A few years ago, on Halloween night, J.P. Barthet was planning to spend a relaxing evening at his Swieqi home as his wife Johanna was taking the children out for trick or treating. He quite detested the festivity at the time and didn’t mind spending a couple of hours on his own.
But he barely had the chance to put his feet up when the doorbell rang.
“There they were, a group of young kids all dressed up looking the part asking me the ultimate question: trick or treat…,” Mr Barthet reminisced.
“So I had to rush into the kitchen and fetch some sweets for them.”
By the third or fourth group that showed up on his front porch, he ran out of sweets, so he dashed to the sweet shop down the road. On the way back, a wicked idea occurred to him.
“I stopped in the garage to get some masks we had from parties we had gone to in previous years. I quickly dressed up the windows with the masks and candles, downloaded some creepy sounds and music from the internet, and lo and behold, that’s how my haunted Halloween fright event started!” he said.
Eight years down the line, it’s not only a few children who turn up at his home on Halloween night, but thousands of people of all ages looking for a...
