Were You A Spooky Kid Checklist

Halloween was your favorite holiday.

October was your favorite time of year.

You wanted your costumes to be scary instead of cute.

You had no problem trick-or-treating at houses with the scariest decorations.

You wore your Halloween costume(s) as casual, everyday looks.

You played dress up ALL the time.

You were a bookworm and especially liked spooky books.

You loved Tim Burton.

You had an obsession with The Nightmare Before Christmas and/or Edward Scissorhands.

You wanted to be goth since you were, like, six.

You knew a goth and thought they were the coolest person ever.

You were addicted to Goosebumps books.

You watched the Goosebumps TV show.

You watched R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour.

You watched Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

You watched some horror movies you shouldn’t have seen at that age.

You thought witches, vampires, and/or werewolves were real.

You believed you were one of the above creatures or tried to become one.

You routinely got in trouble for scaring your sibling(s) or friends.

You wanted your bedroom painted black.

Your parents said no.

You used your mom’s eyeliner to give yourself raccoon eyes and black lips.

You liked Harry Potter and you were a Slytherin.

The parts of Disney movies that terrified other kids were your favorite parts.

You always thought villains were way cooler than the good guys.

You gave your toys gothic “makeovers."

You tried to sacrifice one of your toys as part of a ritual.

Your parents played "Monster Mash" in the car all year round.

You told people that your school or home was haunted.

You convinced your friends that ghosts and monsters were real.

Other kids thought you were weird/creepy.

Other kids were genuinely scared of you.

You wanted black hair really badly if you didn’t have it naturally.

You tried to cast curses on people you didn’t like.

You tried to make a voodoo doll.

You believed in ghosts.

You believed you could see/communicate with ghosts and they were your friends.

You loved any food that turned your mouth blue or black.

You howled at the moon at least once.

You listened to your older siblings' My Chemical Romance and Evanescence albums.

You listened to your parents’ Black Sabbath and The Cure albums.

You wanted to go to Hot Topic every time you went to the mall.

Again, your parents said no.

And finally, adults routinely asked you to please, just be normal.

If You Did 31/44 Of These Things As A Kid, You Were Certainly Spooky