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22 People Share Their Absolute Worst Halloween Experiences That Turned Fun Into A Nightmare
Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
No matter if you're a fan of Halloween or not, there's no escaping it every October. Everywhere you go, there's Halloween decor, and all shops are filled with themed stuff and candies for the occasion. Even the internet is filled with content about it.
So, today we're going to contribute to it -- we're serving you a list of Halloween stories. But these are not some run-of-the-mill ones -- they're about celebrations that kind of turned into disasters. And it's always fun to read about those, when you don't have to experience them yourself, isn't it?
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#1
My mom took away all my candy to give to the later kids.
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#2
Being in the hospital two years straight for Halloween and thinking of all my friends trick or treating while I couldn’t. This year will be my first time trick or treating in two years and I’m hella pumped.
#3
I was 12 and a man yelled at me and told me I was too old to be out trick-or-treating. I felt so bad I gave all my candy to my little brother and just walked with him for next hour or so. When I got home my mom asked me why I didn’t have any candy so I told her what happened. She asked me who said that to me and I told her which house. I don’t know if she ever did anything about it. But since I’ve become an adult and bought my own home, I don’t care if your 90 years old. You’re getting candy. Halloween is for everyone.
#4
Not worst but best - I'm Australian, Halloween isn't really a thing here, but we still get some kids coming to our door at that time of the year - one time my mum had no lollies(candy) to give, so she just gave the little girl a can of soup we had in the cupboard, that girl was thrilled with the can of Minestrone she got, she screamed to her parents "I got SOUP!". Wholesome.
#5
This happened to my friend who is not on Reddit:
It’s Halloween night and there’s a knock on her parent’s door. Dad goes to open it and there is a man with a bag on his head standing on their porch, silent. The man makes a move to step into their house and Dad pushes him backwards. Everyone watches as the man falls backwards off of their step and smashes his head on the ground. It is revealed that the man with the bag is my friend’s grandfather (mom’s dad) who was trying to Halloween prank them. He was rushed to the hospital with permanent damage, no longer able to care for himself or his wife who had health issues as well. They both ended up in convalescent care. Additionally, my friend’s mother never forgave her husband, placing the blame of the accident entirely on his shoulders. They divorced shortly after.
#6
I was walking home with my friend when i was like 9 and a car of high school kids or around that age stole all our candy. Three hours of work, gone.
#7
My mom was pretty strict with how much candy I was allowed to eat on Halloween. One year, after some annoying begging, I finally got my mom to say “eat as much as you want.”
Heh, spent about an hour barfing up peanut butter cups and warheads.
#8
Not being able to celebrate halloween as a kid and watching all my friends go trick or treating from my window.
#9
Had the stomach flu one year on Halloween. I was a month shy of turning 11. My parents took my younger siblings out trick or treating and I was stuck alone in the house blowing chunks out of both ends.
#11
I was 14 and I went out with my group of friends and I was always the one left out. They dressed in girly costumes and I was a full on clown with big shoes. I walked with one of the girls moms the entire time because they were ahead and the big shoes slowed me down. They went into a haunted house and I was too scared so I waited outside and then I couldn't sleepover because I was really allergic to my friends cat.
I did find a 20 dollar bill on the floor though.
#12
When I was around 11/12 I went out trick or treating with a friend. Ran into some older kids my friend wanted to hang out with so we tagged along. They wanted to go pumpkin smashing. I was a rule follower and didn’t want to be around trouble, but I let my friend talk me into it. We come to a house that had a bunch of great pumpkins. You could tell they spent a bunch of time on them. There was a candy bowl with a note so the kids start destroying the pumpkins. I just watched, feeling uncomfortable. Couple days later I’m reading the paper and see a letter to the editor from the owners of house. They listed the address. It said how awful it was and how it wrecked their kids who spent so much time on the pumpkins. I felt sick. I showed my friend and he thought it was cool and took it to show those other kids. I realized then our association was more about living on same street than friendship. I still feel terrible.
#13
I was like 7 or 8 and dressed like an angel. parents took me to the science museum where they set up little houses for the kids to trick or treat in. I got soo much candy and was so proud of myself. But when we left, all my candy was gone. The little boy behind me had been taking scoops of my candy and putting it in his basket. I cried.
#15
I grew up in Northern Canada and when I was probably 5 or 6, I got me a Darth Vader costume, one of those vinyl costume and capes with a light sabre and thin plastic mask. I thought I was so cool back then. Well, being northern Canada, it was exceptionally cold that year, like below -30C. I went out that evening bundled up and ready to show off my cool outfit, but it was so cold, the costume just disintegrated as I went around the block. Due to the weather, I barely got around the block, but by the time I was home, I just had the lightsabre and mask. The rest of the costume just fell apart in pieces as I moved.
#16
I was in the 5th grade and went going to trick or treat, I got this pain in my lower stomach so my mom took me back home. After what my mom saw in the bathroom, we figured out I started my period for the very first time.
#17
Got made fun of and bullied for wearing a full costume when I was 13. Cried and wanted to go home by like 5pm. There was one true friend who waited with me at a park until my parents came to pick me up….
#18
My girlfriend asked me to go with her and her son trick or treating. We picked out costumes for everyone, invited the neighbor kids and went around for about 4 hours. We took tons of pictures of us and the kids and a kitten followed us back to her house that we ended up keeping. We dropped off the kids with their parents then went home and got the kiddo ready for school the next day while trying to keep him from eating too much candy. Next day at work our mutual friend asked what i did for halloween. I told her to check the girlfriends facebook cause she posts everything and i wanted her to see the kitten pics.
ya, i'm cropped out of every picture.... all people we visited, all the other kids parents and a few of the neighbors we stopped and talked to are tagged in her post about how much fun her and her son had
Felt like i was cut out of her public life
--edited to add last line since I feel like its minor after reading some of these.
#19
I had costume plans with a friend who chickened out on me and wanted instead to wear her own regular clothes while I was in a ridiculous Ginger Spice costume and pass her clothes off as “80’s.” DEFINITELY wasn’t influenced by her snotty roommate who called me immature for what I wore or anything. I had her drop me off after that and decided to find other plans. Decided to try to hang out with some of my other friends (who were male) but a girl who didn’t like me and let them use her for rides considering none of them were interested in her refused to pick me up and let me hang out with them (I didn’t have a car at the time). So I decided I was going to walk there, about a seven mile walk. Got a quarter of a mile down the street, tried to cross and got hit by a car. 13 years later I still have the metal in my ankle.
#20
Choked on a gobstopper. Heimlich got it out of my trachea but it then got stuck in my esophagus and I got it down with some bread. My throat hurt for days. My parents called an ambulance but we got it resolved before they came. Super scary.
I have two young kids now that have been getting gobstoppers/jawbreakers on Halloween since they were 2. I always take them out and throw them away.
#22
Someone threw a raw egg at my friends and I from a passing pickup and it exploded against the back of my hand. Such pain.
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