First I want to say that everyone so far has some really great story’s and its been a pleasure reading them…This is Very cool of you guys to do Sam…I have a pretty long story here so bare with me as I have never told this to the board…Well I was always a tall kid, I think I was close to 6 foot at the age of 12…Somewhere along them lines anyways…So when I dressed up as myers I could easily pass for an adult in costume…I used to dress up all the time and try and scare my neighbors, family, cars driving by on the road, you name it I tried to scare them…Well back then since I had family in the country side we used to vistit relatives every year for a big Halloween barn party before the big night…Eventually we moved out of the big city of DC and moved to sticks as well but this particular year we were visiting the relatives in the country…Its more of like a suburban country, populated but still in the sticks…So naturally I kinda had fresh meat to try and scare…One of the things I would do most to try and get a good scare is stand on the roadside and do a few different things to get passing drivers to think to themselves “What the hell was that”…It worked like a charm 
…Sometimes I would just stand on the wood line and creep into the woods just as a car was passing only to take cover behind a large tree to seem as though I vanished…Cars would always slow down and creep to try and get a look at the maniac they just saw with a pale white face…Every so often Some would stop, roll down their windows and I could hear people talking…Conversations would literally consist of things like “Did you see that”, “What the hell was that”, “what was that guy doing”…I remember one time I even heard some lady talking to her husband or who ever was in the car with here telling him “Are you crazy, why are you stopping, keep going” LoL…All the mean while I’m sitting in the woods behind my tree laughing away like the young mind I was at the time…It worked so well I couldn’t get enough it…Well this Halloween at the relatives was a bit different 
…Its right at dawn, barely any sunlight left coming through the Autumn trees, a perfect light setting to make any Myers mask look creepy and I leave the party to pursue my normal spooking on the open road…As some of us know on the back country roads its a creepy setting as it is…Tree’s on both sides and right at dawn before sunset, especially in the fall, the sunlight just barely pushes its rays through certain gaps in the fall tree’s…Its getting darker as I hit the road and I do my bit by standing on the wood line to scare passing drivers…I nail a few but its almost completely dark so the few I see only slow down and move on their way…That is until the next passing truck…I wanted more than slowing down because I cant really see a reaction…This time instead of standing on the wood line and just moving slowly into the woods behind a tree I take a different approach…Not to much but enough…Keep in mind I always have plenty of time to judge how long a car will approach me by the headlights in the distance down the road…So I could time this perfectly…As the truck is approaching I walk out in the middle of the road this time, never coming to a complete stop but slightly turning my head to look at the approaching truck (That I notice has 3 guys in it–A good one in my mind) and crossing over to the other side of the street into the woods…Laughing as I get behind a tree I notice the truck hasn’t moved on but has come to a complete stop…No big deal to me as I thought I had them good…This is what I wanted…To hear or see a better reaction…But not like their reaction…The 3 guys get out of the truck creeped out and one of them has a freaking shot gun…So now instead of them being scared I’m scared shit less…What do I do…If I step out behind this damn tree I could get shot…If they come into the woods looking for me I could get shot when they see me…So I just sit watch and listen…The 3 guys are wondering what the hell they just saw and contemplating on going into the woods…These are 3 big burly country looking dudes that don’t look too happy…One guy says lets go in there while another says I don’t think we should…Then the 3rd guy with the shot gun finally says It was probably someone screwing around with a Halloween costume…Its not quite Halloween but it is Hallows eve…Well, I’m standing behind this tree now scared shit less wondering what I should do…I decided to wait it out to see if they would just move on but they don’t…They sit there and continue to debate what to do…Well while