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I remember one Halloween when I was a sullen (and somewhat punk) teenager, I ended up having to take my brother trick or treating, but was dead set against wearing a costume. So I went out in plainclothes. I got some of the strangest guesses as to what my ‘costume’ was! If only they had guessed ‘disgruntled teen’ they may have been right…
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Well we don’t celebrate it, we have All Saints Day the day after, a bleak day where you light candles on graves. And i am sure some scary November day in the evening I would have been scared silly going there in the dark and with the snow
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My absolute favorite Halloween was the year that all the adult cousins from my Dad’s side of the family dressed up and we all went trick or treating together. There were at least 25 of us between the ages of 18 and 35 skipping door to door. No one knew what to make of us.
The scariest Haloween was when I decided to go as Pippi Longstockings. My hair was very thick and down to my knees so we had to weld a metal frame to sit on my head and through the braids to hold them up. Well it decided to storm that year and there was LOTS of lightning…….
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My favorite Halloween memory was a few years ago. My parents got invited to a Halloween party so they ordered costumes online. My mother was a Zombie bride and I got to do her makeup. But the best part was my dad’s costume. It was officially called “Trixie, Mistress of the Night”, MY DAD WAS A HOOKER!!! AND I GOT TO DO HIS MAKEUP TOO! It was a riot! I’ll never forget it!
My scariest Halloween memory was from when I was a little girl (I think I was around six). I was a very small child, only about 4 feet tall. My mom was taking me trick or treating and I had just rang someone’s bell. When they answered, they’re GIANT horse of a dog ran and jumped up on me, knocking me down. I thought I was being attacked. The owner pulled the dog off of me, but at that point I was done trick or treating for the year. I also have been afraid of big dogs ever since.
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I’ve never had a Halloween!
This year will be my first one. I’m having a party with my house mate.
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My favorite and scary story are the same: My favorite time was when I trick or treated with my older brother( so nice to be able to do oldr kid stuff w/o parents around) but he also liked to scare me every chance he got.
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Being that my mom’s birthday was on Halloween, the happiest memories was taking the kids trick or treating and then the whole family going to mom’s birtday party. The scariest was when returning from Mom’s birthday party and trick or treating we were all in the living room and the power went, putting us in total darkness and the dog had started whining at the same time he ran right into the wall, knocking a picture off the wall. Being that it all happened at the same time all anyone could hear were 7 kids and their parents screaming and/or yelling.
Carol L.
Lucky4750@aol.com
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My favorite halloween was in 9th grade when I finally got to go to a boy girl party. Scariest was when I was in second grade and we had to pass the cemetary next door to go trick or treating.
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Hmm…my Halloweens were all pretty decent. No bad memories none great. I guess what I loved most were the Halloween parties we had in elementary school. We would all be able to wear our costumes that we were going to wear Halloween night and we had a big parade which the whole school took part in, we would walk the length of the school and move outside and walk around the black top, mostly so we could see everyone’s costumes, then we went back to our respected classrooms and had a party, there were games, prizes, snacks. It was fun.
Worst memory….like I said my Halloweens were all generally good and happy, unless I’m really repressing some dreaded memory here. I got nothing.
Already voted in the polls.
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Happy - the last Halloween my mom took me to my grandmom’s and I was dressed up like a butterfly, with wings and all.
Scary - the time a gang of older kids in gruesome costumes took all the candy I had collected.
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Best.. several of them, my family use to do alot of the characters in the haunted house at the elem. school I was going to.. from Frank. to wolfman.. it was a blast.
Scary.. the year people started putting razors etc. in the candy around here [yes I'm that old], and we were told it might all have to ge thrown away.Yikes. [this was before they started offering to xray it]
already voted on both.
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My favorite Halloween was when my 2 older girls had a Halloween party, we all dressed up even the dog and we had apple bobbing, we did the thing where you put your hand in to feel stuff like the peeled grapes and spaghetti, etc. We even had dry ice for fog. I think I had more fun than my girls! I can’t think of any Halloween that was scary.
Voted in both polls.
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Best Halloween 1st grade when the class took a field trip to the pumpkin patch and we were all allowed to pick our own pumpkin for a dollar, of course I picked the biggest one I could barely carry, it was the same year I won 5 dollars in a Halloween pet parade for the cat in a cage called Angel Cat.
Worst Halloween was when I dress up as a clown tripped on the side walk and messed up my makeup went home fixed it and tripped again. Also learned that face paint is itchy.
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Voted in both the Vampire Assistant and author polls.
Favorite Halloween memory - our girls were dressed and ready to trick or treat. We lived on a military base so it was a small community and we all knew one another. I stayed home to give out the candy and my husband took the girls around. He had a mug of hot coffee with him and when they got to a house, he would say “trick or Drink” after the kids did Trick or Treat.
