Her neighbors had a bone to pick.
A self-proclaimed “Halloween lover” was asked to take down her “morbid” decorations — and her compassionate response is going viral.
South Carolina mom Salena Webb in September hung her Halloween decor, which included a cardboard graveyard, a giant spiderweb on her front porch, and two life-sized skeletons with a small casket.
Webb — @thatsnorthsense on TikTok — told Insider this week that the adult son of her elderly neighbors recently knocked on her door to discuss her decorations.
“He starts to tell me that his father was diagnosed with lung cancer,” she said. “And then he started to talk about my Halloween decorations. I’m like, ‘What do my decorations really have to do with this?'”
Webb said she has an amicable relationship with the Russian couple, despite a language barrier.
When the son asked her to take down the casket, she realized, “This guy is dealing with mortality.”
She posted a clip of the interaction, captured on her security camera, last week to TikTok, where it scared up 1.2 million views and 86,000 likes.
“My family knows i loveeee Halloween and my decorations took me awhile to make and put up. I had just purchased the skeleton carrying the casket to go along with my graveyard to really set my halloween decor off this year,” Webb wrote in the caption.
“I was a little sad at first but i thought about the bigger picture. Me removing my casket isn’t hurting me at all but it may ease and bring my neighbor a little bit of peace as he adjusts to this news. Kindness is free and compassion goes a long way.”
The Post reached out to Webb for comment.
TikTok commenters were touched by her kindness.
“He was so gentle about it and that was incredibly compassionate of you,” one person wrote.
Webb responded, “Exactly he didn’t come over aggressive because he knew it’s my house and was looking for me to have compassion and that’s exactly what I gave them.”
“You both handled this tough situation in such a respectful manner,” another noted.
Webb responded to a different comment, sharing, “He truly was coming to me from a place of love for his father and I couldn’t deny that for them. Always next year.”
She posted a follow-up video to let her followers know what she did with the extravagant decorations.
“When my neighbor asked for me just to remove the casket…” she wrote in text over the video. “But you care about your neighbor and their mental health so you relocate the whole graveyard scene to the backyard.”
She added in the caption, “Kindness is free but some of you cant even afford that. What happened to loving your neighbor..its a simple request to give your neighbor a little peace of mind during such a hard time.”
According to Insider, Webb brought a card and balloons to her neighbors so they would know she wasn’t upset with their request.
They expressed their gratitude, telling her, “You’re good people.”