Of course we know and celebrate Halloween in Europe. Here in Germany, at least. These North Americans... tss, tss, tsss,... But you don't even know where Europe is on the world map.
I grew up in a small village that was a far out suburb of Chicago. The principal of our elementary school and her sister were old maids who lived in a big old house. For Halloween, they spent weeks making old fashioned caramel apples on a stick rolled in crushed peanuts, hundreds of them which they stored on big bakery sheets in bakery racks. On Halloween, the Bliss house (that was there name) was the first house very kid visited to make sure you got your caramel apple before they ran out. Those were the days.
I remember when i was about seven and I went to my Aunts for the day she gave me some sweet money and I went to the shop about 100yds away having bought the sweets I was looking through the window at the dinky cars wishing that I could have one, a lady stopped and asked which one I was looking at I told her the red one and she took me into the shop and bought it for me. Never knew who she was or where she was from but I remember that act of kindness 60 years later and it is such a fond memory ! I have thought about doing the same thing to give someone else a lifetime memory but these days I guess I would end up in the cop shop being accused of kiddy fiddling. I reckon for every nice person there is ten basterds sorry you met one of the 10 Claus !
We went out and Trick or Treated like you just described back when I was a kid, and every year there was always a story of some kid on the news winding up in the Emergency Room after biting into an apple with a razor blade or needle in it. We also stayed out late and collected enough candy that would last us until Christmas. I don't know how our generation survived, but those were good days!
One of the major news networks researched this razor blade in an apple - usually a candy apple - story. I know it was around in the 1960's. They couldn't find a single media or police source in North America that had ever reported this had actually happened. An internet myth before the internet.
30 years ago I worked for a Coca Cola bottler. Forgot that it was Halloween and passed out cans of coke not having any candy. The kids went nutz and had parents coming to the door saying "trick or treat."
I'm sorry to hear about your trauma trick or treating as a kid... Times have indeed changed... This year we're setting up a "treat station" near our mailbox that we can see through the front window of our house. We aren't talking with the kids or their parents, we're just leaving a plate full of store bought "KING SIZE" Rice Krispy Treats at the station, and we'll fill it up when it gets low. We would rather let kids get their treats without any drama or trauma from their helicopter parents... And no, we won't EVER cook change in a frying pan. That guy was a Complete, Claus Certified, Change Cooking CLOWN, and I'm proud of you and Dave giving some Spook back to him through his house window! -Hopefully this year, all the kids won't experience what you had to go through Claus... -Happy Halloween everyone! May your day be wonderful, and your windows make it through the night unbroken!
A CHAP SPRAYED ME AND MY MATE WITH A HOSE SO WHEN HE WENT TO BED WE JUMPED OVER HIS BACK GATE GOT THE HOSE PIPE AND WE TOOK IT TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE PUT IT THROUGH HIS LETTERBOX TURNED IT ON AND LEGGED IT ....SOME PEOPLE REAP KARMA
You were NOT "bad kids", you were kids with very shiny spines who stood up for what was right and didn't let the behavior go unanswered and unpunished. Old school biblical level payback. That's what an example is of two young MEN in the making is, and no they/you weren't bad because of it, especially considering the circumstances of what would've happened had you told your parents (who are part of the system), when the system fails, parents, police, those who are supposed to protect and serve fails, then sometimes, sometimes, there's no other recourse than to do what you did. For all you know he never did it again because of it, just sayin.
I trade with kids on Halloween. I give them 2 of what they want in exchange for 1 of what they don't. Parents never argue. One kid negotiated for more. He probably went on to run a business.
@@VetvsWorld my wife hates it, as do most of the mothers. The fathers laugh and tell me they'll start doing it. I also negotiate with Girl Scouts outside of Lowe's. I make them put on the Game Show presentation.
The guy who gave out the apples and the family giving out boiled eggs are the best kind of people. They didnt have much, but gave out what little they had and participate in the way they could, instead of just not answering the door, bless them. Sadly kids can not appreciate this enough. But these stories are always humbling to hear
Back in 1972 we had received apples one time that had double edged razor blades in them. That neighbor hood parents paid that house a visit along with the police. Fortunately we had cut the apples into wedges so that saved us.
I would go out with my older brothers with a pillow case. We would skip dinner to maximize our candy haul. We would come back with half a pillow case of candy AROUND 10 PM. You really scored when around 9 pm some people would give all the candy they had left. When you got home the great SORTING OF CANDY INTO PILES BEGAN. Then where to hide your candy from your 8 brothers and sisters.
