Since she was a child growing up in Union Mills, Jessi Hardesty had an interest in the macabre and death.

“I’ve been interested in Halloween and spooky things since I was very little. I don’t know what it was that initially drew me to it,” she said. “I always loved skeletons and pumpkins and pumpkin carving, but then death was always kind of close, too, because I grew up in the country,” she said. “You know, your cat gets hit on the road or a dog dies. I had those talks with my family very, very young.”