Another time, one of our neighbors dressed as a scarecrow and sat in a chair along the sidewalk. They left a bowl of candy near the door. After the kids got their cand and were heading back down the sidewalk, he would rise up. Scared the living daylights out of everyone.
I can’t do e-books, so if I’m drawn for one, give it to someone else.
Patricia B.
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My favorite Halloween memory now was going to my great-grandmother’s as a teenagers and handing out candy. She passed away this year, so this will be the first year in a long time no one gave away candy at that house on Halloween.
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I think my favorite halloween was the year that the entire neighborhood got together. We had a party at Sara’s house then as one large, sugar high conglomeration of elementary school kids we descended upon our Town house development and the housing development next door. There was 10 of us and we made it a game to see who could go around fast enough, get the most candy. Then we all came back to Sara’s and we dumped out of winnings and traded for two hours in an intense struggle to get the candy we liked the best. It was the last year we did that (when I was in 5th grade) because the next year the ‘big kids’ who were the organizers and initiators all thought trick or treating with elementary school kids wasn’t cool anymore since they were big middle schoolers.
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A happy memory is when my nephew went out for the first time dressed up as a ninja turtle, he loved it so much he didn’t want to go home after trick or treating.He was so excited to have so much candy.
A scary memory is when I was a kid,there was this house down the block that really got into halloween. The house all spooked out,the scary music…when you walked up the driveway they had scary statues placed here and there only they weren’t staues,they were their older kids dressed up to scary the bejesus out of us kid..I never ran away so fast screaming in my life,I never went back the following years.
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Best Halloween also goes with my favorite costume. It was 7 years ago, and Iris and I went out as as pimp and a hoe.
We had an awesome time at a party, and wind-up getting back together. 7 years later…life is good. 
Scariest comes from a time in high school. All of my closest friends were spending the night at our pal Sherry’s house. About 2 am, we start watching Silence of the Lambs, well, Sherry’s basement has windows that are level with the ground. Half of the people were asleep, and there were a couple of us totally freaked out between the movie and the weird noises we were hearing outside.
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Forgot again….voted for both already.
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I never really had a good (or rather, memorable) Halloween until I had children… and now, every year gets better and better. The picking out of the costumes, the dressing up, the trick-or-treating… It just doesn’t get any better than that.
Scary memories? None that I know of so far…
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One good memory I have was when a bunch of us got together in grade school and went trick or treating. Then we sat around and split up the candy based on favorites and read scary stories.
Never really had a bad scary memory of Halloween.
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My best memory: My friend Zach and I bought cans of silly string and attacked his brother, Jake with them. It was so fun! Jake found a can and got back at us at 2 in the morning.
My scariest memory: There was a really bad storm outside. I hate thunder because it scares me. Then, the power went out and I was all alone. I was so freaked!
I already voted in the polls too.
Who won yesterday’s contest?
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I grew up on a farm so there were so many houses we could go to trick or treat, so one of the mothers dropped us off at a nearby neighborhood. At one house, we were given fresh apples. Mind you, this was during the time when rumors were going around of adults placing razor blades and needles in apples. Of course, no one in my group wanted the apples, so most tossed them on the lawn or street. I kept mine and decided to throw it away when I got home.
Ok, so we get to the next house and I’m at the front door with “Dale”. While we are waiting for the door to open, “Dale” keeps trying to put his apple in my bag. When the door opens, he tries it again but the apple hits my hand and rolls into the house, between the owner’s legs! We HOWLED! I guess I should have been embarrassed but I was in makeup and no one recognized me. I think that was the last time I went trick or treating!
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My fav was when my girls were little and we would go out at night trick or treating, I’ve not really had a scariest, b/c I’m try to avoid things that make me scared or sad.
already VOTED in The Vampire’s Assistant Movie Giveaway
already VOTED in the 2009 Favorite Paranormal Fiction Author of the Year
Thanks,
Dina S.
dlsmilad@yahoo.com
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My best memory would be any that I spent with my best friend. It reminds me of “good ol’ times”. Just remembering all the candy is enough to make me happy.
As for scary? I don’t know that I’ve ever had one of those. Although, I did go to a haunted house attraction a few years ago that scared the hell out of me. Just not ON Halloween. 
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Happy memories of Halloween — gosh, so many!!
I think, though, dressing up and trick or treating with friends as a kid has to top them all. Each year, four of us would slap on the make-up and fancy-dress then spent a few hours gathering candy. Once we had a heap, we’d slap a scary movie in the VHS player, and snuggle up. Most of the time, we’d be watching a 15 rated movie, so we’d feel DEAD grown up! LOL
Scariest memory of halloween is watching Poltergeist with my sister, when she had friends over for a sleepover. I’m still scared of clowns, to this day! eek.
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My favorite Halloween’s were my childhood Trick or Treating Days when we could safely do our whole neighborhood of 10 blks and worry about bad people.
