Nostalgia is better known as thinking about the things from the past, whether it be from your childhood memories or wanting to relive “simpler times.”
There are several ways to remember Halloween, a holiday where you get to dress as something scary, enjoy the views of decorations around stores and houses, and eat endless amounts of candy.
Trick or Treating aesthetic: Trick or treating is fun; filled with costumes, candy, and movies. Putting your costume on after another day of school and getting to trick or treat with friends, or even watching a scary movie if you aren’t into trick or treating. There’s always something to do on Halloween that relates to the nostalgic activity.
Killer Clowns of 2016: If there is one thing kids are afraid of, it’s clowns, so when a marketing stunt started a trend of frightening clowns, it didn’t go well.
Throughout the country people would dress up as clowns with masks and wander through the streets, scaring crowds of people in public. This led to fear for any kid who saw this online or even heard about it from their parents.
Drugged candy phenomenon: Trick or treating is so fun! Feeling the crisp cold air, seeing the leaves change and the decorated houses, walking door to door and thinking about all the candy you’ll eat on the same night. You know what isn’t fun, though? Eating candy that isn’t just candy.
Your parents may have told you that people will put drugs into some candy or something harmful like razor blades, but that isn’t necessarily true. It can happen, but it’s really more of a myth.
Whether it be your parents not wanting you to get a sugar rush or wanting to eat some of your hard earned candy, it’s a warning you won’t be able to forget.
Scary Games from 2014: What better way to spend time online as a kid than to play or watch YouTubers play scary games. One of the most popular of these games was “Five Nights At Freddy’s,” also known as FNAF.
FNAF is a point and click horror game where you play as a night guard trying to survive possessed animatronics in a pizzeria. The objective is to make it to 6 AM while fending off the animatronics and their jump scares.
FNAF is way deeper than just surviving, with a story that leaves cryptic clues hidden in plain sight that lead to the game’s backstory and explanation to possessed robots, but that’s a story for another time.
Halloween nostalgia is fun to look back on, and there will surely be more memories made this year and in years to come to fondly remember.
