35 Of The Scariest Halloween Costumes Worn By People Historically

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Designing the perfect Halloween costume requires dedication, involving months of planning, researching, and collecting materials before assembling everything for that dramatic, spooky reveal.

We go to great lengths to look as frightening as possible on All Hallows’ Eve. With decades of history behind it, Halloween has always inspired creativity. Interestingly, vintage Halloween costumes are often creepier than you might expect, given the limitations of their time. Though resources were scarce, imaginations were not. With skill and ingenuity, people in the past crafted looks so petrifyingly scary, they’d haunt your nightmares even today!

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Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.