Same here Claus. We were completely off the leash on Halloween. When we are about 13, we rode on the hood of a Dodge charger driven by an older brother, house to house, so we could cover a lot more ground in rural neighborhoods where the houses were spread out. The drive collected his candy tax to provide the ride...so it was a win-win!
I remember as a kid in Northern Ontario, I was about 8, had some candy from trick or treating, and a couple bigger kids sliced open my bag, knocked me to the ground, and stole most of my candy. I went down swinging, but my mask got knocked sideways and I couldn't see anything for a bit. By the time I got up, the bigger kids were running away with the loot. I wish I could track down those guys today.
70’s Halloween was awesome ! We also didn’t lock our houses and cars. World has definitely changed. Had my share of juvenile delinquent phase 😂 Nice to open up and share Claus Happy Halloween
Thank you for sharing that traumatic experience, Claus. Different times 😊 I'm happy the two of you were able to pull that off. Times, where growing up was very different. As children we were forged through experience and gained our strength through courage
Took my 4 year old trick or treating in our neighbourhood a decade or so ago. Went to one house and the guy (a complete stranger) gave my kid his candy, then tossed me a beer and said "If you gotta be out, you deserve a treat too." Best Halloween ever, lol.
Nowhere near as serious, but I remember an incident at a family wedding reception when I was about nine or ten - this would have been in the late sixties. A cousin who was about the same age as your 'villain' was running the informal bar that was laid out on a table. Having reached the age where I was beginning to be curious about alcohol, I asked him whether I could have a small glass of beer. Instead of saying no, he pointed to a half-full glass of dark beer on the end of the bar table and invited me to try some of that. Innocent that I was, I took a mouthful, only to find that this was the beer-glass that all the smokers had been using to extinguish their cigarettes. Instant spitting out of a very noxious mixture, followed by gagging and retching. I looked up to find a very unpleasant look on my cousin's face. Much like you, I look back and remember this as something that undermined the trust I had previously given to just about adult, or near adult. I won't say that it pushed me off the rails - I did that all by myself! But it certainly taught me at an early age that not everyone, even relatives, was necessarily to be trusted.
Southwest England. My wife loves Halloween. We have great fun with the kids that come to the door. Have to have the parents here though as most people go out after dark. We also give out coloured glow sticks to young children to help them be seen.
I trick or treated in the early 70's to early 80's. Stayed out late, just like you, got multiple bags of candy! Sorry to hear someone f'd up your Halloween, and jaded you. Halloween is all about fun. What an a-hole that guy was. Someone pissed in his candy bag and now he must ruin the fun for others. It seems like you still have fond memories of trick or treating, me too. It isn't like it used to be that's for sure. We will always have those memories when life was more care free. Best wishes for a great day, your mate from Michigan.
Every kid as some point in their lives learns that not all people are kind, including their parents. Those are the foundations of later trauma that all overcome or not, repeat or not. The cycle of life.
I remember the Unicef coin box. We always hit the rich folks houses. One used to hand out full size candy bars. That's a big deal at the age of nine. Our parents never came along.
I had camouflage Army uniforms when I was a kid and we would hide in the shadows and bushes from people like the guy you mentioned. We would take animal feed corn (it's hard) and toss handfuls at their house. It was like handfuls of pebbles, but I don't think the corn ever damaged anything. We setup a tent in the backyard every year for months at a time in the summer and cause ruckus.
@Claus How about a show on what you've grown this season and what to grow for next season...? Some kind of follow-along for the community where we can grow something together. Tips & tricks, updates on your garden, good crops to grow, maybe recipes, etc. Kellerman's garden. EDIT: Two episodes per season. An update on your crops/harvest and an episode on what to get ready for in the next season (when to plant the seeds, soil type, sun, watering, etc)
I went on a ski trip this past winter. I haven't gone in over 10 years. So I got on the ski lift, and started to tell the guy next to me about my ski trip 10 years ago. Told him how the last time I was here, a total stranger pushed me off the ski lift. That is why I have not gone skiing in the past 10 years. The guy next to me said... "Ya , I remember you".
I remember those days. It turned really quickly too. My fathers nickname for me was sunshine boy before it became The Monster, and he would go to his grave never hearing the story of the turn.
