Fright Night
Who doesn’t love free food and a good scary story? Well, the History Club and Phi Alpha Theta have come together to put on an event with that and more. The event is called Fright Night. It’s happening on Oct. 27 and everyone is invited.
“Fright Night has been going on for years and it’s our biggest event,” said Michaella Whitney, the president of Phi Alpha Theta, which is the history honor society for undergraduate and graduate students.
This society offers the opportunity for history students to share their research and participate in the exchange of learning and ideas both regionally and nationally. This group of students are able to present their historical research for their region, creating fun experiences and being able to travel to other states to participate.
Not only that, but Phi Alpha Theta puts on various activities, with a historic twist of course. But Fright Night is by far their most popular activity.
“We gather all sorts of people from the history department — faculty and staff included — and we feed everyone and we have candy,” Whitney said. “We share spooky stories that are historically accurate and it gives us a glimpse of what Halloween time looked like in history.”
The students and faculty said they work hard to have good food and thrilling stories to share with the people that attend this activity.
“I’m excited because it’s going to be in person this year. Last year it was over Zoom and it was still fun,” Whitney said. “But there’s something about the atmosphere with these stories. When they’re told in person you get to feel it. You get to see it and you get to hear it and think about how crazy it is that these stories actually happened in history. To share that with a community of history students and others. It’s something else.”
The stories will be presented by various history professors and students and will be held in Old Main in Room 115 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. They will be serving pizza outside before the event and handing out candy after the activity to follow coronavirus guidelines.
“We’re also having a Halloween costume contest,” Whitney said. “We highly encourage our attendees to come dressed up in their Halloween costumes. We will be giving out prizes for the best dressed, most movie accurate and fan favorite.”
So if you’d like to enjoy a night of free food, cool costumes, scary stories and candy, come to Old Main on Oct. 27 to participate in this fun and unique event put on by the history department and Phi Alpha Theta.
For those who may not be able to attend in person or who may not be comfortable, there is a Zoom link available when you search Fright Night in the USU events calendar.