Go someplace haunted. Every major city has a Ghost Tour anymore. Heck, Salem Massachusetts has three or four of 'em.
Visit someplace famous for being the siote of something creepy happening, or where a movie was filmed with something creepy in it. Here in New England we’ve got plenty of that — Besides Salem with its witches, there were witchcraft proceedings elsewhere in Massachusetts and in Connecticut. There’s America’s Stonehenge, which may have inspired H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwitch Horror” (and there are other sites which S.T. Joshi thinks may be the inspiration in Connecticut and elsewhere). There’s the House of the Seven Gables, and places in Salem, Gloucester, and elsewhere that inspired Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”. Go to Rhode Island and see the vampire graves that Bram Stoker saved clippings about for inspiration for Dracula. Go to Fall River and see Lizzie Borden’s House (or stay overnight – it’s a B&B). Other places around the cou ntry must surely have their own spookinesses.
Read Poe, Hawthorne, Lovecraft, King, and other frightmasters. Pick up The New Annotated Dracula.
Buy a book on Tarot and a pack of cards and tell each other’s fortunes. Play “War” with the deck and watch and see if something awful happens.
Watch a marathon of Frankenstein movies. Or Dracula movies. Or Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Or something.
Go to a Halloween party.
Later this month I am going on a tour of famous haunted places around NYC! It should be fun and exciting. I will probably have a night where a few friends come over and we watch horror movies too. I highly recommend both of these activities.
If you go to www.thelunchclub.com you will find the event I’m going to listed there. If that doesn’t work for your schedule you can make your own haunted tour with a little bit of internet research!
How about a nice long walk through an old cemetery at night, by yourself? Or a walk through a state or county park with only a flashlight to guide you?:eek:
It might not be entirely legal… but that’s part of the fun!
I’ve done this quite a few times, and the worst thing that’s ever happened is that we’ve been asked to leave. As long as you aren’t grave robbing or vandalizing… :eek: