Each year, just before Halloween, she gets possessed by some sort of spirit and starts decorating her front yard with ghoulish and ghostly figures.
"As the years have gone on, I’ve just bought more and more things to put up.
"My husband said I have a problem, but I’m not sure about that. I don’t know whether it’s normal or not; everybody has a hobby, right?"
The 55-year-old said she looked forward to this time of year.
"I like that it creates a memory for kids.
"We hear the kids going past, saying ‘That’s the Halloween house. Let’s go in’.
"And that’s the good thing about it."
Mrs Doolan said the scariest thing in her Halloween collection was her husband, Matt.
"I put him in costume and he just sits at the front door with fake blood all over him.
"When older children come up to trick or treat, they think he’s just another stuffed figure — they don’t think he’s real.
"Then he moves, which gets a good scream out of them."
The other figure that both she and visiting children were very wary of was a clown.
"He’s only tiny, but he’s horrible, especially after the recent remake of the It movie.
"He’s like Pennywise. I don’t like clowns. He’s enough to scare me, and I put him there."
The garden decorations would be up until about midnight tonight, and then she would spend the haunting hours pulling them down and putting them safely away, ready for use again next year.
