Ok people here it is. Darren Perks and HSS http://www.horrorsanctum.com are giving away a 99’ Shatner, finished as shown and here’s all you have to do to win it.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION AND ATTACH A PIC IF YOU HAVE ONE.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN CHILDHOOD MEMORY?
Your costume, party, whatever you want to write about.
The winner will be chosen from the submissions in this thread on November 15th.
For me it was the drafty, damp air. The orange around me that was the equivalent of the pumpkins and burning piles of leaves and tree limbs around me. The butterflies in my stomach that told me; Fun and adventure was coming. An experience that everyone could participate in. Old and young. All races and creeds. Even then I knew it was something that brought everyone together. Even the aroma coming off the mask and outfit had a certain vibe. Like that of sweat, candy, and the smokiness of the night. It is a time of gathering, seeing and feeling. It is Halloween.
for me it was in 2004 when i got my first myers, my dp03 as a gift, i even got the cheap coveralls, hahaha, well anyways, it was the best year, my friends all thought my costume was amazing, LOL, i loved it anyways, if i had the pic of me in it id show ya, but its an actual pic, not on my computer, ccya, Z
My favorite childhood memory from Halloween was when I got my first Michael Myers mask! i was so excited! My mom bought me H2 on tape when I got the mask. When I got home I was wearing the mask the whole time I was watching the movie 
Then when Halloween came around I was walking around the town with my dad and my brother begging for candy. My brother was a ninja that Halloween. Every house I walked up to (almost every house) when the people came to the door they called me Jason!! I hated it when people got mixed up with Michael and Jason!! I still do to this day. I got a lot of candy that night and when we were about done, we saw a house that a had a haunted walkthrough setup. I walked up to the enterence of the walkthrough with my dad and my brother and I was scared out of my mind. It seems kind of wierd a person in a Michael Myers costume scared of a walkthrough When I was walking through the enterence I saw two “dummies” sitting in charis on either side of the walkthrough. I was getting ready to walk past them and they both jumped up and tried to grab me. That made me jump out of my boots!! Once we got past the “dummies” we got to a fence and Jason jumped up from behind the fence with a chainsaw and my brother’s eyes lit up! It didn’t scare me much because I knew he wasn’t really Jason and he wasn’t going to jump over the fence with a chainsaw in his hand I can’t remember what happened after Jason. All that I remember is getting to the end of the walkthrough. I thought to myself, “Ahhh. It’s all over.” Then all of a sudden, "BOO 
"…Honestly…it made me jump. It scared me so bad because it was so sudden after all of the horror was over. That is my favorite childhood Halloween memory. I was about 9 years old.
I don’t have a pic though. I wish I did. 
I remember when I recieved my first costume which was Spiderman back in the early 70s.
I remember wanting one sooo bad and my parents were cool enough to get me one. Thanks mom & dad 
We didn’t know how to do the trick o treat thang so these kids in the neighborhood were kind enough to take me with them.
I’ll never forget that first taste of candy corn 
Good Times!
My fondest memory and also something that helped kick start my love of TCM movies was when I was 7 I watched the original TCM with my half brother after getting all hyped up on the Candy Corn . I wasnt too bothered by it but he kept saying leatherface was in my closest and was going to get me when I went to sleep . Two hours later just before going to bed my half brother had his buddy go up in my closest and hide with a cheap old woman(just a old woman not made to look like the one from the original TCM) mask and one of my fathers chainsaws . He left me in there long enough to get counfy and everything and then had his friend start the chainsaw and come out of the cloest while he reached in and flicked on the light in my room . It was the best trick I ever had played on me out of all the Trick or Treating that comes with halloween and I will remember it till the day I die . Sorry no pics tho didnt think to whip out a camera at that age nor do I probley know how to work one ha ha plus my brother just wanted to scare me didnt care too much for taking any pics .
Thanks for the contest Sam and wish everyone the best of luck
Mike
Well, My favorite childhood Halloween memory would have to be, all of them! Every year I looked forward to that one night when I could be somebody else or anything else for that matter. I am still that way, to be honest. We would all pile up in the back of my uncles pickup truck and go Trick or Treating. Also Halloween always meant another great thing, my aunt famous peanut butter fudge.
