When kids are young, Halloween is a frightening and exciting experience. However, as they grow older, kids look back on these memories and realize how funny and ridiculous they were at a younger age. Many students at the Vashon Island High School can relate to this experience as they recall Halloween memories from their childhood.
“There was a small haunted house — I think it was a part of a store that was decorated and you just walked through — that my brothers forced me to go in with them, and they ended up running ahead and leaving me alone,” said senior Annie Muller. “So I ran the whole way through it by myself covering my ears so I wouldn’t hear the scary music playing in the background. Sadly I didn’t get any candy.”
Other scary Halloween experiences shared by VHS students involved not only decorations and haunted houses but also costumes.
“I was three years old, and I was dressed as pikachu for Halloween,” said junior Sam Knight. “I went out and this really scary witch was handing out candy out of a fake pumpkin in front of one of the shops in town.
“Then, when I walked up to her to take a piece of candy, she looked at me, and to a three-year-old that face couldn’t have been more horrifying. I grabbed the first piece of candy I could get and ran away. I ran away from her with fear of witches [lasting] until I was four years old, and piece of double bubble.”
Some students also remembered stories about the costumes they wore to scare other people.
“I was quite young and probably just turned three,” said senior Eva Anderson “And that makes my little brother Fin about one [year old]. Anyways we dressed up for Halloween and I was dressed as Eva Knievel ( a play off of Evil Knievel ) and my brother was dressed up in a gorilla suit. He didn’t ever see what he was wearing apperantly because while we were ot trick or treating he saw a man dressed in the same suit and he got really scared and started crying. The irony about the whole thing was that he was dressed as the same thing and my mom ended up laughing her butt off.”
While a lot of students shared their most frightening and silly stories, others talked of tricks, rather than treats, to get candy.
“When I was little I dressed up like pepper, and Aziza dressed up like salt,” said senior Louisa Moody. “We went around performing a skit for everyone.”
Overall, Halloween is a holiday that provides many good stories and memories. Even as students have gotten older, their stories on trick-or-treating are always fun to remember.