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The pages of The Ontarion are haunted. Learn about phobias, listen to Halloween tunes, and carve a scary pumpkin to break the curse .

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SAFETY TIPS

Choose your own adventure:

4 A safe place to snooze off the booze 5 Five tips from SafeWalk 5 The Ontarion’s party tips

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Welcome. You have entered The Ontarion’s choose your own adventure experience. Through the turning of these pages you will explore the house on Shady Lane that is said to be occupied by a witch.

The scenario:

You’ve been out trick-ortreating with three of your friends all night and you’ve collected so much candy that you can hardly carry it all. As you’re about to call it quits for the night and start walking home, you and your friends notice a darkly-lit house at the end of the street that you don’t remember being there before. Someone suggests that the group should visit one last house.

Your palms start to sweat.

You’re sure you’ve been warned about the witch that lives on Shady Lane, but you never believe in silly rumours.

The four of you approach the crooked house. The front lawn is overgrown with weeds.

Ivy crawls up the sides of the rustic brick walls.

Your friends argue amongst themselves about who should be the one to knock on the door. It comes to a vote — you’ve been chosen to be the representative among your friends.

Do you dare knock?

No: go to Pg. 9 Yes: go to Pg. 4

F i ve h i d d e n f i g u re s a re haunting the pages of The Hallowtarion.

them all?

Can you find

TRICKS AND TREATS

20 Meal Exchange is set for another Trick 6 Guelph’s new bogeyman: The Church of or Eat Event 20 Should kids be allowed to trick-or-treat Scientology 11 Roger Christian built Star Wars out of scrap after 8 p.m.?

21 Inflatable Boo! DIY balloon decorations 22 What makes the perfect pumpkin?

22 Hannah’s super awesome chocolate bar GHASTLY GOOD TIMES review 24 Painting pumpkins: DIY jack-o’-lantern 8 Halloween sculptures illuminate Elora nail art 9 Old scary movie, new scary music 9 Alora’s top five creepiest, scariest movies of 24 Satisfying your sweet tooth: sugar vs. sugar-free candy all time 10 The Ontarion visits Halloween Haunt at HALLOWEEN FUN Canada’s Wonderland 10 Halloween-inspired art submissions 3 Choose your own adventure: The house of the witch on Shady Lane 3 Hidden figures: Can you find them all?

FRIGHTFUL THOUGHTS 5 Mad Libs: Halloween edition (Introduction) 7 Costume contest 12 Gryphons’ worst fears 13 The most horrific injuries in professional 25 Mad Libs: Halloween edition (Story) 25 Comic: Cuke baby does Halloween sport 26 Costume Quiz: What should you be for 13 The psychology behind fear Halloween?

27 A mask to cut out for a last-minute cosHAUNTED HOUSE tume fix 28 Calendar of events 16 Top 30 notable phobias 29 Crossword puzzle 16 The Hallowtarion Spotify playlist 29 Sudoku puzzle 17 No more boring jack-o’-lanterns!

30 Halloween colouring page

WICKED SPIRITS

14 The monsters found at OVC 14 Why we don’t believe in the paranormal, but love it anyway 15 The Royal City’s ghosts 18 The creepiest urban legends about Pokémon 18 Bones under Baker Street: The story of a city built on a burial ground 19 A Chinese ghost story: Xiaoqian Nie

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A safe place to snooze off the booze INSIDE U OF G’S CAMPUS ALCOHOL RECOVERY ROOM CAELAN BEARD

WITH HALLOWEEN PARTIES

just around the corner, it’s a great time to learn about the Campus Alcohol Recovery Room (CARR); a resource available to students who have had too much to drink.

The CARR is located in the front lobby of Lambton Hall, and is for students living in residence who need a safe place to sleep off their drunkenness. As described by one of the program coordinators, Benjamin St. Peters, the CARR is meant for people who are too drunk to safely stay in their room alone, but who are not intoxicated enough to be transferred to the hospital.

Once there, the intoxicated students’ well-being is monitored by volunteers, who will get them medical assistance if needed. There is always one volunteer present who is a trained First Responder, in addition to volunteers who have all received standard First Aid training. Similar programs exist at other universities, and some of CARR’s protocols and structures are based on those programs. However, there are differences. For example, St. Peters points to the program at Queen’s University, which is staffed by nurses; in contrast, U of

The CARR is a safe space for students living in residence to go when they’ve had too much to drink. | PHOTO BY ALORA GRIFFITHS

“Students who make use of the service won’t be put on any record or receive any fines, such as for underage drinking.”

G’s room is completely student-run.

St. Peters and another program coordinator, Sandra Dusolt, make it clear that the CARR is a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space for students to stay. Students who make use of the service won’t

be put on any record or receive any fines, such as for underage drinking.

St . Pet ers adds that most people don’t realize that CARR is a drop-in service. Though some students are referred to the room

by Residence Life staff (RLS), you don’t need to have a referral or be brought in. People are welcome to just walk in or help a friend to the room. However, CARR does not have the power to hold anybody if they don’t want to stay.

The room holds a maximum of six beds, but St. Peters and Dusolt say that they can usually find ways to accommodate people in instances where they are over capacity. Additionally, sometimes people who arrive earlier in the evening are okay to go home after a few hours, freeing up space for

new students.

The program kicked off on St. Patrick’s Day of 2016. This is the first year that the room has been open since Orientation Week, and it will continue to be open all fall. The program’s organizers are aiming to keep the room open all winter as well, but are still waiting for official approval.

The CARR normally operates on Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and will also be open this Halloween.

STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg.3, or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

You stand up straight and knock on the wooden door.

One, two, three times. There is no answer.

As you turn to leave, a strong gust of wind blows you back, pushing you through the open door. You fall flat on your back, the door slams shut behind you. You get up and try to open the door again, but there isn’t a doorknob.

You assess the situation. The furniture in the room is covered by sheets, as if someone was getting ready to paint the walls, but there’s a layer of dust on everything. The old paint is cracked and peeling. There are cobwebs in every corner. The atmosphere is a little creepy, but it’s nothing you can’t handle.

You decide to try to find another exit.

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SafeWalk volunteers will come to your location and walk you to any place on campus. | PHOTO BY MIRALI ALMAULA

Reach SafeWalk:

Five tips from SafeWalk FEELING SAFE ON CAMPUS AFTER DARK M I R A L I A L M AU L A

Simran Arora, for a few safety tips.

1. Safety in numbers

Walk with a friend whenever possible or call SafeWalk.

2. Stick to well-lit paths

PART OF THE CSA , SafeWalk is a

student-run volunteer organization that provides the U of G community with a reliable escort to any on-campus location between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m.

The Ontarion asked SafeWalk’s volunteer and public relations coordinator, Laurel Deeley, and SafeWalk’s program coordinator,

and charged so that you can quickly call for help.

Avoid short-cuts that take you away from areas with greater traffic.

3. Turn down your music

Keep your music at a lower volume so that you can be more aware of your surroundings.

4. Charge your phone

Make sure that your phone is on

5. Install the SafeGryphon App

This free app offers many safety features, including: I. Allowing a friend to follow your location as you walk II. A flashlight III. Connecting you with campus police IV. Connecting you with SafeWalk V. Connecting you with Crimestoppers Deeley and Arora also wanted students to know that anyone who

calls in can request that their volunteers do not wear the bright yellow SafeWalk apparel.

“We understand why our jackets can stand out and be a little bit intimidating or embarrassing,” said Arora, emphasizing SafeWalk’s goal to accommodate the needs of students. Arora also added that SafeWalk volunteers don’t have to walk with you, but can walk behind you, depending on preference.

“Anything we can do to make you feel more comfor table,” stressed Deeley.

• Through any of the emergency poles around campus, which will connect you to campus police who will then put you through to SafeWalk • Through any campus pay phone, by pushing the SafeWalk button • By dialing x53200 from any U of G phone, or by dialing the University’s phone number 519-824-4120 followed by x53200 from any phone • T hrough the Sa feGr yphon App, which is free to download • By approaching a pair of SafeWalk volunteers

The Ontarion’s party tips HOW TO HAVE A WICKED SAFE HALLOWEEN M AT T E O C I M E L L A R O

IT’S HALLOWEEN AGAIN: parties

will be hopped, downtown will be in chaos, and you and your friends will get weird. Here are some safe partying priorities to keep in mind:

MAD LIBS: Halloween edition LESLIE THOMPSON

1 . DR INK WAT E R

This is your lifeblood this weekend. Drink it when you have an alcoholic beverage, drink it when you’re eating your late-night snack, and drink it in the morning when your head hurts.

2 . E AT S O M E T H I N G

And drink some water while you’re at it.

3 . HE L P A ST RA N G E R

Do unto others as you would do unto your friends.

4 . U S E A B U D DY (O R S QUA D) SYST E M

Don’t leave a friend behind; take care of one another; remind each other to drink water.

5 . T E LL YO U R F R I E N D S F R O M O U T O F TOW N TO B E H AV E

Don’t make Mayor Guthrie angry again. Use a garbage can for litter.

1. Spooky adjective: 2. Number: 3. TV show

9. D RINK WATER

We cannot stress this enough.