But on Halloween Night, everyone dressed up in their costumes and just had fun around here where I grew up and it is still that way, Just the feeling of Fall and the cool crisp Halloween air always brings a big smile to my face.
Guys, if you plan on going out this year, please be safe and have a great one this year!
-Charles
mine would have to be when i was 8 and got my first myers mask. it was one of those old blue lips molded hair one but it was like it was the screen used mask to me.that was the same year i one my first costume contest. i had a blast that year but then the next year i couldn’t find the mask and found out my parents sold it at a yard sale. but now since i have all these other indie mask i get that same feeling every time i get a new mask.
well, My grandmother barb, before she passed away, was always obsessed with everything paranormal. Bigfoot, ufo’s, ghosts, you name it. Every week we would go far out of town to find the absolute scariest road, or building, or anything that we wanted to explore. We would go in large groups. usually it would be me, my mom, dad, brother and gramma in one car, and my aunt, uncle, and cousin in the other. We would take cameras and my gramma always brought coffee and joked that if she met bigfoot she would have coffee with him lol. I will, never forget one time we found this old house that was abandoned, and from a distance it looked beautiful. Strangest part was when we got close, it was in ruins. We continued our journey on one Halloween night, and we went to a graveyard near the old house we found. It was a very cold and calm night, but then the wind picked up. My aunt sue took her camcorder, like she always did, and began to film the cemetery. On camera, she saw what looked like a woman, all in white and glowing a little, picking flowers. But when she looked away from the camera, she was gone. We also explored a local legend of our own. Near us is a mountain, west mountain. The legend says that long ago a woman was falsy accused of being a witch, and her baby was taken from her, just before she was burned alive in her home on the mountanside. Her name was abigail west. For the longest time people regarded it as a simple ghost story with no truth behind it. Well, my gramma as she always did, found the perfect graveyard to explore in, and she had what she called a “gamma” feelin. She walked far in the back of the cemetery, at like 1 am mind you, and sure enough found a single stone, half buried far in the back all alone. On the stone was a carved willow tree, and the name “A. West”. weather or not it was abigails who knows, be she believed it, and i do. Ever sence then we have gone back, and to many other places from our past. Seen many things and needless to say I have stories to tell. My grandma passed away a few days before her birthday in june of 05 i believe, and I miss her so much it hurts. I will always remember the fun times, and all the haunts we shared. I thank her for who i am today, and live by her words. “Believe, in e verything there is to believe in, because even if its not real it still makes life that much funner”
well thats it, good luck to everyone lets see some more =]
id also quiclkly like to just give thanks for this topic in general. Ive had alot of emotions held in, it was nice to tell this story.
~travis
well my favorite halloween memory would be 8 yrs ago i was at my grandmas house with my family and my uncles and cousins ans so on, and my lil cousin was dressed up as lil mikey with a dp mask on, and we were all laughing at him cause he looked so funny lol…and my uncle was cracking up about it ,it was so hilarious…and now my uncle is in the hospital dying… so its pretty sad now…but the memories last forever…i wished i had some pics to post but sadly i dnt…god bless
When I was a kid my mom despised Halloween. I was about 12 or 13 years old, One year I saved up and bought the Freddy replica glove at Spencers gifts. This was going to be my costume. I spray painted a long sleeve red tshirt with green stripes. We didnt have a lot of money, So I took my Father’s Vietnam war jungle hat and had it set aside for the big day. About two days before the big day I managed to talk my mom into renting me some horror movies. One was F13 V or VI. My mom was skeptical of course. We started to watch the movie. A scene came up where the victim acted very stupid to get themselves into a situation to be killed by Jason. Well I called the tv out and said “Stupid Ass, You deserve that”. My mother was so angry she threw away my whole costume in the garbage. Except my Dads Jungle Hat. I was torn up. The big day was two days away. Well Halloween came and I had nothing to wear. My mother realized that she had made a mistake by taking away a simple bit of fun. My mother took a garden glove, cardboard and aluminum foil and made me a Freddy glove. She went and picked me up a sweater from goodwill. put some make up on my face and there you have it Freddy was born. I look back and see how ridiculous my costume was, but my the memory of my mother doing the right thing for my sake is the best Halloween memory I had ever had. I got to be Freddy that night. By the way, I know you are wondering where I saw ANOES if my Mother was so against Horror. Well I had and Aunt that let me watch Halloween 1 and 2 and many other Horror movies. Thanks Aunt Brenda
