Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

There's one thing here that we've all over looked inour discussion. Pulling pranks, like spraying shaving cream, and the like really has no basis in real Halloween tradition that I can think of. Yes, I was guilty of such things when I was a kid, but it has no basises in tradition just the same. We allways thought it was the "trick" half of trick or treat, but I just don't see it.

I had the good fortune of being part of something that IS part of true Halloween tradition that many people seemed to have forgotten about. That's pulling a prank that SCARES THE BEJEEBERS out of people. It could be as simple as sneaking up behind someone and yelling "boo,." Or it can be something as elaborate as riggint a plastic dismembered hand to falll from the top of a door or something. My younger sister and I use to play these types of pranks on each other all the time during the Halloween season. Our friends also got in on the act.

One time, it was about mid October. I was in the cub scouts at the time. I won a skelital hand as a counselation prize in the costume contest. It was made in such a way that you could bend the fingers so it could grip in to things. I curled the fingers in a grip, and I hid unter my sisters bed. My sister often had to get a drink of water about an hour after going to bed. We shared the same room at the time. One time I sneaked under her bed with this hand, and waited for her to get up to get her drink. As soon as I saw her foot touch the floor, I reached out with this hand and grabbed her by the ankle. She let out a warhoop such as I never heard before.

I was in DEEP doggy doo that night. But she never topped me to this very day.

Mike

One time, it was about mid October. I was in the cub scouts at the time. I won a skelital hand as a counselation prize in the costume contest. It was made in such a way that you could bend the fingers so it could grip in to things. I curled the fingers in a grip, and I hid unter my sisters bed. My sister often had to get a drink of water about an hour after going to bed. We shared the same room at the time. One time I sneaked under her bed with this hand, and waited for her to get up to get her drink. As soon as I saw her foot touch the floor, I reached out with this hand and grabbed her by the ankle. She let out a warhoop such as I never heard before.

I was in DEEP doggy doo that night. But she never topped me to this very day.

Mike[/quote]


LMAO That is too funny! I don't agree with TP'ing either, or shaving cream. It has to be innocent with no harm done to anyone. I wish I could take back alot of bad things I did when I was a teenager. When you are young, you don't realize the effects it has on people when you do mean things, now that I'm older, I know better and would never intentionally hurt someone just for laughs (unless they hurt me first, then it's on, lol)

A good old fashioned Halloween Scare. That's real Haloween tradition. I've also had the living day lights scared out of me in October, too. I also had older siblings. One year I was on a wearwolf kick. My older brother who was a freshman in high school at the time decided to scare the hell out of me by drressing up as a wear wolf, so he got together with some of the theatre people at his school and they made him up as the wolf man. I was sitting at the kitchen table doing my math homework when I heard growling. I thought it was the family dog so I ignored it at first, then I figured I better see what's going on because there might be anther dog outside. When I got down from the table and walked into the back porch my older brother, fangs barred, jumped right into my path, and I just about jumped clear out of my skin. He and I both started laughing about it after we composed ourselvs, but that was the best wearwolf costume I ever saw.

That incident occured before I pranked my younger sister.

Mike

That was really funny!

Did your brother wear werewolf costume that look like real?? Just curious.

That is a great prank.

When I was about 9 or 10 we got a zip line and I connected it from our 2nd story roof down to a tree near our driveway so it was about 50 feet long. Then I got dressed up as a ghost and when kids would come up the driveway, I'd go down the zip line right at them. Scared a bunch of people with that.

I tried to make the zip line at a shallow angle so that I wouldn't go too fast, but at a slower speed to make the ghost look like he was just kind of floating along.

Had to OK it with my parents before I did that though!

This year I would LOVE to dress up as a freaky, scary clown and sit on the porch like a prop, then jump up really quick when people come up to get candy. hahahahaha the look on their faces would be priceless!

Haunt Master, it was not really a costume at all. It was done mainly with face mak-up, as well as his hands and feet. My brother also had this convincing growl that really sounded like a wolf growling. It was exactly like the wearwolf from "Dark Shadows." The fact that he was wearing the same cloths he usualy wears made it all the more convincing and scary.

To the guy who wan'ts to drress like a scary clown. Dress up like "It." That movie scared the beejeebers out of me. "........Beep! Beep! Richie........"

Mike

Mike

Just his werewolf makeups?? It was really funny! Did he look like a real werewolf or not?

Yeah, I've seen IT movie before! That clown made me scary before, but not now anymore! Hee hee...


BTW, is anyone planning to do TP scene in October???

He sure did look like a wearwolf. You could not see any sign of it being a make-up job at all. the hair was real, the fange were very realistic looking, and the hands and feet make up was alwo very reel, and you could not see any sign that it was a make up job. The fact that he was in his streat cloths, like he wears every day made it more realistic. If he had dressed up in a suit like Lon Chainy Jr. in "The Wolf Man," it would have looked more fake.

Mike.

Hmmm..... Very intersting!

I guess your brother was very good doing his facial makeups work!

His buddies in the Drama club at his school helped him out.

Mike

Oh, totally mean!! Luckily no one has done that to my house, because my dad would FREAK OUT!!

Some guys that i went to high school with did it a long time ago, and they thought it was funny, but I think it's mean to do that.....

If you are the person who has to clean it up, it certainly is something to freak about. A friend had it done to their house and it took a very long time to get it cleaned up.

GucciGirl wrote:Oh, totally mean!! Luckily no one has done that to my house, because my dad would FREAK OUT!!

Some guys that i went to high school with did it a long time ago, and they thought it was funny, but I think it's mean to do that.....

It can also cause money damage. As one poster pointed out, when you spray shaving cream on a car, it can damage the paint job. Also, when I was a kid, a neigobor of our's house was egged. When she came out her front door to go to work, she slipped in a puddle of egg, fell down her front porch stairs and broke her leg.

Mike