I personally do not mind Halloween itself but I do feel very uncomfortable with some of the decorations and concepts people (in America at least) find entertaining. Usually not a big deal, but some people get disturbingly graphic and psychopathic with it and I think those people need to be put on an FBI watch list
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like the fake legs people throw in their garden under garage door and cover in ketchup
Yeah, those guys maybe take it a little too seriously
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I remember a case around here, someone went with a specifically horrible decoration in their tree, it was a big conflict between the homeowner, the neighborhood, and the police precinct. I know I was disturbed by it, like, Jeffrey Dahmer level imagery.
Pumpkins and skeletons and blanket ghosts (which are the most inherently hilarious halloween creature) are not really at anyone’s expense though so no biggie there, just good fun
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well there was a problem round where i live when someone got out a real cat skeleton
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I guess my question is how was the skeleton obtained
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as was the police’s question
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Was the question answered publicly
not that i know
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Where I live, literally everybody is to greedy too buy any decorations, thus they either put up none at all, or just re-use the old stuff.
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I can’t wait to buy some used discounted Lifesize plastic skeletons on facebook marketplace after Halloween ends and all my fellow poor people realize they should not have spent sixty bucks on a plastic skeleton
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what the heck
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So modern Halloween is more about being spooky, if I understand correctly?
While my country lacks a spooky day, we do have spooky things in our culture. An example is a water-dwelling creature called Vodník (vaguely similar to Japanese Kappa). He is sometimes good, but sometimes evil. When he is evil, he drowns people and keeps their souls in pots. Both good and evil versions are prominently featured in children’s animation.
Our family has a pig skull displayed in back garden(My father is a musician, and he receives dead ducks, pheasants, and the piglet. He even once brought a live carp home.), but a cat skeleton is another matter entirely.
Plastic skeletons are great. My younger brother loves them, and keeps a Christmas tree decorated with small plastic skeletons year round.
(I love my brother very much, but his is aesthetic taste is somewhat weird of no fault of his own: He goes to a special school, because he does not speak.)
Also agree about the pumpkins and blanket ghosts being hilarious.
Though blanket ghosts could be seen as actually terrifying, but I do not want to ruin them for anyone.
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If you posted this in the Jeapordy! game topic I guarantee someone would answer “Ghid”
I have absolutely no idea why a musician would receive dead animals and I’d love to know more
This description has the same atmosphere as Party City
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Well, my father works as musician as side job, and he travels countryside with the band very often, playing folk music. I think most of animals were won as prizes in contests or competitions, through I do not know precise nature of these. It is possible that some of the animals were direct gifts from hunters to thanks for the music.
We used the animals for cooking and to gift acquittances.
The pheasant has a story to it. My grandmother hung some parts of the pheasant (Was it legs? I cannot remember.) upon a clothesline, but our cats tore them down and ate them.
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Your country sounds very kind and friendly
One time me and my friend found a dead squirrel so we taped it up in a FedEx box and carried it around town looking for the perfect place to bury it. We ended up stashing it behind a tree in someone’s backyard. It was there for nearly a decade. That’s my dead animal story and it’s much less pleasant than yours because Americans are weird and gross. This has been Spooky Stories with Wekua
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Yeah, Americans tend to go overboard with Halloween. Speaking from personal experience, there was a Halloween dance recital across the street from my job, so in the evening there were numerous customers who looked like they’d been attacked by a crazy guy. As well as kids with face paint to look like zombies. It was weird.
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Halloween is a fake holiday that’s celebrated for no reason. Honestly it’s just a waste of money buying all sorts of weird decorations. Why would you want to decorate your house as a cemetery with ghosts?
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I just want the right to dress up as a blanket ghost on any day of the year without being judged
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That is accurate to the original version sorta, I think it was a Celtic thing first then got rebranded by The Church as “All Saints Day” or “All Hallows Eve” and then eventually morphed into “Halloween.” Originally Turnips were used for Jack O’ Lanterns but Pumpkins were all that the settlers in America had on hand so that’s how that bit came to be. Over the years it continued to be remolded by American culture and so most people now would just sum it up by the archetypes of trick and treating etc. and as an American holiday.
To be fair only two people said they dislike it in this topic I think (well actually I do too so that makes three now.) I think part of it (For me personally at least) comes down to what my view of the dead/dead ancestors is. I believe when you’re dead, you’re dead. I think I would be straying way to close to topics not allowed here if I elaborated much more, but the basis and origin of the holiday simply makes me uncomfortable, so I take a hard pass on it.
Also, I’d second this too, I’m squeamish so “horror” in general I find unpleasant. In conclusion, I’ll emphasis that people are free to do what they want, and I don’t want my feelings on it to infringe on y’all enjoyment of it. Man I’m so worried I’ll get blasted for posting this, guess we’ll see what happens.
Rattling dem bones all year round 
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Feel what you feel brother you’ve done no one here a disservice
If I could have super powers I would genuinely want to be a ghost. It’s the perfect powerset for exploration, mischief, I can communicate with people when I want or just disappear, it’s cost effective because nobody can force me to pay a mortgage anymore, blanket ghosts are king monsters
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