Scary stuff....

I think deep down we all like to be scared, the adrenaline rush, the fear, the not knowing what's next. Of all the things to do during Halloween season, scary movies, haunted houses, etc, they're all geared to prey on that basic primordial thing deep down inside you....fear.

One of my favorite things to do during the Halloween season was find haunted houses. Not an actual house that was haunted, but places set up to scare you silly. Haunted houses, haunted hayrides, etc. Every Halloween they set up the amusement park near my house for Halloween, and it's a blast. The park is all decorated with the whole Halloween theme and every year the place is packed. I don't know what it is about being scared to death that entices us to go to these places. But I do know that I go out of my way every year to try and find them.

Some people don't share this feeling of course and I could never understand why, and of course they look at me and ask the same question.."Are you crazy"? Why do you want to go somewhere that they are going to try and scare you out of your skin? And you know what? I can't answer them. I don't know why I enjoy it so much...I just know that I do.

Whether it's going to a good gory slasher movie, like Friday the 13th, or Nightmare on Elm Street, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre to name a few classics, or the newer ones like the Saw series. There is just something about that feeling of being terrified out of your wits that get's me going. Or heading out on a quest to find a good haunted house set up, or haunted hayride, and having someone jump out in a Leatherface mask wielding a chainsaw, or a Michael Meyers mask and waving around a machete. It just gets my blood pumping and I love it.

I don't know if anyone can explain it, they reason behind the desire to be scared to death, all I know is every year without fail when the weather starts to get cool, and the leaves start to change the first thing I start thinking about is how much longer till Halloween, and I start scouring the Internet for places near me that I can go to get the crap scared out of me.

I am sure some psychology major could go on and on about why we like to do this to ourselves but you know what...I could care less about the reasons why I get like this at Halloween. All I care about is getting out there and finding as many places as I can that will make the hair on the back of my neck stand up, my blood racing through my veins, and my heart starts beating so fast I can feel it pounding in my chest, you know what I'm talking about...Halloween!