Time to dust off a classic topic. Top Halloween memory ever!

[Nostalgiascape]

What is your favorite Halloween memory of all time? What age you were doesn't matter. Could be decades ago, could be last year.

[MacPhantom]

Wow.... let me think about that for a bit. There are so many! I'm gonna sleep on it, and come back and answer tomorrow.

[Nostalgiascape]

looking forward to it.

[Spookymufu]

I dont really have any memories of Halloween when I was a kid, pretty much just generic memories of going around the neighborhood with a pillow case, a few friends, and trying to not get our candy taken by the bigger kids

[Murfreesboro]

I don't know if this is my favorite ever, but one of my most memorable ones was three or four years ago, in the historic district of Murfreesboro. Many of the big houses there decorate OTT for Halloween, and I, like many other parents, drive my kids into that area for TOT.

My kids were waiting in line at one house for the candy, and I stood back, surveying the scene. Standing among the "grave stones" in the make-believe graveyard I saw two Civil War re-enactors, dressed in Confederate grey, quietly talking to each other, ignoring the crowd scene behind them. This is a part of town that predates the Civil War, and at least one house was used as a hospital during the Battle of Stones River. It was very eerie, seeing those two like that. They could have been actual ghosts!

[MacPhantom]

One of my best memories was the year I went as a ninja. I had a set of these nunchucks that had foam pads on them, and I loved swinging them around!

I also remember the year I was thirteen. I got a sewing machine for my birthday, and stitched myself a Punisher costume (okay... I sewed a felt skull onto a black turtleneck shirt, and made some grayish blue belt pouches). I also had this really cool toy gun that looked like a Heckler & Koch MP5 that I painted black (probably a dumb move to walk around the neighborhood with that, but....).

[Miss Monster]

Last year was the worst Halloween I've ever had, due to circumstances far beyond my control. But the week leading up to it was amazing. There is a farm is my city that runs a haunted cornmaze with haunted village, houses and graveyard in the center, a ghost train that runs the perimeter of the pumpkin patch and carnEVIL, a twisted fun house attraction. I usually go out there once a week in October, and I bring groups of people with me. I've been so many times I'm a kind of unofficial tour guide. Last year the group I took out had never been before, we went late so we were the last people to go through everything. We got to spend forever in the haunted house, and the conductor stopped the train in the patch and let us get out and take pictures, then gave everybody spooky souvenirs. Then when it closed they told us to take as many pumpkins are we could fit in the car because we were the most entertaining guests of the season! It was magic.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I don't know if I have a favorite. The truth is I have so many very fond memories of Halloween, that I wouldn't know where to begin, bu a couple of things come to mind.

First of all, when I was a kid, there was a farm stand right on the corner of 111th and Central Park. Every October 1st, it ws time to put the pumpkins out for diaplay to sell for Halloween. For years, even after we moved out of that neighborhood, that is where we bought all of our Halloween pumpkins. I will never forget how excited I got when I would see those pumpkins out there. The attached photo is a snap shot that I took the very last day I lived in Mt. Greenwood. We bought our pumpkins there for about 5 years after we moved. The place burned down, and that's when we had to look for a new Venu for our pumpkins.

The attached photo really doesn't do it justice, as they were just stating to get the display ready, so it was close to the beginning of the month, but the memory of those pumpkins linger to this day. That day was my last hand-out at Mt. Greenwood. Of course, I still visit there, and I bought all of my pumpkins there for several years after we moved to Armpit New Lenox, but that farm stand burned down about 5 or 6 years later, so we had to buy some place else.

My other fond childhood memory, of cours, is of those fantastic popcorn balls one of my neighbors use to make. Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but I can still taste them to this day.

MIke

[Spookymufu]

Last year was the worst Halloween I've ever had, due to circumstances far beyond my control.

do tell

[Miss Monster]

Last year was the worst Halloween I've ever had, due to circumstances far beyond my control.

do tell

It's a terrible story lol but ok. Like I said the week leading up to Halloween was perfect, went to all the attractions, even made time to to do a pumpkin patch photoshoot and have dinner in a graveyard. But on Halloween everything went wrong, I was waiting for my jerk friend to pick me up and because she's never on time for anything, we missed the zombie walk. After that we went to get our tickets for the rocky horror picture show, nobody had any cash on them so I paid for everyones tickets. (not much about eighty bucks) then we went on a wild goosechase to this 'super awesome halloween party' which turned out to be 4 people sitting in the dark watching scream 3... so back to my place to get ready for rhps, again friends take so long when we get down there the movie is letting out, I thought it was the earlier of 2 shows but was wrong. They switched the time so we just missed it. A guy in a Frankie costume laughed at me.. At this point everyone is mad, too many people are drunk so we go to the only logical place left, a friends party that we had previously decided not to go to because the people he invites are lame. We get there, no one home. Note says 'gone to michelles moms house' So... my fantastic halloween ended at my friends parents house.. the other party was there, all 5 of them. including a girl a friend of mine has detested since highschool... girl spills drink on me, friend dumps drink on her, they scrap, parents shut down party.. 2 hours later got a cab home, covered in gin, makeup ruined.. best friend sobbing. the end
oh, and the kicker is my friends that were supposed to come to the movie were awall the entire night, and never paid me back for their useless tickets. heartbreakingly sad, no?

[Spookymufu]

huh......yeah that sounds kind of crappy, but at least you wernt sitting home alone

[Miss Monster]

of course not, by the next day I was laughing about it.. it sucked but in a way it's kind of awesome. No matter what happens this year that will be a hard worst halloween to beat lol

[Nostalgiascape]

I have to admitt that my precious Halloweens of yore have been beat out by Halloween 2009 at Mill avenue in Tempe where I was a bloody cannibal carrying around a head and an arm. Hundreds of pictures taken of me. Women screaming, even men saying I freak them out. I felt like a creature feature at a Halloween theme park.

[Ciuin]

One of my favorite memories of Halloween would be the first time I went trick-or-treating at 13. My friend and I crept out at 11:30 not knowing that most people had quit hours before (she had never been t-o-ting either). Everyone was very rude and we didn't get any candy so it degenerated into a game of ding dong ditch. Then we wandered off into the woods trying to take a shortcut when we met this boy our age eating candy out of 4 or 5 bags. He tried to scare us with a fake gun but we ended up sharing the candy with him.


Last year at Salem was the best in recent years.

[Nostalgiascape]

That is a unique experience.