While the ongoing pandemic has led to many event cancellations, and the spirit of the season is a bit different this year, people are still finding ways to celebrate Halloween in 2020. With drive-through haunted houses, characters masked to both scare and protect, and inventive socially distant candy-delivery methods, people are adapting to the moment as best they can. Collected here today are photos that take a look at some of these spooky (and fun) pre-Halloween festivities from New York, California, Mexico, Nevada, England, and more.
The Spirit of Halloween 2020
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A huge custom-made surgical mask is displayed on the front of a home in San Francisco, California, on October 23, 2020. The homeowner placed the mask there ahead of Halloween. #
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A home in Warrington is decorated for Halloween with face masks and cobwebs as the borough enters COVID-19 Tier 3 lockdown restrictions on October 27, 2020 in Warrington, England. #
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A carousel display can be seen at the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson, which features more than 7,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins set against the backdrop of Van Cortlandt Manor's 17th-century buildings and riverside landscape. #
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An actor with a pickax chases guests as they ride through a set at the Fright Ride immersive haunted attraction on October 14, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guests are driven through the 75,000-square-foot "research lab" on electric carts in groups of six or fewer to maintain social distancing. Other safety protocols in place include required face coverings for all guests, staff, and actors, enhanced cleaning procedures, and visit-specific entry times for all patrons. #
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A home in Ditmas Park, Flatbush, in Brooklyn, is decorated with skeletons, scarecrows, clowns. skulls, jack-o'-lanterns, and pumpkins in celebration of Halloween, on October 28, 2020. #
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Carol McCarthy sends candy down the candy chute that she will use to give out treats to socially distant trick-or-treaters on Halloween, photographed on October 26, 2020, in Palmyra, New Jersey. #
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Omar Hanson performs in Horrorwood Video, an immersive drive-in theater experience at the Majestic Repertory Theatre in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 26, 2020. #
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