Once September hits, it’s fall. Not actually, but it’s still fall. With the beauty of this season also comes haunted attractions, houses, horror movies, and doing your best to spook people. Yet some people don’t do super well with those sorts of things. 

      I don’t know about you, but I love all things scary, but I get scared easily.  I will watch any scary movie made even though I know I’ll be hiding behind the person I’m watching it with. I just love the thrill it gives me and yelling at all the stupid people in it. 

     There are the gruesome movies that make your stomach churn like Saw and Hereditary.  The movies that keep you up at night because you see a dark figure floating in the corner of your room like The Conjuring and Paranormal Activity. But we can’t forget the classics with Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Jack Torrance in The Shining. 

     Haunted attractions like Legends of the Fog and Field of Screams are good smaller scale places to go with friends, especially the ones who aren’t so scare tolerant. They satisfy the spook factor but aren’t so terrifying you’re peeing your pants running away from someone…or something.  

     If you want some real bone chilling hair raising scares, go to an actual haunted attraction like an abandoned insane asylum or hospital. Test the limits of your inner scaredy cat.  

  There are also attractions that have warning signs of electrical shocks, suffocation, claustrophobia, and you must sign a waiver and be 18 years or older to get into. Imagine the panic someone who isn’t easily scared would go through in one of those. 

     For others though, the slightest bit of noise in the dark makes them hide under the covers. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that. But October is not the month for those people.  

     There are simpler scare tactics for those who like to make their friends squirm. Put some fake spiders in their bed or jump out from behind a door. It just wouldn’t be right to not scare at least everyone once during the freakiest month of the year.  

    Scaring and getting scared is different for everyone, and it’s important to respect the boundaries of those around you. Don’t get too carried away with those who jump when someone touches their shoulder when they aren’t paying attention.