Minimum wage monsters: working horror stories
By Trevor Gardemal, Social Media Manager
October 14, 2020
For many students at WCHS, working part time is a great way to get experience, stay busy, and make money. However, working is not always easy. In fact, sometimes it can be downright scary. Here are three customer service horror stories, just in time for Halloween. In our first story today, senior Dagmawi The...
Students Seek A Spook
By Eliza Asbury and Jenna Greenzaid
November 2, 2016
Halloween creeps up once again and what else is there to do besides trick-or-treating? This year, the answer is so… much… more. As CHS students have grown older and relinquished their childhood years from the early 2000s, Halloween has turned into a marathon of scary movies, partying instead of t...
Horror movies:the science behind the scare
By Ross Tanebaum, Online New Editor
October 29, 2015
Halloween is one time of the year when people love to get scared. Fear is an emotion that brings out a physical reaction. Sweat starts pouring, the heart beats faster, and adrenaline rushes through the body. Many people enjoy the feeling that fear creates. One way that people get this feeling is...
Markoff’s forest haunts those seeking a scare
By Julia Heimlich, Circulation Manager
November 7, 2012
An eerie overpass, an unsettling circus scene and ghostly figures hauling around chainsaws: is this the set of a horror movie? Nope, just one of the 20-minute murky, wooded trails at Markoff’s Haunted Forest. Even the drive up to Dickerson, MD makes for a pitted stomach. Seemingly neglected farmhouses...
An MCPS Halloween: all tricks, no treats
October 26, 2011
Halloween has, and always will be, one of the greatest holidays. Children enjoy picking out costumes, teens enjoy socializing with their friends, and adults get to act like kids. But this year, instead of a late night crammed with great partying or trick-or-treating, MCPS students from kindergarten...
Hollander’s Hot Sauce
By By Ben Hollander, Staff Columnist
October 29, 2010
Whether it was the feeling of slipping on my new red Power Ranger costume, picking out my favorite pumpkin or begging strangers for chocolatey treats, everything about Halloween made it the best holiday as a child. No holiday, even the great harvest of Sukkot, could even measure up to the exhilarating...