Okay so back in the 80's my friends and I would jump in one of our cars, crank the music and ride the country back winding roads. One halloween we were doing nothing and decided to go cruising. I was riding shotgun, my friend was driving and his brother was in the backseat with his girlfriend. It was dark and not a lot of light on those back roads. Just moonlight and the occasional street light. We have been down this road before. Their is a blind section where the road bends to the left and after that you come across a small bridge. We are not talking ... Just listening to the music. We come out of the blind turn and I immediately grab the dash in front and brace for impact. At the same time the driver slams on brakes. Their is a old man crossing the street right in front of the bridge and we have no time to stop or miss him. He passes right through the car between the driver and I. I looked back and there was nothing their. His brother in the back did not see a thing because he was... Well... Busy with other things in the back seat. He is freaking out wanting to know what the hell just happened. He reaches in front and cuts the music off. Neither one of us in front are saying a word. After a while I said" did you see what I saw" the driver said " A old man" I said with a hat and long coat". He said "and a cane walking bent over". I said "he passed through the car". He said "Right between us". His brother said BS and that we had to much to drink. Neither one of us had had a drink... Well not before that anyway. To this day we both know what we saw and have never forgotten it.👻 His brother still doesn't believe it. 🤨
During the depression, kids used to be very destructive and light entire building on fire, that is part of the reason Halloween became commercial to keep kids busy...so there is that.
My personal Scary is that October is the 50th anniversary of meeting my X. The 21st our 1st girls Birthday and our 14th Divorcery. The topper, Halloween the 50th anniversary of our Wedding. Spoooooooooooky stuff.
Hey Claus - Happy All Hallows' Eve to All. Great pumpkins, by the way, especially as you grow them yourself! Congrats. You will need some music to accompany your scary jack-o-lanterns, so may I suggest Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," especially the fourth movement titled "Marche au Supplice/March to the Scaffold." Back in the day, I would put a speaker outside on the porch and play this on a loop to frighten the kids away.
We enjoy all the happy faces of kids. We give out good stuff and kids always remember us from prior years. People come by van to our neighborhood because you can ring a lot of doorbells and nice walking streets. There are nasty people in the world but don't let them bring you down or live in your head rent free. My wife and I remember how stingy our parents were and we try to right the wrong.
You want to know what Scary is Claus? The second replay (Object 261) appeared on my channel yesterday - very scary Even scarier was that the first 261 replay on my channel yesterday was a Fadins and BOTH subsequent ones used 19 rounds and had one left at the end - VERY SCARY!
Thank you Claus for your personal story about your, normaly fun, Haloween time. Sorry to hear that someone can do that to kids and that it sti affects you...
my Halloween was a lot like yours the people all had the different types of things to give..apples cookies and we had 1 guy who gave each kid a dollar bill!! And yes we all knew which houses gave the best candy. It is a very fond memory of how things use to be
12:38 I remember collecting for UNICEF then it was cancelled because it was discovered it was a scam, very little of the money actually went to helping others. (just like most charities these days). Like Goodwill, I think something like 10 or 5 percent actually goes to the charity, the rest goes for profit.
Trick and Treating in the 70's ... we would have to run from the older boys looking to take our Loot, spray us with shaving cream and egg us. It was all in fun. That was a brutal story of the coins. Glad you got some payback.
Caramel apples, popcorn balls, Rice Krispie treats, and other homemade goodies. These days if you tried to hand that type of stuff out, they would probably arrest you.
We had one house where the person that lived there would freak out on Halloween and the cops were called. I think the guy threatened to shoot anyone that ringed his door bell. We also had the worries about razor blades in apples. Times are definitely different. Now the parent drive their kids around on golf carts with alcohol in their drink containers.
Here in Europe, and especially in Belgium, it is becoming more and more important. But it will never be as big as in North America. If you see a couple of houses decorated per street, you can be happy here. And yes there are evil people and unfortunate this will always be.
25:14 just going to say, the "trauma" is amplified by memory. Your fingers couldn't have been TOO bad if you were able to walk around looking for rocks. Not only go find them, but pick them up, carry them, then throw them hard enough to bust out a window.
I like all Hallows Eve - a night to remember those that you knew who have died, and Samhain - the night when you transition to, and prepare for the dark of the year... but Halloween can do one. It's just a commercialised nonsense... but that said, I haven't gotten to the level of heating up coins yet 😀
we dint really have halloween in the UK in the 60's/70's, not in our neighbourhood anyway, everyone was poor, if a kid had an apple at school there'd be 5 kids surrounding them "can I have the core" our big night was Nov 5th Guy Fawkes/bonfire night, for the week leading up we'd make a Guy and sit outside the local pub "penny for the Guy" some drunk gave us a one pound note we thought we were millionaires lol
The holiday celebrated in Germany on November 1st is All Saints' Day, or Allerheiligen: What it is: A Catholic festival where churchgoers remember the dead Where it's celebrated: A public holiday in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland How it's celebrated: Practicing Catholics attend Mass, graves are decorated with flowers, candles, and wreaths, and large meals are shared with friends Prior to this, the Germans create large log piles in the country-side. they gather together and light them to celebrate this day. Years ago, the astronauts had seen the bonfires from outer space.
Hi Claus, beautiful intro! In The Netherlands, Halloween is catching on, even though most people are not religious anymore, nor do they understand the religious background. Totally bullshit commercial event nowadays. Hope you enjoy it though!
As a kid I picked up pennies, as an adult I do not. Most change is worthless to me now, not even worth the effort to pick up. The innocence of kids is truly remarkable... cool stuff costs money, and back in the day I did not have much in the way of savings. I guess most kids don't... I'm not saying traumatic things like this should happen to kids, but let's be honest, it builds the resilience adults should have. These days it seems children are woefully unprepared for the hardships we all must face.
When I was 10 at Halloween I was robbed by two older kids both dressed as Batman. Talk about traumatizing. 2 Batman's? Count Floyd would say. Vary scary.
Claus, All Hallows Eve (Halloween) originated in Europe, it's the day before All Saints Day (All Hallows Day), in the 8th century Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. But it's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (Sow-in).
My dad was a Vietnam vet with PTSD and a bad temper. I would have told him what happened, and that guy would have paid a price. In 1979, the cops would have looked the other way. P.S.- I would have been very disappointed with an egg.
I got a pencil and a dime from one lady. Turns out now, I can eat Nerds candy with my dentures. One year I made Freddy Kruger finger blades in metal shop, nobody blinked an eye.
I'm sorry something like that happened to you Claus, that is really traumatic experience for kid. But it's long pass. Happy Halloween to you and your family... All the best...
Happy and safe Halloween for all of you and the kids tonight!
Count Floyd. The scariest Vampire in all of Canada!
Sweet intro :)
Of course we know and celebrate Halloween in Europe. Here in Germany, at least. These North Americans... tss, tss, tsss,... But you don't even know where Europe is on the world map.
May yours be a good one too
😂😂
That guy burning his small change is probably playing WOT in a basement somewhere.
Ha ha, raging about the injustice of RNG :)
He's an arty player 😂
It`'s Schrader!
unfair plane
he kemp bush
Nine will get you ten, he's an incredible asshole.
probably works for wg lol
I grew up in a small village that was a far out suburb of Chicago. The principal of our elementary school and her sister were old maids who lived in a big old house. For Halloween, they spent weeks making old fashioned caramel apples on a stick rolled in crushed peanuts, hundreds of them which they stored on big bakery sheets in bakery racks. On Halloween, the Bliss house (that was there name) was the first house very kid visited to make sure you got your caramel apple before they ran out. Those were the days.
now those are nice people!
I remember when i was about seven and I went to my Aunts for the day she gave me some sweet money and I went to the shop about 100yds away having bought the sweets I was looking through the window at the dinky cars wishing that I could have one, a lady stopped and asked which one I was looking at I told her the red one and she took me into the shop and bought it for me.
Never knew who she was or where she was from but I remember that act of kindness 60 years later and it is such a fond memory ! I have thought about doing the same thing to give someone else a lifetime memory but these days I guess I would end up in the cop shop being accused of kiddy fiddling.
I reckon for every nice person there is ten basterds sorry you met one of the 10 Claus !
In Europe we turn all the lights off and hide so we don't attract any scrounging kids!
no fun!
@@ClausKellermanThis is a British thing so of course they are miserable.
My father must have been European then !😂
@@ClausKellerman no fun for them!
party pooper lol we love halloween in cornwall england this year had many kids knock on door last year was a wash out
A child of the 70's I am familiar with these stories. Run like hell :)
We went out and Trick or Treated like you just described back when I was a kid, and every year there was always a story of some kid on the news winding up in the Emergency Room after biting into an apple with a razor blade or needle in it. We also stayed out late and collected enough candy that would last us until Christmas. I don't know how our generation survived, but those were good days!
