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Artist Deb Funk’s painting of “Creepy Santa” has become a piece of Manchester history now that the statue has moved, and the image has even been used in CASA-NH’s Cards for a Cause series. Photo
MANCHESTER, NH – The seasonal Manchester landmark that’s come to be known as Creepy Santa or Demented Santa, a 12-foot-tall weathered fiberglass statue of Santa Claus, has a new location this year after 30 years standing vigil over the Rheume family Christmas tree lot on Elm Street.
But residents who are saddened to see the iconic figure move a few blocks south and are feeling nostalgic about the end of an era or the 0.3-mile shift of an era can turn to a popular painting of Creepy Santa by Manchester resident Deb Funk, which was painted in 2012 and even shows the street signs marking his original home at the corner of Elm Street and Salmon Street.