With our
12th Round selection, Team Sequioa is proud to select, in the
Canadian category, Are You Afraid of the Dark?
From Wikipedia:
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Both series of Are You Afraid of the Dark? revolved around a group of teenagers who referred to themselves as "The Midnight Society". Every week, at a secret location in the woods, one member would tell a scary story to the group. The actual story, rather than the telling, was displayed to the television viewer. The story was shown between the group's arrival at the site and their departure. Each storyteller would begin their story by saying "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story..." at which point he or she would toss out a handful of potassium nitrate (which the characters referred to as "dust") from a leather pouch into a campfire to heighten the flames and produce an eerie white smoke. The storyteller would continue by announcing its title (The Tale of...).
The themes of the stories usually revolved around a variety of paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, goblins, magic, haunted houses, magical curses, aliens, witches and the like coming into contact with normal teenagers. Usually, the episodes were either filmed in the woods, in abandoned houses, or in public places like schools or libraries.
At the end of every episode one character would throw a red bucket of water onto the fire, stating "I declare this meeting of the Midnight Society closed." And the group would leave the campsite, thus ending the story telling.
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The Tale of the Many Faces Part 1
The Tale of the Many Faces Part 2
The Tale of the Many Faces Part 3
The Show had two runs, the original from 1990 until 1996, and then again from 1999 to 2000. I used to watch it when I was younger, during it's original run, and will admit there were a few episodes that scared the crap out of me as a kid!
