October 2013 Discussion Post: Halloween!

October 2013 Discussion Post: Halloween!

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How scary was it?

This month, we’re breaking the discussion post pattern. I knew that I wanted to ask something about Halloween, but I was having a hard time settling on the topic. So I’m going to take the easy road out and make this month’s post a place for all-encompassing Halloween chatter. After all, it’s the closest thing we’ve got to an official Creepypasta holiday, so why limit ourselves to talking about just one aspect?

So, let’s hear it, guys:

  • What are you planning on doing for this year’s Halloween costume, if you’re dressing up at all? Are any of you going to be Creepypasta characters? Feel free to link us to photos of your planned costumes, as long as they’re work-safe, of course!
  • How do you usually spend your Halloween? Do you stay at home, giving out candy? Do you throw a party? Do you celebrate by going ghost-hunting or doing some urban exploration into particularly spooky areas? Let us know the details, and share any memorable stories you may have!
  • What’s your favorite thing about Halloween season, anyhow? Do you like the candy, the weather, the decorations, the constant horror movies on TV, hayrides and haunted houses, or what?
  • Do you go all out decorating your house/workspace/creepy hut in the woods with Halloween decorations? Share safe-for-work photos of your efforts if you’d like!
  • Are there any scary urban legends or local stories specifically about Halloween that you know?

Those are just some ideas, of course. You may discuss whatever pops into your head, as long as it’s topical and doesn’t break any site rules (check the FAQ if you want more clarification, but in summary: keep things safe for work, don’t reveal/attempt to obtain overly personal information about yourself or anyone else, and generally be excellent to each other).

Have fun and Happy Halloween!

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  1. I am a very creepy person, and Halloween is a very creepy holiday. Well, as long as you aren’t with 1-8 year olds who go trick or treating as princesses and corney witches. I love Halloween beacause for one day a year. I get to show my true colors and be myself. I mean, sure I’m wearing a costume still, but I get to act like myself and no one will judge me like they do now.

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  2. I’m dressing up as a plague doctor from the Middle Ages. I’ll probably walk around a neighbourhood picking up candy from a few houses while scaring/creeping out people all the way.

    I’ve never exactly had a routine for Halloween, but it usually involves a horror movie, carving a pumpkin, and going Trick or Treat for a few hours.

    My favourite part of Halloween is the atmosphere of it. It’s so excited being someone else, even if it’s just for a night. It’s always fun looking at other people’s costumes and guessing who they really are.

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    1. For added realism, you should drag around a wooden cart, carved out of the heaviest wood you can find.
      You can use it to carry around your candy, and maybe cover it with old raggedy clothes to make it look like you’re hauling corpses. At the end of the night, you could go out into woods and set fire to the cart and clothes whilst you enjoy your treats.

      Authenticity!

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  3. I’ve always loved Halloween. At 31, most would probably say I’m too old for it now, but as a mother of 4 I have the perfect excuse to keep it very much a part of my life. My youngest 2 are too young to know anything about Halloween but the eldest 2 love it. My 10 year old son wants to dress up as Pyramid Head from Silent Hill, so I’m thinking of another Silent Hill costume for my 11 year old daughter. We have a Halloween routine here. I spend the day baking Halloween themed cookies and cakes, put a few decorations outside so that people know its fine to knock, then smother my bedroom in scene setters, a giant spider that fills my ceiling and a few little ones with a huge amount of spider webs. I have gravestone decorations and pumpkins on the sides. when we get back from trick-or-treating and the kids have finished answering the door, we go into my room, get tucked up in bed with the lights off so we just have the glow of the pumpkins and watch horror movies while they pig out on the cakes, cookies and sweets they collected. Love it :)

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    1. No, no no. That is too much love and affection for Halloween! If the kids don’t have their pants soiled and psychological trauma by midnight, you’re doing it wrong.

