He’s profiting from the sum of all fears

We’ve heard many reasons for moving a business, but this one’s a first:

“My dad said I had to get it out of our backyard because it was killing his grass.”

When you’re imaginative high school student Adam Phillips, and you have 2,300 paying customers traipsing through a little shop of Halloween horrors you’ve built in a 30-by-80-foot space behind your parents’ house in Greeley, the sod probably will pay a price.

So Phillips haunted 15 local businesses until they gave him sponsorships or donations, and the rest is history. Today he and his company,…