Halloween is finally here!
For some, a wonderful holiday full of candy and delights. For others, a day where all of your worst fears are exploited and put on display for the world.
Regardless of the amount of fun you have, The Spooky Season is here to provide you with coverage on all of the spookiest things going on around campus.
Without further introduction, welcome to the final edition of The Spooky Season!
Door Decorations
There’s a lot of door decorations, I get that. Every week you may see this column and wonder “How many door decorations can this guy realistically find on campus?” The answer is many.
For this week, we’re looking at a door that legitimately scared me.
Sarah Heydinger and Logan Tabler’s winning door decorations. Photo by Colten McCabe
I was walking to my friend’s room one day when I stumbled across this newly decorated door. The hallway, just dim enough to see shapes, was nothing new to me. I had been down this somewhat dark hallway plenty of times. As I looked up to see where I was going, there it was.
Its bulging eyes, peering out from its toilet paper body stopped me dead in my tracks. “No one has eyes that big,” I thought in my head. Then I realized what was looking at me wasn’t a person.
No, not a person. A door.
Roommates, Sarah Heydinger, art education major and volleyball player, and Logan Tabler, business administration major and volleyball player, designed the door.
“We wanted to be festive with Halloween,” said Heydinger.
Definitely spooky.
“The lights inside the eyes are my favorite part of the door, because they make the eyes look like they glow in the dark” said Heydinger.
Definitely scary.
Candy
Do you ever eat candy with something else that isn’t candy?
I call this the CCC (Creative Candy Combo).
Examples: Twizzlers and Coca Cola or popcorn and M&M’s.
Don’t be afraid to try new things, even if they seem gross or not visually well-represented.
How about a jingle?
“Creative Candy Combo
Like Chex-Mix and Mombos
You’ll never know for you
Unless you try it!”
Costume Ideas
If you’re feeling like you’re being stepped on, you can dress up as the Adam’s Bridge. (Bonus points if you’re feeling angry, and people cross you…because you’re a bridge, and people cross bridges…Okay, cool.)
If you’re feeling adventurous, you could dress as Bigfoot. You might end up sponsored by a beef jerky company, and you would also scare some people. Matt Friesen totally approved of this idea.
Group Idea: If you have a large group, you could all go as a box of crayons or as a box of chalk…box of chalk? chalk box? What about a “Rock chalk Jayhawk”? (That one was for Aubrey Bartel, love ya Kansas).
For a final idea, since it’s a little cold outside, you could buy a ton of clothes from Goodwill and just layer on all of them. Think of the episode of Friends when Joey put on all of Chandler’s clothes.
Spooky Story
I’m walking in between dreams when I become tired and want to return back to my body. I can see myself laying there; long hair tangled in knots with a pool of saliva waterfalling from my lips. Gross. I really gotta work on my sleeping habits.
I pulled the sheets and blankets over my head and proceeded with the same thought process that got me back into my body.
“Hey.”
I looked out from under my covers and saw a demon, resting patiently on my chest.
“Yes, hi hello, how can I help you?” I asked him. This was a fairly casual conversation between demon and man. I had seen worse.
“Give me what I want and I will leave,” the demon croaked at me. His eyes burned in anticipation, knowing I would put up a fight.
“Honestly, no,” I said. “I’m not playing games with anyone. I think you and I would both be better off if we just went to bed. Okay? Okay. Sounds good. Goodnight, demon friend.”
“I am NOT your friend,” he screeched. His passion signaled that he wanted more than what I could give him.
“Yes I know,” I spoke softly. “We could never be friends, close acquaintances, or anything else. Tell me what you want, I can probably get it for you, and we can both be on our way.”
“Travel your body to the next,” he whispered. “Look at your mother. Look at her and tell me what you see.”
I got out of my bed, walked towards my mother’s room and saw her sound asleep, but with a black ora above her. Not good. The shadow that was cast above her meant that she was bound by some sort of darker entity, something that I could not see or hear. She winced and twitched from the pain of her dreams, heavily breathing and clenching her stomach.
I looked at the demon, and he smiled back. His white teeth chattered as the air was cold and he was used to warmth. This ended now.
“What do you want?” I asked the demon.
“How much do you love the people you care about?” asked the demon.
“I would trade everything so that they could be happy,” I said with a tear in my eye. I stood at the end of my mother’s bed, watching her suffer.
“Even your life?” the demon asked.
They warned me of the one. The one who gives and takes. Grants you the ability to walk dreams, but strips it away with an ultimatum.
I watched my mother roll from side to side, knowing if it continued, that I would lose her.
“Even my life,” I said.
In closing
“Wow, a cliff hanger to end Spooky Season. Now what am I supposed to think until next year?” said the very attentive reader.
Enjoy the time celebrating Halloween with your friends, family, professors, faculty/staff and coaches.
Halloween has brought out the best in all of us. Good, bad, anger, stress, frustrations, happiness. All of it.
I would not trade a single day back.
I’ve enjoyed reporting, carving pumpkins, caramelizing apples, eating candy, giving you wacky costume ideas and showing you the most festive/decorative doors on campus.
I am more than thankful to have been a part of Spooky Season as I hope this has been a stress-relieving fun environment to be in.
Happy Halloween to all!
Hoping the Season is as Spooky as you intended and wanted!
