Spooky Humans: Millie Alt

“About five or six years ago, when I was trick-or-treating with my sister and my dad, I got severely frightened by something. We were at the house two doors down from my own, so we knew the owners pretty well. They always had the best Halloween decorations, such as covering their whole lawn in gravestones and skeletons, they had smoke machines and lights—the whole shebang. That year, on their porch, they had a box. It had a motion sensor [that] made a vampire, cackling ominously, [that] slowly rose out of it. Looking back on it now, it really wasn’t that scary, but I was so freaked out at the time. My dad tried to get me to go back and watch it again, but I refused. I was always kind of scared to go back to that house every Halloween since. Even this year, I went to a haunted maze with some friends and felt like I got [deja vu] when there was a similar vampire.”

(Sophomore)