Gargoyle Too Scary for Motorists

What stands 8 ft. high and is disrupting traffic along a crowded highway in Corpus Christi, Texas?

A most fiersome gargoyle in front of Jonni Bahr's haunted house.

It's a grizzly bear sized gargoyle, complete with claws and fangs. Here's the concern, when you watch a scary movie, you can turn it off, or not allow your kids to see it. This gargoyle you can't miss staring down on cars passing Everhart and SPID.

"This is a great intersection," said Johnni Bahr. She runs the haunted house. She says the gargoyle is quite an eye catcher, and just what a house like hers needs. "He was cool. He was scary. We were hoping he was not offensive."

"Something like this is so open like that is, I feel, pretty offensive," said concerned parent David Freymiller. Freymiller is not against Halloween, but opposes the gargoyle because it's so unavoidable and in plain view for children.

"We go trick-or-treating. I take my kids and they dress up and love it and realize it just good clean fun," he said. "This object just seems so different, there's just an evilness to it."

Other than the three week display -- city approved -- around Halloween, Bahr says she and her house in every other way are Christian. They just enjoy a little Halloween fun.