17 Pictures of Tricksters in Impressive Ghost Costumes – Can You See Yourself? – The Northern Echo

Children of all ages dress up in scary costumes for the annual festival, as the weather holds out for an evening of door-knocking.

Youths dressed as aliens, pumpkins, ghosts and more took to the streets with their lanterns.

Trick or Treating in Darlington. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Popular clothing themes this year are said to include pop sensation Chappelle Roan and the new Beetlejuice movie.

Pumpkins, skeletons and ghosts decorated homes across the UK for Halloween this year, with some families working for “months” to furnish their homes in spooky decor.

A ghostly skeleton walks the streets of Hunwick, County Durham. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Halloween has its origins in the Western Christian holiday All Saints’ Day. It begins the celebration of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to commemorating the dead, including saints, martyrs and all the faithful departed.

Poppy Fraser and Astrid Davison are scary cheerleaders. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Lennox, Ebony and Beau make a terrifying trio. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Hunwick for Halloween photographed Jason Blanchflower, Callum Bearing, Megan Stonebanks and Molly Stonebank in front of the girls’ haunted house for Halloween. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) A wizard who walks the streets. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Scary costumes on display in Hunwick. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Are twins Finley and Robbie Calvert cute or petrifying? (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)

Some went all out in their costumes. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Kanan Chawler, Ellen-Ann Wright and Esme Greenwood in Hunwick. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)