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Halloween 2023

Happy Halloween!

Halloween, the Vassar way.

Scenes from the Crypt

Students put on a Haunted House in the basement of Raymond House.

Photos: Karl Rabe

A haunted house. A person sits in a room, the walls lit only with red light, newspapers strewn around the floor. Yellow tape with “Caution” printed on it hangs from the ceiling. The person’s face is painted with black eyeliner, and the person is holding a chainsaw. This is a very creepy scene.

A long, narrow basement corridor, the ceiling crammed with pipes and cables. The foreground shows a chair draped in black, with three battery-powered candles on it. Also on the chair is a scary clown mask with a crown and gold wreath. No people are visible in this image.

A basement hallway. Several people are standing in a line in the hallway. In the foreground is a brick pillar, painted bright red. Someone smeared with what is hopefully fake blood is brandishing a hatchet.

A person with long dark brown hair, a black dress, and a white-and-black-striped shirt stands next to a white brick wall on which is spray-painted a face with long eyelashes, bright red lips, and no nose.

A group of people walks through a narrow hallway, the ceiling lined with thick arrays of pipes and cables. They look like they’re having a good time. In the background are several people with spooky face paint.

A person with long dark hair and heavy black facepaint around their eyes jumps out from behind a door, scaring people.

A large, ill-lit basement room with grimy brick walls, two small windows, and a large tank connected to various pipes. Pacing around this room is a person wearing a black dress, black-and-white-striped stockings and shirt, and black shoes. The person is wearing a white mask with bright red cheeks and lips and black holes for eyes. They look like a very creepy rag doll.

A plastic witch with long gray hair, exaggerated chin and hooked nose, and glowing red eyes.

People walk through a red-framed doorway into a dingy room with white brick walls and black netting, probably meant to represent spiderwebs, hung from the ceiling.

A person in a black dress and black-and-white-striped stockings and shirt jumps out at some people from behind a wall. The person is wearing a white mask with bright red cheeks and lips and black holes for eyes. Someone stands in the foreground with long brown hair and a blue shirt with a wolf illustration on it, smiling at the viewer.

A person in a black dress and black-and-white-striped stockings and shirt frightens a group of people.

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Zoom Meeting Backgrounds

Night time over Vassar College Main Building as lightning strikes the top of the building — Download this image (jpeg) for your Zoom background

Dark background with a glowing apparition that resembles Matthew Vassar to stage left — Download this image (jpeg) for your Zoom background

Moonlit night with the moon in the sky and a dark forest beneath. Glowing eyes peering out from the darkness. — Download this image (jpeg) for your Zoom background

Posted

October 30, 2023