Halloween in Salem sure is a hell of a time.
Nick Bias
Wow, Salem during Halloween time is a cavalcade of unimaginable horrors and a treasure trove of absolute majesty. This is an entirely new experience for me, Halloween has always been small when I have participated. Merely trick-or-treating and dressing silly, but since this was my first Halloween in Halloween town I wanted to experience everything.
My costume was ready for about two weeks and I was anticipating this night since I picked Salem state to attend. I am ‘Helmet’ from the video game hotline Miami. Dressed in full attire I went through my classes, the end of my last class couldn't come soon enough. Then it came and the night truly started.
First things first, food. Chipotle was holding an event of 3$ burritos if you came in costume. I would die before not going to that. So in my helmet, me and 4 friends piled in Teresa’s’ car and rocked out all the way to burrito heaven. By the time we got there the line was already out the door, but we waited all the same. Me in my pink vest and helmet getting stared at with all the other costumed consumers.
The line moved fast due to good friends, great costumes and amazing workers. Full on burritos we split ways for a bit. I went to hang out with my friends Tori and Jack for a bit. We chilled in his dorm had some cookies and milk then headed to the contained mass of mental patients commonly referred to as downtown Salem. Which we will soon be committed to.
Walking to downtown in groups of people, we got there quick enough. Standing on the corner of the road we looked into the heart of downtown. I stared for a long while trying to comprehend all the people. I had my visor down so everything looked like a movie. I was staring in a first person movie of how mental downtown is. I spent two hours walking the streets with my friends.
There were so many people. All in costume.
It was crazy in the most literal sense. If cities had an occupancy limit, Salem tripled it. I was walking down the road, experiencing this event in all it glory. People screaming, running, laughing from both terror and excitement.
There is a certain stench that lies across the town of Salem during Halloween, all the people and excitement and food and happiness and terror roll into one smell. It quickly vanishes though when you start to look around, everything is trying to catch your eye. There is someone on stilts over here while a fake abduction is happening to your left, all the while street venders are trying to push there wears onto you. As this happens children run passed your feet and some guy from ten feet back screams at you “HOLY SHIT! It’s that guy from Hotline Miami. You try to turn around and thank him but he is gone lost in a sea of people just like you.
It is the most pleasurable drowning experience you will ever have. Overwhelming hysteria with a loveliness around it.
My costume was ready for about two weeks and I was anticipating this night since I picked Salem state to attend. I am ‘Helmet’ from the video game hotline Miami. Dressed in full attire I went through my classes, the end of my last class couldn't come soon enough. Then it came and the night truly started.
First things first, food. Chipotle was holding an event of 3$ burritos if you came in costume. I would die before not going to that. So in my helmet, me and 4 friends piled in Teresa’s’ car and rocked out all the way to burrito heaven. By the time we got there the line was already out the door, but we waited all the same. Me in my pink vest and helmet getting stared at with all the other costumed consumers.
The line moved fast due to good friends, great costumes and amazing workers. Full on burritos we split ways for a bit. I went to hang out with my friends Tori and Jack for a bit. We chilled in his dorm had some cookies and milk then headed to the contained mass of mental patients commonly referred to as downtown Salem. Which we will soon be committed to.
Walking to downtown in groups of people, we got there quick enough. Standing on the corner of the road we looked into the heart of downtown. I stared for a long while trying to comprehend all the people. I had my visor down so everything looked like a movie. I was staring in a first person movie of how mental downtown is. I spent two hours walking the streets with my friends.
There were so many people. All in costume.
It was crazy in the most literal sense. If cities had an occupancy limit, Salem tripled it. I was walking down the road, experiencing this event in all it glory. People screaming, running, laughing from both terror and excitement.
There is a certain stench that lies across the town of Salem during Halloween, all the people and excitement and food and happiness and terror roll into one smell. It quickly vanishes though when you start to look around, everything is trying to catch your eye. There is someone on stilts over here while a fake abduction is happening to your left, all the while street venders are trying to push there wears onto you. As this happens children run passed your feet and some guy from ten feet back screams at you “HOLY SHIT! It’s that guy from Hotline Miami. You try to turn around and thank him but he is gone lost in a sea of people just like you.
It is the most pleasurable drowning experience you will ever have. Overwhelming hysteria with a loveliness around it.