I’m standing there behind this large tree I stepped on this log when I perched up behind it in a rush not realizing that I had stepped on it…My food is in an awkward slanted position and its starting to hurt and get tired…I know I cant make a sound because I’m only like 20 ft off the road and they will hear me…So I try to reposition my foot off this thing but when I do it snaps LoL…Next thing I hear is the 3 guys freak out and start screaming at me “Come out Mother F-er, come on out”…I’m like in shock because I cant believe I just did that but at the same time I don’t want them coming in there after me…So I decided to come out…I stepped out slowly with my hands raised and the burly dude with the shotty tells his buddy to get in the truck and call the cops…So now I’m really freaking out…The whole time he is screaming at me “You better not move ro I’ll put you down”…So I had no choice but to scream under the mask and tell them I was just a kid…i start screaming at the guys “I’m just a kid man, I’m just a kid”…“I’m sorry it was just a prank”…But its dawning on them what I’m saying…So after screaming it a few more times one of them catches it and says “Oh hell”…I see him tell his buddy with the gun and he then says “take off the mask man”…I take off the mask, they see who I am and start cracking up…I’m still in shock and scarred to death…After all I am just a kid…Just a tall kid LoL…I come up out the woods and their attitudes just did a 360…They were actually really cool guys…I explained to them I was a t a family party just up the street and I was only doing a Halloween prank…They had a great attitude then and even admitted that I got them pretty good…Only to say I think you guys got me better though LoL…They explained that I had to watch doing stuff like that as I could scare the wrong person Lol…Go figure I think I just did but when it was all said and done they were really cool about it and I just walked back to the party calming down and didn’t mention that to anyone for years later…My mother would have killed me LoL…It was a pretty intense Halloween memory for me and needless to say I didn’t do something like that for a very long time LoL…Ive been into Michael Myers since I was like 6 yrs old and first watched it around the time I first saw the exorcist…The Exorcist was the scariest film I had ever seen and is what really got me into horror films…So needless to say once I saw Halloween it was over from there as to which was my favorite…So old Mikey Myers has really been the only way I tried to scare people over the years…Its just this time around I got the wrong truck LoL…Its something I will never forget and I still tell the story to this day…So being as I have never really told it here I figured Id share that with everyone…I’m sure allot of you guys have a better one then me but I just wanted to share that with the board with as much detail as I could remember and tell…Hope you guys enjoyed it though and good luck to you all…I was more worried about telling my story as I’m sure its not good enough to win…Later everyone and Happy Halloween
My fondest memory of Halloween dates back to the 90s when I was about 4 or 5, anyways we would always go to my aunts every year, she had the best Halloween decorations out, and when we got there, we got all the candy we could want. Anyways, one year she set up a “Trick” instead of a nice “treat” and what she did was make a dummy of herself in her own clothes and put it laying on the ground like she fell over putting up the decorations. When we walked in my Mom screamed and so did me and my brother, we thought she was dead! haha What a Halloween…and I would always remember that big box that had our decor in it. Simply labeled “HALLOWEEN MASKS”. I was so ready for halloween when I saw that box, I opened it with absolute joy each year. 
Heres a pic from 1996 I think…I’m Winnie the Pooh… 
Holy S H I T. This guy wrote a speech
Very entertaining story Curtis!
Here’s your winner guys!
It was probably a couple of years ago, I had some pretty bad costumes up until then, then I decided to go as Michael Myers for the 1st time, got the crappy licensed coveralls, a cheap glow in the dark knife, and a 2003 DP The Mask, then I walked along my apartment complex alone and saw a group of kids that always picked on me, so I just stopped and stared at them until they saw me, freaked out and ran off, they still messed with me a lot after that(they never knew it was me), but I still had that memory, and thus began my Halloween tradition to dress as Michael. 
