--- title: Scary Dementer Drone Halloween Prank PHOTOS description: In a move both terrifying and clever, a Wisconsin man has attached a skeleton resembling a dementor from Harry Potter to a drone as a prank. canonical: https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T20:15:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:44.522Z og:title: A Man Attached a Dementor to a Drone for a Terrifying Prank og:description: Expecto patronum! og:url: https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16829a9ab43a4777/6988aa86cd1bba42b3702c0e/dementor-drone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: dementor-drone-prank og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Man Attached a Dementor to a Drone for a Terrifying Prank twitter:description: Expecto patronum! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16829a9ab43a4777/6988aa86cd1bba42b3702c0e/dementor-drone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Man Attached a Dementor to a Drone For a Terrifying Halloween Prank, People React Accordingly > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 18, 2016 8:15 PM UTC  (Credit: Zac Crueger / Twitter)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 18, 2016 8:15 PM UTC In a move that’s either terrifying or maniacally clever, a Wisconsin man has been flying a menacing, dementor-esque figure via drone, thus [upping the ante when it comes to Halloween pranks this year](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/05/sadist-jimmey-kimmels-halloween-prank-is-back-and-the-kids-arent-getting-any-wiser/). Twitter user [Zac Crueger](https://twitter.com/ZacCrueger?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) posted photos of a flying skeletal figure cloaked in black, which many identified with [the bone-chilling dementors from Harry Potter](http://time.com/4432243/harry-potter-cursed-child-callbacks-easter-eggs/); it turns out that the man behind the prank was none other than his uncle, who’s been flying the dementor drone around southern Wisconsin. Naturally, people reacted accordingly to the now-viral Halloween trick, with some even worried that it might be a real person hanging from the drone. Crueger took to his Twitter to reassure people that it wasn’t a real person and that a video of it will be coming soon. Until the video comes, it might be worth taking the recently released [patronus quiz on Pottermore](http://time.com/4504169/patronus-pottermore/), just in case. > [](https://twitter.com/ZacCrueger/status/788181473098596353) > [](https://twitter.com/ZacCrueger/status/788127545556369409) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/"},"headline":"A Man Attached a Dementor to a Drone For a Terrifying Halloween Prank, People React Accordingly","datePublished":"2016-10-18T20:15:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:44.522Z","description":"Expecto patronum!","url":"https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Harry Potter","Culture","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16829a9ab43a4777/6988aa86cd1bba42b3702c0e/dementor-drone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16829a9ab43a4777/6988aa86cd1bba42b3702c0e/dementor-drone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dementor-drone-prank","caption":"","creditText":"(Credit: Zac Crueger / Twitter)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4535589/dementor-drone-halloween-prank/","name":"A Man Attached a Dementor to a Drone For a Terrifying Halloween Prank, People React Accordingly"}}]}] ```