Hidebehind? Fearsome Critters? What? Being a lumberjack/logger can be a lonely job. Their logging camps lie right in the middle of the wilderness, isolated miles away from any kind of hospital should things go wrong—and oftentimes, they do go very wrong. Logging is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, oftentimes even more so than fishing. Falling trees and limbs, machinery mishaps and malfunctions, dangerous terrain, inclement weather, and even wildlife are significant threats to the lives of loggers. With the sheer number of ways to be injured or die on the job, paired with the loneliness (apart from working with their fellow loggers), perhaps it makes sense that stories of fantastical creatures began popping up in camp conversations. These "fearsome critters", as they came to be known in the twentieth century, were part of an oral tradition among loggers told in camp to new arrivals and other groups of loggers passing through. While a lot of the stories and crea
Note: All images have been taken from the Hollywood HHN 31 page on the HHN wiki , a fan wiki maintained by HHN aficionados. Proper credit to all media can be found in the Pictures section. The videos used come from the YouTube channel Sharp Productions . Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights 2022 As someone living in the southeastern United States, I am definitely less versed in the history of Universal Hollywood's HHN. I do know that Hollywood began their annual Halloween event in 1992, a year after the first Fright Nights over in Orlando. There was a precursor to both parks' Halloween celebrations back in 1986 that was canceled after the tragic death of a scareactor working on the Terror Tram. Universal decided to try Halloween again 6 years later, and the HHN tradition finally took hold of the park. I may be spoiled by the grand, ultra-theatrical approach to HHN in Orlando, but earlier houses offered by HHN Hollywood were, to my shock considering wh