I grew up in the Halloween capital of the world. It's nothing like I remember it.

I spent the first years of my life in the Halloween capital of the world. I returned 20 years later and I was surprised at what I found.
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Fires. Tipped over outhouses. Roaming cows. This town battled pranks and changed Halloween.

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I grew up in the Halloween capital of the world. It's nothing like I remember it.

You'll never catch me at a haunted house or watching a horror movie with my eyes open. Halloween is my favorite holiday anyway. Why, you may ask? I lived the first few years of my life in the ...

Fires. Tipped over outhouses. Roaming cows. This town battled pranks and changed Halloween.

Anoka, Minnesota dubs itself the Halloween Capital of the World despite it's unassuming appearance and family-friendliness. Here's how it got the superlative.