It’s a chilly October night, lit only by the full moon. You’re walking alone and end up in an unknown neighborhood and decide to return home.

There are taunting whispers in the distance, shadows and laughter all around.

Footsteps begin to follow you, so you quicken your pace down the dark road, you finally make it to your house and the footsteps come to a stop. Right before you step in your house, you feel small cold finger tips, you cautiously turn around.

“Trick or treat!”

Most people go trick or treating on Halloween but some would like to switch it up this year with activities ranging from haunted forest to kicking it back with friends. “Spend time with your friends, and if you are going to go out to a Halloween party make sure it is safe,” senior Melissa Torres said.

Spine chilling Halloween parties are a great safe way to spend your Halloween. “We have a neighborhood block party and my family and cousins come over with all our kids and we trick or treat around my neighborhood,” science teacher Matt Johnson said. You can even get a bunch of friends and
family together of all ages and sizes and play games such as Manhunt.

But remember it isn’t Halloween without the costumes. To express your creativity and let your imagination run free you can make your own costume, from Donald Trump to a dissected pig.  “Me and my family are dressing up as the characters from Frozen,” sophomore Justin Dixon said.

If you want to get a little sinister, there are spookier things to do. You can rally a couple of people together and head to the unknown. The entire month of October, haunted houses such as Markoff’s Haunted House or Field of Screams are open.  But if you really want to get into the spooks of Halloween,
“Go camping and go on a haunted tour of Gettysburg,” like English teacher Scott Tarzwell likes to do.

Whatever spooky way you choose to celebrate this year, remember to “be safe,” Johnson said.