It’s spooky season, and throughout Riverside and on campus, there are plenty of Halloween activities for students to participate in.
To start off, from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31, UCR’s Student Recreation Center will host a “Scream Week” filled with Halloween-themed workouts and activities. During this week, the SRC will be hosting zombie-themed dance classes, a floating pumpkin patch, a...
If you haven’t already started thinking of your Halloween costume a week into October, you’re already behind. Luckily this list of ideas for any arrangement of people will help catch you back up to speed.
Solo:
Marie Antoinette: With lots of blush and a big white wig, you can fulfill your dreams of becoming royalty for the night. Whether you...
I pace back and forth outside the doors of the Student Recreation Center arena trying to relax my nerves before entering. Today is the day that could make or break the rest of my college career: today are the tryouts to be the iconic Scotty the Bear mascot.
In the middle of the gym sits a lonely table with a...
The first Fall Fair since 2021 was a day of pumpkins and fun for everyone. As patrons walked through Lot 30, and entered the R’Garden, they were being greeted by smiles at the door. A little ahead was a giant canopy filled with tables and vendors, in the back a stage and somewhere was the smell of tacos wafting...
With Halloween quickly approaching, here are a few spooky stories to scare the pants off of you!
Ouija Board Knocks Back
Found on Mashable, Reddit user ExrementCranium shares a story of seven friends sitting together in a dark and dingy basement late at night. As the night went on, the friends began to explore the mounds of boxes piled sky high....
Coffee shops around campus offer countless amounts of drinks, but what to pick? Sip on these warm and iced beverages to get a real feel for the Halloween season.
Fall is my favorite time of year, inspiring me to cover myself in blankets and curl up with a good book and a hot or iced drink in my hand. During...
The moonlit sky
Shining on the haunted peaks
Of Box Springs Mountain
The pale white ghost cackling over the empty streets
He came down from the mountain
To find the students
Speaking rumors over his existence
Of when he lays his ghostly hands on you
Or the constant flickering of lights
To warn you of his presence
His existence is in the soul of the campus
And the students that...
Unworldly apparitions, logic-defying orbs, strange electronic malfunctions and peculiar physical sensations: all of these and innumerably more incidents make up the North American canon of the paranormal. These sensory manifestations of an embodied fear of the past haunt us, putting us in a perpetual state of anxious unease when consuming the past. Alive in Riverside just as it is...
This morning was a good one. The VRRRRR sound my phone made as it vibrated against my mattress pad woke me up from the last good dream I think I’m gonna have for a while. Sheepishly, as if my body knew I shouldn’t answer this call, shouldn’t put myself through the hell I was about to put myself through,...