Im 60yr old an i do too. Wish kids today could enjoy like it was in our time just once
One of the major news networks researched this razor blade in an apple - usually a candy apple - story. I know it was around in the 1960's.
They couldn't find a single media or police source in North America that had ever reported this had actually happened. An internet myth before the internet.
30 years ago I worked for a Coca Cola bottler. Forgot that it was Halloween and passed out cans of coke not having any candy. The kids went nutz and had parents coming to the door saying "trick or treat."
I'm sorry to hear about your trauma trick or treating as a kid... Times have indeed changed... This year we're setting up a "treat station" near our mailbox that we can see through the front window of our house. We aren't talking with the kids or their parents, we're just leaving a plate full of store bought "KING SIZE" Rice Krispy Treats at the station, and we'll fill it up when it gets low. We would rather let kids get their treats without any drama or trauma from their helicopter parents...
And no, we won't EVER cook change in a frying pan. That guy was a Complete, Claus Certified, Change Cooking CLOWN, and I'm proud of you and Dave giving some Spook back to him through his house window!
-Hopefully this year, all the kids won't experience what you had to go through Claus...
-Happy Halloween everyone! May your day be wonderful, and your windows make it through the night unbroken!
S**t Claus!!! That intro, it is great!!!! 🎉🎉❤❤ Thank you! 😮
I was SHOCKED about how scary this was!
shocking indeed
A CHAP SPRAYED ME AND MY MATE WITH A HOSE SO WHEN HE WENT TO BED WE JUMPED OVER HIS BACK GATE GOT THE HOSE PIPE AND WE TOOK IT TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE PUT IT THROUGH HIS LETTERBOX TURNED IT ON AND LEGGED IT ....SOME PEOPLE REAP KARMA
You were NOT "bad kids", you were kids with very shiny spines who stood up for what was right and didn't let the behavior go unanswered and unpunished. Old school biblical level payback. That's what an example is of two young MEN in the making is, and no they/you weren't bad because of it, especially considering the circumstances of what would've happened had you told your parents (who are part of the system), when the system fails, parents, police, those who are supposed to protect and serve fails, then sometimes, sometimes, there's no other recourse than to do what you did. For all you know he never did it again because of it, just sayin.
Thanks for you comment
...and it was at that moment that Frying Pan Douchebag knew he'd messed up... Don't try to wreck an 11 year old's Halloween!
I trade with kids on Halloween. I give them 2 of what they want in exchange for 1 of what they don't. Parents never argue. One kid negotiated for more. He probably went on to run a business.
Great idea dude. Imma start this tonight. 🤣✊🏻
@@VetvsWorld my wife hates it, as do most of the mothers. The fathers laugh and tell me they'll start doing it. I also negotiate with Girl Scouts outside of Lowe's. I make them put on the Game Show presentation.
@ Not all heros wear capes apparently. 🤣
We traded each other for better lunches in grade school.😄
The guy who gave out the apples and the family giving out boiled eggs are the best kind of people. They didnt have much, but gave out what little they had and participate in the way they could, instead of just not answering the door, bless them. Sadly kids can not appreciate this enough. But these stories are always humbling to hear
Back in 1972 we had received apples one time that had double edged razor blades in them. That neighbor hood parents paid that house a visit along with the police. Fortunately we had cut the apples into wedges so that saved us.
I would go out with my older brothers with a pillow case. We would skip dinner to maximize our candy haul. We would come back with half a pillow case of candy AROUND 10 PM. You really scored when around 9 pm some people would give all the candy they had left. When you got home the great SORTING OF CANDY INTO PILES BEGAN. Then where to hide your candy from your 8 brothers and sisters.
yes the great sorting!
If players put in even half the effort that you put into these intros games on WOT would be so much better. Never change Claus.
Same here Claus. We were completely off the leash on Halloween. When we are about 13, we rode on the hood of a Dodge charger driven by an older brother, house to house, so we could cover a lot more ground in rural neighborhoods where the houses were spread out. The drive collected his candy tax to provide the ride...so it was a win-win!
I remember as a kid in Northern Ontario, I was about 8, had some candy from trick or treating, and a couple bigger kids sliced open my bag, knocked me to the ground, and stole most of my candy. I went down swinging, but my mask got knocked sideways and I couldn't see anything for a bit. By the time I got up, the bigger kids were running away with the loot. I wish I could track down those guys today.
