Throughout the month of October, students walk through the dimmed streets of Halloween Horror nights filled with tall birds and their dark red eyes piercing down on you. Walking through the dark streets you spot various houses, each with a dramatic back story. In between houses you can encounter scare zones skilled with scare actors covered in big clouds of fog. The high pitched screams ran through the streets of frightened people.

Many students at Gulliver have considered HHN the best time of the year. After hearing details about their experience, eighth graders Rifat and Reed Kotob goes for his friend’s birthday, and has a blast. Rifat and Reed went during the weekend of the 10th. Both mention going to HHN took a lot of convincing. They planned to fly up to Orlando right after school, stay the night, and leave early the next morning.

“My favorite haunted house was Jason or Five Nights at Freddy’s because the sound was super interesting, I was vibing to it and at Jason at the end of it I got scared from none of them,” Kotob said. “I was trying to be tough but Jason actually scared me. Like I was walking and the smoke was coming everywhere and I was like ‘what!’ I couldn’t see anything and some guy popped up, and he was breathing in my face so I jumped onto the floor and crawled out of the haunted house.”

“My favorite part of Halloween Horror Nights was probably the scare zones because they were scarier than the actual houses,” Allen said. “They were also very creative, had a lot of detail, and the scare actors were really professional and looked real. They even had chainsaws and would chase you with them.”

Eighth grader Silvana Holschneider shared her experience at HHN with her friends. She mentions that being in groups made her feel more comfortable in the scare zones.

“I think being in a big group was a good idea because mostly in the scare zones when the people get really close to you, you can just hug all your friends and all be together,” Holschneider said.