my favorite halloween memory

[KimDW]

Just wondering if you guys have favorite memories from when you were little and trick or treating.

To set the scene: My house was one of 4 houses that shared a private lane off the regular road and we were surrounded by woods. One house was at the bottom of the lane (it when downhill from my house) and if they didn't have any lights on it was pitch black. So on Halloween when the kids went down the lane to the house it was dark (other than their porch light). Then all of a sudden you'd hear this screaming sound from somewhere in the woods and this HUGE bat would come flying from the top of their house and swoop down. The first year they lived there was great. This thing was about 10 feet wide and had red glowing eyes. I never did know how he hooked it up. And even though I knew it was there it still scared the crap out of me. And sometimes he'd wait to release it making you think that he wasn't going to do it that year. Because once you got to a certain point down the lane is when he'd let it go. I remember walking down the lane holding on with a death grip to my mother waiting for that thing. Every 30 mins you could hear kids screaming and come running up the lane. Needless to say they had GREAT candy and everyone wanted to go see the "HUGE BAT" at the Folwell's house. Anyway that was long but that's my favorite memory.

Kim

 

[megadoo]

That's cute Kim.
My all time favorite memory, which I think of often, is the Pumpkin Man. We live in the boonies, my parents house is literally in the woods. Every Halloween my grandfather would tie one of those .99cent orange pumpkins with a light in it to a 2x4. He would come down to my parents house and stick that thing in the windows and scare the LIVING CRAP out of me anmy sisters and my cousins! It was awesome! A wonderful memory of my gramps. Now I live in his house and it just makes those memories sweeter.



Maeghan AKA megadoo



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[kathryn]

I remember there were 2-3 sisters who lived together (they were in their 70's) and they would always prepare an elaborate Halloween table of food for kids. We'd go trick-or-treating, and be let in the house, to a table covered in candy apples, popcorn balls and other treats! It was wonderful (and noone worried about getting an apple with a razor blade in it, or candy laced with drugs!).

 

[miller2917]

Raiding my friend's sisters bag of candy after we'd eaten all of ours!I never could understand why she kept her candy for so long. We'd be raiding that bag into December.

 

[beckymd]

My family was pretty conservative Baptist, so trick-or-treating was "of the devil" ha. Anyway, we had fall festivals at church instead and we got dressed up as bible characters, etc. I remember one time my parents dressed me as the bible! a box...painted w/ gold pages on the side that said Holy Bible on the front.

Maybe not such a great memory, but definitely funny. My kids will definitely be trick-or-treaters!

-Becky

 

[janiejoey]

Kim,

I took my daughter trick or treating (age 9) we were going door to door. This one place had a groweling horrific big mean looking dog at the doorway. So we turned aroung to get away from it. We immediately looked around and the dog was gone. I mean, it was no where to be seen. There was plenty of dusk light to see everything around you, but he had vanished. It was perfect for a halloween night. Can't imagine where he'd gone, we still talk about it today.

Janie

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

 

[saia11]

What a fun thread! Especially in light of the sometimes "scarier" holidays looming around the corner
One very precious Halloween we had a very significant snow storm (upstate NY), we're talking like at least a foot and more falling. We lived in the country and usually had to be driven to clusters of houses to trick or treat. With all the snow it didn't seem like we'd get to go, but at the last minute my neighbor's mother volunteered to drive us. So we put together the fastest outfits we could find (I think we were all bank robbers, think black clothes and ski masks, lol!) and headed out the door. Well the snow made getting to the houses interesting b/c almost no one had shoveled and you couldn't see what was a ditch full of snow and what was the driveway. Anyway, the huge pay off was that we were pretty much the only ones trick or treating that night and everyone wanted to get rid of their candy, so we ended up with more candy than would be good for a little league concession stand:9 :7 It was like some magical candy dream;-)
Mattea

 

[DeanaMax]

I recall one year I had mostly teenagers, some not dressed ringing my doorbell at 10 o'clock!

 

[NinjaMom]

Halloween 1991 in Minnesota....we had a major snow storm and I pulled my son around the neighborhood in his batman sled. He was dressed as a polar bear which was so appropriate for that night! Since hardly anyone else was out, we made a killing on the candy}(

JJ