well mine so far was just last year…if that counts…
i got my first mm mask!! was so amazed i ripped open the box right at the post office…i came home dressed up and went out with a group of kids…
we all grabbed some eggs and started throwing them all over the place.then we skated and scooter and i met some black guy, i dressed up and did a tre flip on my skateboard and called the guy ‘‘kanye west’’ if thats how you spell his name…anyways, we saw my little brother and we all hid and threw an egg at the group of kids he was with.he gat bad and picked up the shells and threw at my friend.he took a whole egg and threw it at him at point blank range…it cut him. we all got in this big argument and went to my house.anyways my friend felt bad stripped down to his boxers and told my brother to pick a spot to throw at…he aimed for his chest…the egg hit him and bounced off and hit the floor…then another friend came up with a water hose and sprayed him while he was gettin his clothed back on…
only have two pics. one is a group shot of us. but its not saved on my computer another is juss me in the mask…
marcus 
Ahh my fondest memory is when i got my first michael myers don post mask. I had wanted that white mask for 3 yrs, but my mom said $30 was too much for a mask. I ended up just painting my face white that year and wore some blue dikies shirt tucked in some blue pants. 
The next year i finally convinced my mom to order me a michael myers mask seeing that i had drove her crazy. The following friday we went to our local Tractor supply and she bought my first pair of coveralls and i would put on those every night…they were quite comfortable. Days past and no mask showed up. We called Halloween expo and turns out we bought a mask they didn’t even have in stock. (im refereing to the rubies myers mask that never was released. it looked like a cross between a cinema secrets and don post) I was terribly sad but they had the infamous “the mask” in stock and they gave us $10 off. 3 days went by and my school bus dropped me off. My dad always came home for lunch and got the mail then went back to work. So when i got inside laying on the kitchen table, was a usps flat rate bag. When i opened it, i smelled my first latex mask and it felt so good to slide it over my head. I just felt so powerful and i immediatly ran to my room and popped in my halloween soundtrack and just sat in the recliner in the mask listening to the theme music. That halloween was the best one i have ever had, because it was the first time i lived the dream of being Michael Myers. 
Andy
My most memorable Halloween is a bit of a ghost story. I was about 15 and living in north Georgia in our new house and I had been pretty sick with the flu for about a week prior to Halloween. I was really upset because I was afraid I would not be well enough to go out on my favorite night of the year. Sure enough Halloween rolled around and there I was sitting at home still sick so I decided to just watch scary movies and pass out candy to the trick or treaters. My folks were gone out. It was raining that night and there were only a few knocks at my door. About 9 O Clock something strange happened. I was sitting watching the original THE THING when I heard another knock at the door. I picked up the bowl of candy and went to the door but there was no one there. I looked around to see if there were any kids playing a prank on me but there was no one to be seen. I shrugged my shoulders and closed the door. I went back to my seat and started watching the film again. After about 2 or 3 minutes I heard someone knock at the door again. I sighed and stood up. This time I peeked out the window before going to the door but I could not see the front door well enough to see if there was actually someone there. I walked over and opened the door. NO ONE! I walked off the porch and took a stroll around the yard to see if I could see anyone messing around. The neighborhood was pretty quiet, and even though the rain had stopped for the most part the street in my neighborhood was empty. I shook my head and strolled back into the house. When I got back inside I went and made myself some popcorn and opened up a coke. I returned to my movie and about the time I got settled in there came a very loud BANGING at the door. It stood me up from my seat and I rushed to the door and threw it open. Again there was no one there. I walked out on the porch and announced out loud that whoever was messing around had better cut it out before I called the cops. Mad, and frustrated I walked back inside and slammed the door. I decided to lay a trap for the pranksters so I sat me a chair right next to the door and waited. About 15 minutes went by and just when I was about to think the knocking was over it happened again. INSTANTLY I swung the door open and to my horror there was not a sole there,. Then I felt a really cold chill come over my whole body. I will never forget the Halloween when the ghost of the trick or treater came calling. Ya know I could almost hear a faint voice saying “Trick or treat” This is a true story, and a Halloween I will never forget, it is a fond memory and a scary one.
