently denied that he was a spy and accused Russia of using him as a political pawn. The U.S. government considered him to be wrongfully detained, a rare designation that put more government resources toward securing his release.
But a deal to secure his freedom was long elusive. He remained behind bars as Russia freed Marine veteran Trevor Reed and women’s basketball star Brittney Griner — both of whom were detained after Whelan’s arrest — in prisoner swaps with the U.S.
The U.S. said it pushed for his inclusion in both exchanges, but Russia refused. It led to Whelan advocating for his own release from a remote prison camp, calling government officials and journalists to make sure that he wasn’t forgotten.
When the plane carrying Whelan, Gershkovish and Kurmasheva landed in Maryland on Aug. 1, Whelan was the first to disembark. He was greeted by President Biden, who gave Whelan his American flag pin, and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Whether he likes it or not, he changed the world,” Rep. Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat, told reporters Tuesday.
Whelan’s case and his family’s constant pressure on the U.S. government brought more attention to the cases of Americans who are wrongfully detained by foreign governments.
Haley said Whelan is a reminder to other Americans considering traveling to Russia that “you have a target on your back.”
Whelan said it’s been an adjustment acclimating to life back in the U.S., especially learning the latest technology like his iPhone 15.
“I was in a really remote part of Russia,” he said. “We really didn’t have much. The conditions were poor. The Russians said the poor conditions were part of the punishment. And coming back to see this sort of thing now is a bit of a shock, but it’s a good shock.”