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  5. You know what would be great? A creepypasta television series. That would be my Halloween tradition! Of course though, those stupid TV producers probably won’t know what makes a creepypasta good and make a totally stupid show.

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    1. Well, if we could get a could part of the community organized, maybe we could make the series ourselves, and post them on youtube or something. You can definitely count on my support.

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  6. I’m going to be Jane the Killer, and my boyfriend is going to be Jeff. I know you probably think, “Wow, you must be a noob.”. Incorrect. I know that Jane is out to kill Jeff, I just think being, I guess you could say, “matching” is cool and I’ve always wanted to do a creepypasta cosplay. To be honest, I don’t even like Jane that much, I just gave the idea to my boyfriend and he fell in love with the idea, so yeah. Jane and Jeff.

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  7. I’m still not sure what I’m gonna dress up as bc I’m the one who takes the kids trick or treating and now with my littlest I have to take into consideration that I have no clue how he’ll react if he sees his mom covered in bloody clothes and face smeared in blood and fake peeled burned off skin. Or as a vampire. I don’t dress up cute. Never have never will. My eldest wants to be slenderman in those new morph suits they’re selling at stores and my lil girl is not sure to stay cute or go scary this year. My 23mos. is going to be Freddy Kruger with lil duct tape knives. My husband wanted and still wants to use plastic but I’m more prone to the safer side. He’s gonna dress up like Mexican death and give out candies and we’re decking out the house in killer Halloween decor and I’m hoping that this year we’ll be able to get the damn animatronic Freddy Kruger or Michael Myers doll that is motion activated. So far these are my plans.

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    1. You don’t need to be covered in blood to look scary, love. From experience, all you need to do is smile broadly, and carry around a big knife.

      They’ll get the message.

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  8. I’m totally going out as an alien. Like, headband with antennae, shiny silver boots, green and purple. My costume is simply FAAABULOUS.

    I’ll be taking my kids Trick or Treating (my daughters first time), then hopefully heading to the bar when that’s done, to drink till midnight (then it’s my birthday, yay)!

    Best thing about Halloween? Getting to be anyone/anything you want for a night. I don’t decorate my house (‘cept few Jack’o’lanterns) because I’m too far out of town to get kids Trick or Treating here.

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  9. Well, the town were I live is said to be built more or less by the devil (you know dozen of stories how the devil built the dome and was tricked so he didn’t get his payment; how a hill here was created because the devil threw bags of sand there and such… we even have the thumb of the devil in the dome’s door!)

    As we have some out of towners at our party this year, we decided to go as the devil (my husband) and death (me) and just… well go out, and make a devilish sightseeing, along with gambling for souls and such things.

    My hubby just looks adorable with his victorian attire and the black wings while I opted to use a mask, I really have no inclination to be asked what the hell I was doing that night ^^ it is not as if Halloween is very accepted here

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  10. I’m a zombie in one of our haunted houses, so naturally its what I’m going to be to take my 4 yr old trick or treating. She wants to be a clown, been asking for it for months.

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  13. well, I’ll probably go for something really scary, like a sexy nurse.

    Don’t think that’s scary?

    Well, you’ve probably never seen a fat bearded guy in a sexy nurse outfit.

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  14. For halloween this year, I’m going to do the same as every year. I’m going to completely ignore it. When children come to my door and say “trick or treat” I’m going to ask for trick. The chances are none of them have actually prepared a trick. If they have then well, I’ll shoot them in the shins.

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  16. For my custom I am designing and making a more modern headless houresmen. I’m making my own weapons and everything.

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  17. Well, for Halloween I’m going to a kick ass party and getting my tongue clipped. Also, the pumpkins are back! WHoooo!

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  18. I basically plan on hanging out with friends and maybe sharing creepypastas over a campfire. Ill also go trick or treating of fours. (I don’t care that I’m 16).

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  20. I’m going to dress up as a werewolf. Its kind of odd as me being a girl to others, but I love werewolves. I’m so pumped up for trick or treating, it’s one of my favourite parts of Halloween. Besides the fact everybody gets to be unique, Halloween s the best day ever.