My Scariest Halloween Experience took place a few years back. We take the window out of the front door for our Trick or Treaters. It was open. We were eating supper. When this Large Calico Cat jumped in the door and just walked into the house like she knew the place and walked directly to the basement stairway where my kids were staying. Went down there and came back up and left. We stood their with our mouths open. We had just been visited by the Ghost of our Mittens. Who had passed away many years ago.
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Voted already for both, and i dont think im going to c the movie, maybe if i have time in Nov. Anywaty, good memory? getting money, and having a halloween scavenger hunt. scary- when i was little one of my neighbors dressed up as a scarecrow and put a pumpkin on over his head. He then sat on his steps and put the bowl of candy in his lap. His brother, satnext to him and made sure everyone got candy. None of us kids new that it was a real guy inside the scarecrow, so lucky me goes to get candy and he jumps up and waves his arm. I was freaked out, cried, and almost wet my pants. Suffice to say, i did not go out for more candy that night.
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*Happiest Halloween : The very first time that I got to go trick’o'treatin…
didn’t allow my bro and I to go at all ever!!!…This particular year though my Mum fought it out and helped us get all ready and head out to trick’o'treat…It’s one of my fondest memories b/c for once I felt that I would have a similar experience to talk about at school the next day and not feel like a martian!!!
I was about 10 years old…I know that’s quite old to start but my biological donor(dad) *can you tell I have issues with him?
*Scariest Halloween : Don’t really have one that happened on Hallow’s Eve but I’ll tell you a scary event that happened when I was a little girl…
This happened when I was about 9 years old…I was at my Grandparents’ place..It was late afternoon and it started to rain with really bad lightning and thunder…I happen to be terrified of both…So as I’m about to head down the hallway towards the main part of the house…There was a massive crack of thunder and it totally freaked me out…I started to walk faster and for some reason something made me look back…There were these 2 massive black shroudy things with no faces that were just trailing behind me…Totally scared the crap out of me…I literally ran down the hall screaming like the hounds of Hell were after me…No one of course believed me when I told them what I saw…but I still distinctly remember them…and it still sends a chill down my back
*Voted for The Vampire’s Assistant already
*Voted for 2009 Favourite Paranormal Fiction Author of the Year already
Happy Reading!!!
Anna S. H.
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My favorite memory is probably when I was a kid, dressing up w/ my family and friends and going trick-or-treating. My scariest memory just usually involved my brother and his friends, or my dad in his costume, jumping from around corners at me.
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Oh, and I already voted for my Fav. Paranormal Fiction Author of the Year Round 1 and for the Vampire Assistant poll.
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I have voted on both polls
favorite memory…I grew up in a small town and when I was in high school we would get a bunch of water balloons and ride around in the back of trucks and chunk them at other high school kids doing the same thing…it was all fun war and you were soaked by the time you got home. The cops actually left us alone if we didn’t get too crazy, I am sure that’s not the case for kids now.
Scariest memory…my sister, her boyfriend and I was playing with a Ouija board and the candle on the table blew you. No one admitted to blowing it out..so who knows, but it was scary at the time!
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I have two favorite memories: One is when I was young, going with my mother and two younger brothers trick or treating. This one year, my cousin joined our ranks, and his father had dressed up to walk with us. This uncle was such a trickster. He took a shirt, ripped it up really good, smeared fake blood all over him. He freaked people out.
The other favorite memory. I was in high school, my dad went to the bars to celebrate Halloween, and my mother had to work till nine o’clock. So she asked a friend of mine who drove and lived five minutes away if she would mind driving me into town to take my youngest brother trick or treating. She and I dressed in the sleezest clothes we had, big ol heels that would break your necks. It was funny because this mother ushered her kid on the opposite side of the road from us and he goes “Look mom, they’re hookers.” Ahh youth.
Scariest.. that would have to couple years back. We had just took the kids trick or treating. They were tucked in bed, and hubs cousin was in town. He had no where really to go, so hubs invited him for the night to watch movies. They freaked me out so bad watching The Ring and such movies
Already voted on both polls!
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My happy memory of Halloween hanging out with my dad and his friends in their basement–which they converted every year into a walk through haunted house for trick or treaters.
My scariest memory? When I was twelve and decided I was too old for Halloween. That was the year I stopped dressing up. I have since, but only a few times and under extreme protest.
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My favorite memory of Halloween is going trick or treating with my best friend. I know, how plain and boring does that sound? But, we goofed off, made jokes, and just acted silly, having fun and getting free candy.
My scarest memory of Halloween is the year one of my friends made me go through a haunted house one of her neighbors had put up. The whole family was working it, hiding, making sounds, and grabbing you. It was all to be expected, but when it came down to it, my younger self was terrified!
