Sounds of shrieks and screams from frightened students echoed through the halls, as students from Morgan’s REACT club scurried around the school, masked in horror to scare. November 1, 2025, was the day the halls of the Morgan School became haunted, where REACT hosts their annual Haunted Hallways.
Although many students, and even younger kids, enjoy the experience, not many really know what it takes to plan out this entire haunted event. Haunted Hallways is a highly participated event when REACT forms together and makes the hallways of the Morgan School dark and scary.
Colton Landino, a junior at the Morgan school who has been part of REACT all his years at Morgan, likes how this event was a group-like project and how it’s a fun and hardworking experience. “I like that everyone is involved in a group sort of thing, and that all the people can feel welcome because it is a fun and engaging experience during the Halloween time,” Colton shared. ”My favorite part about Haunted Hallways is when we are doing it because it feels good that our hard work is something that people go to and where they have fun at,” Colton added.
Hayden Darr, who is also a junior, has participated in REACT for all 3 years at Morgan. Darr was a hallway leader this year. “As a hallway leader, I helped direct and organize plans for what we were going to do in my specific hallway. I also helped lead people to be productive, as some people weren’t sure what to do since some of them hadn’t ever done this before,” Hayden shared.
Hayden has continued to participate in REACT through all his years at Morgan due to the community it provides. “My favorite part is having fun with all my friends while setting it up,” Hayden said. “I love being able to create a narrative and use my creativity in this event. I also love being able to entertain the public by scaring them.”
It wasn’t all smooth sailing, though. Kevin Wu, who is a freshman and first-time participant in the Haunted Hallways, said, “At the beginning, it was a struggle because I didn’t really know how this worked, but my hallway leaders guided me on what to do, so it just made things way easier.
Colton, also a hallway leader, took pride in the chance to help new students. “My role was a student in my hallways, which was a leadership position that could have helped others when they had questions or other things they had questions about,” Colton said.
Hayden stated that the planning of the event began in mid-September. The group would hold weekly meetings, lasting around an hour and a half, until the event took place on November 1st.
Colton added that a significant amount of planning is involved, with five meetings dedicated to organizing the event and assigning tasks to each person so they have an idea of what they will be doing on the day of the event.
Although there is a lot of joy in this event, Hayden and Colton had to overcome some struggles. “It was hard to be super definitive with what we wanted in our hallway, along with deciding what props and costumes we needed,” Hayden shared. Hayden also adds that the day of setting up and cleaning up right after is long, saying that on the actual day of the event, they were there from 9 am to 9 pm.
This event took a while to set up, as not everyone who signed up was there. “Not having everyone there when we were setting up is a struggle because it’s a group activity that involves everyone, and it can go by much faster when everyone helps out,” Colton shared on the struggles he viewed during the event.
Haunted Hallways is a fun, Halloween experience at the Morgan School, which brings in kids and students from Clinton, and even from other places, to go into the school and have a scream and shriek from the scares of the REACT members, to try to raise money to help out kids in Clinton to teach them about many things. None of this would be possible without the help and planning of the REACT group to host this event.
