What did you call the night before Halloween?

[brentspeak]

In NJ, it had different names in different towns. But wherever we lived, my older brother always put me in charge of "protecting the house", which meant arming me with the water hose and an arsenal of clear plastic balls taken from 25cent toy machines, filled with shaving cream and water, and with a hole punched in it -- shaving cream "grenades". Meanwhile, my brother and his friends would troll the town to create their own mischief.

[hickman1937]

1. We called it devils night

in Michigan. Soaped a lot of windows.

[u4ic]

2. I've always known it as Devil's Night

[brentspeak]

3. That's the other name that I was trying to remember

I knew there was some other oft-used name, but I just couldn't remember what it was. But that was it.

[hickman1937]

4. Now its called angel night

in Detroit. They got tired of jerks burning down their city, and fixed it.

[Historic NY]

5. also known as "gate night"............n/t

[mcscajun]

6. In NYC...absolutely nothing...it was a non-event...then I moved to NJ

in 1989, and learned about "Mischief Night".

[Dora]

7. It was nothing. Just another night. eom

[HEAVYHEART]

8. Interesting

I've never heard of people calling it anything.

[johnnie]

9. Saturday night

[SOteric]

10. Not a darned thing. But the day after

is All Saints Day. And the day after that is The Day of the Dead in many Catholic Hispanic cultures.

[Left Is Write]

11. We didn't call it anything. I didn't realize until a couple of years ago

that there was anything special going on the night before Halloween. I'm from the Upper Midwest.