7. WATCH THE VOLUM E

This might be hard as the night progresses, but some people are trying to sleep and/or are practicing transcendental meditation.

So try to be mindful and don’t be that guy that gets defensive when people shush you.

6. WEAR A R ES P ECT F U L CO ST U M E

8 . D ON’ T BE THAT G UY

Don’t be an idiot; someone’s culture is not your Halloween prop.

You’ll understand when the time comes.

Fill in blanks below and then flip to page 25 to plug your words into an original Hallowtarion story!

Word Bank:

Your privilege speaks volumes; if you think a native chief is a good costume, you’re wrong.

4. Adjective: 5. Emotion: 6. Verb, past tense: 7. Plural noun: 8. Verb ending in -ing: 9. Verb ending in -ing: 10. Verb, past tense: 11. Spooky noun, plural:

12. Your name: 13. Spooky adjective: 14. Body part: 15. Verb, past tense: 16. Halloween monster: 17. Spooky verb:

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Guelph’s new

bogeyman :

The Church of Scientology TONY ORTEGA ON WHETHER WE SHOULD BE SCARED |

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n September, The Church of Scientology began renting 40 Baker St. in downtow n Guelph. A s the Guelph Mercury Tribune and Guelph Today reported, the Baker Street space formerly housed Chalmers Community Services Centre and the Out of Poverty Society. Now, it is home to a Scientology Continental Liaison Office (CLO). The Church previously rented an office in Erin, Ont., according to Guelph Today.

Founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the early ’50s, Scientology originated with Hubbard’s theory of Dianetics, first outlined in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Dianetics proposes, with scarce evidence, that many of humanity’s ills stem from traumas, or engrams, recorded in the “reactive mind.” These traumas can be cleared away through “auditing,” a process in which one grips the tincan-like handles of an “E-meter” and responds to an auditor’s questions and prompts.

Soon “going Clear” became only one step in what Scientology calls “the Bridge to Total Freedom.”

Beyond Clear, Scientologists begin to audit the traumas that their inner beings, or “thetans,” experienced in past lives, sometimes thousands of years ago on different planets. After taking enough courses, many of which cost thousands of dollars, they may ascend through the eight levels of “Operating Thetan.”

Operating Thetan Level III is when Scientologists learn the story, famously spoofed on South Park, of galactic overlord Xenu.

Many Scientologists never reach that level and upper-level members are sworn to secrecy, convinced the information may grievously harm

“There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about Scientology having any presence in Ontario.”

P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F S A L FA L K O David Miscavige leads the Church of Scientology

the unprepared.

Some locals have expressed concern about the presence of the Church of Scientology in Guelph, planning a protest for Oct. 28 outside the CLO. The Church has dismissed those locals as a hate group.

The Ontarion reached out to Tony Ortega, a journalist and prominent critic of Scientology, to ask him whether Guelph residents should be scared of the Church.

“There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about Scientology having any presence in Ontario,” said Ortega. “There’s a reason why they’re so controversial, there’s a reason why they’ve earned a reputation for bullying and retaliating against people.”

Scientology is not in great shape, said Ortega. While the Church claims millions of members worldwide, Ortega and other critics have calculated a more modest total.

“We think the worldwide active membership is under 20,000. This is a tiny group,” said Ortega.

“It’s been a really rough 10-15 years. A lot of people have left,” he said. Many prominent defectors, including King of Queens actor Leah Remini and screenwriter

Paul Haggis, have denounced the Church’s practices in books and documentaries.

Scientology, said Ortega, is a bureaucracy like no other. There are Class V Orgs, the face of Scientology, where courses and auditing take place. There are Advanced Orgs, where parishioners go for high-level training. And there are a slew of affiliated organizations with different focuses and mandates.

CLOs, like the new Guelph office, act as middle management offices, relaying data between local Orgs and international management. They don’t recruit new Scientologists or offer auditing.

“This is not a place the public is invited,” said Ortega. “I would be shocked if they do any recruiting where they set up a table out front and try to get you to do a stress test.”

Ortega speculates that their stay in Guelph is only temporary. The Church bought the former Hockley Highlands Inn and Conference Centre in Mono, Ont., in 2009, and plan to turn it into a permanent CLO, Advanced Org, and Scientology retreat.

That facility was expected to open in 2012, but as of yet no

dates have been announced. “It’s hard to predict how long they’ll be in temporary digs in Guelph,” said Ortega.

Ortega suggests that Guelphites shouldn’t be scared of the Scientologists in town. But perhaps they should be scared for them.

The Guelph office, like all administrative Scientology establishments, will be staffed by members of the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. The Scientology website describes the Sea Org as a “fraternal religious order.” Ortega described it as “the single most important organization” in the Church.

“These are the people who have dedicated their entire lives to Scientology,” Ortega said. “They sign a billion-year contract promising to come back lifetime after lifetime, they work 365 days a years, they may go years before they see a family member.”

According to the Scientology website, Sea Org members “work long hours and live communally with … all expenses associated with their duties provided by the Church. They also receive an allowance to purchase personal items.”

According to critics like Ortega,

that view of the Sea Org is euphemistic at best. Most Sea Org members are the children of Scientologists, according to the website Ex-Scientology Kids. Ex-Scientology Kids alleges that Sea Org members are forbidden from having children and even forced to have abortions.

They live in cramped quarters with up to a dozen members in a room, and often marry young just to get some privacy. They are “disconnected” from their families and work extraordinarily hard.

The Scientology website also notes that “Sea Organization members participate in Scientology training and auditing during a portion of each day.” Ortega doubts they have a chance. “Because they’re working 112 hours a week, and getting only four or five hours of sleep a night, they don’t have time to do Scientology! I have talked to former Sea Org members who have been in for 20 years, and they hadn’t reached Clear — they had barely taken any courses at all!” he said.

“It’s kind of like if the Vatican opened a business office that had no praying going on,” said Ortega.

The Church of Scientology’s website advertises the opportunity to pursue “true spiritual enlightenment and freedom for all.”

“But those poor Sea Org workers at the CLO in Guelph, they’re just going to be pushing papers, man,” said Ortega. “They’re just going to be putting together charts and graphs and working 16 hours a day.

I feel terrible for them. They’re cut off from their family. They’re really not a threat to Canadians that live around them. But they definitely are people who are being abused.”

The Church of Scientology did not respond to The Ontarion’s request for comment by the time

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WIN a $50 Gift Card to the Brass Taps To enter: post a picture of yourself in costume on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with #hallowtarion.

Don’t forget to tag @theontarion

Contest ends Nov.1 at 12 p.m. winner will be announced in our Nov. 2 issue.

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WHAT REMAINS OF TIM MURTON’S TWILIGHT ZOO M I R A L I A L M AU L A

Illuminate Elora

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im Murton’s Twilight Zoo consists of larger-than-life Halloween sculptures made of paper, gauze, and light. Each fall, since 1996, Elora has been transformed by these sculptures through the work of volunteers.

Although some locals told me that the artist is “no longer doing the Twilight Zoo,” what remains of it — at least to someone who never got the full experience — was enough to make the drive to Elora well worth it.

Walking around the quaint downtown area, I inspected

the limestone walls carefully.

As the sun was dipping out of sight, I searched sculpture after sculpture looking for verification of what I had been told: the sculptures illuminate at night. When I saw a light blue extension cord creeping out of a skeleton, my lips burst into a smile.

Surely enough, with the arrival of night and the contrast of light, the sculptures came to life.

They were nothing short of hauntingly beautiful — emphasis on the haunting.

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Old scary movie, new scary music CHURCH SHOWS SILENT CLASSICS WITH LIVE SOUNDTRACK C A R LO S M A N D UJA N O

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George’s Anglican Church will be hosting a “Silent Movie. Live Music” experience, where people can watch the original 1923 silent

film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney. The film will be accompanied by professional organist and silent film and choral accompanist William O’Meara.

The “Silent Movie. Live Music” event started as a fundraiser for St. George’s choral scholars program.

This program supports university and high school students who sing in the St. George’s Choir.

“Last year, over 300 people came to our event, many visiting St. George’s for the first time,” said Laura Keller, the program administrator. “We screened the 1925

STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg. 3 or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

You walk up to the front door, but can’t summon enough courage to knock. Dejected, you turn around to leave, but your friends are no longer there. Their bags of candy have been left on the sidewalk.

You think you hear some muffled screams coming from the back of the house, but you’re too afraid to check.

In the following hours, police search the area, but are unable to locate them.

version of Phantom of the Opera and as people were leaving the screening they were asking us to do it again! The soaring architecture of St. George’s Church makes it the perfect venue for this kind of live music performance.”

O’Meara has an extensive background in silent film improvisation, having accompanied over 300 silent films on piano and organ around the globe.

“If you have only ever seen the Disney version of Hunchback, then you are in for a real treat,” said Keller.

Halloween at St. George’s Anglican Church means playing a classic blackand-white silent film with live improvised music. | PHOTOS

BY CARLOS MANDUJANO

Alora’s top five creepiest, scariest movies of all time | A LO R A G R I F F I T H S

1 . GET O U T (2 0 17 )

An interracial couple has finally reached the “meet-the-parents” stage. While visiting his girlfriend’s parents, Chris is forced to deal with increasingly disturbing events that lead him to fight for his own life.