70’s Halloween was awesome ! We also didn’t lock our houses and cars. World has definitely changed. Had my share of juvenile delinquent phase 😂 Nice to open up and share Claus Happy Halloween
Thank you for sharing that traumatic experience, Claus. Different times 😊 I'm happy the two of you were able to pull that off. Times, where growing up was very different. As children we were forged through experience and gained our strength through courage
Thank you so much!
Took my 4 year old trick or treating in our neighbourhood a decade or so ago. Went to one house and the guy (a complete stranger) gave my kid his candy, then tossed me a beer and said "If you gotta be out, you deserve a treat too." Best Halloween ever, lol.
Its trick or treat and you Dave rocked your trick.
Nowhere near as serious, but I remember an incident at a family wedding reception when I was about nine or ten - this would have been in the late sixties. A cousin who was about the same age as your 'villain' was running the informal bar that was laid out on a table. Having reached the age where I was beginning to be curious about alcohol, I asked him whether I could have a small glass of beer. Instead of saying no, he pointed to a half-full glass of dark beer on the end of the bar table and invited me to try some of that. Innocent that I was, I took a mouthful, only to find that this was the beer-glass that all the smokers had been using to extinguish their cigarettes. Instant spitting out of a very noxious mixture, followed by gagging and retching. I looked up to find a very unpleasant look on my cousin's face.
Much like you, I look back and remember this as something that undermined the trust I had previously given to just about adult, or near adult. I won't say that it pushed me off the rails - I did that all by myself! But it certainly taught me at an early age that not everyone, even relatives, was necessarily to be trusted.
Southwest England. My wife loves Halloween. We have great fun with the kids that come to the door. Have to have the parents here though as most people go out after dark. We also give out coloured glow sticks to young children to help them be seen.
Intro is 10+ ..... just amazing !!!
I trick or treated in the early 70's to early 80's. Stayed out late, just like you, got multiple bags of candy! Sorry to hear someone f'd up your Halloween, and jaded you. Halloween is all about fun. What an a-hole that guy was. Someone pissed in his candy bag and now he must ruin the fun for others. It seems like you still have fond memories of trick or treating, me too. It isn't like it used to be that's for sure. We will always have those memories when life was more care free. Best wishes for a great day, your mate from Michigan.
Every kid as some point in their lives learns that not all people are kind, including their parents. Those are the foundations of later trauma that all overcome or not, repeat or not. The cycle of life.
This game dont need more terror 😩
9:30 I love that hole dead center in the back of the turret (cab?)
I remember the Unicef coin box. We always hit the rich folks houses. One used to hand out full size candy bars. That's a big deal at the age of nine. Our parents never came along.
I love your awesome content friend, TY and can't wait for more.
I had camouflage Army uniforms when I was a kid and we would hide in the shadows and bushes from people like the guy you mentioned. We would take animal feed corn (it's hard) and toss handfuls at their house. It was like handfuls of pebbles, but I don't think the corn ever damaged anything. We setup a tent in the backyard every year for months at a time in the summer and cause ruckus.
@Claus
How about a show on what you've grown this season and what to grow for next season...? Some kind of follow-along for the community where we can grow something together. Tips & tricks, updates on your garden, good crops to grow, maybe recipes, etc.
Kellerman's garden.
EDIT: Two episodes per season. An update on your crops/harvest and an episode on what to get ready for in the next season (when to plant the seeds, soil type, sun, watering, etc)
good idea
I went on a ski trip this past winter. I haven't gone in over 10 years. So I got on the ski lift, and started to tell the guy next to me about my ski trip 10 years ago. Told him how the last time I was here, a total stranger pushed me off the ski lift. That is why I have not gone skiing in the past 10 years. The guy next to me said... "Ya , I remember you".
I remember those days. It turned really quickly too. My fathers nickname for me was sunshine boy before it became The Monster, and he would go to his grave never hearing the story of the turn.
California, 70s and early 80s come back with pillow case full.
