Veronica sez: We thought it would be fun to share a few of our own favorite Halloween memories with you today. This little ghost guy is a favorite pin of mine, that my Dad gave me when I was a kid - have a safe and sane (but spooky!) holiday!!!
Robert C. Roman:
Mine is a mix of funny
and little-kid-sweet-romantic.
Three Halloweens ago, my wife stayed
home to give out candy, and I took our little boys (aged 2 and 5,
respectively) trick-or-treating for the first time in our new neighborhood. Our
older boy, Lucien, had been trick or treating once before, but this was the
younger, Viktor's, first time ever.
Our neighborhood is four cul-de-sacs and two half-block dead end
streets all connected by a single lane, and we're nearly at one end of all of
it. We started through our cul-de-sac, picking up a few pieces of candy every
few houses, as most of them were dark. After one lap of the cul-de-sac, the
boys were a little dispirited by all the closed houses, and we were considering
going back in, but after waving to Mommy, the little ones decided to press on.
Ah, such a fateful decision. Halfway to the next cul-de-sac, we ran
into a strange procession. Every child in the neighborhood, from my older son's
bus stop partners to the few trick-or-treating teenagers, being led along the
street by a tiny moppet no bigger than my two year old. She took one look at
the boys, grabbed Lucien by the hand, and said 'C'mon! We're gonna get free
candy!'
And so my son met his first girlfriend, Carter, the tiny force of
nature. She towed him around the neighborhood not once, but twice, and
thereafter to innumerable play-dates and parties for the next two-and-a-half
years, including one spur-of-the-moment Halloween party (she grabbed kids and
pulled them inside when they trick-or-treated her house).
Diane
Burton:
I was a young single and went to a girlfriend’s house to watch
movies on Halloween. She wanted to watch a movie that I think was called “The
Hand” about a dismembered hand that crawled around and killed people. In one
scene, it crept up the back of the driver’s seat and strangled the
driver. It was in black and white, which made it that much more creepy,
made in the 1930s I think. Anyway, after the movie was over I had to drive
home. I just knew that hand would creep up the back of the seat and strangle
me. Fastest I ever drove home.
Heather Long:
When my daughter was 4 years old, we took her to Disney World. She
dressed up like Belle and we went to the Mickey's Very Scary Halloween Party.
All of the characters at the park bowed to the 'princess' and she trick or treated
at the different attractions, we also got to watch the Boo To You Halloween
Parade which is opened by a headless horseman racing up the street--and my
daughter declared after it raced past--that poor horse, he needs a better
rider. That man couldn't keep his head.
It's as hysterical to me today as it was then.
Jessica Subject:
My Halloween memory is...
We used to live on a street perpendicular to Elm St. And one
Halloween, one of the residents had decked his house out, and he dressed up
like Freddy Krueger. I didn't get scared, but a lot of the parents did when he
jumped out at them. It was more funny than anything.
Maureen Bonatch:
One of my favorite memories was when I was pretty young and my
older sister, Kathy, took me through a 'haunted house'. I'm sure it was
probably pretty lame as haunted houses go, since it was done by the church
bazaar, but not when you're about seven. A group of us were walking
through it and we were at the end of the line, I turned around and Frankenstein
was right behind us, arms outstretched, moaning and coming right for us! I
became slightly hysterical, as seven year olds can, and Frankenstein ended up
having to 'ditch the scary monster act' and kneel down to console me, lol.
(P.S. my parents home, where I grew up was and still is Elm
Street..after I reluctantly watched the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie I
slept with the lamp on for a week... umm..I was probably about twenty
years old, lol)
Mimi Sebastian:
Here's my memory from childhood. I was at my uncle's house in New
York and like many of the brownstone type houses, all the backs faced an alley.
My cousins and I used to play on the alley street with the neighbor kids, but
one night around Halloween, all the adults had gone back inside the house and I
stayed outside alone, leaning against the fence, glancing down the street. It
was particularly dark. Suddenly, I saw a light appear in the middle of the
street about ten yards away from me, almost like a flashlight or lantern,
approaching slowly, but I didn't see anyone holding the light. I was somewhat
frozen to the spot until I heard laughter coming from the same direction as the
light. That pretty much unstuck my feet and I raced back into the house. I
don't know what the heck it was, if it just a neighbor taking a stroll, but in
my child's mind, it's provided a scary memory to this day!
Stephanie Beck:
My favorite costume is a tiny cow sleeper that all my kids wore
when they were babies on their first Halloweens. I've never been big on the
holiday, but who doesn't like candy and tiny adorable cows?
Virginia Nelson:
Back when I was a young teen, I got with a bunch of other kids who
wanted to set up a haunted farm house (mostly boys who wanted to scare
their girlfriends), so we went out to the old deserted place, decorated
it then several of us took our positions in the house... I was lying on
the bed with a phony knife in my chest, fake blood all over the room...
everyone set the stage and the kids coming out to the house got the scare
of a life time...
Afterwards, we all left, went out for something to eat then
returned to the old deserted farm house to clean up. The joke was on us because
this time the girls who we had scared came back, cleaned up our mess and rearranged
everything including the killing scenes. Scared the dickens out of this 13 year
old and others when we walked in and saw three people lying on the floor in a
pile of fresh blood and a hobo looking guy standing over them.
That was the last time I set up a haunted house for anyone...
