Halloween Fun 2010: The Phantom

You’ve Been BOOed!

The air is cool, it’s time for fall,

Soon Halloween will come to all

Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore,

Tricky witches at your door.

The spooks are after things to do,

In fact a spook brought this to you !!!

The treats that came with this short note,

Are yours to keep, enjoy them both.

The excitement comes when friends like you,

Will copy it & make it two,

We’ll all have smiles upon our faces,

No one will know who BOOed our places!

Just be sure that you don’t tell,

Keep it secret ,hide it well.

Please join the fun, the seasons here.

Just spread these “BOO’s” & Halloween cheer.

A few years ago, we were "BOOed" with a bag of treats left on the door step by a secret ghost, along with a sign saying "We've been BOOed" to hang on the door and the above poem explaining it all. Though they loved the stuff, the kids were pretty much too young to realize exactly what happened.

This year, the Phantom came to our door:

The Phantom is Back!

He travels from house to house and scares some you know.

But treats are his specialty, which in this bag it will show.

He stalks houses at night when it is very dark.

Then he leaves his special mark.

The names below are those who've received.

It's 3 new victim families whose treats you must leave.

24 hours is all you've got.

HURRY, HURRY, but don't get caught!!!

There was candy, a book, fake teeth, rubber balls, gliders, etc for two, over which they exclaimed all through dinner and bedtime and wake-up time, having me re-read the poem over and over. Though, they are still a bit confused about whether there is a real Phantom lurking in the neighborhood or if our friends brought us treats. But they're definitely excited by the visitor(s) last night. Especially because I was able to report that I thought I heard the Phantom(s) on the sidewalk giggling when I went outside to greet Mama. Only a few minutes later, the doorbell rang--but no one was there! They've talked of nothing else since, even at school where other kids apparently have been reporting being visited by the Phantom all week. And now it's our turn . . . . though, I suppose I shouldn't be publishing the whereabouts of the Phantom . . . .