LoL, Yeah Vader I know …But I have never told that story to the board so I wanted to tell it in detail…It was just a crazy ass event that happened to me and I will never forget it…Like I said Im not worried about winning but more or less just wanted to share it…I think others have had a little bit better of story than I and Im sure more are to come…Just watch how you scare people out there …You could end up scaring the wrong people like I did …Thanks for the comment DC…It definately turned around me thats for sure…Later guys and good luck to you all…Happy Halloween M-M.Net
My favorite Halloween memory–and my most embarrassing one as well–happened at halloween 1989. I had just turned 9 years old and I decided I wanted to be a ghost for halloween. My mother had always been very involved with our halloween costumes and always gave us our own choice to be whatever we wanted. Anyway, I decided more then anything that year that I wanted to be a ghost . So my mother spent days on making me this ghost costume out of an old white sheet she bought—she went all out, at least, for a ghost costume–she sewed a neck into the sheet, bought paints and decorated the face, etc—it really looked fantastic and I couldnt wait till halloween…
Well a few days later the big day arrived—the day started with a normal day at school and then, after lunch, the annual tradition our school had: a halloween costume parade. Basically, each class (kindergarten and grades 1-6 with each grade having two classes) would line up and, starting with the youngest class, would parade through each classroom to show off their costumes before everyone would come back and have a halloween party…
Well, being in 3rd grade at the time, we went pretty early and it started out easy enough until something became VERY apparent with my costume: apparently my mother had marked the eyecuts on the costume perfectly lined up…until you factor in the looseness of the sheet plus the fact that my 3rd grade head was tiny! We began walking in line through the classrooms and after 2 or 3 min, the eyecuts would drop down and I was completely blind! 
I was walking into walls and more then once found myself walking in a different class’s parade line lmao. I provided pretty good entertainment to the other children as laughter and snickers echoed through the halls. I must have walked into at least a dozen students before making it back to my classroom lol—it was so embarrassing but my day didnt end there—coming from Illinois, Halloween has always been a pretty big deal where I came from and our trick or treat hours werent these pitiful “4pm to 8pm” hours most areas have now—our’s was always “from dark until you got tired” 
Anyway, I always went trick or treating with my older cousin (who was 11 at the time) and being that I couldnt see things for more then a minute or so before the eyecuts did their thing again coupled with trying to carry a big old pillowcase for candy ( ) and not to mention the darkness—I ended up losing my cousin and wandered around the neighborhood alone, completely lost! It took me a good two hours before I found him lol. I still get teased by my family about that year but even though it was embarrassing as hell, halloween was such a magical time at that age and knowing my mother spent all that time to make me a costume still to this day make it my favorite year for halloween ever.
I don’t know if typing a full 1000 or 2000 word story will enhance my chances of winning or not, but here it goes. My favorite memory of Halloween as a youth would be back in 1994. I was 16 years old and it was the best time to be a teenager. The 90’s was “THE” time to be a teenager period. I live in Rockford Illinois so there are a lot nice scary spots to visit and a lot of places to go when you’re young and have nothing better to do than egg houses. One of my best friends whose name was Adam lived in Cherry Valley, IL not too for from me. My mom used to let me go spend the night over there to hang out and just do fun things. Halloween weekend came upon us and even though it fell on a Monday that year, it felt like Halloween all that weekend. if anyone remembers the Monday night massacre (Bears vs. Packers) then you know how historic of a Halloween this was. 
But, back to the story. We were all hanging out at my buddies house along with some other friends from school. We were all sitting around talking about haunted places and ghost stories. We were also talking about Bloods Point cemetery out on Bloods Point road. People always used to talk about seeing ghosts out on the bridge out there and how there would be a truck that would come chasing after you with it brights on. Bloods point was not far from my friends house. Downtown Cherry valley has a back road that goes way out towards the cornfields that lead to the cemetery and its very eerie even during the daytime. So after talking about it we all decided to jump in two cars and ride up. There was an older guy hanging with us named Chad. He knew the way up there and he and one other person were the only ones who had cars. I jumped into his car and it was cramped. One of his windows had plastic covering it and it was damn cold. To make it worse, he had skinny puppy cranked as loud as it could be with tweeters flaring and piercing our ears. As we rolled up to BL PT we stopped at the famous bridge where an accident had happened years ago and had stories of being haunted. We all got out and looked down to the train tracks and saw some sheets hanging off of tree limbs. Scary looking at night when that’s the only thing you can see down there. It looked creepy but could of been anything. So we get back into the cars and head up further to the cemetery. We get there and Chad pulls in and drives all the way to the back of the cemetery and we all get out and walk around. I was super scared. There is tombstones that date back to the 1700’s and 1800’s. It was so cold out there that my but cheeks were shaking. There was a small little shed in the corner of the graveyard and everyone thought they saw a small light inside of it and we all wanted to go into the shed to see what it was. The girls that were with us were starting to cry and get scared so we got back into our cars and floored it out of there. There is a house right next door to the cemetery and rumor has it that the old man will come out with a shot gun if your caught trespassing. So, we didn’t see anything spectacular but just the whole feeling of being there, being 16, and living in such a history rich state such as Illinois made this the most memorable Halloween for me to date. It will be something that i will always hold on to because i know I’ll never be able to go back. For those who read this, I have just found out yesterday that they have featured Bloods Point road on the fear-net on demand channel under their little 4 minute scary destinations stories. That was pretty awesome to see having known about this place all my life. They don’t talk about the cemetery though and i don’t know why.
