Halloween at the Nest

Spooky Season at the Nest By: Karina Santiago 

The HHIHS haunted house this year was held during the last two weekends in October from 7-10pm for students to stop by and get spooked for the Halloween season! The Nest went all out for Halloween this year. Students got to wear Halloween pajamas on Friday, October 28th and on the 31st students got to wear costumes of their choice. There were certain restrictions on what students could not wear: no excessive makeup, no fake weapons, and no inappropriate costumes. Some students and staff dressed up as: black cats, sea turtles, Batman, anime characters, pirates, a fortune teller, HufflePuff (Harry Potter), and a Joker to name a few. Many of the students enjoyed having the opportunity to show their school spirit for Halloween! Katie Olvera, a sophomore student, participated in the haunted house. This year's theme was “Fright School at the movies." She explained some of the things that went on and what was included in the house.

Katie said that "it took nearly 2-3 weeks to put the house all together. We raised about $5,000-$6,000 from both weekends so we did have a good amount of people come.” Since the mini Halloween spirit week was new this year, Katie said “Yeah, actually I thought it was kind of cool, the school I used to go to never did anything like this and I’ve never really heard of other schools have a Halloween spirit week, so I thought we would never do this.”

Things that made the haunted house different this year were “there were more people that participated, the theme was slightly different, and that there were a couple of changes to the layout.” Some adjustments that she would like to see for future Halloween events is having more time to build the haunted house, “So maybe just having more time in advance rather than a month. Also for the themes we should probably do something a little different in the future” she shared.

The type of actors who scared people were characters like“Jason, Annabelle, Leather face, La Llorona, and clowns. We had more but we had them as backups.” The HHIHS haunted house was a success and students look forward to more scary events and spirit days. This year's Halloween school spirit was definitely shown with the pajamas, costumes, and scares!

HHIHS Haunted House

By: Julia Duncan

HHIHS theater teacher Ms. Guinn began the haunted house tradition last year in 2021. 2022 is the second year that Hilton Head High has done the haunted house. This year they had about 50 people to volunteer in the haunted house preparations, decorations, building and acting. This years turn out was up to about 300 people each night for the haunted house, doubling the turnout from last year. From the start of set up to take down of the haunted house it all took about a month. Ms. Guinn says her favorite part of the haunted house event is “the scaring people and the fun, scary costumes”. She also says the scariest part of the event for her was “making sure everyone is safe and has a good time”. But the scariest parts throughout the haunted house in her opinion were the scarecrow, the prisoner being electrocuted and the leather face scare at the very end. HHIHS is planning on making the haunted house a new yearly Halloween tradition.