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oh, wow, that’s a difficult task because I’m living in Austria
A happy memory: every year there are more possibilities to “celebrate” Halloween and I love to decorate everything
I don’t have a scary memory - but maybe in a few years *gg*
Greetings,
Ina
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Favorite Halloween memories were always going trick or treating with our baby! All great memories! No awful memories because as a child, Halloween was not celebrated in the country where I grew up!
I already voted (The Vampire’s Assistant)!
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My favorite Halloween memory was when I dressed my little girl as a Geisha. She was absolutely adorable.
My scariest was when I was eight and I went to this one house where the people completely decked out the house. There was a scarecrow sitting on a bench next to the porch. It was stuffed with straw and had an old shirt, overalls, and one of those bags as a head. I bypassed it and went innocently to the door. A lady with white hair and kind eyes opened the door.
“Trick or Treat,” I said, holding out my bag.
“Why don’t your look scary,” she said. I was dressed as the Grim Reaper.
“Thank you.”
“What type of candy would you like.”
She tipped the bowl toward me, and my eyes popped opened as I saw all the treats. They weren’t just little bite size bars, but full size ones. There were KitKats and Twixs and Snickers, all my favorites.
“May I have the KitKat.”
“Take two.”
Really?”
She laughed. “Yes really.”
“Wow. Thanks.”
Delighted, I dipped my hand into bowl into the bowl and withdrew a KitKat and a Twix.
Slipping them into my bag, I said, “Have a Happy Halloween.”
“You too dear.” She winked at me.
I turned around and ran right into the scarecrow that I was sure was suppose to be sitting on the bench. I froze. My heart jackhammered once, twice, then went into overdrive. I wanted to scream, but there was absolutely no air in my lungs.
The scarecrow leaned over and asked, “Would you mind sharing one of your candy bars?”
Somehow a nerve impulse finally found its way to my legs, because the next thing I knew, I was running. Fast. I left behind my mom and my dad, who I was sure was being tortured by the sounds they were making.
I sprinted into my house and locked the door, only to have keys jingling in the lock a few moments later.
“Mom and dad are safe,” I thought.
I ran and opened the door, and was surprised they survived the torture, which must of hurt because both of them had huge tears squeezing from their eyes. I stared astonished at my dad. I never seen him cry before.
“Are you okay?” I glanced behind them, making sure that they were not being pursued.
They both answered with laughing that lasted at least ten minutes non-stop.
That was my scariest Halloween.
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1. My favorite memory is visiting a distant friend and spending the Halloween with them. Scariest… don’t really have one about Halloween.
2. I want to see The Vampire’s Assistant, but I’ll probably wait for the DVD. (voted)
3. Voted.
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My favorite Halloween memory was taking my friend’s mom trick or treating because we were teenagers, her mom was exceptionally short, and it’s amazing what a mask will do to make people think you’re a small boy out for candy. That was an AMAZING haul that year.
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My favorite halloween was when i took my daughter trick or treating when she could walk and talk and for the next month she would pretend to trick or treat around the house now it is her favorite holiday. My scariest was when i was 5 and we were trick or treating and one of the houses was decorated up like a graveyard full of smoke coffins and such and after i received my candy and started walking away the coffin opened and the guy laying in was covered in rags and make up he really looked dead and started chasing us. From then on i always loved the house but refused to go up to it ever again. Halloween is my favorite time of the year.
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Hmm, since it is my 5th year in America, I only had two halloweens. LOL Well when I was NYC my friends and I went trick-a-treating and got a lot of candies. I was really happy, because it was my first halloween. As for the scary memory…hmmm my second time when it was dark and some guy was following my and my sister at night. We practically ran home.
I have already voted for those both occasions.
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*sigh* Have to proofread. oh well. My e-mail is aorihanazari(@)gmail(.)com
Thank you, and I am sorry for the double post.
-Aori H
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My favorite Halloween memory was one year when went house to house and got Popcorn Balls from one of my parents friends, they were really awesome different treat..
My scary Halloween memory is one year went to the movies with a friend and her sister and then had to ride my bicycle home all of 4 long blocks to our house in the dark after watching my first Vampire movie, I was all of 10 years old and it was a very dark night and every noise made me see the Vampire Count or his lady Vamps chasing my bike all the way to my front door… I since have read about and seen so many Vampires that now it makes me feel silly to think that oh many years gone…..
Voted in both polls already days ago…..
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Happy memory: Dressing my son up as Howard the Duck the year he was born. He was a big baby. : )
Scary memory: Trick or Treating in a rainstorm that ended up flooding the entire town.
Already voted in both polls.
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Halloween has long been one of my favorite holidays. I’m afraid I don’t have any scary stories to tell, but my sweetest and most affectionate one is with one of my dogs.
Like any household we gave out candy to trick or treaters. One year there were very few, so I went outside to look around. When I came in, the dog had gotten into the candy. I snatched it from her and said “bad girl. The candy is for the kids.” About that time the next group of little boys knocked on the door. They got their candy and Beauty poked her head around me to see. The kids loved her and petted her. Ah Ha! The light came on. Candy=kids. gotcha.
