Photograph shows a masked partygoer who killed seven people on Halloween 1962.
Photograph shows a masked partygoer who killed seven people on Halloween 1962.
The annual celebration of Halloween is typically associated with symbols of murder, mayhem, and madness, but of the playful show variety â€” celebrants donâ€™t generally engage in those behaviors, but rather act them out with costumes and props in the name of good, safe, spooky fun. One online purports to chronicle a gruesome, decidedly non-playful Halloween incident, though â€” the tale of a black-masked reveler who killed seven people with a kitchen knife at a costume party on Halloween night of 1962 and fled the scene, never to be identified, captured, or brought to justice: What this image actually documents is that back in the days before mass-produced, store-bought costumes became the prevalent form of Halloween garb, people donned all sorts of unusual (and often homemade) outfits for the occasion, many of which look disturbingly creepy to modern viewers. This photograph hails from that time and is similar to a number of other vintage Halloween pictures from that era.
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