Here are some pics. They are the only ones i could find. I personally don’t have any. thank you for reading.
for me it was the first halloween i could pass without my parents
oh man did i have fun that night, me an my friends were pretty young and impressed by pretty much anything, there was this teenager that kept scaring us in the streets
man were we afraid, but all in all it was one of my best halloweens
boy do i miss the younger years
j.
I was dressed up in my coveralls and my “The mask” on Halloween and waited for trick or treaters I had startled a lot of kids but I didn’t really scare them that bad I was getting tired when this lady in at lest her late 30s came up to the door with her kids. Her kids thought i was fake but she would not step near me I quickly turned my head and she ran screaming into the street I could tell she probably had a flash back of watching Halloween as a kid.
My childhood memory was when i got a don post 1986 "the mask
to me it was the “screen used mask” and today it is still one of the best mass produced ever made. Being surrounded by pumpkins and purple lights was and is still one of the best experiences i ever had. Ps sam your economike won me a $100 costume contest prize. Thanks! 
i guess the winner goes to ,WHO HAS THE LONGEST STORY??
I just remember the feeling that I and my friends could do anything. We walked along the streets far into the night. Nothing could hurt us because this one night a year we could be anything we wanted.I remember all my friends and I would wander the streets dressed as our favorit ghoul or ghost,but me it was always my long since perished Don Post Myers. We would scramble house to house candy bags draging the ground behind us as we glided up each porch.The excitment of not knowing what prise would be waiting for us behind the door…These were always the best times of my life…I was young. I was unstoppable…I was free. 
Soory If I misread you…My apologies…They asked for a story I just had a long one…Its all good my man…Later guys
lol wtf, i just said if the winner goes to who has the longest story… that was it…i didnt mean it in a bad way…get it over it bro conversation over.,sry if i offended you
Dude I liked your story and you will be in the running…griping about the length of someone elses story won’t help anyone win.
yea i really liked it dnt get me wrong man,i guess the way i said it came out wrong, mybad…i was just asking if the winner goes to who has the longest story that was it…i wasnt trying to piss off ppl…once again mybad
yea i typed it wrong…lol it does sound kinda bad somewhat…but thats not how i meant it.im not that kinda guy…i thought your story was good man…you hear this sam? good …
Its all good bro…I edited what I wrote…So now that things are cool lets let the board get this back on track…We’re good my man…I apologize as well…Great story’s everyone…Its cool to read all these story’s from everyone…Later guys
For me there’s really no ONE memory that stands out. The fall season and Halloween are very special to me because they haven’t lost any of the joy or magic I felt as a child. It was difficult for me when I was deployed to Iraq and was not able to enjoy everything Halloween has to offer when it rolled around (among many other things of course) in 2003, but I tried to keep my sense of humor going by telling people I was going to be a soldier for Halloween. I always look forward to decorating the house, carving jack-o-lanterns, and trick or treating. It’s such a joy for me to share these traditions with my own children now. I can only hope that the spirit of Halloween will live forever inside of them as it has with me.
Well, that’s my story- I hope everyone enjoyed it. A sincere thank you to Darren and Sam for putting this contest together!
Edit: Here we are as “The Mystery Gang” on Halloween 2009!