My fondest Halloween memory…theres so many because my mom always made sure it was extra special for my brother and I. Don’t have a pic uploaded for this particular one but it was probably around '78 or '79. My mom used to hand make our costumes and this particular year when I was in the first grade she made me and incredible Indian chief costume complete with an amazing head-dress (that was bought). I loved it and when I put it on I immediately fantasized that I was a Lakota warrior ready to go to war! My mom always told me stories about great men like Crazy Horse
What I remember was that day we had a GREAT Halloween party in school. It was a perfect Autumn day…the bus ride home…the bus was illuminated with a warm yellow/orange glow from the sun and the turning leaves on the trees. All the kids were in costume…looking around i felt as if I was in some kind of far off Halloween land. There were ghosts; vampires; witches; hobos; cowboys…We all dug into our candy bags that the teacher gave us. The air smelled like burning wood on the fire places and candy.
The bus came to my stop and my mom was waiting there for me with my trick or treat bag. I distinctly remember that Autumn sun shining in her hair. We went straight to trick or treating and ended the night at my cousin’s party complete with bobbing for apples and pumpkin carving.
Nothing crazy…just amazing child memories of colors…sights…sounds…my mom and family…youth. Halloween in the 1970’s. There was nothing in the world like it. Sometimes I wish I could turn back the clock.
Mine is pretty funny but kinda mean all the same. It was on halloween when i was a freshman in high school. I still had my first myers mask, it was a 85 don post. This was in 1995 so there weren’t many options for mask at the time. My dad wanted me to put it on and scare some kids/moms. As a kid i had no problem doing that. I put the mask on and walked outside and grabbed a knife, not a fake knife but a real knife (not so smart). And i was just walking around near the house and my dad was watching from the window laughing his ass off. I was of course laughing while wearing the mask. A women and her two kids were walking my way, and i was walking toward them very slowly and looking straight ahead just like mike does. When she was about ten feet in front of me she finely realized how creepy/scary i was and grabbed her kids and moved them to the grass to get out of my way. I think she was really actually scared, so like i said it was funny and i guess kinda mean also. My dad still talks about it to this day…“remember when i was watching through the window and you put that mask on and was scaring people” lol
Ah, halloween, what fun I have in those night when I was a young little boy.
I still kinda remember my fist trick or treat day. My ant took me and my sister for the night. Me and my sister was dress up as power rangers. Hey, come on. Back than the the early 90’s, Power rangers kick-ass.
Though, I did want to be the red ranger, but my sister to be the red ranger. So, I become the blue.
(No one likes the Blue ranger. lol. I kid, I kid)
So yeah, it did suck being the blue ranger, but whatever. I don’t remember to much back than. I know my ant took us to a lot of homes and me & my sister fill up with candy in are bags.
Though, I do remember one thing I would never forget.
We went to one house to get some candy. A lady pops in, she smile and told I was a cute power ranger. lol
And than, OUT OF NO WHERE, the lady husband waering a wolf mask pop out and scare me and my sister. Yes, I did freak out. I mean, what the hell. I was 4, getting to know how the good life feels and BAM! A jerk pops out and scare the living crap out of me.
Though, I was sacred, my sister was a little bit more scared. She begin crying. The guy took off his mask and said sorry that he scare us. But it was to late, the damage was done.
My ant laugh and tried to clam my sister down. Me, well, I kinda laugh. It did freak me out, but not by wetting myself.
Anyways, the lady and her husband said sorry and gave us a lot of candy.
That is one night, I will never forget.
