Trick? Or treat?
For many students, Halloween is a major holiday. Between all the crazy costumes, massive amounts of sugar and creepy characters, weird things are bound to happen.
Senior Chris Rossi said that his most bizarre Halloween experience occurred one night in October, after a football game when he and some friends went trash-tipping.
“It was two in the morning and before we were done we wanted to get this last, big trashcan,” Rossi said. “We run up and start chucking the parts everywhere and there was this ironing board there, so I held it up as a sign of our victory. I started running with it and I noticed that my friends were starting to run a little faster but I didn’t pay any mind to it. Suddenly, I get tackled from behind and I lifted up in the air by this bald, muscular man in nothing but a wife-beater and a pair of boxers. He punched me twice and threw me in the trash and he started yelling at me ‘What’re you doing in my neighborhood?’ So I started to pick up the trash but he kept yelling, so I started to run. The last words I’ll ever remember from that man are: ‘You’ll remember me forever. You’ll remember my name.’”
For freshman Megan Sigler, her weirdest Halloween incident happened at a haunted house.
“We were at Carnival of Horrors, a group of six of us, walking out at the end of the trail,” Sigler said. “Since we were at the end and no one’s supposed to scare you after that, we were just hanging out, messing around, and this guy comes up with a chain-saw but we weren’t scared because [the trail] was over. He started pretending to lick me from my leg all the way up and we were just laughing at him but then he licked my ear and we’re like ‘Whoa, you’re not supposed to touch us!’ After a while he finally left.”
Senior Jenny Mayer said that she is no stranger to haunted houses.
“One time my friends and I actually managed to scare a guy in a mask at a haunted house by hiding in a corner and he was looking the other way,” she said. “And when we jumped out at him, he actually got scared.”
Mayer said that she goes to at least one or two haunted houses a year and that carving pumpkins is her favorite Halloween tradition.
“I always carve at least three pumpkins,” Mayer said. “And I always do really elaborate designs. They’re like Martha Stewart pumpkins. I did a really intricate Frankenstein and a werewolf last year.”
Rossi said that he also keeps his own Halloween traditions.
“Every year for Halloween we have our annual Halloween party,” he said. “We invite all our friends and it’s usually pretty fun. It’s a good time.”
Rossi said that since this year is his senior year, it will be the last year for the party and trick-or-treating.
Even though Mayer is also a senior this year, she said that instead of trick-or-treating she gives out candy.
“I passed out candy last year,” she said. “I sat on my front porch in this long cloak and I had on creepy make-up and I just sat there and stared at kids as they walked up,” she said.
Mayer said that her goal for Halloween is to dress up as scary as possible.
“My friend Cassie gave me this really good idea, where you take liquid latex and spread it all over your face and you can look like a zombie,” she said.
Sigler said that her costumes are usually more creative than scary.
“Last year my friends and I went trick-or-treating as the Pink Ladies,” she said. “I also dressed up like a red crayon when I was two.”
Rossi is also in favor of more creative costumes.
“I’m dressing up like Michael Jackson with a boom-box,” he said.
Sigler and Rossi both agree that their favorite part of Halloween is the candy. But Mayer said that she enjoys going to haunted houses the most.
“I love being with my friends and being scared out of my mind but having so much fun at the same time,” she said.