Mine would be the time my dad rigged a harness and “hung” himself from the carport beam, dressed to look like a stuffed Halloween decoration. He would grab at the bigger kids and parents when they came up to the door for candy. Scared the living bejeezus out of them.
When I was a tween-teen my mom and I would thoroughly decorate our front yard and porch every year (for 5 or 6 years running) as a mini-haunted house. A lot of homemade decorations including a coffin my grandfather built for us. Then Halloween night I’d be in the coffin (which was on our porch) and she’d be there tending her cauldron or whatever worked for costume that year. When kids would come to the house she’d lift the coffin lid and I’d be in there with the bucket of candy. There was spooky music / sound effects, and some gloomy lighting. It was a mildly spooky vibe.
Very little kids (3 or 4) were often too scared to come up to the house and so one of the adults would have to come get their candy for them. I remember that, the last year we ended up doing it, one of the parents came up afterward and told us that their kid had been too scared to come up the year before and they talked about seeing “what was up there” on-and-off all year. And that year there were very proud to have gotten their own candy.
It’s fun to think that my mom and I are part of that family’s holiday memories.
Probably all the times I went to Spirit Halloween growing up. I really loved all the squishy gross-out toys, like creepy crawlies and rats.
My wife and I used to get hot chocolate and visit every spirit Halloween in our state. Later on we got married on Halloween. So those two together are really special to me
All on the same day or did you space them out?
Sounds like a dumb question, but I am married to an action figure collector, and we have made a few marathon toy runs to allll the stores over the years.
And I love that your anniversary is Halloween!
We’ve done Halloween in key west a couple of times. Zombie bike ride is super fun!
Dad lived there once upon a time and now makes an annual trek to Fantasy Fest. I’ve done Zombie crawls, but never a bike ride. How does one pedal or steer with mangled limbs? 😄
Reading this little pumpkin shaped glow in the dark book about a witch. My whimsy levels went through the roof.
I wish I could remember what the book was called
Oh shit, I googled for what I could remember and I found it:
A very scary jack-o’-lantern
It looks like it is out of print, I’m hoping that I still have it on a box somewhere, because it’s selling online for stupid prices.
