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Reader Stories: Your Best or Scariest Halloween Memory

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Halloween is always a special time of year for most people. Our childhood memories of it are second only to Christmas and perhaps a birthday. What is your favorite, best, or scariest Halloween memory?

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The thing that melted away.

I was sitting on our bed drinking a soda a week ago my feonsa was playing video games . The lights were on it was aroun 10 11 at night I turned my head and saw a light brown thing my first thought wa…More

Halloween Ghost

I just got into bed and was trying to go to sleep. I put my arms up and started to relax, when I herd a loud thumping noise in the attic. "Its probroley just my mind" I said.So i put my arms back up …More

Talking dummy

My brother and I would make a dummy by stuffing an old shirt and pants with newspapers, and sewing them together. Then we'd sit it in a chair on the front porch with a pumpkin head. But my brother, c…More

We dress up to give out candy

This isn't scary at all - only a funny practical joke played on my by my husband, his best friend, and my kids. I am terrified of Jason from Friday the 13th. In 2006, we took our kids out trick-or-tr…More

Haunted House

My sister and my nephew wanted to take my daughter and I to a Haunted House. It sounded like a good idea to me, since it was the night before Halloween. My nephew was around 10 years old at the time,…More

Halloween dummy

Some friends and I made a dummy one Halloween, put a realistic looking mask on it and put in on a sidewalk half hidden in some weeds, then stuck a knife in the chest and put catsup all over it and hi…More

Dad would take his homemade ghost...

We lived out in a semi-rural area, so fall nights were dark and neighborhood kids had to go down long driveways, under trees, no street lights, to get to the candy. Our concrete L-shaped driveway/par…More

Maniacal Jack-o-Lantern

In high school I was living in a two story Cape House with my mom and step-dad. It was sometime in October and we had a few Halloween decorations around the house. One decoration was on a bay window …More

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