No, random nights throughout the year are mischief nights.

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We had it too but my parents didn't allow us to go out. One year a group of high school students tipped a car over.

You mean the night Detroit burns? Devil's Night - Wikipedia

Thankfully the number of fires has dwindled over the years...

My DH grew up in CT with mischief night. I grew up in GA and had never heard of it until I met him.

I grew up outside Detroit and we called it Devil’s Eve. And yes, as a young kids we ”celebrated” it with pranks.

I have to ask, was your "kid community" heavily German? My ex grew up Germany, and it is widely celebrated there (though, it is in April. Still called mischief night). The places (US) where I have always lived are low in German immigrants, and I hadn't heard of it.

Years back there were incudents of eggs being thrown. I haven't seen or heard anything in recent years.

Now that we have Nest, we can at least see who is ringing the bell.

We called it "Devil's Night" where I grew up..don't know what it is called here

or elsewhere.

Rob, Pennsylvania was largely settled by Germans, after the Swedes and other Scandininavians, although I dont think they were responsible for Mischief Night, but who knows. Lots of Welsh, too, who came to work in the coal mines.

Im glad this so called tradition has ended here.

We are German and much of ND is and never heard of it. So then what does "Tricker or treat" mean??? Halloween is MISCHIEF night and if you want the mischief to stay away you give kids candy. Nov 1 is All Saints Day--when the best are celebrated, Oct 30th is the night the demons roamed in protest is what I was taught....

I’m from roughly an hour NW of Dedtired and Mischief Night is not a tradition here. There might be some mischief but that would more likely happen on trick or treat night, which in my town is the Friday closest to Halloween.

What is a tradition is for the high school pep squad to decorate the house of senior athletes and band members once during their season. They throw colored streamers in the trees and bushes, and cover the front door with a sign that So&So the senior athlete/band member/whatever lives there. I think they do it during the night as a “surprise”, and I wonder do the homeowners hear them and pretend they don’t? Are they really quiet and sneaky?

I always wonder who is stuck cleaning up the mess but I’ve never been one with ”school spirit”, even before I became a grumpy old lady.

We did "mischief" when trick or treating and the house either had its lights out thus not participating or just to be ornery. It was mostly soaping windows or throwing corn on their porch which made a real racket. Older kids would be mean and use paraffin not soap. That stuff was hard to clean off windows! Also when we walked through town, we had to be careful of kids throwing water balloons and getting in the crossfire.

Mom would always take clothes and stuff them with leaves to make a man and sit him on our porch. More than once the next morning he would be found sitting up on the church steps. LOL

I'm German like many in PA and I never heard of mischief night. But at our last residence in a development 40 years ago, there WAS mischief and my kids were part of it. There was soaping of windows and eggs thrown and toilet paper strung over bushes. I limited my kids to only corn kernel throwing and wouldn't give them eggs or toilet paper. I parked my big Afghan Hound in the driveway when the big kids came out ,and she protected the house. When we moved to this small town, I was all prepared for this to continue but never have we had any problems at all . The two homes are only eight miles apart.

When i was a kid, which was a long time ago, when we said trick or treat, sometimes people would say Trick., then we sang a little song or said a poem or danced to earn our treat. Today kids would have no idea.

Here we always took care of mischief on Halloween night itself. Eggs, shaving cream, toilet paper. I always avoided personal property damage, though I might have egged and creamed some signs and stuff, for the most part we were attacking other kids. All this seemed to slow down shortly after I got too old for it. For many years I missed seeing it, lamenting that the youth of today is too darned lazy to even make a mess, but at this stage in my life I can live without it.

In NJ it’s called Mischief Night but it’s not “celebrated” as much as when we were kids — I think it got out of control and eventually many towns set a curfew. It usually involved soaping windows and toilet paper in trees, but no real damage. People would bring their pumpkins into the house that night or they’d be smashed in the street.

Now that so many homes have cameras outdoors any kid doing mischief would get caught easily. Kinda takes the fun out of it!

I grew up in Vermont and we called it Cabbage Night, the worst thing that happened was soap or shaving cream on house windows, egged cars and TP in the trees. Yes I participated, and no, it didn’t lead to a life of crime for me or any of the kids I knew.

Germany's mischief night (really witches' night, and is considered a second Halloween). Good ol' what's his face, was living there (Army, not AF as is linked) back in the 80s. This is what he recounted.

no not where I live, Dutch town here.

Thankfully, no. I do not find sanctioned vandalism to be something to be encouraged. I used to participate in handing out Halloween candy but I have stopped because it's too stressful for me to manage alone with my big dog. I do worry a bit about such vandalism as retaliation.

No, but grew up mostly in Navy housing, which wouldn't tolerate that stuff. I'm glad kids don't do that crap here. I would be ticked off if I had to get wet toilet paper out of my trees.

People whose ancestors came from Germany, the Netherlands or anywhere else more than one generation back are no more of that cultural ethnicity rather than being Americans than am I an Inuit because I've been to Alaska. Or a Maori because I've beej to New Zealand.

i've never heard of this tradition but during the couple of days leading up to our high school homecoming football game, there isn't a roll of toilet paper to be found unless you look up in the trees!

There was no Mischief Night in Georgia where I grew up, but plenty of mischief on Halloween and just before. As someone mentioned above, many houses were ”rolled” with TP, to the consternation of the parents and delight of the kids.

Ah we had mischief night here in south central pa -- it tended to be pretty clean fun -- soaped windows, toilet papered trees, lipstick on car windows (i remember as a young teen covering all the windows of one of the sr footballers with lipstick kisses.. eyeroll).

As I got older there were more and more eggs thrown so more damaging. Not my thing.

I don't believe it is a thing anymore. It definitely isnt in my area of town.

We had mischief night as the night before halloween. I remember on Halloween day, riding the bus to schools and being impressed at how well some of the trees were tp'd. But the mischief was always very mild. I wonder if COVID had an impact on the tp'ing of trees...

homecoming week has plenty of mischief, TPing and the like