Halloween Traditions
3Do you have any personal Halloween traditions that you take part in? Maybe you always work at the local haunted house or spook walk? Perhaps you go a little extra on the yard decorations to be the best house? Maybe you go to the next town over because they have better candy?
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We turn off all our lights, close the curtains, and pretend we’re not at home.
We eat the candy we bought.
Halloween Haunt at the local theme park. Usually by myself because no one will go with me.
/image King’s Dominion Halloween Haunt
YES! That’s the Overlord- he opens Haunt every night at 7 pm with all the creepy characters in the main square!
@sammydog01 King’s Dominion in VA?
@Targaryen Yep. I have an annual pass. Totally worth it.
@sammydog01 Never got to go unfortunately. I did go to Busch Gardens though.
@sammydog01 Best theme park Halloween ever was when I visited Universal Studios CA a few years ago. Runner up would be the previous night at Magic Mountain. Both were awesome fun, but as expected, Universal had better actors and props. Though the haunted house experience at Magic Mountain still gives me chills.
@Targaryen Busch Gardens is cleaner, prettier, better landscaped, has better food and shows and a zoo. Kings Dominion has arguably better roller coasters and a water park but otherwise is Busch Garden’s redneck cousin. But an annual pass is $100 and includes free parking plus it’s closer to my house.
So you didn’t miss much. But Halloween Haunt is really, really fun. And really, really scary.
@ruouttaurmind Those both sound fun!
@sammydog01 Magic Mountain actually had five different haunted houses. Each was rated in the event guide for age group appropriateness. The fifth and final (and the one that still gives me the creeps) was rated as “recommended for young, healthy, well adjusted individuals only”. Well adjusted? No clue WTF that was getting at. LOL!
There are still two chill effects I cannot understand. Everything else I can make pretty good guesses how the gag was accomplished. But there are two things that would have me believing in the supernatural if I didn’t know better.
@ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 I have an honorary brewmaster certificate from Busch Gardens.
@ruouttaurmind @Targaryen Did you go back when the brewery was open? Good times.
When I was a little girl I would take out of the school library and read Heigh-Ho For Halloween every year. I have a copy, not the school copy but a withdrawn local library copy, but I don’t think I’ve read it in 35 years. Weirdly, it is one of the very few paper things which survived the 7 feet of water in our basement in 2017 (it was on a very high shelf and apparently the water didn’t wick up).
Some very weird things survived, in that they should not have and were things I specifically thought of during the week of 7 feet of water and the following week of stuff just sitting down there. “Oh no, my copy of Heigh-Ho For Halloween! Oh no, my leather scraps! Oh no, my many blocks of paraffin wax! Oh no, the plastic KFC meal my sister bought me in the late '80’s! Oh no, the Shrinky Dink plastic!” These things survived. Of course, I also thought of a bunch of stuff which is now landfill somewhere.
Anyway, it’s good that Heigh-Ho For Halloween survived, because it appears to be very expensive online. I should go find it.
http://vintagehalloweencollector.blogspot.com/2011/10/heigh-ho-for-halloween-games.html
@mossygreen interesting read!