I hope i can still enter, because Im still a kid…
I think my favorite Childhood Halloween would be when I was in first grade. This was wayyy before I found this site. So as I child, I LOVED HALLOWEEN. My parents nicknamed me Michael because of my obsession! Since HBO finally had one movie of HALLOWEEN, I got my moms recorder and recorded the WHOLE MOVIE! I would watch it everyday, like literally. Then my mom would see me dead asleep from the excitement I get from the movie, or she would see me draw Michael Carving Pumkins, or she once saw me draw Michael congratulating me on my 7th birthday. Well then so my best HALLOWEEN was when I turned 7, my mom had a mysterious box that hid in the closet. My jacket was there, so I was always curious on what was in it. So one day, I opened it up (one day before Halloween), and it was my first myers mask! It was a myers mask she picked up at a store, it was a CInema Secret 2000! And I was the happiest kid alive…One Halloween i was Barney…now I’m MICHAEL!!! And that one Halloween felt so special. My whole school congradulated me for the best costume in the school! I was soooo happy! And when I went to doors for some candy, every grown up said…NOT MICHAEL…or…DONT KILL ME! Haha yes, for some reason, everything became brighter in my life since Michael came Well good luck everyone, I know I wont get this one (But i still have a chance) because so much people having interesting stories…Thanks Guys! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
PS
I will never forget these memories, without Michael Myers, I honestly will be another simple kid on the block. Ever since Michael found me, I’ve been way above creativity…Thanks again guys u guys r da best
My favorite Halloween Childhood memory has to be when I was about 5-6 when I couldn’t decide what costume I wanted to wear, so I was like, 3 different people all in one night! One hour I’ll be one thing, next hour I’d be another thing, then the hour after that I was another thing.
But my favorite Halloween memory as a teenager has to be two years ago when I was sitting at a bench in the front yawn of my house, and kids would come up to me, thinking I’m fake, then I’d jump out at them, then I stalked a girl for about 12 minutes, then she finally bursted out in tears, and she was a teenage girl. 
Don’t you love it when you make people who are older then you cry in terror?
My fondest Halloween memory was in 1993. I was 17. My buddy and I were actually going to go to a real Halloween High School party, but not until after we had set-up a mock “crazy house” in my car-port. I set up lights, and had a table with a note on it that read “CADY” and arrow pointing towards a bowl of candy. The lights were dim, and red and blue, and barely lit the ground enough to showcase the 2 “corpses” I had laying around. Under the candy table, there was an arm and a severed head sticking out, and at the head of the table, was me. Dressed as Myers in my '86 Don Post’er. I was sitting in a chair, with towels coming out of my arms and under the neck of the mask.
A group of young girls (about 14) came up to the table, and heard my Halloween cassette tape playing. One of them was dressed as a devil girl, complete with red pitch fork. As she remarked about the music, she glanced over at me, convinced I was a stuffed dummy. She then started to poke and prod at me with her pitchfork, exclaiming “Wow, that’s a terrible dummy”, and before she knew it, I had straightened up and grabbed the pitch fork from her.
She quickly dropped it, and ran screaming down the driveway, dropping her bag of candy as she left. Her two friends weren’t far behind her, as they were equally as frightened.
15 minutes later, the girls came back, specifically for the bag of candy.
This time I stood there, as still as I could be. Upon approach, I began to move ever so slightly. She reached for her bag of candy, when I made a quick move, she froze in fear. I started walking toward her very slowly. She grabbed her candy bag, and began to whip me with it, screaming “Stop it! Leave me alone!!!” She started to run down the street, with me not far behind her.
My buddy, meanwhile, was also dressed as Myers, although several inches shorter than me, and wearing different coveralls. He was at the other end of the house, and when the girl looked back to see where I was, I was gone.
She turned around, and almost ran RIGHT INTO my buddy.
She SCREAMED!!! “How could Myers get there SO FAST!” My buddy began to chase her, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Greatest prank ever played on anyone (from me). Best Halloween I ever had. We then proceeded to go to the party after all the trick-or-treaters were gone.
THE END 
BTW, good luck to EVERYONE! It will no doubt be a kick-ass mask to whoever wins it!
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