A bad day that’s coming your way doesn’t care that it’s Halloween. Unfortunately, even when you’re in the spookiest of spirits, food poisoning or costume mishaps aren’t doing a rain check on you. Quite the opposite, actually — they’re going to hit you harder, making Halloween haunted in a completely new sense. 

Our Bored Panda team gathered many such instances below, in the spirit of the spookiest day of the year. It’s all just a scroll away!

But be warned — bad luck might be contagious. *Insert evil witch giggle here.*

#1 I Hit A Deer… While Dressed As A Deer. Happy Halloween

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#2 Threw A Halloween Party On Monday. This Is The Only Picture Of Me, Because 20 Minutes Before Everyone Showed, I Got Hit With The Worst Food Poisoning I’ve Ever Had In My Life

I spent the night huddled in bed with a plastic bowl to vomit in while 30-40 of my friends continued partying outside my door. Couldn’t even use my bathroom, because there was always a line of drunk people waiting to use it. I was looking forward to it all month.

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#3 Bought This For Our Halloween Family Skeleton Setup Because It Looks Exactly Like My Sweet Dachshund. She Unexpectedly Passed The Next Day

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#4 Looking For Discounted Halloween Decorations… Nope

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#5 This Pennywise Halloween Costume

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#6 All Of My Coworkers Agreed To Dress Up As Smurfs For Halloween. Im The Only One To Go Through With It

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#7 Halloween Spider

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#8 To Be The Mask For Halloween

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#9 Oh That’s Funny

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#10 Accidentally Let A Pumpkin From Halloween Rot In My Front Yard, And Now There’s A Pumpkin Vine That Won’t Stop Growing, What Should I Do?

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#11 Happy Halloween

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#12 Halloween Is Ruined

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#13 My Son Partied Too Hard At School Before Trick Or Treating

Lil guy ate too much pizza, cupcakes and candy at school, found him passed out on the sofa from a tummy ache while in costume when I got out of work at 6. time for sum Pepto…

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#14 Doing The Most With Halloween Costume

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#15 Halloween Decoration My Mom Bought

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#16 Ah Yes, My Favorite Halloween Tradition, The Christmas Tree

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#17 “Pyrex” Pie Dish Couldn’t Take The Heat…. Halloween Party In 2 Hours

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#18 Was At My Kid’s School For A Costume Parade. One Dad Misunderstood In The Best Way Possible

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#19 Bought My Brother A Gru Halloween Costume As A Joke. Who Designed This

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#20 Happy Halloween Guys(This Is Supposed To Be Moon Knight)

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#21 I Wanted To Dress As ‘Cotton Candy’ For Halloween

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#22 Halloween Wig. I’m Going For A Kenny Rogers Vibe

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#23 Carved Our Pumpkin A Bit Too Early This Year

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#24 To Make A Halloween Cake

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#25 Finally Have My Own Place And Bought Candy For Halloween Only Had 2 Kids Come By

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#26 Tried To Make A “Stab Wound” For Halloween… And It Looks Like A Menstrual Pad

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#27 I Did Not Do The Research On When To Plant Pumpkin Seeds For Halloween (21 July)

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#28 How Many Years Bad Luck For Breaking My Bosses Hundred Year Old Mirror… In A Haunted Pub… On Halloween?

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#29 Another Year, Another Pumpkin That Won’t Make It To Halloween Night

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#30 I Wanted To Make A Cool Pumpkin For Halloween

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#31 When Your Halloween Costume Falls Right Into Your Lap

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#32 Spent 5 Hours Baking And Decorating Cupcakes For Halloween And Dropped Some On The Floor

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#33 Ordered A Power Ranger Costume Online For Halloween And Here’s What I Got

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#34 Two Women Let Their Dogs Pee And Jump On My Halloween Decorations. Then Let One Up On My Porch

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#35 2 Adults Taking All The Halloween Candy

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#36 My Team Said We Were Dressing As Dominoes

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#37 My Contribution To Tomorrow’s Halloween Treats At Work

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#38 My Halloween Costume Came Today

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#39 I Ordered Some Tights For Halloween Online. I Didn’t Check The Size And It Turns Out They Were A Bit Too Small

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#40 October Thunderstorm, Before And After