2 . I T (1 9 9 0)

A group of young kids are tormented by a crazed clown that morphs into the kids’ fears. This movie is based on the famous novel by Stephen King. There is also a recent remake of this movie if you’re looking for a new twist on this horror classic.

3 . F RI DAY T H E 1 3T H (1 9 8 0)

This highly profitable slasher movie led to a long series of sequels, video games, comics, and more. A group of teenagers are trying to open up an abandoned camp, and get murdered one by one by an unknown killer.

4 . T H E T EX AS C H AI N SAW M AS SAC RE (1 974 )

This film was based on a real serial killer. The story follows two siblings who team up with three of their friends to investigate the vandalism of their grandfather’s grave. They meet a

PHOTO COURTESY OF FELIX MOONEER AM It’s rare that a new movie can touch the creep factor of a classic.

family of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. The group is attacked by chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, and must try to stay alive.

5. THE EXOR CI ST (1973)

The most profitable horror

story ever is loosely based on true events. Based on a William Peter Blatty novel, the movie tells the story of a girl who is possessed by the demon Pazuzu and the priests who try to save her.

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The Ontarion visits Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland A NIGHT OF CHILLS AND THRILLS TIANN NANTAIS & LESLIE THOMPSON

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irst introduced in 2005 under the name Fearfest, the Halloween Haunt event at Canada’s Wonderland provides visitors with spooky attractions and chilling thrills on weekend evenings for the month of October. Many of the theme park’s rides and attractions stay open for Halloween Haunt, with the addition of over a dozen haunted mazes and scare zones that leave you with goosebumps — and very likely nightmares. This past weekend, two members of The Ontarion staff visited Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland to put their nerves, and their bladders, to the test.

How did you feel heading into the Haunt?

Tiann Nantais: I was ready.

There’s something about getting the crap scared out of you that

Get spooked. | PHOTO COURTESY OF CANADA’S WONDERLAND

makes me really happy.

Leslie Thompson: As some-

one who can’t even watch Stranger Things without having nightmares, I was a bit worried.

W h a t d id y ou t h i n k o f the haunted house you went through?

TN: It was scary, but honestly I expected it to be a lot worse. I wish we would have done a scarier one: something with creepy children, or people with knives.

LT: It was okay! It wasn’t as scary as I’d expected. The theme was sci-fi and only half of the house seemed to follow this theme. Parts of it really did scare me, though!

What was the scariest part of

the evening?

TN: Being followed by a medieval zombie who just wanted to “talk.” I didn’t trust her.

LT: There was a scene in the haunted house in a bathroom with white tiles, and a woman dressed in white who emerged from the shower. She wouldn’t stop staring at me.

Would you go back?

TN: Absolutely! But I would want to do a few more haunted mazes on my next visit.

LT: Begrudgingly, I admit that yes, I would.

Original art work submitted to The Ontarion by Jamie Edmonds, a self-taught artist residing in Brampton, Ont.

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he lightsaber. The Millennium Falcon. The Imperial stormtroopers.

The original 1977 Star Wars introduced these icons and many more to the visual lexicon of science fiction. Roger Christian, set decorator on Star Wars, worked on a shoestring budget to give the film its look, putting many of the movie’s most memorable designs together out of scrap metal.

Those designs have become cultural touchstones, and Christian chronicles their origin, as well as his work on films like Alien, in his book Cinema Alchemist. At an event last weekend at the Guelph Public Library, Christian was met by fans holding toy lightsabers and wearing outfits emblazoned with his designs. I called Christian at his home in Etobicoke ahead of his Guelph appearance to ask him about his work.

Will Wellington: Do you do a lot of visiting different fan clubs?

Roger Christian: I do these all over the world. Now that the book is out, it’s a means of letting people know, because quite frankly the publishers do nothing.

People are finding it inspirational, especially students. That’s how I wrote it: how a few people made a film against all odds and with no money and it turned into a global phenomenon. It’s about inspiring people to follow their paths and their dreams. It’s the hero’s journey.

WW: And when you were starting out, who were your great inspirations in terms of art directors?

RC: [Akira] Kurosawa was my main mentor. He was an art director, and he painted some of his sets. He was my, as it were, George Lucas. We all revered Kurosawa. Alexandre Trauner — he was called “Trau Trau.” I managed to meet him in France, and I used the staircase that he built for a film called ‘Round Midnight when I did a huge Duran Duran video in Paris. He gave me that to use — I couldn’t afford to make one. (Laughter.) Actually, probably the most inspirational [to me] as a [British] director is Michael Powell. He did The Red Shoes, he did Black Narcissus.

Incredible films for their time.

Roger Christian inspired fans with his book Cinema Alchemist at the Guelph Public Librar y.

PHOTO BY MEGAN SULLIVAN

Black Narcissus is entirely set in the Himalayas — he did it all, the whole entire thing, in studio in London, and no one ever knew.

And Tarkovsky — Doctor Zhivago

by David Lean and Stalker by Tarkovsky are my two favourite films.

WW: Do you think in some ways that working with a smaller budget on Star Wars was more productive?

RC: To be honest, I think it made it possible. Fox estimated the film would make $12 million, so they gave George [Lucas] $4 million to start with when we came on board. I had no money to dress the set so I followed my own passion — science fiction should be down and dirty and real and gritty. I invented this technique of getting scrap aeroplanes and breaking all them down and sticking them in to make the sets, and using real weapons — because I couldn’t afford to make weapons.

The lightsaber, which is the icon of Star Wars, is a $10 old piece of a flash gun adapted. There were five of us on the original Star Wars doing the special effects, and the sound, and the vision: Ralph McQuarrie, John Barry, Ben Burtt, Jon Dykstra, and myself.

And I think we were all following our own dream. And it happened to be possible because there was

no money.

WW: I didn’t know that you worked on Life of Brian before working on Alien. What was your role on that set?

RC: I designed it with Terry Gilliam. And again, it’s an epic.

We were in Tunisia and the whole budget was $4 million for that film. Zeffirelli had left huge sets from his making of Jesus of Nazareth and I adapted those and the very old, amazing buildings there.

We just adapted everything, did it locally down there, in Tunisia.

And I took them down to where we made Star Wars. We used the same location where Luke’s homestead is for the cross sequence at the end.

WW: Are there any movies that have caught your eye in recent years as really outstanding sci-fi art design?

RC: Avatar stands out. Star Wars created the first leap in science fiction cinema into a new era.

To me, Avatar was the second leap. And [James Cameron] created a world that was absolutely real. He was still using the same techniques we developed, using as much real as he could. I actually really like Minority Report. I don’t know how well it did with audiences. But that had a tremendous, real look to it. And of course,

Christopher Nolan’s work also stands out. Guillermo del Toro is the last artist working in cinema.

I always tell him that, “You’re the last surviving artist, you’ve got to keep going!” [For] his new film, The Shape of Water, beautiful film, he was still with a studio — albeit an arts one, Fox Searchlight — but he went low budget so he could make the film he wanted.

WW: If you’re in Etobicoke,

I’ve heard that Guillermo del Toro lives in Toronto. Do you guys ever hang out?

RC: He lives in the Beaches.

We communicate all the time, we’ve been trying to meet. Our schedules never work together.

I finally met him a few weeks ago just before he went off on a month’s travel and then when he comes back we’re meeting again for a long get together.

WW: Are you guys going to go out for dinner or something?

RC: We will hang out, yes.

Probably eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Guillermo likes food.

WW: If there were one of your movies that you wish more people could see, what would that be?

RC: There’s two movies, actually. Nostradamus, which I made for ridiculously low amounts of money in Romania right after the revolution. It was an epic.

And it played 16 weeks in a huge number of cinemas all over Germany and Europe, and went into the Spanish and French education systems as the most accurate depiction of medieval times when it was released. And the other film, which is Quentin Tarantino’s favourite movie of 1982, is The Sender. It was a psychological horror film. And that one really, yes, that was a groundbreaking work for me as a director.

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First-year commerce; forward men’s soccer I definitely fear bugs the most. I hate bugs. They’re small, they can get into places.

Matteo Cimellaro: What bugs do you fear the most?

PZ: Earwigs, spiders, ants, centipedes. Oh my gosh, I hate centipedes so much.

MIKAELA MACDONALD First-year criminal justice and public policy; center women’s rugby Open bodies of water; they’re just scary. You don’t know what’s in them. Lakes and oceans — ewwhh (shudders).

CHRISTINE FLAHERTY Third-year animal biology; women’s rowing Snakes. They just don’t have legs, they’re slimy, I can’t see them, they don’t make a noise.

MC: Even pet snakes?

CF: I hate snakes.

SEAN MACLEAN Fifth-year marketing management; center field men’s baseball [My] big fear is going from a team environment and going into the real world and not having that same sense of team.

RYAN FREEMANTLE First-year master’s in environmental sciences; center field men’s baseball [As an athlete], my biggest fear is getting injured — I went through that this year. In life, [my biggest fear] is not reaching someone’s expectations. If someone thinks something of you and you don’t make that, or if you think something of yourself and you don’t make that [it’s terrifying].