For the next several years, Beauty lay at the door every halloween, waiting for the children to come knocking. She sat there from 5 pm until midnite when I’d finally turn off all the lights. It was her favorite day of the year. As Beauty aged, I knew this one year would be her last and I was determined to make it special.
I bought her a costume. Her first ever. She was a big dog and I was concerned about how I was going to put it on her without her falling over and getting hurt. As if she understood my dilemma, as soon as I got it over her head and positioned along her back, she lay on the floor and stuck up a leg. Allrighty. I never said this dog was dumb!
That night we walked, in search of trick or treaters outside. It was a quiet night and I had just about given up, as Beauty was getting tired. I looked at her and said “You can go home, or we can go on. watcha want?’
She looked at me with those big brown eyes and wagged her tail, then turned down a street I barely knew.
We rounded the curve and there they were - at least 50 children and their parents doing the rounds. Heaven! She got right in the middle as they all oohed and ahhed over her costume. My great big skeleton dog was having a blast. Hard to be scared of a dog wagging all over. Parents took pics of her with their kids, and all she cared was that they touched her.
We barely made it home that night as her aged body threatened to give way. We’d walked for two hours. As we moved up the hill where we lived, I thought she was going to lay down and stay there. Luckily, my husband came outside and sent our other dog down to greet her. That gave her the last bit of oomf she needed to get up the steps.
Beauty was asleep as I removed her costume and laid it aside, dreaming dreams of children giving her love.
That did turn out to be her last halloween, but every year, I think of that wonderful night with the sweetest labrador of all time. A dog who not only loved Halloween, but loved to be the center of all those kids’ attention.
Ok, so that’s my sweet story.
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My favorite memory is doing Halloween at Disney it was great.
My least favorite memory is doing Halloween at Disney in the rain. This was two years ago. Same trip.
found one poll and voted.
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My happiest halloween was when I was really little and both my parents took me trick or treating. My dad had dressed up and went up to every house with me. They both told scary stories that night and we ended the night making smores by a small fire my dad made outside. It was such a wonderful family moment. Awww…to be little again….
My scariest halloween was when my mother carried a gun with us out trick or treating because the news had told up that gang members had said they wanted to kidnap blonde hair blue eyed little girls. The only people that bothered us was some teenage kids that egged our car, but they got one hell of a suprize when they seen the gun in my moms hand. She made them wash the car. lol
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My happiest halloween memory is when my friends and I stayed up all night watching scary movies and telling ghost stories.
My scariest halloween memory is when me and some of my friends went out to this haunted bridge in the country where supposedly this woman wonders around crying for her baby. Me and my friend Shelly were so scared once we got there that we refused to get out of the car.
Voted in both polls.
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I have no scary Halloween stories. Not far from where I live they have a week long celebration of Halloween. It is called Neewollah. I always enjoy the goings on there. My favorite memory was when my daughter was Annie on a float in the parade one year. It was a BIG thing. One year as a kid I got rock in my bag from an idiot(teenager). Not favorite, not scary, just crappy.
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My favorite Halloween memory, my hubby & I would volunteer at the Louis. Zoo’s Halloween party. I always made him up as the werewolf & I’d be a witch. One year they had me in a small room outside the party tent and I stood by the window. I wouldn’t move until people were starting to walk away they I’d scare the heck out of them!
The Scariest, My ex-hubby, his army buddy, his brother & I went to see ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (the black & white version), right after it came out at a drive-in-theater. On the way home we were on a road named Mt. Washington Rd., we had stopped at a stop sign right a crossed the street from a cemetery. All of a sudden a hand reaches through the window & grabs me, I hit the button to roll up the window & in the back seat his brother is screaming bloody murder. He had put his arm out his window and reached in through mine & grabbed me then I had his hand pinned in the window. The next day he had a bruised wrist, busted lip & a black eye. He never went to a movie with me again.
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Already voted in poll and Vampire’s assistant contest.
My happiest Halloween memory would be spending it with my (now ex) boyfriend watching scary movies.
Scariest was the year a bucnh of us went to see this house where a woman supposedly stood on her roof every year on Halloween looking for her husband that died on that night. My best friend told us the story and took us there. It was so scary to see this woman on the roof! and you could only see her from the one side of the street. If you drove around to the next block ,she wasn’t visible. After a while of us fresking out, she did tell us the truth-it was a chimney! then we had fun bringing others back to see it and watching their reactions, until her boyfriend got out of the car and started yelling “hey lady!-get off the roof!”
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My favorite memory of Halloween is that I finally one a costume contest at OSU when a friend and I went as a preist and a pregnant nun. My scariest memory was one Halloween we got the spirit board out and we talked to a spirit named Newfie. He told us some true stuff and then he told us we would die that night! We all stayed together that night and was so glad when morning got there and we were all alright.
