Freshmen slowly turn into Gremlins during Halloween   

With the scariest day of the year having passed, many Mount Carmel freshmen had reacted quite peculiarly. Halloween is, by most metrics, the scariest day of the year. Scary pumpkin carving of students' grades, creepy decorations and horrifying costumes. Unfortunately, those events weren’t all festive. Some freshmen had been showing some incredibly haunting signs. Increased hair growth, incoherent speech, an extreme desire to cause mischief and even small size have been telltale signs of a transformation into something mischievous. Many at MC feared to come in contact with them, though others argue this kind of behavior isn’t very different from any other time of the year. 

This was the first time this phenomenon has been seen at MC. Previous years have had their issues, but there’s something about this class that makes them different.

“Freshman year was really challenging for me, but it had never gotten this bad,” said sophomore Sergio Valdez. “Some of them tried to bite my ankles when I walked by.” 

This change wasn’t overnight. There were gradual shifts in the behavior of transformed freshmen. It started with the increased hair growth all over, it extended out of their noses  and ears like a waterfall of follicles. Dean of Students Mr. Dan O’Connor tried to write them up for not following school policy, but the frequency of cases was too high for him to keep up with. 

Many cases of incoherent speech have been prevalent throughout the year, and the first case isn’t easily identifiable. Then there was the mischief. Faculty and students alike suffer from the so-called “pranks” many of the freshmen have decided to pull. One of the most prominent being flooding the basement using toilet water. 

“Usually my freshman class is my most behaved, but something was different this year,” said AP World History teacher Mr. Nolan Nevrly, “I couldn’t put my finger on it ,though.”

Other students had tried to keep up with the unruly freshman, with very little success. 

“I enjoyed the pranks for a little,” said junior Jackson Norris, “but then they started doing stuff even I wasn’t ready for.”

Many attempts were made to ask freshmen about their opinions on the recent events, but all were met with bites or scratches. 

Several faculty members have stated that they were extremely grateful once this phase ended. 

“I was ecstatic when they finally calmed down,” said freshman theology teacher Matthew Petrich, “but now I'm not sure if they’re that much better now.”