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The most horrific injuries in professional sport THINKING ABOUT THE DANGER OF SPORT AFTER

that it did not generate bone growth quick enough to recover properly. Despite best efforts, Theismann retired before his return. His right leg is still shorter than his left.

THE GORDON HAYWARD INJURY S Y D N E Y G R AC E

IN LIGHT OF Gordon Hayward’s gruesome injury during the debut of the NBA season, The Ontarion decided to look at some of sport’s most shocking injuries.

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Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann was sacked, resulting in a compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula. The break was between his ankle and knee, leaving half of his lower leg on the ground and the other half sticking up towards the sky.

The fracture was so intense

HOCKEY

Buf fa lo Sabres goa lt ender Clint Malarchuk was struck in his crease. During the encounter, a skate caught Malarchuk’s neck, severing his carotid artery.

Malarchuk lost 1.5 litres of blood, but a trainer quick ly pinched the vessel inside Clint’s neck until he could receive the 300 stitches needed to close the wound.

Malarchuk returned to the ice only 10 days later. Although his physical recovery was quick, his mental health and performance declined rapidly after the incident. Malarchuk’s NHL career ended three years later.

BASKETBALL

L os Angeles Clippers point guard Shaun Livingston landed

awkwardly after a missed layup causing his shank to go one way, and the rest of his body the other. All fundamental mechanisms essentia l t o the k nee were injured. Doctors prepared Livingston for the possibility of amputation.

Impressively, Livingston was cleared to play basketball again almost a year and a half postinjury. He bounced from team to team before landing in Golden State where he contributed to two NBA championships.

SOCCER

C o v ent r y d e fend er D av id Busst was rushing Manchester United’s crease when a collision occurred, fracturing his right tibia and fibula. The leg was so disfigured, Manchester’s goalkeeper vomited on the field.

Busst’s lower shank also contrac ted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) while recovering f rom 2 6 operations, which threatened amputation and ended his career.

The incident incited mental health complications for both Busst and others on the field that day.

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Boston Red Sox pitcher Bryce Florie was on the mound in the ninth inning when contact on a pitch sent a 100-miles-per-hour line drive zooming back into Florie’s right eye, crashing right through the socket.

After a couple surgeries to preserve his sight and repair the damage to bones in the face, Florie returned for seven games before being released. His vision has still not fully recovered.

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The psychology behind f e a r WHY IS IT SO FUN TO SCARE PEOPLE? | IT’S HALLOWEEN NIGHT; you and your friends are preparing for an evening of blood-curdling screams and chill-inducing nightmares.

Some of you might be wondering: where do these emotions originate, and why do some people react differently? The psychology of fear has been investigated by scholars for generations.

According to Dr. Gail Gross, when a person is exposed to something frightening in a given situation, their body operates as if it’s facing a physical threat.

When this happens, their brain automatically defaults to a “fight or flight” mode to promote survival.

In a blog for Huf fington Post, Gross explains that this is the body’s way of protecting itself from dangers within the environment when it may be experiencing distress. A stress hormone called cortisol is released in the brain, causing an individual’s adrenaline to pump and allowing them to react quickly to danger.

If this is the case, then why do some individuals enjoy being scared, while others do not? This comes down partly to an individual’s personality.

How well a per son ca n f ilt er out unwanted stimuli also predicts whether or not the individual will react positively or negatively to the situation.

In an interview with The Ontarion, U of G psycholog y professor Francesco Leri explained that “fear is an emotional response from your brain reacting to a dangerous or fearful situation.”

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Fear is an emotional response from your brain reacting to a dangerous or fearful situation.

The emotion of fear originates in the amygdala, which is located in the frontal portion of the temporal lobe, and provides feeling to certain emotions, said Leri.

Leri added that the way an individual deals with fear also comes down to the nature of the stimuli, and how much control a person has over the situation.

“A person who is lost in the woods, for example, would not have very much control of the situation due to the nature of the stimuli,” Leri said. “Now, compare this to someone who is watching a horror film with their friends. The stimuli is controlled, resulting in a reaction that is usually more positive.”

Barbara Salsberg Mathews is Shakey the Shameless Agitator. On Guelph’s Kent Street, Halloween 1982. | PHOTO BY NANCY DICKINSON

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The monsters found at OVC (NO, THERE ISN’T A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE) C A R L E I G H C AT H C A R T

THE DATE IS OCT. 31. The Uni-

versity of Guelph is buzzing with chatter of costume ideas, candy sales, and crazy Halloween parties. Some students ponder taking advantage of their baby face and unseasonably warm weather to sneak in one more night of trickor-treating before surrendering to adulthood.

Across the street, things are far grimmer. Whispers abound on the main campus regarding the mysterious creatures spotted at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC). There, those who once appeared to be normal students have reportedly been spotted in a non-human state. Slowly, and with dark circles under their

Beware. OVC monster sightings have increased in the last week. | PHOTO BY ALORA GRIFFITHS

...they’re harmless unless you make an attempt to part them from their coffee. eyes, these folks shuffle around campus, stiff-limbed and clutching their caffeinated beverages tightly.

Very little is known about these unidentified monsters. They aren’t thought to be dangerous, though

the species has only been observed for two months and research is ongoing. Rumour has it they’re harmless unless you make an attempt to part them from their coffee.

Initially, there was concern that

these ghostly beings took a liking to the guts of agricultural and companion animals. However, it was later discovered that these students were, in fact, simply attending anatomy lab. The creatures have been spotted obtaining nutrition from a communal feeding area known as the OVC Café.

Though the universal zombielike appearance reflects on all students, upper-years pity the fatigue of the phase one freshmen. Whether this mysterious

condition has been caused by an infectious bite or the viral OVC Plague, there is little hope for things to go anywhere but down.

“6.75 credits?” snorts a phase three scholar, pouring her fifth tea that morning. “That’s cute.”

As the semester progresses, these individuals have slowly morphed in physical presentation.

An external shell of clean boots and fancy dress shirts has molted, giving way to an undercoat of track pants, running shoes, and 2015’s O-Week t-shirt. Projections show that by December, a full transition to pajamas will have occurred.

An enigma these folks may be, but faculty and staff at OVC express no fear for their safety.

Professors and department heads cite an intense curriculum and negative available time for any actual apocalypse to occur.

“No, I’m not worried,” cackled Dr. Petgrave. “I assigned enough reading s t o la st them until February.”

Despite their state, these students are expected to soldier on.

No haunting or witchcraft forces them to remain at OVC; they do so of their own free will. In fact, it is believed that one day, they will each emerge from those hallowed halls as professional, proud individuals. Until then, caffeine sources remain well-stocked.

Why we don’t believe in the paranormal, but love it anyway C H E RY L V E R S C H U E R E N

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg. 3 or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

Your footsteps echo as you walk down the stairs to the basement. There’s a black pot of bubbling liquid above a fire. Shadows dance behind the glow of the flames. And you can make out what looks like a silhouette of an old woman sitting huddled on an antique chair.

Could there actually be a witch that lives in the house on Shady Lane?

To run back upstairs: go to Pg. 19 To say hello: go to Pg. 27

Professor Jennifer Schacker from U of G’s English department expects you to say no.

People, she says, want to push away their belief as far as possible in order to reinforce what they believe should be real. At the same time, however, we all know someone who claims to have had some sort of paranormal experience, and we don’t think they are lying.

So which one is it? Do you believe them or not?

The real issue, according to Professor Schacker, is that students are at a time in their lives when they are in between childhood and adulthood. They want to believe in the impossible, but are afflicted with a sense of realism, or a sense

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of “growing up.”

Much of the appeal of ghost stories is the belief that the events within them could be true, whether you believe it actually happened or not. This is why shows like Ghost Adventures are so popular with the public — it both reinforces your sense of belief by putting evidence before your eyes,

but also makes you skeptical when they make a big deal over the rustling of wind.

Another aspect that makes ghost stories so appealing is the relatable sense of mystery that everyone can remember experiencing at one point or another. Almost everyone has had an experience that eludes sense in one way or another. How many times have you walked into a dark room and felt like you were not alone?

But admitting belief is rare, says Schacker. People want to distance themselves from the paranormal.

It’s often uncomfortable to address one’s anxieties and fears in a corporeal being.

All in all, it doesn’t really matter if you believe that ghosts are real, it’s only important that the stories continue, and your sense of wonder isn’t extinguished.

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The Royal City’s ghosts TAKING THE GHOST WALK THROUGH GUELPH S TO RY & P H OTO S BY L E S L I E T H O M P S O N

AS WE STOOD OUTSIDE the train station on Carden Street, lights flickered above us, adding to the already eerie atmosphere.

The group spoke in hushed tones, excited and nervous about what was to come. As we waited for our ghost walk tour guide to arrive, the buses slowly left the station one by one.

Suddenly, aside from each other, we seemed to be alone.

Or were we?

