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 video went viral, and so many were applauding Webb for her humanity.
“TikTok is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get but I’ve been overwhelmed by how sweet and compassionate others were to my story,” Webb told The Post.
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 can’t even afford that. What happened to loving your neighbor … it’s a simple request to give your neighbor a little peace of mind during such a hard time.”
“It has truly been overwhelming reading everyones’ responses and how so many think that compassionate and good neighbors do not exist due to social media usually only showing the negative sides of neighborly exchanges,” Webb told The Post.
“I hope my videos were able to help inspire others to be a little more kind to each other and to treat others how you would want to be treated, especially in some of your most vulnerable times. “
