Disclaimer

The Rogue Hunt is not in any way affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to GISHWHES, LLC. We’re just a group of rebellious weirdos who wanted to create some fun Halloween shenanigans and good trouble. Your participation is entirely at your own risk and discretion. Be smart and safe out there.

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The LIST

Individual Items

NumberItem Description
1IMAGE. Creepy comic book. Scare us in six panels or less!
Inspired by Team Pantheon
2IMAGE or VIDEO. Life is gourd? Witchful thinking? Skele-fun? Think of your favorite Halloween-themed pun and bring it to life using any medium you’d like – including yourself. (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
3VIDEO. Show us an alternate ending or deleted scene from your favorite Halloween movie. (Videos up to 30 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
4IMAGE or VIDEO. Your house is haunted! Who is this mysterious creature and why are they made entirely out of kitchen items? (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
5IMAGE or VIDEO. The rise of the dirty laundry. (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
6IMAGE or VIDEO. So, you’ve chosen your Halloween costume! Congrats! But guess what? The rejected costume ideas are not going down so easily. How will you face them? (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
7IMAGE. Show a classic (or not so classic) Halloween monster spending quality time with a beloved pet in the medium of your choice. (Paint, digital art, cosplay, carved on a pumpkin? Whatever speaks to you!)
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
8IMAGE. El día de los muertos is a popular holiday celebrated in many latinoamerican cultures. In Ecuador, one of the traditions is to make guaguas de pan (bread babies). Make your own guagua de pan to remember someone in your own life.
Inspired by Team Pantheon
9VIDEO. Time for Treats for Tricks: using positive reinforcement, teach a loved one (dog or not) a new trick. Make a 14 second video of them in a costume attempting to performing the trick. (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Gratuitous Karaoke
10IMAGE. Not all scarecrows want to stand around outside all day. Let’s see a scarecrow in interview attire applying for their dream job.
Inspired by Team Pantheon
11IMAGE. Pumpkin spice is all the rage this time of year. Create your own never-before-heard-of coffee or tea flavor and get it on a menu at your local coffee/tea shop.
Inspired by Team Pantheon
12VIDEO. Act out a scene from your favorite horror movie as a silent black and white film. (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
13IMAGE or VIDEO. Your house, school, or place of employment is haunted. Prove it. (Videos up to 14 seconds)
Inspired by Team Pantheon
14IMAGE Row row Roe your boat, it is time to Get Out The (US) Vote; create a suffragette Halloween costume to help you get into the spirit for election day! (Beware, polling places often prohibit political attire so don’t actually wear into your voting location)
Inspired by Team Gratuitous Karaoke
15IMAGE Dress a houseplant up as a monster.
Inspired by Team Gratuitous Karaoke
16IMAGE In the artistic medium of your choice, depict a moment from a nightmare you once actually had in your sleep.
Inspired by Team Gratuitous Karaoke
17IMAGE or VIDEO (something something) Scooby-Doo (something something) those meddling kids.
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
18IMAGE or VIDEO. Garlic detector test strips for the Vampire who likes to eat out? Shower drain cover that can wrangle that Werewolf hair? Create an ad for a new product or service for a specific monster customer base.
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
19IMAGE: Clowns in sewers are so 2017. Show us the latest in public infrastructure-based murder clown hiding places. Don’t forget your balloon!
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
20IMAGE: Scare Bear.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
21IMAGE: Add a single word to the title of a beloved children’s movie to turn it into a terrifying horror movie, and let’s see the poster.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
22VIDEO: I put a spell on you, and now you’re swine.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
23IMAGE: Quoth the raven, “Son of a bitch!” Let’s see Jensen Grackles in all his goth-y splendor.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
24IMAGE (PHOTOSHOP ALLOWED). Home, horrible home: Create a Zillow listing for a famous haunted house. (Doesn’t actually have to be listed on Zillow.)
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
25VIDEO. Show us the REAL reason 6 was afraid of 7.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
26IMAGE. Intricate paper cutting of one scene from your favorite horror film. Similar to this, but Halloween: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chinese-traditional-year-of-the-tiger-paper-cut-art-pattern-window-grille-on-white-gm1409484296-460011550