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Well Happiest Halloween memory was just taking my sons out every year… I always get my candy apple from a friend of my mom’s who has kept one for me for about 30 years… LOL
My scariest is when I was about 10 or 12ish. We had a cemetary behind our house… one street over but with an open field inbetween. WE did a seance one year after getting candy and asked the spirits of graves still unknown in the graveyard to appear…. and we saw not one but at least 3 different white moving apperitions…. needless to say we hightailed it in the house real fast and my bedroom window that was facing it was curtains closed for a few nights….
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Already did 2 & 3
Halloween is my Mothers favorite holiday and she does it up big. The house & yard is decorated and every year the family(even 82 yr old Grandma!) comes dresses up and participates in scaring the people that come to the house for treats. It is a blast and we have families that have moved away from the neighborhood come and trick or treat at her house to get a scare & treat! Last year we had 139 people.
My scariest is 2 yrs ago after we got done scaring everyone at my Mom’s we went on a haunted tour and going through this one house I felt coldness and a tickle to my rt ear and turned and saw a blur go by me. It was chilling!
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I’ve voted in both already
Now lets see… My favorite memory is having costume parties. Seeing all my friends dressed up and laughing always makes me smile- because I just love putting on costumes and playing games.
Scary memory… Hmm… That would have to be when my dad dressed up like one of our stuffed men outside and sat there holding a bowl of camdy. When I went to get it he grabbed my hand and said ‘Rar!” ~laughs~ It’s funny now but it was scary then
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My favourite Halloween memory is every year Halloween was great and we stayed out late.
Scary moment is when I was 15 and watching Halloween (orginal movie) and in the basement of our house and I needed to turn lights off and run up the stairs cuz I thought Jason would find me…LOL
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My favorite halloween memory was when I was in elementary school and we got to dress up in our costumes for a party. The whole school then parades around the school. My daddy and mommy took off to see me. I loved being that special.
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I think my best halloween was as a little girl going out after dark with my friends. Trick or treating till mom and dad got tiered of waiting up
And yelled for us to come back then the slumber parties would start with all the old classics
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My fav memory was going trick or treating with my oldest brother. He was 15 yrs older than me so I never really hung around with him.
My scarriest was when someone lit firecrackers under my window late at night.
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My favorite Halloween memory is one of family. I had flown to the Philippines during my favorite Holiday to visit with my brother, his 2 young daughters, and my mum. The kids were *soooo* very excited to go trick’or’treating, we spent a week on each of their costumes. Jazzmine wanted to be the scariest witch possible, and Jhaid wanted to be the most beautiful princess ever. That pretty much sums up their personality. My sister in law blames Jazzmine’s tendency to horror on my ghost story nights =D (she’ll be subscribing to this blog in no time!) Then the morning of Halloween the typhoon hit. They were devastated! So my brother and i had to think of something to take their mind off of it. We wrote them a little play about an evil witch and beautiful princess (sound familiar?) and the Moms sat back with some Baileys while we performed for them. We lost power at some point which only added to the ambiance, and we traded ghost stories for the rest of the night. That was not only one of the best Halloween nights, but one of my favorite family nights as well =)
My Scariest Halloween night still gives me nightmares… We had this house in one of the Canyons in Los Angeles (yes, they exist!) It was all wooded and scary, and the house was a modern deal with lotsa windows and glass, so all around you could see woods. I had invited a female friend whose boyfriend was in Italy at the time, to my and my fiance’s place. While they were gone i set the whole place up with Friday the 13th scene setters, every wall, every mirror was covered in fridaty the 13th woods or Jason series. Bottle of Vodka, a roaring fire, and a quija board at 2 AM, we’re all really toasted, and we start to play with the ouija board (much to my fiance’s dismay). I wasn’t moving the damn thing, and she swears she wasn’t, so i said, ok, lets not have either of us touch it. so we put our fingers right above it, and the thing KEPT FREAKING MOVING. You may not believe me, but i swear it did. It spells out only one thing, “WATCHING U”. It just kept spelling that out, no matter what we would ask it, we all get really freaked out, then a big THUD on one of our windows has us jumping for cover. I open the balcony door to our porch, and a FREAKING bird had flown right into the window. I couldn’t sleep for a week. I’ll never play ouija again.
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My favorite Halloween memory… There are so many. The one that comes to mind is when my daughter was a panda bear. We spent what felt like hours painting her face black and white while she made “spooky” faces in the mirror.
The scariest memory… I’ve never been a big fan of the dark so walking around on Halloween when I was little was always kind of scary. The scariest was when I went trick-or-treating with my friend April and there was a group of older kids with dogs chasing kids around. After we were done getting our candy I had to walk the two blocks back to my house alone. Every time I heard a dog I thought one of the scary boys’ dogs had gotten loose. That was the longest two blocks of my life.
