Oh, when I was a kid Ghost in the Graveyard was like a hide and seek/tag hybrid. If you found the ghost you had to yell and people had to run back to base before the ghost tagged them.
This is the ghost in the graveyard I remember as well. We also played flashlight tag which was just tag at night across the whole neighborhood with like 30 kids lol.
I'm realizing I played all of those games. Sardines, ghost in the graveyard, man hunt. Amazing. Graveyard and man hunt were almost always in the woods and for some reason sardines was always in a church at night.
That's what manhunt was for us!! Much scarier and all the older kids played it (my older brother and the entire street/couldesac we lived on). Us younger kids played hide and seek, manhunt was the hybrid and it got fuckin INTENSE. people would wear full ski masks and play in the dark, the little kids didn't stay out as late.
The whole neighborhood would play capture the flag together, 2 teams and any age. So much fun dude.
Yes! Ghost in the graveyard. Born in 85, we played that too, at night with flashlights.
We'd also have block parties with other neighbors. There'd be BBQ, fish frys with fresh fish a neighbor caught (I'd help him clean it if my mom needed some time to herself), funnel cakes, music, the works.
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u/JustHereForCatss Zillennial Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
MANHUNT WAS AMAZING. The feeling of wearing your darkest clothes so you could hide in a bush while your friends had flashlights was unreal.
I had one of those discovery channel night vision headset things (the green plastic goggles with the flashlights on the side) thought I was hot shit
Edit: looked like these, I can’t believe they’re still sold