    Have a Spooooky Halloween Everyone!

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    1. Nice choice,I have always loved to be a werewolf but sadly cannot come up with a perfect suit of a werewolf to wear.

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  21. This year for halloween, (it’s going to become a tradition i can tell that u right now xD) I’m going in a costume that gives me the excuse to hide around my neighbor hood scaring people. Slenderman. xD it’s gonna be awesome! I’m even going to advertise my “shop”! (me and my friends run a stand and it’s gonna be open on halloween)

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  22. Same thing every Halloween. Some kinda clown. And same activity. Detroit, the Fillmore, Hallowicked. Whoop Whoop

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  23. I’ll be doing what most narrators do, one video for everyday counting down to Halloween http://www.youtube.com/user/CreepyZalgo (*cough*shameless plug*cough*). Probably just gonna stay at home and watch movies and read creepypasta. I’d like to go out but doubt I’ll have the time. I wanna dress up as a creepypasta character, maybe the skintaker I unno.

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  24. I’m wearing one of those suits that makes it look like you’re riding an ostrich.

    And I’m WAAAAY too old for Halloween, but I do it just for the lols.

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  25. Being that there’s little to no trick r treaters in my area, I usually just stay home and watch horror movies. Specifically Trick r Treat, the one with the little pumkin head guy, and then whatever other movies I feel like watching. Sadly there’s not many local legends that I know of. If anyone knows some creepy ones for Baltimore, Maryland, let me know!

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    4. You live in Baltimore? Me too! Maybe we’ll bump into each other that night, on my way to work.

      Maybe. Maybe I won’t slice your throat if i see you.
      Maybe…
      Stay safe.

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  27. I’m gonna dress a jeff the killer for a costume contest. I’m basing it off of a youtube “how to” video. It’s kinda complex, and takes a lot of time and patience, but it’ll be worth it. The result is awesome.

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    1. That seems cool; do you have a link to this YouTube video by chance? I would love to watch it and try be him next year.

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  28. Well, I turned 18 shortly before summer started, so some might say I’m not the right age for Halloween. Too old for dressing up to be cute, yet not old enough for it to be accepted as ironic, if that makes any sense. At any rate, Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Why? Well, who wouldn’t love free candy and the chance to dress up however the hell you want, (hopefully) without judgment?
    That being said, I plan on dressing up as Sid Vicious. I’ll probably have to order a particular shirt I have in mind (no, not the swastika one), but besides that my main concern is hair. I’m a girl, and my hair is shoulder-length. I may or may not get a haircut between now and Halloween, but I’d prefer not to have to wear a wig. I’d rather be able to style my hair on my own, but it’s too long and blonde the way it is now. Those are my main concerns. I’m also losing a little weight. I’m average now but Vicious was skinny so I figure if I’m gonna go for it, go full throttle. I’m not doing this just for Halloween — I’m trying to be healthier in general — but it does help.
    Anyway, I’m a little self conscious about the idea but I think the Internet is as anonymous as I could hope to get. Besides, if I get skinny enough to pass as Vicious (ignoring some obvious female assets), I’ll be proud enough of my figure not to care. So fuck it. :p

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      1. He was a punk rock pioneer in the late 70’s. He died of a heroin overdose at quite a young age. He was taught to play by Lemmy Kilminster from Motorhead.

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        1. i’ve always heard he couldn’t actually play at all, and they’d unplug his bass during shows. he was really only in the band because he was a friend of the singer and he had the punk attitude… original bassist bailed last minute or something like that. too bad they only had the one album. vicious was pretty iconic, be weird to see a girl dressed as him though lol no offense

        2. I think he could play, but not very well. Then again it’s difficult to do anything when you’re on heroin.

  30. I’m going to be dressed up like Jeff the killer, but unfortunately I don’t have the blood-stained white hoodie yet.

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