A house tucked away on a sleepy street in Mount Rainier that you may have driven past could give you nightmares if you stop to look more closely.

Jen Dwyer, who works as a clinical research nurse at the National Institutes of Health, first began adding spooky decorations to her house on Taylor Street when she moved in 20 years ago.

And she added more each year, turning her bathroom into a mad scientist’s laboratory, with antique medical implements, an x-ray of a human foot on a light box and small creatures in formaldehyde.

But at some point, she stopped putting the decorations away after Halloween and just decided to leave them up all year round, as she noted in a recent article on Jezebel.

Dwyer has picked up stuff over the years when a lab closes at work, or from friends and neighbors who sometimes just drop oddities off on her porch. Most of the stuff she bought is from thrift stores, antique stores, yard sales and eBay, and she won’t pay more than a few dollars for each item.

Inside her house you’ll find random bones, multiple old dolls with missing pieces, and ghostly looking antique photos hanging on the walls. On the front porch are headless dolls, full-sized anatomical skeletons, taxidermied animals and a mailbox labeled ‘666″ all illuminated with purple lights.

And on the side of her house is a fake graveyard full of tombstones with detailed epitaphs lit with candles that feels all too real.

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