Nov 1, 2026 · 2 hr 10 min · 24 segments
TIMESTAMPS: 0:00:00 "Trick or Treating Comes with Rules in Our Town" 0:23:01 "Attention, Unidentified Passenger Aboard" 0:39:37 "Have You Seen the Bone Star?" 1:20:23 "Do Not Fly Over This…
Even as the first chill of September set in, I could tell something was different about the way this town celebrated.
For one, the decorations were different.
There were no cute inflatable ones, despite the many families that had small children.
No regal wreaths of autumn foliage or pumpkins painted gold.
The kinds of decorations here were what I would call tastefully creepy.
Skeletons of all kinds, witchy hats, fake graveyards.
No hockey masks or fake corpses or bloody body parts.
I think every house had a jack-o'-lantern lit every night without fail.
Everything from classic triangle eyes to elaborate contorted faces of witches and werewolves and ghouls.
Avery and I didn't want to stand up, so we did some jack-o'-lanterns.
She did a very elaborate one with a demon on it, and I did two rather crappy triangle-eyed ones, one for each side of the front door.
Hers got the place of honor at the foot of the steps.
I yanked them off the door and started to read.
Rules for handing out candy.
1.
Please be respectful and inclusive to all of our trick-or-treaters.
Teal candy buckets mean food allergies.
Blue candy buckets mean autism.
Do not hand out candy or anything else to children using a black candy bucket.
2.
Never open the door for someone wearing a clown costume, a child or adult.
This is not a trick-or-treater.
Even as the first chill of September set in, I could tell something was different about the way this town celebrated.
For one, the decorations were different.
There were no cute inflatable ones, despite the many families that had small children.
No regal wreaths of autumn foliage or pumpkins painted gold.
The kinds of decorations here were what I would call tastefully creepy.
Skeletons of all kinds, witchy hats, fake graveyards.
No hockey masks or fake corpses or bloody body parts.
I think every house had a jack-o'-lantern lit every night without fail.
Everything from classic triangle eyes to elaborate contorted faces of witches and werewolves and ghouls.
Avery and I didn't want to stand up, so we did some jack-o'-lanterns.
She did a very elaborate one with a demon on it, and I did two rather crappy triangle-eyed ones, one for each side of the front door.
Hers got the place of honor at the foot of the steps.
I yanked them off the door and started to read.
Rules for handing out candy.
1.
Please be respectful and inclusive to all of our trick-or-treaters.
Teal candy buckets mean food allergies.
Blue candy buckets mean autism.
Do not hand out candy or anything else to children using a black candy bucket.
2.
Never open the door for someone wearing a clown costume, a child or adult.
This is not a trick-or-treater.
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