Okay so back in the 80's my friends and I would jump in one of our cars, crank the music and ride the country back winding roads. One halloween we were doing nothing and decided to go cruising. I was riding shotgun, my friend was driving and his brother was in the backseat with his girlfriend. It was dark and not a lot of light on those back roads. Just moonlight and the occasional street light. We have been down this road before. Their is a blind section where the road bends to the left and after that you come across a small bridge. We are not talking ... Just listening to the music. We come out of the blind turn and I immediately grab the dash in front and brace for impact. At the same time the driver slams on brakes. Their is a old man crossing the street right in front of the bridge and we have no time to stop or miss him. He passes right through the car between the driver and I. I looked back and there was nothing their. His brother in the back did not see a thing because he was... Well... Busy with other things in the back seat. He is freaking out wanting to know what the hell just happened. He reaches in front and cuts the music off. Neither one of us in front are saying a word. After a while I said" did you see what I saw" the driver said " A old man" I said with a hat and long coat". He said "and a cane walking bent over". I said "he passed through the car". He said "Right between us". His brother said BS and that we had to much to drink. Neither one of us had had a drink... Well not before that anyway. To this day we both know what we saw and have never forgotten it.👻 His brother still doesn't believe it. 🤨
thanks for sharing, crazy story
During the depression, kids used to be very destructive and light entire building on fire, that is part of the reason Halloween became commercial to keep kids busy...so there is that.
My personal Scary is that October is the 50th anniversary of meeting my X. The 21st our 1st girls Birthday and our 14th Divorcery. The topper, Halloween the 50th anniversary of our Wedding. Spoooooooooooky stuff.
Hey Claus - Happy All Hallows' Eve to All. Great pumpkins, by the way, especially as you grow them yourself! Congrats. You will need some music to accompany your scary jack-o-lanterns, so may I suggest Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," especially the fourth movement titled "Marche au Supplice/March to the Scaffold." Back in the day, I would put a speaker outside on the porch and play this on a loop to frighten the kids away.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Great story, great intro, loved the pumpkins !
We enjoy all the happy faces of kids. We give out good stuff and kids always remember us from prior years. People come by van to our neighborhood because you can ring a lot of doorbells and nice walking streets. There are nasty people in the world but don't let them bring you down or live in your head rent free. My wife and I remember how stingy our parents were and we try to right the wrong.
This is what I sub for!. Great story claus. Probably one of your younger viewers but you never fail to entertain with your commentary
Thanks for the comment! I love the younger audience
Lol. I remember the little orange UNICEF boxes.
an oldschool intro :)
i love you
Lucky Shitbarn.
Happy Halloween 🎃
You want to know what Scary is Claus?
The second replay (Object 261) appeared on my channel yesterday - very scary
Even scarier was that the first 261 replay on my channel yesterday was a Fadins and BOTH subsequent ones used 19 rounds and had one left at the end - VERY SCARY!
Great story. Made you the man you are today :)
I am told I am ready for Halloween all year round 😂 UK has good fun at Halloween
Happy Halloween Claus!
Great intro Claus!
Thank you Claus for your personal story about your, normaly fun, Haloween time. Sorry to hear that someone can do that to kids and that it sti affects you...
Claus, you should do Beaker with the long pumpkin and Dr Bunsen Honeydew with the rounder pumpkin!
Was the "no fun for you" rocks 😂😂😂
my Halloween was a lot like yours the people all had the different types of things to give..apples cookies and we had 1 guy who gave each kid a dollar bill!! And yes we all knew which houses gave the best candy. It is a very fond memory of how things use to be
Thanks for warning me about Halloween Claus. I'll remember not to answer the door this evening...
12:38 I remember collecting for UNICEF then it was cancelled because it was discovered it was a scam, very little of the money actually went to helping others. (just like most charities these days). Like Goodwill, I think something like 10 or 5 percent actually goes to the charity, the rest goes for profit.
Perfect Intro Claus. 😱
Morning Gang.
Happy Halloween
Trick and Treating in the 70's ... we would have to run from the older boys looking to take our Loot, spray us with shaving cream and egg us. It was all in fun. That was a brutal story of the coins. Glad you got some payback.
Yeah, it was a different time...
"Trick or treat for UNICEF!" I remember, brother Claus. Every Halloween we went out for UPY (United Presbyterian Youth) and collected for UNICEF. 🤠
Nice!
Happy Halloween Claus. I thought for sure you were going to say that your dad handed out asparagus from his private patch,
Caramel apples, popcorn balls, Rice Krispie treats, and other homemade goodies. These days if you tried to hand that type of stuff out, they would probably arrest you.
Great job sir
We had one house where the person that lived there would freak out on Halloween and the cops were called. I think the guy threatened to shoot anyone that ringed his door bell.
We also had the worries about razor blades in apples.
Times are definitely different. Now the parent drive their kids around on golf carts with alcohol in their drink containers.
It’s good to see Claus dressed up for Halloween. “Disheveled, middle-aged, incel with a slightly higher than average IQ” was a great choice!
Here in Europe, and especially in Belgium, it is becoming more and more important. But it will never be as big as in North America. If you see a couple of houses decorated per street, you can be happy here. And yes there are evil people and unfortunate this will always be.
Happy Halloween.
25:14 just going to say, the "trauma" is amplified by memory. Your fingers couldn't have been TOO bad if you were able to walk around looking for rocks. Not only go find them, but pick them up, carry them, then throw them hard enough to bust out a window.
I met my wife at Halloween, the princess of all witches ❤
Dave Chappell, “Get off my porch you little beggars !!”
I am waiting for the Count Floyd impersonation
I like all Hallows Eve - a night to remember those that you knew who have died, and Samhain - the night when you transition to, and prepare for the dark of the year... but Halloween can do one. It's just a commercialised nonsense... but that said, I haven't gotten to the level of heating up coins yet 😀
we dint really have halloween in the UK in the 60's/70's, not in our neighbourhood anyway, everyone was poor, if a kid had an apple at school there'd be 5 kids surrounding them "can I have the core" our big night was Nov 5th Guy Fawkes/bonfire night, for the week leading up we'd make a Guy and sit outside the local pub "penny for the Guy" some drunk gave us a one pound note we thought we were millionaires lol
The holiday celebrated in Germany on November 1st is All Saints' Day, or Allerheiligen:
What it is: A Catholic festival where churchgoers remember the dead
Where it's celebrated: A public holiday in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland
How it's celebrated: Practicing Catholics attend Mass, graves are decorated with flowers, candles, and wreaths, and large meals are shared with friends
Prior to this, the Germans create large log piles in the country-side. they gather together and light them to celebrate this day. Years ago, the astronauts had seen the bonfires from outer space.
I'll share my Halloween story on my channel today.
Had a guy who handed out tennis balls. He would buy all the defect balls for the manufacturer.
Halloween is big in the Uk. Party times and Trick n Treat.
Hi Claus, beautiful intro! In The Netherlands, Halloween is catching on, even though most people are not religious anymore, nor do they understand the religious background. Totally bullshit commercial event nowadays. Hope you enjoy it though!
As a kid I picked up pennies, as an adult I do not. Most change is worthless to me now, not even worth the effort to pick up. The innocence of kids is truly remarkable... cool stuff costs money, and back in the day I did not have much in the way of savings. I guess most kids don't...
I'm not saying traumatic things like this should happen to kids, but let's be honest, it builds the resilience adults should have. These days it seems children are woefully unprepared for the hardships we all must face.
Good thing that you forgot about dads spare gas in garage....
Love the intro
Halloween, kiddie's introduction to extortion!
Claus halloween was created in ireland
Mr Claus, who is the celebrity for the WoT Christmas?
Today we go Snipe hunting.
Amazing how all north American kids sound like the baby
When I was 10 at Halloween I was robbed by two older kids both dressed as Batman. Talk about traumatizing. 2 Batman's? Count Floyd would say. Vary scary.
awesome intro Canuck
Fun fact: no kid has ever eaten an apple with a razor in it but the news sure did scare everyone
Claus, All Hallows Eve (Halloween) originated in Europe, it's the day before All Saints Day (All Hallows Day), in the 8th century Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. But it's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (Sow-in).
In my neighborhood that dude's house would have mysteriously burned to the ground a couple weeks later.
Appropriate response to the coins.
Might be why the British don't really do Trick or Treat. We'd enjoy the trick part too much.
My dad was a Vietnam vet with PTSD and a bad temper. I would have told him what happened, and that guy would have paid a price. In 1979, the cops would have looked the other way.
P.S.- I would have been very disappointed with an egg.
I got a pencil and a dime from one lady. Turns out now, I can eat Nerds candy with my dentures. One year I made Freddy Kruger finger blades in metal shop, nobody blinked an eye.
I'm sorry something like that happened to you Claus, that is really traumatic experience for kid. But it's long pass. Happy Halloween to you and your family... All the best...
Thanks for your kind words, and Happy Halloween to you too!
@ClausKellerman thank you man