Even skeptics would get spooked on a tour through historic downtown Guelph with the guide from Ghost Walk of Guelph. Drawing from hours of research and interviews with witnesses, Greg Taylor is a knowledgeable guide with a plethora of stories. From the mistress of The Albion and Guelph’s secret tunnels, to the soldiers of the Armoury and the ancient houses on Norfolk Street, the City of Guelph appears to be home to hundreds of spirits and scary stories.

The city is old. Since it was

founded in 1827, Guelph has been home to poet and soldier John McCrae, actor Joe Sawyer, and architect Esther Hill. People from all different walks of life have passed through the Royal City; Guelph has even supposedly been visited by the likes of gangster Al Capone. As an old town with a rich history, it is no surprise that dozens of eyewitnesses claim to have seen, heard, or experienced ghosts and other supernatural phenomenon.

Walking through the city on the Ghost Walk leaves one alert and jumpy.

“I liked the ghost walk,” said U of G student Emma Thomas, “because it gave me insight into Guelph’s history, but it also gave me the thrill of being spooked.”

Some of the group members, including Madelle Krucker, president of the University’s History Society (the group that planned the event), felt more than just jumpy.

“During the walk, I would

The streets of Guelph are full of spirits whose stories are brought to life, one Ghost Walk at a time.

Even skeptics would get spooked on a tour through historic downtown Guelph sometimes feel hands or something near or on my body,” said Krucker.

“It felt like someone who wasn’t there was listening as well.”

After the tour finished, walking back through the streets was disconcerting. The buildings of downtown Guelph appeared different after the discoveries from the

evening, and will probably never look the same — some buildings more than others.

“The most unsettling location was the Albion by far,” said U of G student Alison Ireland. “I had chills listening to story after story

about various experiences people have had. I’ll never feel the same walking in there again!”

The Ghost Walk of Guelph has three other walks this month.

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The Hallowtarion Spotify playlist A R I A N A LO N G L E Y & K A R E N K . T R A N

“ In the Room Where You Sleep”

by Dead Man’s Bones 2. “Grave Situation Part 1”

by The Burning Hell 3. “Halloween”

by The Misfits 4. “She Walks Right Through Me”

by Alex Day 5. “Steven”

by Alice Cooper 6. “A Nightmare on My Street”

by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince 7. “Somebody’s Watching Me”

by Rockwell 1.

8. “Haunting”

by Halsey 9. “Monster

Hospital”

by Metric 10. “Ghostbusters”

by Ray Parker Jr. 11. “River Below”

by Billy Talent 12. “Clint Eastwood”

by Gorillaz 13. “Monster Mash”

by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers 14. “The

Time Warp”

by The Rocky Horror Picture Show Me to Life”

by Evanescence 16. “Ghosts”

by PVRIS 17. “Helena (So Long & Goodnight)”

by My Chemical Romance 18. Whirring”

by The Joy Formidable 19. “Little Talks”

by Of Monsters And Men 20. “Forever Halloween”

by The Maine 15. “Bring

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25 Halloween and school-related phobias Find out The Ontarion staff’s greatest fears and more

— Fear of darkness (Alora) 2. Acrophobia — Fear of heights (Leslie) 3. Ailurophobia — Fear of cats (Mirali) 4. Arachnophobia — Fear of spiders (Karen) 5. B ibliophobia — Fear of books.

6. Coulrophobia — Fear of clowns (Frances) 7. Cucurbitophobia — Fear of pumpkins 8. Geniophobia — Fear of chins 1. Achluophobia

— Fear of equines (Tiann) 10. I ophobia — Fe a r o f poison (Matteo) 11. Myxophobia — Fear of slime 12. Nyctohylophobia — Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night (Will) 13. Odontophobia — Fear of teeth or dentistry 9. Hippophobia

14. Paraskavedekatriapho-

bia — Fear of Friday the

13th

15. Pediophobia

dolls 16. Phobophobia

phobias 17. Placophobia

— Fear of — Fear of — Fear of

tombstones 18. Sciophobia

shadows

— Fear of — Fear of

19. Scoleciphobia

worms

20. Scolionophobia

of school 21. Spectrophobia

mirrors 22. Stygiophobia

hell.

— Fear

— Fear of

— Fear of

— Fear of mice (Carolynn) 24. Taphephobia — Fear of the grave or fear of being buried alive 25. Wiccaphobia — Fear of witches and witchcraft 23. Suriphobia

No more boring jack-o’-lanterns!

FIVE TIPS FOR A SCARY PUMPKIN F R A N C E S E S E N WA

NOTHING SAYS HALLOWEEN like a smiley, gap-toothed jack-o’lantern with triangle eyes sitting on your neighbour’s porch. Sure, it’s the traditional pumpkin face, but there’s nothing particularly scary about it. Forget those tired triangle eyes and take your pumpkin carving skills up a notch this year. Here are five steps to creating a spine-chilling pumpkin.

1. Pick a misshapen pumpkin

It all starts with the pumpkin you choose. If you get a larger pumpkin, it will be easier to carve. But, if you want to make a truly terrifying jacko’-lantern that stands out from all the rest, give the awkward gourd a chance. An oddly-shaped pumpkin will add character and make your final design much creepier.

2. Plan ahead

Once you have a pumpkin, grab some paper and do a little sketching. This is the time to experiment with different expressions and face shapes. Taking the time to plan ahead will help you avoid mistakes

later.

TIP: Use a dry erase marker to draw on your pumpkin. You’ll be able to erase any mistakes and remove any marks left behind when you’re done carving.

3. Add character!

Try to get really creative. Give your pumpkin personality by varying the size and shape of its features.

You could make a pumpkin with small beady eyes and a large frown.

You could give it a crooked grin filled with sharp teeth of different sizes. Or, how about a pumpkin with thin lips sewn shut and large angry brows? The scariest pumpkins

are all about variation.

4. Accessorize

You can also dress up your pumpkin. Add hats, scarves, fake spiders.

Stick some nails in it. Paint it green, if you want. Give it fake blood drops. Just have fun with it.

5. Experiment with lights

Imagine walking up to a house with a spooky, blinking jack-o-lantern. Or a pumpkin lit with sinister red lights. Blue glow sticks, bicycle lights, christmas lights, tea lights, remote-controlled pumpkin lights: there are so many ways to illuminate your creation. Just be sure to

choose something that isn’t a fire hazard (like candles).

Now, grab your carving tools and go make something that will have your neighbours’ boring jack-o’-lantern roll off their porch in terror.

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he world of Pokémon is a strange place. There are so many questions that are purposely left unanswered.

What type of meat do humans eat if all the animals are Pokémon, but Pokémon are supposed to be their friends? How come the protagonist of the game always has an absent father? Why do adults leave important tasks like saving the world to 10-year-old children?

No one’s sure if there’s an answer to these questions, but still fans try to figure them out.

Here are some of the spookiest theories about Pokémon.

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The Lavender Town background music from Pokémon Red and Green caused child suicides

T his belief st ems from a Creepypasta story (sort of an online urban legend) that details children’s apparent compulsion to hurt themselves after hearing the unsettling background music that played when the player entered Lavender Town. Lavender Town is home to Pokémon Tower, a burial site for beloved Pokémon companions, which only adds to the atmosphere.

Fans theorized that the song was laced with deadly frequencies, but this has not been scientifically proven. There is no evidence that

there was actually an increase in suicides when the game was released.

Voltorb is a Haunter that’s been trapped inside a Pokéball

The idea is that the ghost-type Haunter Pokémon possessed an inanimate Pokéball and got stuck inside it. If you compare the eyes of a Voltorb and Haunter, they are indeed similarly shaped.

Cubone are the orphans of Kangaskhan

One of the most compelling

fan theories is that Cubone is an orphaned Kangaskhan. The baby Kangaskhan seen in the adult’s pouch bears a shocking resemblance to Cubone, except for the skull that Cubone wears on its face.

The explanation for the skull?

The Pokémon Crystal Pokédex entry says, “It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother’s skull, never revealing its true face.”

Ghost Pokémon are born from the souls of other Pokémon

Normally, Pokémon faint when they lose a battle, and are taken to a nearby Pokémon Centre to heal. There’s never been an official explanation of how Pokémon actually die, but ghost Pokémon are always found in the wild near graveyards.

Moreover, Pokédex entries for ghost-type Pokémon are pretty disturbing. These aren’t exactly urban legends — they’re considered facts since they’re written in the official Pokédex, but there is debate among fans over whether Pokédex entries are meant to

represent scientific research conducted by the Pokémon professors, or if they’re random theories devised by the 10-year-old children that the professors employ.

Here are some of the creepiest: Banette: “A doll that became a Pokémon over its grudge from being junked. It seeks the child that disowned it.” (Pokémon Black/ White) Yamask: Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.” (Pokémon Y) L ampent: “ The spirits it absorbs fuel its baleful fire. It hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on.” (Pokémon Omega Ruby) Phantump: “According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest.” (Pokémon Alpha Sapphire) Froslass: “The soul of a woman lost on a snowy mountain possessed an icicle, becoming this Pokémon. The food it most relishes is the souls of men.”