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#41 Someone Ruined My Neighbour’s Kids’ Halloween Pumpkin They’ve Been Growing For Months And Months

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#42 Buying 12 Cartons Of Eggs The Night Before Halloween

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#43 I Hate People Like This, Ruining Trick Or Treating For Everyone

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#44 I Spent $200 On Full Size Candy To Be “That House” For Halloween. Only Had One Group Of Trick Or Treaters Come By So Far And It’s Almost 9pm

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#45 I Spent 3 Weeks Making A Mask For My Office Halloween Contest And I Couldn’t Participate Because I Got Stuck In A Customer Meeting

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#46 Thought It Was My Lucky Day

4:30 am this morning heading out to work. Winds were blowing hard and last night was Halloween. It was dark and it was running to work late. Saw what appeared to be a dollar bill in the leaves. I grabbed it and picked it up. Didn’t feel right when I picked it up, but I took a quick glance and it looked like $100 bill. I put it in my pocket till I got to work.

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#47 Got Appendicitis On Halloween. Luckily We Caught It Early Before It Perforated So I’m Here To Live Another Day

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#48 My Stove Decided To Go As An Insurance Claim For Halloween

I had a grease fire when I was making potato chips and the oil overflowed. The fire was under the burner top and most of it was unreachable. The top would not come off, the firefighters that came couldn’t even get it to budge. Luckily the fire never spread and the damage is contained to the stove itself.

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#49 I Just Look Down At Self Checkout. I Thought People Were Looking At Me Weird Because Of My Halloween Shirt. That Wasn’t Why

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#50 Someone In My Neighborhood Got A Nice Surprise On November 1st

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#51 Great Start To My Halloween (Yes Those Are Worms)

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#52 I Bought This Pallet Specifically For The “Blue” Middle Shade. Wasted My Money Because I Need It For My Halloween Costume

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#53 My Housemate Still Hasn’t Got Rid Of His Pumpkin From Halloween

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#54 Manager Ignoring My Time Off Request That Was Approved

Over two months ago I requested time off for Halloween and it was approved the next day. Then earlier today next week’s schedule came out and I’m scheduled on Halloween. I wouldn’t be as mad if I didn’t make plan’s for Halloween but I did. Should I be as frustrated as I am and how should I approach this?

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#55 Hosted A Halloween Party And No One Showed Up

Sent a lot of invites and got everything decorated for absolutely no one to show up or bother giving me a heads up they weren’t coming or assured me they would come and bailed.

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#56 I Ironed On An Image Upside Down Because I’m Dumb. This Is For A Work Halloween Party In 7 Hours

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#57 I Didn’t Order Halloween Candy, So Why Is There A Razor Blade In My Chip

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#58 The Only Picture My Drunk Boyfriend Got Of My Halloween Costume

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#59 I Needed Some Edible Eyeballs For A Halloween Party Snack. These Were Inside A Larger Bag

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#60 Today I Learned That 99% Of The People At My Work Don’t Know Who Prison Mike Is, So I’m Just A Huge Loser In A Suit & Bandana For Halloween

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#61 Ordered A Halloween Mask And This Is What I Received

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#62 $60 “Professional” Halloween Makeup. I Asked For The Photo On The Left, With Just A Little Fake Blood. On The Right Is What The Makeup Artist Gave Me

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#63 I Was So Excited To Try Coldstone’s Halloween Special

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#64 Halloween… Not Quite

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#65 My Partner And I Tried To Make A Gingerbread Cat For Halloween I Think Ours Is Spookier

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#66 Amazon Reviews For Realistic Masks Never Disappoint

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#67 My Girlfriend And I Made A Chocolate Haunted House. Happy Halloween

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#68 Happy Halloween From Dunkin Donuts

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#69 What The Halloween Section Looks Like At The Walmart Near My House. Complete With P**p On The Floor And Wigs With Lollipops Stuck In Them

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#70 Bought 100 Dollars Worth Of Candy. Our Neighborhood We Recently Moved Into Does Not Do Trick Or Treating. Im Also In Costume And Decided To Walk Around, 2 Kids Looked At Me Like A Freak

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#71 My 6 Year Old Came Home With This In His Trick Or Treat Bucket

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#72 Took A 20 Dollar Uber Ride Each Way To Pick Up A Shirt For My Halloween Costume From Spencers. Guess What They Forgot To Do

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#73 Bent My Last Sewing Machine Needle While Trying To Finish My Child’s Halloween Costume Last Minute

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#74 Halloween Posts Have Started

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#75 This Is The Third Time My Crown Has Fallen Off In A Year. This Time By Eating Halloween Candy

This is my first crown and the darn thing won’t stay on, this is the third time it’s fallen off in a year.

