By Lois Baley

Every year on Halloween, children of all ages dress up to go trick or treating. Originally the costumes were made to scare people, but now it is a fun day to be someone you’re not and receive candy for your efforts! Here is a list of the most popular costumes for Halloween 2013.


1) Zombies.  Zombies have been shown this year through a few new movies, World War Z, Evil Dead, along with the TV show The Walking Dead. 


2) Traditional. Still very popular are the long-time favorites: Vampires,Witches, Ghosts, Skeletons. 

3) Super Heroes are very popular considering all of the new super hero movies like Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, and Oz The Great and Powerful.

4) A hot new trend is Despicable Me 2, coming soon from Universal Pictures

5) Disney princesses are still extremely popular along with characters from the new movie Tangled.

6) A new popular one is the new TLC show called Duck Dynasty. 

There you have it… the 2013 list of popular Halloween costumes! Remember to count those zombies this year!

By Michael Roop

With Halloween right around the corner, many people are wondering what the “correct” age to stop trick or treating is. I asked  twenty people. Twelve of them said never, because if you have kids you take them ! Five others said at twenty one, and the other three said you stop when you want to.

Personally, I think that people should stop trick or treating at 20. I feel like 20 is the end of childhood, and along with the end of childhood comes certain things that you should stop doing with adulthood. Although there continues to be debate on the right age to cease trick or treating, something everybody can agre  is that candy is tasty and therefore complicates this debate.

Top 10 Halloween Movies of all Time

1.        The Exorcist (1973)

2.        Freaks (1932)

3.        Alien (1979)

4.        Psycho (1960)

5.        Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

6.        The Shining (1974)

7.        Halloween (1978)

8.        The Silence of Lambs (1991)

9.        The ring (2002)

10.     Saw (2004)

Top 10 Kid Friendly Halloween Movies

1.        It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

2.        Casper

3.        Frankenweenie

4.        Hocus Pocus

5.        Hotel Transylvania

6.        Monster House

7.        The Haunted Mansion

8.        The Nightmare Before Christmas

9.        ParaNorman

10.     Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit