A man who received nothing but hate mail for his Halloween hobby proved to be just the treat that Tammy Wyche needed to brighten her weekly drive to cancer treatment appointments.
Though a front yard covered in skeletons might serve to remind someone of their mortality, Wyche marveled at the creativity with which the homeowner arranged his decorations.
Some were raising the flag at Iwo Jima, while another was giving its dog a bone. There was a bony beekeeper who stood behind a cowboy riding an osseous equine, not far from where two boneheaded tourists were taking a selfie.
Yet despite this macabre menagerie, the scariest thing to Mr. Bill Pyle was what tended to show up in his Oxford, Ohio mailbox in those weeks leading up to Halloween—accusations of devil worship, promises of his expedient arrival in hell, and other such condemnations.
This carried on year after year, until one fateful day when Pyle opened a letter that he said stopped him “dead in his tracks.”
“I have been driving past your house daily for the past 19 days on my way to radiation treatments. A highlight of my journey has been checking to see who else has joined the bone family & what they are up to,” Wyche wrote in a heartfelt, handwritten correspondence.
“Thankfully, Wed. Sept 11th is my final radiation treatment, though I may need to continue to drive by once in a while to see what’s new. Thanks for the diversion.”
“Tears came to my eyes,” Pyle told CBS News’ ‘On the Road’ with Steve Hartman, remembering when he read it the first time. “[It]really touched my heart.”
Seeing the date of her final treatment, Pyle decided to roll the bones on a big surprise for this special admirer.
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When Wyche drove past the ‘Bone Family’ that Wednesday morning, she looked to the right and saw a whole skeleton crew cheering her on with signs that celebrated this final milestone.
“It was very touching to think that somebody would go to that effort for a stranger,” she said.
Thanks to the story of Wyche’s brush with death at Pyle’s house, for every one person that has a bone to pick with him, there are 30—from as far away as Australia—sending messages of appreciation that encourage him to keep going with his skeletons.
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