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#76 Happy Halloween

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#77 Neighbor Wants Halloween Decorations Down Nov 1st

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#78 Bought A Little Light Up Trinket For Halloween Today, Went To Put The Batteries In. The Springs Are Tack Welded On Too. So Can’t Be Fixed Easily

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#79 My Brother In Law Unironically Sharing This In The Family Chat After Everyone Shared Their Kids Halloween Photos

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#80 Working In Retail During Halloween Season Is The Worst

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#81 My Neighbors Have Put Up Their Christmas Lights, Just In Time For Halloween

I literally took this picture right before I posted this. This couple lives right across the street from me.
This isn’t all of the lights, BTW. Last Halloween they were sitting on a bench, with all the Christmas lights passing out candy to trick or treaters…and had them on every night until the end of the year.
If I had the money, I’d get a inflatable Santa and a Turkey. Put the turkey sitting on Santa holding a sign that says “Wait your turn, Old man”.

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#82 Woke Up This Morning To 6 Cops, A Fire Truck, And An Ambulance At My Door Because A Passing Car Was Concerned About The One Halloween Decoration I Neglected To Take Down

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#83 I Was Asked “Why Didn’t You Dress Up For Halloween?”

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#84 Outstanding Window Display, Spirit Halloween

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#85 My Friend’s Halloween Socks Came With Two Right Feet

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#86 Buying A Wig For Halloween

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#87 Wife Made A Spooky Halloween Dinner. Result Was Slightly More Terrifying

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#88 Today Is Halloween. Woke Up To This

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#89 I Stole A Hershey Bar From My Kid’s Halloween Candy

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#90 How To Remove A Stain On Pvc Fence Left By Cheap Halloween Decorations?

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#91 I Was So Excited To Finally Be “That House.” I Got Zero Trick Or Treaters

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#92 There Is No Way Through This Maze My Kid Got Trick Or Treating Tonight

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#93 Got This While Trick Or Treating What Is It? It Smells Like A Dog Treat

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#94 What The Hell Has Halloween Become For Kids These Days? What The Hell Is Wrong With People?

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#95 We Were Supposed To Go As Bikers But He Didn’t Get The Memo

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#96 These Booklets That People Put In My Little Sister’s Halloween Bucket

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#97 A Store In My Hometown Is Selling Used (And Emptied) Caskets As Halloween Decoration

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#98 Aren’t They Supposed To Be The Halloween Experts?

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#99 Gave Out Full-Sized Candy Bars And Sodas And Only 5 People Trick-Or-Treated

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#100 Been Growing Pumpkins For Halloween Since March, This Is What I See Today When I Go To Finally Harvest. I’m Literally Crying Right Now

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#101 This Sticker My 4 Year Old Got At A Halloween Event For Children

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#102 Please Do Us All A Favor And Keep Your Little Snowflake At Home

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#103 Somebody Stole My Pumpkin From My Front Porch

I didn’t have money to decorate for Halloween, so I bought a pumpkin to at least have something cute on the porch for when my family comes to see my new apartment. Fast forward, now they’re arriving today and I see someone stole it. (They at least left the little pumpkin)

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#104 Was Taking Down Halloween Decorations When This Happened

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#105 We Also Received Propaganda While Trick Or Treating. This Was Like 20 Pages Long. Highlights Include Classic Hits Like Calling The Pope The Antichrist

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#106 Went From Partying On Halloween To Stuck On My Bathroom Floor Gasping For Air, Running A Low Grade Fever And Trying Not To Throw Up

I’ve actually been down with a cold for almost two weeks (weakened immune system), but started feeling a bit better on Halloween, and felt a lot better after drinking some red wine. I drank it because I heard it had antioxidants.

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