Creepiest Things to Happen On / Near Halloween

Decomposed Body Found on balcony

In Los Angeles in October 2009, a man’s corpse decomposed on his balcony, in full sight of his neighbors, for days because anyone who saw it thought it was part of a very convincing Halloween display and never called the police. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on a Monday but wasn’t actually discovered by police until that Thursday when someone finally called it in. “The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn’t do anything,” one witness said. “It’s very strange. It did look unreal, to be honest.”