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My funniest Halloween memory was when I was trick-or-treating. We went to a house with a bunch of guys. They had run out of candy and were handing out cans of soda instead. That was the best root beer ever.
Sad to say, I don’t really have a scariest memory. Maybe this year…
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I’m not sure if I can enter again, since I won, but it seems like fun (its ok if you can’t enter me though!)
My happy memory is all the times I carved pumpkins with my family. Especially after we were done, because of the roasted pumpkin seeds!
My scary memory is about the time I went trick-or-treating when I was eight or so. We had this creepy guy following us asking if we wanted some extra candy, because he had a bag full. He just wouldn’t let up!
I already voted on both!
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My favorite memory of Halloween was one year when I was about eight or nine. I was having a sleep over with all of my friends the night of, and after trick-or treating, we filled our huge jacuzzi-bath tub with our candy and took turns “bathing” in it.
My scariest memory was one year when My older brother dressed up wearing a scary mask…during trick or treating, we saw another kid wearing the same one. I ended up following the wrong mask,and didn’t realize until we were all the way across the city…scary for me and my mom I bet
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My favorite memory of Halloween was when I was in 7th grade and we put together a haunted house for our school. We raised alot of money for our basketball team:o) The scariest memory was when I was in 8th grade and I went to my friends sleep over on Halloween and we played with the ouija board!!! We couldn’t sleep all night, LOL!
I voted already.
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Happiest - dressing up as a rather skeletal looking ghost and all done without any sort of special trip to the store.
Scariest - uhm, erm, does scarying myself count? (Let’s just say that when I was at Halloween Horror Nights once, only thing I kept thinking of was how they could improve things and hadn’t been back since)
Already voted in paranormal author poll.
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Already voted in both polls.
My favorite memory of Halloween was when I was in elementary school and we would dress up and parade around the neighborhood and then go back to school and have a party.
Worst Halloween (1979) was when my dad passed away from lung cancer.
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My happiest moment was when iw as 8 we allw ent over and trickertreated and i had a boat load of candy but my little body couldnt carry my bag my self so my oldest brother picked up my bag and carried my bag and his while we trugged up this hill my bag broke but none spilled my big brother smiled and said thats ok put mine with his and carried me home when we got home our parents were there with even more candy and fresh apple cider was a great day remember those days it make sme apperciate those times when we as children were safer
Scarriest one was one year we went trick or treating and i hate being touched and someone grabbed me and held me while they stole my candy then proceeded to scare the crap out of me it was also around the time the razorblade in the candy scare came about happy ending tho my brothers once again shared their candy with me
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I voted in 1 & 2 already
My favorite halloween memories are when my kids were toddlers and we’d take them trick or treating dressed up and the happy smiles on the little old ladies down the street when they’d see the kids….it would take them a while to make it to the door, but you could tell that it made them so happy and brought memories of their kids many years before.
My scariest was when I was a kid and my friend had a party and the mom blindfolded us and we had to go thru a “course” of challenges sticking our hands in bowls in a dark room …..eyeballs (slimy grapes)…worms (spaghetti) etc it was very gross at the time.
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My favorite Halloween memory was when I was 13. In Minnesota, it is still referred to as The Halloween Blizzard. We didn’t go out at all. I stayed in my house with my best friend and we watched The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. It was the episode when Mr. Burns scoops out Homer’s brain, wears it as a hat and says he is Davey Crockett, before putting it in a robot. We thought the brain-hat was hilarious. When her mom came to pick her up, we could barely open our front door because the snow was so high. Trick-or-treaters had given up hours ago.
The scariest was when my friends talked me into going to a haunted house at the fairgrounds. I scare easily- always have (despite the types of books I read!)- and it was awful! Things kept trying to grab me. *shudder*
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Happy Memory- My dad and uncle pulling my cousin and I in my little red rider while we went trick-or-treating, using pillow cases. I was a witch that year, and he was a vampire. We filled four pillow cases between the two of us.
Scary Memory- My mom, who did stage make-up for her award winning drama program in High School, did my dad’s make-up to be a werewolf. Mom took me out trick-or-treating, and when we came home, dad was hiding in the shadows in the house, and jumped out at us. I nearly peed my pants. I did drop all of my candy and tried to run screaming. Luckily, mom caught me before I ran into the street.
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Voted in both the Vampire Assistant and author polls.
Happy memory- first year my granddaughter was old enough to go trick or treating and realized that all the candy people were putting in her pumpkin was for HER. Her Mom doesn’t allow her to eat candy and her eyes just got bigger and bigger as the night went on.
Scariest- had just gotten married and we lived really out in the country in the boonies(or at that time I though was the boonies). My husband had no locks on any of the doors. Got ready for bed and heard something at the window. I had already taken out my contacts so didn’t see very well. Finally, got the nerve to peep out the window. Screamed bloody murder, only a neighbor’s cow pushing on the screen!