(Pokémon Moon) Mimikyu: “Its actual appearance is unknown. A scholar who saw what was under i0ts rag was overwhelmed by terror and died from the shock.” (Pokémon Sun)

Bones under Baker Street: The story of a city built on a burial ground TRISTAN CROCKER SHARES THE DARK SIDE OF CANADIAN HISTORY MARIK A LI

THE CITY OF GUELPH: founded in 1827, population a little over 100,000. Guelph is just big enough to be interesting, but small enough to retain a hint of old-world charm.

There’s just enough greenery between the houses and shops to keep the growing city quaint and idyllic.

But there may be more to the city’s history than meets the eye.

In October 2005, construction workers renovating a parking lot on Baker Street in downtown Guelph found bones — bones of people from different ages and different circumstances. More human remains were found under Baker Street as recently as October 2016.

Arts student Tristan Crocker investigated the case of the Baker Street bones on the first episode of his CFRU 93.3 radio show, That’s Telling. He got in contact with

Human remains have been excavated from the Baker Street parking lot; some were only 30 centimeters below street level. | PHOTO BY ALORA GRIFFITHS

consulting archaeologist, Dana Poulton, who’s worked on the Baker Street excavation since 2005.

It’s relatively well known that Baker Street served as Guelph’s first graveyard, founded on the same day as the city itself. Those living in poverty or without family were usually buried unceremoniously in public graves. What isn’t known, however, is how these people’s stories contribute to Guelph’s history. The city entrusted Poulton with discovering this.

“I cold called a lot of people and no one got back to me except [Poulton]. But that was actually a good thing, because he was the most directly involved with [the bones],” Crocker said. “He knew everything — the stories of the people and

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how they progressed over each dig.

There had been three different digs there. So he was like a fountain of knowledge.”

Poulton revealed that the public burial ground was closed by the mid-1800s, likely due to hygiene

reasons. Many of the bodies were removed and buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park by relatives or friends who paid a small fee. Other remains were simply forgotten and found later through construction excavations, since some remains were only around 30 centimetres below street level.

Some of the bones under Baker Street are the remains of people who lived in the worst of circumstances.

Poulton recalled a mysterious set of remains from a man with various health issues who died with a shattered hand and broken nose.

The bones hadn’t healed right, so it’s possible the man died in a fight or from wounds sustained in a beating. Another man’s remains revealed he had survived a badly

broken jaw as a child. Some of the infant remains showed clear signs of abuse or trauma: one child’s skull was fractured from being shaken violently, another died due to blunt force from a blow to the back of his or her head.

“These bones show that while Guelph seems quaint, it was made by people who lived lives unimaginable to some of the people who live here now,” Crocker said.

Crocker started That’s Telling because he believes that stories give people a glimpse into the perceptions and humanity of others. No one can say for sure what Guelph was really like in the past, but that past can inform the lives of people today. And getting closer to the truth means looking at all sides of a story.

“The past has a way of pushing itself into the present,” Crocker said. “I think in Canada, people overlook stories that are a bit darker. But I don’t think Canada is different from the States or other parts of the world.”

The next episode of That’s Telling will feature LSD testing and torture done on students and veterans by the CIA in Montreal in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

That’s Telling airs on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. on CFRU.

Twitter @thatstelling.

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A Chinese ghost story: Xiaoqian Nie | IN CHINA , Halloween is not cel-

ebrated, but we do have ghost stories. This is the story of a poor scholar named Ning.

Ning, a poor scholar, is famous for his honesty and kindness.

One night, he is looking for a place to sleep. Fortunately, he finds an old temple hidden behind many trees. Ning does some cleaning and then goes to sleep.

Suddenly, Ning is awoken because he hears some noise; three women are talking outside. Faintly, he hears that they are complaining about their grandmother.

About an hour later, a woman goes into the temple. Ning gets up at once. She is a beautiful young woman with a slender figure and pretty face. She asks Ning if he wants to have an unforgettable night with her. Ning is amazed.

He talks to this young lady seriously, explaining that a woman

should have a reserved manner and behave gently.

The woman says that nobody will know what happens tonight.

She adds that she wants to give Ning some gold. Ning is angry w it h t he woma n’s f r ivolou s behaviour. He refuses all the presents and tells the woman to get out at once.

The next day, a terrible atmosphere covers the whole village.

A young man is found dead on his bed with a hole in his right foot. The day after, another one dies in the same way.

Ning stays in the temple and worries about the strange events in the village. Suddenly, the door opens and the young lady enters again.

Ning asks her to leave, but this time, the lady tells him that she is a ghost, named Xiaoqian Nie. She has been dead since she was 18. However, the death world is controlled by a powerful and

I must go in.

The fog is

rising.

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evil old woman, who is called Grandma by all of the ghosts.

Grandma commands all the ghosts to collect people’s blood for her by putting a hole in one foot. Because of Ning’s good behaviour, Xiaoqian was moved and believes Ning is a good and responsible man.

That’s why she doesn’t want to kill Ning and has told him the truth so that Ning can live. Ning is touched and then asks Xiaoqian what he can do to help these ghosts. Xiaoqian smiles and tells him that he can help to remove their ashes from the cemetery.

The next morning, Ning travels to find Xiaoqian’s grave. He finds the cemetery and takes her ashes back. Xiaoqian appears again to express her gratitude.

She is a free ghost now and follows Ning to take care of him.

Xiaoqian is so considerate and virtuous that not only Ning’s parents, but also the villagers,

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all accept her.

A few months later, Xiaoqian becomes accustomed to the living

world and marries Ning. The ghost and the man live happily in the days that follow.

Double, double

toil & trouble;

Fire burn, &

cauldron bubble.

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure!

Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg. 3, or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

The stairs creak as you walk up the spiral staircase, step by step. There is a hallway that leads to what looks like a library, and you could be in luck — the wispy floor-length curtains billow, signaling an open window. Maybe you can shout to your friends for help.

As you walk to the library, you notice a dripping sound coming from behind a closed door on your right.

Do you: To continue down the hallway: go to Pg. 20 To Investigate the noise: go to Pg. 28

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Meal Exchange is set for another Trick or Eat event STUDENT-ORGANIZED EVENT HOPES TO RAISE AWARENESS AND DONATIONS FOR LOCAL FOOD BANKS M AT T E O C I M E L L A R O

CURRENTLY, there are over 500 volunteers signed up to participate in the Trick or Eat event that will take place next Tuesday (on Halloween), and that number is expected to rise.

Volunteers include local high school students and members of the University of Guelph student community.

“At the end of the night, we will have over 280 grocery carts full of cans of food,” Celeste Lopreiato, the Meal Exchange Guelph chapter’s coordinator, told The Ontarion.

Volunteers will meet at the University Centre at 4:30 p.m.,

dressed in costume, and will board buses that will be sent to nine different neighborhoods to collect donations.

The event will take the form of door-to-door trick-or-treating, except non-perishable food items will replace candies.

Meal Exchange Guelph is in its 18th year of Trick or Eat, and hopes to break the record for most food donated in a single event.

The current record was set in 2014 when students raised over 44,000 pounds of food for surrounding food banks.

Lopreiato noted that Trick or

Eat and Meal Exchange Guelph have suffered from a few “slow years” since the 2014 record, but intend to increase presence on campus through social media initiatives and community outreach. “[We’re] reaching out to different high schools, we’re putting big banners in the community […] [and] reaching out to groups that would be interested, such as Universities Fighting World Hunger, the Guelph Student FoodBank, and various other groups,” Lopreiato said.

restricted trick-or-treating for those over the age of 14 and set a curfew of 7 p.m.

The bylaw states that anyone spotted wearing a facial disguise after 8 p.m. or anyone over the age of 16 caught trick-or-treating could be fined up to $200.

The bylaw, even with its amendment, seems too serious.

Some parents with later shifts work until 6 p.m. and may not get a chance to take their kids out before the curfew.

On the other hand, it is understandable that some residents may be concerned about teenagers causing trouble late at night through Halloween pranks like smashing pumpkins, TP-ing houses, or egging cars. And, of course, some parents may be concerned that teenagers may bully or steal candy from youngers kids.

While these are understandable concerns, the bylaw assumes the worst of everyone over a certain age rather than dealing with those NEW BRUNSWICK THINKS NOT who are doing something wrong — M I R A L I A L M AU L A & S O BYA JAV E D regardless of age.

It should be the responsibility of the community to discourage vanON OCT. 16, the New Brunswick province also amended their Hal- dalism or bullying from occurring. city of Bathurst amended a bylaw loween curfew to 8 p.m. that bans trick-or-treating for While the bylaw may seem people above the age of 16; the s t r i c t , t h e o r i g i n a l b y l a w

Should kids be allowed to trick-or-treat after 8 p.m.?

“At the end of the night, we will have over 280 grocery carts full of cans of food.”

Outside of Trick or Eat, the U of G chapter of Meal Exchange hopes to create more community engagement through student

centered initiatives like cooking classes and a speaker series.

“Meal Exchange in general is changing,” Lopreiato said. “We are trying to do more events for students, more education-based events, and more student involvement events [to create] more regular volunteer opportunities for students.”

Tr i c k o r Eat t a ke s p l a ce o n Oct. 31 from 4:30-8:00 p.m.

STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg. 3, or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

You feel a pair of eyes on you as soon as you walk into the library. You try your best to ignore it, and call out the window to your friends.

