Remember when one of your friends sneaked up behind you when you weren't looking and yelled, "Boo " You nearly jumped out of your skin For just a moment you were scared. Then you laughed when you saw who it was. It was just a trick to scare you But when Halloween first started a long time ago, the truth is that lots of people were really afraid of ghosts and the devil. They believed scary creatures were roaming around on Halloween night...