What’s your most memorable Halloween experience?

Last Halloween, the air in my house tightened like it was holding its breath. Every light buzzed, every shadow stretched. I heard slow, deliberate footsteps crossed the floor behind me & I felt the warmth of someone standing at my back but when I turned, the room was empty, and the air finally exhaled. It gave me goosebumps and cold sweats!

Tell us why you would make it to the end of a horror movie.

I’d survive a horror movie because fear doesn’t freeze me, it warns me. I feel the shift in the air before anything moves & I hear danger in the silence, and trust the instincts that most people ignore. While others panic, I get sharper. That’s why I’m the one still standing when the monster realizes I’ve been tracking it too.

What would you do with the unlucky $13,000?

With $13,000 I’d finally give my family a breath of peace, fixing what’s broken, catching up on what’s overdue, and creating one weekend where we don’t have to worry. And for myself, I’d carve out one small corner of joy a space to create, to breathe, and to remember that surviving hard years deserves a reward too.

Who is your real-life hero who you would want to survive a horror movie with?

That would have to be Ed and Lorraine Warren if they were still with us, The couple who’s walked through real darkness and never bowed to it. In a horror movie they'd survive with me because they senses danger before it shows itself. They had the kind of strength the shadows don’t challenge and the kind they learn to fear.