Inspired by Team VeniVidiGishi
27IMAGE. Kids aren’t the only creatures who love to roam neighborhoods in search for yummy treats in the fall. Build a trick or treating stand for your local birds (please pick safe and nutritional treats for your avian visitors https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/feeding-birds-your-backyard
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
28IMAGE or VIDEO. Make a marshmallow skeleton (Jack Skellington or otherwise)
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
29IMAGE: Trick or treating isn’t about candy when you’re a grown up. Show us what people in your age group want in their pumpkin buckets.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
30IMAGE. Androids may dream of electric sheep, but what do creatures dream of? Show us what little monsters are dressing up as for Halloween.
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
31IMAGE. Jack-O-Lanterns may be spooky, but scurvy is truly horrifying. Carve the face of Samba Schutte into an orange, and post it on social media. Be sure to tag @sambaschutte, @OurFlagHBOMax, #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
32IMAGE. The Great Rogue Cross-Over. Since we are going rogue for GISHoween, let’s make the most epic Rogue crossover ever! Using any media, let’s see Cassian Andor and any other members of Rogue One trick or treating with Anna Marie, the untouchable Rogue, and any other X-Men.
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
33IMAGE. Don’t LINT the lack of an official GISH hunt stop you from celebrating. Make the most awesome spider or spider family from dryer lint.
Inspired by Team Boo-Bees
34IMAGE. Using materials you have around the house, show us your most frightening ScareCROW.
Inspired by Team Boo-Bees
35IMAGE. We all know salt repels ghosts, but what about other creatures? Using lore and spices depict a supernatural creature out of what repels or kills them.
Inspired by Team Boo-Bees
36IMAGE: Show us your fabulous origami Halloween feast.
Inspired by Team VeniVidiGishi
37IMAGE: Hate the waste that comes with carving jack-o-lanterns? Up cycle all your unused pumpkin parts into a dish you’d be proud to serve GOURDon Ramsay. Share on social media to the master chef himself @gordongram (Instagram) or @gordonramsay (Twitter) and use hashtags #gourdonramsay #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team The Oddity & Curiosity Collective
38IMAGE. Did you know that 1 in 20 children have epilepsy? Many kids feel like they have to keep their seizures a secret because of fear. Help fight the monster of stigma by particiapting in the Purple Pumkin Project (PPP). https://www.epilepsy.com/volunteer/fundraising/purple-pumpkin-project Post your purple pumpkin on the PPP Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Purple.Pumpkin.Project or other social media tagged #EpilepsyAwareness, #PurplePumpkinProject, and #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
39IMAGE. Arachnophilia. Take a picture of a beautiful spider web. Share it with someone else who loves spiders.
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
40IMAGE. It’s Bat Week! The annual, international celebration of the vital role bats play in the health of our environment and economy. Help raise awareness about these amazing flying mammals and the need for their conservation. https://batweek.org/take-action/ has a number of suggestions to get you started (from creating bat art to talking an urban Bat walk to a Bat costume contest!). Post your contribution to Bat awareness on social media tagged #BatWeek and #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
41IMAGE Many children have food sensitivities/allergies/health conditions that don’t allow them to consume candy. Show a picture of a teal pumpkin at your house WITH non-food options for trick-or-treaters and register your house at the Teal Pumpkin Project so we can spread the inclusiveness for everyone! https://www.foodallergy.org/our-initiatives/awareness-campaigns/living-teal/teal-pumpkin-project?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=teal-pumpkin&utm_content=search&utm_term=new&gclid=CjwKCAjw2OiaBhBSEiwAh2ZSP6MfShGIU2j2KkLv8nPF7EGrkECYY1c4m3ECGsaRfBRHkqYisszxFBoCbyAQAvD_BwE

Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
42TWEET. A hunt isn’t a hunt (even if it’s a rogue hunt) without showing love for Random Acts. Encourage as many people as you can to make a donation at https://give.randomacts.org/give/342591/#!/donation/checkout and screenshot their thank you / confirmation screen. Then make a post on social media sharing why you support Random Acts. Be sure to tag them.

Inspired by our love and respect for the incredible volunteers at Random Acts

Team Items

43IMAGE. One of the best things about your team is the way they accept you as you are, because of the threads that connect you. Prove it: videoconference with other members of your team. Everyone must be wearing the ugliest shirt or sweater they have – the more outrageous the better. Show us your group photo.
Inspired by Team Pantheon
44COLLAGE/GRID: Show us each of your team members represented by their favorite scary movie cover, Blockbuster Video style, on a shelf.
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
45IMAGE / COLLAGE.Scare up some votes! Politics can be pretty spooky, but the best way to overcome your fear is not to cast a spell but to cast a vote. Make a montage of pictures of your team members or family/friends in a Voting BOOth with a sign saying why they are voting this year. Post on Social media tagged #Voting Spirits #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
46VIDEO (up to 1 min). Gotham Frights! If you have watched the trailer for Gotham Knights, you know the question is, “Who killed Batman?” Since this is the The Rogue Hunt, let’s invent some new supects for the Rogues´ Gallery with some crazy crossovers. Show us the interrogations of famous horror movie villains, explaining why they did or did not kill Batman. Freddy Krueger explaining it could not be him becuase Batman never sleeps, or Norman Bates giving his mother as an alibi witness.
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy

Collaborative Items

47VIDEO. Send a “Thriller” dance challenge video to another team (14 SECONDS)
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
48IMAGE. Write a collaborative Horror story one line at a time on Twitter with other GISHers. Please include a cupcake and a cinnamon roll. Use #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
49IMAGE. Side by Side. Halloween Swap! Pair up with another GISHER and create a likeness of each other but make it SPOOKY! Share both images and tag your (new) friend.
Inspired by Team GISHthisWay
50IMAGE / GRID: Gish Team Cosplay: A collage of your team dressed as another team (based on that other team’s name – ie, everyone in togas to cosplay as Pantheon).
Inspired by Team WhatIsYourDamageHeather
51VIDEO. Dragon Mash! House of the Dragons was a pretty scary show, but given that it is is based on the events during the Dance of the Dragons, there was a dearth of dragons dancing. Let’s fix this by having a dragon twitter conga line. Reply to this tweet with your dragon conga dancing.

https://twitter.com/AdiLeverkuhn/status/1585788650511482880?s=20&t=yn95lUJ02UH439Uf8pv9mQ

Don’t forget to tag @HouseofDragon, #DanceOfTheDragons, @GRRMspeaking, and #RogueHunt
Inspired by Team GottaBeCrazy
52TWITTER CHALLENGE: We Gishers love choosing our own adventures based on Misha’s ideas, but what if we turned the tables? For this rogue hunt challenge, Tweet the start of a Choose Your Own Adventure Story starring Misha as any classic Halloween character with options as to what happens next (via a poll). Let your followers vote to choose his next adventure. Anyone from another team must continue the story doing the same – using the results from the previous poll, and posting a new poll. Confused yet? Good! That’s part of the fun. See how many times you can keep the story going before reaching an end. Tag @mishacollins and use the hashtag #RogueHunt

tip* Set the poll to 1 hour to get quick results.
Inspired by Team The Oddity & Curiosity Collective

BONUS! Halloween Hunt list by other awesome people:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KiD5s2mKy5KhTTypzUa8nDisMaTvCPblxl2sK5dTGng/edit?usp=sharing