Hobbies And Interests
Ouija Board
Ouija boards are available at most game stores. Use this board to communicate with the dead. Pull out this game at midnight and gather around the board with your friends. Instruct your guests to place their hands on the dial in the center of the board and watch while spirits direct the knob from letter to letter, spelling out a message from beyond the grave. Communicate in whispers and dim the lights to enhance the mood of this scary game.
Bloody Mary
Gather your sleepover guests in a bathroom at midnight. Turn out the lights and shut the door. Assign someone to call Bloody Mary out of the mirror. This person stands in front of the bathroom mirror while the rest of the guests huddle at one side of the bathroom. Instruct the person who has been chosen to call Bloody Mary to turn in circles three times repeating "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary." Stop and face the mirror. As you try to make out your own face in the darkness, your imagination, or an ancient spirit, leads you to see the face of Bloody Mary looking back at you.
Ghost Stories
Dim the lights or gather around the campfire to engage in a ghost story competition. Allow each guest to share a supernatural experience. Incorporate dramatic hand gestures, whispers and shouts when telling your stories to enhance their scary elements. Use flashlights as props while relating your tales, making menacing shadow puppets or shining the light upward from the base of your chin for a creepy, ghoulish effect.
Haunted Fort
Drape blankets over furniture in your living room or bedroom to make a haunted maze or fort. Move chairs around to create passageways and place pillows inside the maze to cushion guests' path as they crawl from one chamber to another. Decorate the interior of the fort with Halloween cut outs or toy skeletons and bats. You can even purchase fake spider web material to place inside the maze. Dim the lights and challenge your guests to enter this haunted tunnel.