Why do people go so far as to haunted houses for Halloween for only ONE night?
822414
It's the one night a year that its fun to get scared. If your a true haunted house fan. You want to be the scariest one so they will come back next year.
811395
I think anytime you get over 100,000 people together there will be some elements that could potentially lead to the tragic thing that happened at this party. I don't think its really related to the fact they were getting dressed up and partying for Halloween necessarily. Same thing could very well have happened for any celebration or gathering of people. I don't see anything wrong with adults dressing up and celebrating Halloween. I have done it myself on many Halloweens and no one at any event I attended ever got hurt. Haven't you heard of being young at heart?
754974
I chickened out of going in there. From the outside, it certainly fits the part of a strange and spooky house with paranormal events. However, it might not necessarily be haunted.
17540
It goes back to the trials of Salem NH, people are afraid of witches thinking they can cast a spell on some one and cause harm. What people don't know is one of the cardinal rules of witchcraft is "and ye harm none do what ye will" In witch craft it is believed if you hurt some one it will come back to you three fold and it is a wiccan religious belief, Most folks I know in this do not break the "rule" So I will ask the same question why ARE people afraid of witchcraft?
518692
I tend to distinguish between ghosts and spirits. When people think of haunted houses, they tend to think of ghosts (I tend to think of them as psychic echoes), whereas my house is filled with spirits. I love my household spirits. They're my kind of spirits. Very wonderful to have around. So I don't really have many stories about them because they're just so darned good. Mostly, everything in this house works better and lasts longer than normal, like the 27 year old water heater I just replaced. \n\nBut I imagine that what you really want are some good stories, so here are a few of mine.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nI rarely ever actually see ghosts, but one time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a Pagan festival, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
902028
What I hate worse than people who point out obvious things--which you can always choose to ignore or grunt at, is people who ask stupid questions.\n\nHalloween was on a Tuesday this year, so a bunch of my friends and I all celebrated the Sunday night prior.  We all walked into a restaurant, dressed as pirates, and had people asking us all night, "Oh, wow, are those Halloween costumes?".\n\nThus requiring us to answer, and bite back our sarcastic "Oh, holy--I completely forgot Halloween was coming up!  What do you think we should dress up as?" and instead smiling and saying yes.\n\nHalloween is only one night a year, though.  I think I would hate it more if I was missing an arm...I might wish I'd kept it, so I could beat people over the head with it.
390291
When I was younger I lived in house with a ghost... I Always heard weird stuff and my belongings would be moved around. I never really knew the house was hunted untill after we moved out my father was talking about it.I was shocked other vistors also said they had experinces like mine and some even closer incounters. I rember at night i would here something and get so secard I would freez and not move till i fell a sleep and woke up the next day. I would hear people walking and no one would be there. come to find out the ghost was pretty nice. I think it was girl.
1022848
I see, if it is a human spirit, the person the spirit was in live.  They are kind of washout like a old photo that as faded.  If it is inhuman I see it in its true form which usually not a pleasant thing to see.  By the why I never ask for money when helping out in a haunting.  I turn it down when it is offered.
817174
Most people wait until the day after Thanksgiving to do it. I don't like seeing them up before then either. Some people put them up earlier because they have some nice weather to do it in and then don't turn them on until after Thanksgiving.
819247
I go trick or treating with my childern.  I dress up, but I do not take my own bag.  Trick or treat night is for childern.  Not for adults.  Some people just have a hard time growing up.  My thoughts TACKY!!!!!!!!!!
941370
That's odd. It could just be that the kids' parents didn't know who lived at your house so they didn't let their kids stop. It could also be a problem with location. If you live in a bad or dark part of town or on the outskirts or something, your place could have just been out of the trick or treater's way. \n\nDid you have your lights on? Thats another contributing factor.
443389
Good question! I think that ghosts can be around because i always thought that they were not finished with something  here on earth and they want to finish it. Poltergeist are evil and i am hoping they don't exist but if they did i guess they are just angry souls that need to express themselves.
223440
where i live, the public cemetery is just across the street. I don't mind having dead people as neighbors...actually, when you come to think of it, they are the best neighbors because they dont and cant bother you at all...unless you allow your self to let them bother you by thinking of ghostly stuff and whatnot...so, its up to you, if you want to go on being frightened of them, fine...its just a matter of mind over matter.
107149
I think alot of parents are taking their kids to places like the zoo for halloween nowadays... It's sad that they dont get the experiance of running from house to house but parents are way to paranoid now (not that they dont have good reasons to be paranoid). I thoroughly enjoy halloween every year and am disapointed when I dont get alot of kids that come to my door. I hope that we will continue to celebrate halloween.
611027
There are some great ideas in some movies... Like in the Blair Witch Project: be alone and lost in a lonely and unknow place... have to sleep in that place... start to hear scarry noises in night (like screams) and trying to scape without a light!!! That is really scarry.
814409
Who cares what others believe. At the end of the day, when you see one, the opinion of others does not really matter.\nThere are forces that we cannot explain. We all want to control our environment and pretend we can. \nThere are tricks and illusions to scare you and those are manmade. If you do believe in ghosts, it should be a quiet conviction that maybe someone is trying to reach you. Just ask him or her what do you want?
1046376
Think about why they are ghosts in the first place?\n\nNot because they are damned by anyone but themselves and their unwillingness to let go of their own fear/anger/pain or misery. Sometimes, (rarely) there are ones that actually like the power of creating fear.\n\nTo break through an influence the physical in terms of EVP, movement, cold spots and ultimately manifestations, their emotional state must be so focused and so charged. Few spirits have the experience or anger/emotion to create such dynamics.\n\nAttention is the no 1 goal of most spirits. That is probably why you get your name.