Marblehead Architect Builds Giant Halloween Troll Statue In His Driveway

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (WBZNewsRadio) — A Marblehead architect is turning heads again this year with a giant Halloween statue.

For the last eight years, Tom Saltsman has been creating giant statues in his driveway on Pleasant Street. This year, he created a 9-foot-tall Norwegian mountain troll lying on its side created around his garage.

"These trolls were giants, (Norway mythology) believed that the mountains came alive and when the sunlight hit them they were turned to stone," he told WBZ's Shari Small.

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The mouth of the troll opens to reveal his garage transformed into a fantasy forest.

"That's how you enter the troll's world, you walk between the teeth and you enter into the forest which is a Nordic forest," he said. "What we created was an illusion with a backdrop of a painted forest and then reflected it with a wall of mirrors and then the mirrors are all obscured by the various trees and brush."

Each year, he spends his weekends and evenings leading up to Halloween designing a different giant statue.

"They're all very different, there's been a dragon, a spaceship, there was a giant gorilla, a walking man skeleton," he said.

Tours run from 4 to 8 p.m. on Halloween and on Friday and Saturday.

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