The old paintings watching you. The feeling of walking through spider webs. The spookiness of a ghost about to pop out and scare you. These are all things you may experience in a dark, haunted attic, but for our school it’s just a hallway filled with Halloween decorations.
Every year, the fourth floor science hallway gets embellished with halloween decorations. According to science teacher Robert Terrill, who is in charge of the decorations, it’s a long process that takes months of planning and lots of help. “First thing that I do is I make a spreadsheet of every single day and then I figure out what different decorations I’m going to put up each day.” The spreadsheet also helps him figure out what he needs to order from Amazon and what he needs to bring from home.
Different people come in every day to help set up, including many students and teachers. Not only does the planning take a while, but assembling the decorations takes an entire month. There are so many details in the hallway that even with so many volunteers, it takes the entire month of October to set up.
This year the theme was a haunted attic with different floating tarot cards, creepy photographs, eerie candles, and smiling ghosts. Each year the theme will differ. Terrill said “We kind of try and do a little bit of a different theme each year.” Last year the theme was spiders overtaking the hallway.
The teachers in the hallway started it as a joke back in 2017 as a way to distract students, so they would be late to class, but it has since carried on as a fun tradition every year.
