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Did anyone ever try to scare you on Halloween when you were a kid? I remember one time in particular when I was roughly 8 my brother and I rang

a neighbor's doorbell and instantly the man ran down the hall toward us hollering very loud wearing a hideous mask. He opened the door and lunged at us scaring the crap out of us. We ran back to Dad crying and hysterical. Dad was talking to a man who was also taking his kids trick or treating. Neither of them really saw what the man did. (There were other kids on the porch with us). A woman appeared at the door saying, "did we scare y'all? I told him not to do that." People sometimes tried to scare kids on Halloween when I was growing up. Now if someone did that they'd probably go to jail. Totally different generation
Iwillwait · M Best Comment
We had neighbours who were awesome at creating dead bodies and we were always scared of them.

Scribbles · 36-40, F
Sure. Sometimes a jump scare. Which was more funny then scary.

However, One of my uncles was fond of trying to scare us kids for a few years in particular. I think somebody convinced him to stop at one point.

I never really celebrated Halloween as a kid by trick or treating or dressing up. I wasn't allowed and when I was old enough to be sneaky, I no longer cared. So maybe I didn't understand letting someone else scare me as concept. To me it was simply unacceptable.

I gave him such a scolding once when he was really trying to pressure me and a cousin into a weird situation. Some uncles and a couple aunts and some cousins and my siblings and I were having a campfire in the woods. We had a few tents up for those that were camping overnight.

I don't think he understood that I didn't have a problem with him telling scary stories and pretending there were werewolves out in the woods to my brothers, my cousins, and I.. but actively scaring me or my cousin through harassment and trying to pressure me and one of my cousins to go in the woods so he and another uncle can howl, scare and chase us is not ok. And not my idea of a good time. Sorry we weren't idiots and we stayed put...because I said we could. Why would we allow him to scare us? No sane person picks that. Not sure what the hell was going through his brain.

It was more traumatizing realizing that your uncle is a jerk, who doesn't care about other people's feelings and autonomy.
Humans are always scarier then monsters.

But maybe people who don't have reasons to fear people or loved ones feel more...safe, and don't actually get scared or feel like they should protect themselves and others...and just trust that the person won't take things too far? I have no idea.

My uncle was really mad at me for spoiling his "fun".
He was sullen at me for almost a year and wouldn't say hi or anything. He would look at me and then deliberately ignore me. And I was a freaking child. Lol

He spent that entire year implying that I was a wet blanket to others, and lightly poking fun at me over whatever flaw he could find... when in reality I was standing up for myself and he was just out to get revenge on me. All because I wouldn't let him playact by choosing not to engage.

Perhaps they wouldn't have scare us that badly. Who knows?

However, No sane person trusts anybody who chooses to push someone into an uncomfortable situation only to try to scare someone into hysterics and crying and running away to safety...and think it's a good time. Halloween doesn't negate bad behavior. Because actually scaring the shit out of a innocent person is not ok.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
No, but my mom intentionally left dolls in my bedroom when she knew I was terrified of them and my brother tied me up in a tree house and told me the neighbour's scare crow is coming and then he left me there for what left like several hours. I was convinced the scare crow was gonna take me.

I would never scare kids unless they think it's fun and it's on a playful level for them. If a kid cry or screams it's not ok.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@Cloud7593 is a The iyony is that was innocent in comparison to the shit that went down in that home.
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@Queendragonfly What's iyony? I'm assuming autocorrect.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@Cloud7593 Irony

😂 Yes autocorrect
Allelse · 36-40, M
We didn't really have Halloween when I was a kid in Australia, in fact if you tried to trick or treat you'd get snarled at by disapproving people who hated having dressed up kids knocking on their doors. "Fucking American bullshit!!!" followed by SLAM!!!! It's different now though, people are getting more into Halloween and kids can dress up and have fun collecting candy. But not in my day!!! We just got yelled at.
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@Allelse I didn't know if Halloween 🎃 was just an American holiday or not.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
No.... but as far as I recall, this was all unknown when I was a child (not "kid" - I am not a goat).

The nonsense invented by American supermarkets as "Hallowe'en" had not yet drifted across the Atlantic like plastic goods from a foundered shipping-container.

(It is a commercial prostitution of a mixture of Scots children's tradition that involved lanterns carved from turnips - not pumpkins then - and an ancient English church, memorial event possibly based on earlier pagan ideas. Nothing to do with fairy-story 'witches', aeronautical bedsheets going "Wooooo!", and plastic bats and spiders.)
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@ArishMell 😆Halloween is just meant to be fun.
DownTheStreet · 51-55, M
Some kid did once when I was young so I punched him in the face
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@DownTheStreet lol. Did he hit you back or did he take the punch and move on?
DownTheStreet · 51-55, M
@Cloud7593 I knocked him down, he gathered himself and ran off saying his was gonna tells his parents. But nothing came of that threat; and that part of the street was mine after that
My Dad always went to the door with us and most likely would have throat punched him.
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@NativePortlander1970 Being scary was considered part of the fun
@Cloud7593 Jump scaring like that can be traumatizing to a young child, it is cruel.
Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
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Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@allygator18 Lol. True it is a scary 😳 holiday

 
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