{"id":22116343,"date":"2021-10-26T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=22116343"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:08:35","slug":"aggies-favorite-halloween-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/aggies-favorite-halloween-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggies favorite Halloween traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Utah State University are getting ready to celebrate the scariest time of year by gearing up in their best costumes and participating in local Halloween activities.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Jill Mecham, a student at USU, plans to dress up, make Halloween desserts and decorate \u201cthe heck out of\u201d her place.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Mecham made a pumpkin-shaped cake and deemed it to be one of the most fun traditions she\u2019s ever done. This year, Mecham and her roommates have decided to dress up as Disney villains, with Mecham starring as Dr. Facilier.<\/p>\n<p>Other students, including Rachel Gomez, plan to attend the Howl at USU as part of their celebration. The Howl is an annual event notorious for being one of the biggest Halloween parties in Utah. This year\u2019s theme for the Howl is \u201cWhat Lies Below.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gomez plans to do \u201cHalloweekend\u201d with her roommates as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just do Halloween stuff the entire weekend,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cWe go to pumpkin patches and we paint pumpkins. We carve them. And we get probably too much Halloween candy to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another spooky Halloween event on campus is Fright Night, hosted by Phi Alpha Theta\/History Club on Old Main Hill from 7 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 27. There will be scary stories from history and treats for all those who attend.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the history club, Michaella Whitney, said this event is a great way for students to get involved with Phi Alpha Theta and get to know the faculty in the history department.<\/p>\n<p>And if that\u2019s not incentive enough, prizes will be given to those who show up in the best costumes.<\/p>\n<p>There are two locations in Logan that offer corn mazes: Little Bear Bottoms Corn Maze and the American West Heritage Center.<\/p>\n<p>In downtown Logan there\u2019s a ghost tour at the Cache County Historic Courthouse and Cherry Peak Ski Resort is hosting a Haunted Slopes event.<\/p>\n<p>Hyrum Stallings, a sophomore at USU, is one of many students who came from families who go all out for the Halloween season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family does a 5K run every year on Halloween. Rain or snow, we don\u2019t care. It’s tradition,\u201d Stallings said. \u201cMy favorite tradition is we go see a pumpkin catapult competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stallings referred to the First Dam Scary Run, hosted in Logan on Oct. 30.\u00a0 There is a 5K and 10K run. The turnaround point for the 10K will be at First Dam.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>-Brielle.Carr@usu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Utah State University are getting ready to celebrate the scariest time of year by gearing up in their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":883417,"featured_media":22116346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[12283,12281,12280,118,12279,12282,664],"class_list":["post-22116343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-news","tag-first-dam-scary-run","tag-fright-night","tag-halloweekend","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-traditions","tag-haunted-slopes","tag-utah-state-university"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aggies favorite Halloween traditions - The Utah Statesman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aggies favorite Halloween traditions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/aggies-favorite-halloween-traditions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aggies favorite Halloween traditions - 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