They’ve been sitting on the sidewalk, waiting. One of them has started eating Halloween candy – from your trick-or-treat bag!

Someone eventually calls for help and the fire department rescues you. Your friends make fun of you for the rest of the year, but you know there was definitely something or someone else with you in the library that night.

The feeling of eyes watching you when you’re alone never quite goes away.

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Inflatable Boo! DIY balloon decorations Snake

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Fill your balloon up almost all the way, leaving a two-inch uninflated tail.

2. Tie the nozzle into the balloon body about one finger-length away from the top.

3. Make another finger-length loop that twists into the base of the first loop. This is your snake’s mouth.

4. Blow up a small, white, round balloon to the size of your palm.

Proceed to twist this round in half to get two kidney shaped balls. These will be your eyes.

5. Shove the middle of the eyes into the twist at the base of the mouth. Secure them on the snake by twisting them around.

6. Wrap the end of an uninflated balloon at the base of the mouth and around the eyes. Position it coming out of its mouth for the tongue.

7. To get the curvy body, fold the long body part into a zig zag.

Lightly press for seconds and release.

8. Draw spiral pupils and nostrils on the face and you have a snake that won’t eat you while you sleep!

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There’s always an inordinate amount of pressure to have fun on Halloween.

Questions like, “What am I going to be? Which party will I go to? Will I have plans?” become commonplace mantras.

Luckily, one question you don’t have to ask is, “How will I decorate?”

Balloons can make any activity 87 per cent more fun. This week, I teach you how to create three easy Halloweeninspired balloon animals to decorate your place and add life to any space.

These inflatable friends can make a night of sitting on the couch watching ParaNorman the envy of the people that didn’t invite you to their party.

Please visit theontarion.com for photos of the steps.

Cat Blow your balloon up so that a hand’s length is not inflated. This will give the air somewhere to go while you’re twisting, and prevent the balloon from popping.

2. Tie the nozzle about one inch from the top of the balloon.

3. Create five one-inch bubbles in a row. They should look like a string of pearls. From there, twist the beginning and the end of the string together, forming a ring of one-inch beads.

4. This is where it gets tricky. You need to perform a move called “the pinch twist” on the second and fourth bubble in the ring. To perform a pinch twist, slightly pull the bubble up away from the rest of the balloon. While pinching up, twist the bubble. It should look like kidney beans, or cat ears, if you did it correctly.

5. Twist another one-inch bubble directly below the head for the neck. For the legs, twist a handsized loop that ties into the bottom of the neck and repeat a hand’s width away from the first loop.

6. D raw some eyes, a mouth, whiskers, and a nose. Now you have your own shed-less cat!

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Ghost Blow up a white balloon, leaving two finger-widths at the end uninflated.

2. On both sides, tie the nozzle/ uninflated nub about one inch from the top of the balloon.

3. Find the middle of the balloon and twist to form two large balloon segments.

4. Swirl the two sections together.

When both sides have at least five inches free from the swirl, twist them together to secure.

5. Blow up a small white round balloon and secure it between the arms by twisting the nozzle around the top of the swirl.

6. Draw a surprised face and you have yourself a cute ghost that won’t haunt your nightmares.

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What makes the perfect pumpkin? |

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THE PUMPKIN is an iconic symbol of October: a staple of all things fall and at the forefront of much-loved holidays like Thanksgiving and Halloween. Aside from pumpkin spice-flavoured everything, pumpkins are well known for their versatility as jack-o’-lanterns and pies. It wouldn’t be fall without the pumpkin. But what makes the perfect pumpkin?

You get a pumpkin, and you get a pumpkin

According to the 2011 Census of Agriculture, 2,239 farms in Canada had a pumpkin patch.

With an average of three to four pumpkins per single plant, that’s a whole lot of Canadian pumpkins.

There are dozens of different varieties of pumpkins, so the answer to perfection isn’t an easy one. It boils down to the purpose of the pumpkin.

“I always look for one that is large enough to carve a good face into,” explains Martin Straathof, a University of Guelph employee. “It needs to be perfectly symmetrical with a large stem, to allow for an easy removable lid.”

The pumpkins Gryphons use for carving have been well-selected to ensure for perfect carving conditions. Typically jack-o’-lantern pumpkins have a thinner shell, less “guts” inside, and contain more water than their pie-making cousins.

Pie pumpkins are usually much smaller, with plenty of flesh and “guts” for baking. They are a lot pulpier and have a sweeter flesh on the inside.

It is a joy to pick the perfect pumpkin to carve right out of the patch each October. | PHOTO BY JORDAN TERPSTRA

Pumpkins of Halloween past

In the past, the perfect pumpkin wasn’t even a pumpkin. In the 19th century, it was turnips that were hollowed out and carved with scary faces. The tradition of jack-o’-lantern carving is thought to have come to North America from Ireland. Varying origin stories exist. One states that the jack-o’-lantern is the wandering

spirit of a blacksmith named Jack.

The story goes that he was too evil to get into heaven, but also banished from hell. He scoops glowing coal into the vegetable he has eaten and uses it to light his way as he wanders the Earth.

Perhaps the spirit of Jack enjoyed a plethora of vegetables, which explains the transition from turnips to pumpkins.

Beauty is in the eye of the carver

“I think the most imperfect pumpkins are perfect,” says Emma Puckering, an animal biology student. “All of their quirks and imperfections make them better.”

It turns out there is no one perfect pumpkin; the answer will always vary depending on who you ask.

“I’m all about colour,” states

Hannah’s super awesome chocolate bar review | SOMETIMES life’s simplest decisions, like deciding on the perfect chocolate bar to curb your anxious cravings, can also be the toughest. These handy tips and reviews will help you power through the indecision.

STEP 1: Determine your hunger level

Chocolate bars are available in traditional, bite, and fun sizes.

STEP 2: Con sider dietary n e e d s

Allergic to nuts? Lactose intolerant? Gluten-free? Vegan?

Vegetarian? Or just an overall healthy person? There’s a perfect chocolate bar for everybody!

STEP 3: Indulge in your favou ri te m outh -waterin g tre at s

Grace Thornton, a wildlife biology and conservation student. “No matter the purpose, my pumpkins always need to be the classic deep orange.”

Let this be a lesson to all Gryphons: although some pumpkins are better suited to one job over another, no matter the shape, size, or colour, all pumpkins are perfect in their own way.

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Nu t s for n u t s !

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: Smooth peanut butter coated in delectably fine chocolate. All in the size of your palm. If you love candy shells, Reese’s Pieces are a delicious alternative.

Almond Joy: Creamy shredded coconut filling, topped with whole almonds and coated in chocolate.

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Rolo: The soft chocolate shell protects the silky caramel. Although few people hand out these treats during Halloween, you can buy a large package of bite-size Rolos to share with a group of friends.

Twix: A cookie bar covered in a layer of caramel and coated in chocolate.

Mars: Malt nougat, topped with caramel and coated in milk chocolate.

C an’ t d e c i d e bet we e n c h ocol ate or co o k ie s ?

Try a new treat this Halloween. | PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Hershey’s Cookies ’n’ Creme: White chocolate with chocolate cookie bits allow for an exceptional compromise.

Kit Kat: There’s nothing more satisfying than the snap when you break the crunchy wafer in two — except biting into the beautiful chocolate covered wafer.

M y favo u ri te

Cadbury’s milk chocolate bar with Crunchie bites. The pure chocolat e, complement ed by sweet toffee bites, melts in your mouth. This unique chocolate bar is only available at select Sobey’s in Canada and in Europe.

If you have special dietary needs, I suggest Purdy’s Chocolatier. They have a location in Stone Road Mall that sells vegan chocolate, and will be able to advise you on gluten-free and dark chocolate options as well.

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Satisfying your sweet tooth:

Painting pumpkins: DIY sugar vs. sugar-free CANDY jack-o’-lantern nail art THE ULTIMATE

A R I A N A LO N G L E Y

HALLOWEEN LET’S FACE IT. Jack-o’-lanterns are a waste of food. This week, I teach you how to create your own jack-o’-lantern nail art in an attempt to save a pumpkin.

We’re using a moderate amount of freehand painting for this design. Because painting on a small surface is difficult, we’re going to use something called the “Toothpick Trick.” You need to use acrylic paint, or craft paint, to create the design. You can scratch the paint off the nail if you don’t like the design or make a mistake.

However, before you start painting, you need to apply a quick dry top coat over your base colour and wait for an hour to let it dry. If you don’t, when you go to scratch the paint off, it will score your base polish and ruin it.

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With that said, paint your nails orange. When the orange is dry, add a quick dry top coat and wait an hour.

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4. Underneath

your eyes, create another smaller triangle for the nose. Leave the last quarter of the nail free for your smile.

5. Create

a semi-circle in the last quarter of your nail. Because you waited an hour for your first layer of top coat to dry, you can scratch off any mistakes you may have made along the way.

W I T H H A L L OW E E N f a s t approaching, store shelves are packed to the brim with chocolate and candy. Each year dawns new innovations and twists to much-loved favourites. As we are becoming a more health-conscious society and have the science to back it up, there are a lot more sugar-free candy options available.