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Favorite Halloween memory….I would have to say it was the last year we went trick or treating, which was only a couple years ago and I’m 22! lol Scariest memory was once when my brother and I were little, we went trick or treating, and a guy had his house and himself so decked out and scary, when he answered the door, we screamed and cried. lol And we watched scary movies all the time, so it was pretty bad!
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Happy Memory — the year that I dressed as a clown and my sister as a huge pumpkin - it was the last halloween where my parents both took us. (They divorced after that.)
My scariest Halloween - a slumber party where we watched scary movies and my friends bother and buddies dressed up as Jason and knocked on the patio door. Nearly peed my pants (my friend did)
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my favorite is dressing up and going trick or treating with my friends. scariest was watching night of the living dead for the first time the movie was made near where I lived so it was really scary for me.
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when i turned 21 a bunch of people from school got together for a movie party. the idea was for each person to find the corniest movie or a movie that scared them when they were a kid. we did a halloween themed potluck. it was so much fun we did it every year for 8yrs, itwas better than christmas. my worst;
people who know me know that i can’t stand bugs,someone decided to put REAL cockroaches in my desk, i freaked out so bad i wet myself and had to go home
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My favorite Halloween memory is Going to Hallow-Scream at BuschGardens, me and my 2 best girlfriends had quite a few screams, and a lot of laughs. It was a lot of fun.. my worst halloween moment was when I got pranked by my brother.. He pretended my puppy was mauled by my neighbors pit bull, they had my baby covered with fake blood and bite marks. I was so freaked.. Well there it goes..
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Happy memory - in the “old days” we got full-size candy bars! Not these teeny tiny “bite size” pieces you get these days. Then coming home from trick or treating and dumping the pillowcase of candy out on the bed to hoard over my haul. What to eat first?
Very happy memory for my sweet tooth!
Scary memory - hmmmm… can’t really think of too much. I guess sitting around at halloween parties telling spooky stories.
I voted on the Vampire Assistant movie (comment #168). I definitely want to see this movie!!
I had aleady voted on the PNR author round 1 (comment #203)
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My favorite Halloween memories as a child were walking in my elementary school’s Halloween Parade. It was always such a fun event and I looked forward to it every year!! As an adult, my favorite Halloween memory is going to our friends’ Halloween party and enjoying the Karaoke in Costume Contest… way too fun!! :0)
Hands-down my scariest Halloween moment was going to my friend’s house and watching Pet Cemetery… scared the pants on me!!!!!!!
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Fav memory. I have to say, comes from last year. I went to my first Halloween party. LOTS of fun!
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I’ve voted on everything.
Happiest memory of Halloween would have to bewhen I was in my young twenties and I spent it hitting the haunted houses and hayrides with my friends. We had a blast that year.
Scariest, had a party where everything went wrong and I mean everything. It was so bad I am sure paranormal forces were at play.
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My favorite memory is hosting my nephew’s birthday party. I don’t really have one about Halloween.
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My favorite Halloween was over 20 years ago when I went with a friend to her boyfriends house for the weekend, and we went to a party with his family and I started talking to his brother. We talked all night and ended up getting married a year and 1/2 later. Yeah, it was cool. The worst memory I have is of the first time I heard adults talking about razor blades in candy and after that we didn’t get homemade treats from neighbors any longer– there was always a little bit of a damper on it after that as a kid, knowing someone was out there wanting to hurt people.
Off to vote on both the movie and the author!
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I have so many great Halloween memories it would be hard to pick just one, but pretty close to the top of the list is this year! (And you’re thinking it hasn’t gotten here yet!) My daughter was given the top makeup artist job at Kings Dominion (a theme park) here in VA for their Fright Fest Halloween event! They usually high some big shot in the makeup industry for the top job and she works as the 2nd or 3rd person, but this year she was given the opportunity to run the show and I am SO Proud of her! She got to redesign a maze, create the makeup designs for the characters and design the prosthetics
that they use.
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Favorite Halloween Memory - a childhood friend had her birthday party every year at Halloween - one year she had a sleep-over and we camped out in the pop-out camper. There was a ghost story and we all had to be blind-folded to hear it. And as it was told we had to touch all kind so oooey, gooey, gross things to match the story; bloody bones, eyes, brains - very scary when your a kid - and when we were all scared out of our minds the lights were turned on and we got to see what we touched … spagetti noodles, olives, a raw turkey leg - it was pretty funny afterwards, but not at all during the telling - whew!
Scarriest Halloween memory - I had the meanest babysitter when I was a kid and she made us eat canned spinage every meal - and one Halloween she made egg sandwiches and spinage. She told me if I didn’t eat my spinage I couldn’t go Trick or Treating with my brother and sister - guess who sat home… Talk about being stuck with a witch on Halloween!
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