Creepiest Things to Happen On / Near Halloween

Stalker at the Railroad Tracks

18-year-old Taylor Van Diest was walking alone to meet a friend on Halloween night, 2011. She noticed she was being followed and relayed this information via text. Shortly after that, all contact stopped and the young woman seemingly vanished into thin air. Hours later, Taylor was found by the railroad tracks, brutally beaten with life-threatening head wounds. She was rushed to the hospital but later died of her injuries. DNA evidence pointed to 26-year-old Matthew Foerster as the perpetrator. It is believed that the attack began as an attempted rape, but when Taylor screamed and fought to escape, Foerster panicked and smashed her head repeatedly with a blunt instrument.