Consumption of high amounts of sugar can be linked to a variety of health issues, and not to mention the potential cause of a nasty toothache. Plenty of Gryphons would consider choosing a healthier candy option, but how do sugar and sugar-free candies really compare?

To make sugar-free candy sweet, two types of sweeteners exist: sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners.

Sugar alcohols can be found in candies, ice cream, and cookies.

Since it isn’t actually a sugar, it can be used to make “sugar-free” products and is a low-calorie sweetener. There is a risk with the consumption of sugar alcohols, however, as they are known to cause an upset stomach and can have the effect of a laxative.

A r tificial sweeteners are a zero-calorie option for producing sugar-free candy, but there has been some evidence that has linked artificial sweeteners to certain types of cancer. Taste is the most critical part of a great candy. Sugar-free varieties of

chocolate or candy might not be quite the taste you are looking for. It could be argued that the taste of the sugar-free varieties don’t quite match their “sugarful” counterparts.

At the end of the day, you are still eating candy, and the real key is to control the amount you eat. People may believe that because something is sugar-free, it can be consumed in higher quantities. But don’t forget, just because it’s sugar-free doesn’t mean it’s fat, calorie, or carb-free.

If health is what you’re after, candy should be avoided all together. But if you’re looking for a guilty pleasure, go for whatever makes you and your inner child happy.

...there has been some evidence that has linked artificial sweeteners to certain types of cancer.

6. Add

two orange nail polish dots on the black semi-circle smile using a body pin or dotting tool.

Position one on the top left side and the other on the bottom right side for the teeth.

STOP! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg. 3, or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

2. With

some black craft paint, place two small dots a quarter of the way down the top of your nail. These will be the top of the eyes.

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Add a top coat to smooth out the design.

8. Now

3. Create

two symmetrical black triangles using your reference dots.

you don’t have to ruin a pumpkin and squander a meal to be hauntingly festive on Halloween night.

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The soup is warm and delicious, and there aren’t any weird ingredients in it like frog legs or fish eyes, as far as you can tell.

Mrs. White tells you about how she came to occupy the basement of her house. She has bad knees and can’t go up and down stairs, so she gets all her groceries delivered. She never had any children and her husband died a few years ago, but she doesn’t feel lonely because there’s a black cat that comes and goes in her house. She’s unaware of the rumours about her house and laughs heartily when you tell her about it.

As you slurp up the rest of your soup, you realize that you’ve enjoyed her company greatly. You ask if you can visit again, and Mrs. White is delighted.

Suddenly you remember that your friends are still waiting outside for you. She points you to the sliding back door, where you can easily leave. You say goodbye, give her a hug, and promise to see her again.

When you return next week, Mrs. White is nowhere to be seen. You talk to some neighbours and ask if they’ve seen her around, but they all give you strange looks. No one has lived in that house since a man was murdered by his wife 100 years ago, they explain.

You take one last look at the house before you go. The eyes of a black cat gleam at you from a second floor window. Startled, you do a double take. When you look back, there’s nothing there.

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Mad Libs: Halloween edition LESLIE THOMPSON

Use the word list created on page five to create your story.

If you haven’t done so already, flip the page now and fill out the word list — it’s more fun if you don’t look at the story first!

Three steps to make your Mad Libs ghost story:

Turn to the list of words you created on page five.

2. Use that list to fill in the blanks of the story below.

Number one on the list goes in the first blank of the story and so on.

3. Read your spooky story to a spirit in the dead of night and cackle to your heart’s delight.

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It was a dark and _________ (1) night in late October. I had been in the basement of the library for __________ (2) hours, working on paper after paper and preparing for test after test. I was taking a break to watch __________ (3) when I felt something ____________ (4) touch my arm. I turned, suddenly feeling very ___________ (5)... but there was nothing there. I ____________ (6), but could see nothing except the 30 ____________ (7) around me who were either ____________ (8) or ___________ (9). A while later, as I ___________ (10) to the bathroom, ___________ (11) ran up and down my spine. When I opened the door, I felt a sudden sense of dread as I heard someone whisper: “_____________” (12). I froze, my eyes on the bathroom mirror, where a ____________ (13) face had suddenly appeared behind my _____________ (14). I turned and ___________ (15) for my life. It wasn’t until later that night that I realized I had seen the _____________ (16) of McLaughlin Library, who had been rumoured to ______________ (17) the library for years.

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What should you be for Halloween?

FIND OUT WITH THIS COSTUME QUIZ | 1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY? a) Black Friday b) Halloween c) April Fool’s Day d) The season premiere of Game of Thrones e) All of them?

3. WHICH COLOUR BEST DESCRIBES YOUR PERSONALITY? a) Pink b) Black c) Justin “Blue”-deau d) Oscar gold e) Beige

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2. WHAT IS YOUR USUAL STARBUCKS ORDER? a) Pumpkin Spice anything b) Black coffee c) Caramel Macchiato with an extra shot of sarcasm d) Passionfruit Iced Tea e) I don’t go to Starbucks

4. HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU WANT TO PUT INTO YOUR COSTUME? a) I bought mine pre-made b) Time’s no object. This has to be right. c) Pinterest told me it would take an hour d) I’ve already been preparing for weeks e) 26 seconds

5. HOW WOULD YOU BEST DESCRIBE YOUR SOCIAL LIFE? a) I’m always busy b) I’ve got a good balance between work and play c) Social media savante d) Binge-watching all of Stranger Things e) I don’t go out a lot, but I still like to be invited

7. WHICH TV SHOW COULD WE CATCH YOU WATCHING? a) Teen Wolf or Pretty Little Liars b) Stranger Things c) Saturday Night Live d) Game of Thrones e) Whatever’s on TV or suggested on Netflix

6. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SCHOOL AND STUDY HABITS? a) I get easily distracted b) I keep on top of things! c) I have two tabs open: Courselink and Tumblr d) I’ll study after I watch the new episode of Scandal e) Cram for a test and write the paper the night before

8. WHAT WERE YOU LAST YEAR FOR HALLOWEEN? a) A cat b) Vampire c) Donald Trump d) My favourite superhero e) I don’t remember

MOSTLY A’S:

DISNEY PRINCESS

Indulge in your childhood fantasy and be a Disney princess this Halloween. You can go all out with a pre-made costume, or search Pinterest for an easy DIY. Worst case scenario, you wear a blue dress, a crown, and a nametag that says “Cinderella.”

MOSTLY B’S:

Traditional Halloween Monster

Keep the traditional spirit of Halloween alive, and scare the crap out of your friends. These costumes might take a little more effort or money than some of the other options available, but your friends will be impressed by how committed you are to this holiday. Try one of these monsters: • Freddy Krueger • Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein • Zombie • Grim Reaper • Donald Trump

Mostly C’s:

Punny Cultural Reference

You love to be in the know and are always up to date on current events. You’re witty and almost always have a clever comeback to make your friends laugh. Why not combine those two skills to make one crafty costume? Try one of these: • Obama Care Bear (Obama campaign t-shirt and a bear costume) • Make America “Grate” Again (say cheese!)

• Nickelback (literally just tape nickels to your back) • Candy “Rappers” (I think you know exactly what to do here)

Mostly D’s:

Pop Culture Character

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VOICES WHISPER IN THE TREES,

"TONIGHT IS HALLOWEEN!" - Dexter Kozen

Go as Khaleesi. Go as Jon Snow.

You could even dress up your significant other and go as both (as a… couple? Aunt and uncle?). Not a Game of Thrones fan? Go as one of the kids from Stranger Things, or as Wonder Woman herself.

Alternatively, go as your childhoodfavourite-turned-dark character from Riverdale. Whatever you do, don’t go as the clown from It.

Mostly E’s:

Could Not Care Less

If you don’t give a f*ck, and have about 30 seconds to get your costume together, here are some options to get you started: • A ghost (throw a sheet over your head and you’re good to go.)

• A cat (Whiskers? Black nose?

Ears? All done.)

• Where’s Waldo? (striped shirt, glasses. Boom.)

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Don’t have time to grab a costume?

Trick-or-treaters at your door?

No problem! The Hallowtarion has got you covered!

Simply cut out the mask and hold it up to your face while handing out candy.

Happy Halloween!

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Stop! You’ve just stumbled into the middle of your adventure! Start at the beginning of your spooky story on Pg.3 or continue if you meant to read this next part or don’t care about spoilers.

The woman turns around at the sound of your voice. She looks friendly, and doesn’t seem at all like a witch. She introduces herself as Mrs. White, and invites you to enjoy a bowl of potato soup with her.

To accept the bowl of soup, go to page Pg. 24 There’s no telling what type of poison is in there!

It’s your last chance to run for it: go to Pg. 19.

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You turn the handle on the door and step into an old bedroom. There’s a cloud of dust hanging in the air, which makes you cough violently.

A glint of metal on one of the shelves catches your eye.

The silver filigree picture frame is the only thing in the room that’s clean. A portrait of a young girl is smiling gently at you from the frame.

Something wet touches your forehead. Hesitantly, you look up only to see that there’s a leak in the roof. You

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