Unleash the costume of your dreams for a chance to win L$25K!

The Official Second Life Halloween Costume Contest is open for submissions from now until Thursday, October 28th at 8AM PDT.

Costumes will be judged on creativity and originality. Show us a look that will turn heads! (180°, preferably.)

Need some spooky inspo? Check out:

• The Haunted category of the Destination Guide
• Our official Flickr pool to scope out the competition
• The Halloween Shop and Hop, with almost 300 vendors offering free gifts, discounts and bone-chilling clothes and accessories

The winner will be announced next Friday, so go on witch your bad self!

Click here to enter and for the official rules and guidelines. 

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UPDATE OCTOBER 29th! - Congratulations to BoudoirMaquillage for winning the 2021 Halloween Costume Contest with an outfit that she created herself!

We have some very spooktacular events planned for you this Halloween season! 

It’s The Great Trick-or-Treat Event, Bellisseria!

Creep or crawl over to Bellisseria this Halloween season to snag some candy and win prizes! This is an interactive event open to *everyone* where Residents living in Bellisseria can host Candy Buckets on their parcels. You don’t want to miss the paranormal partygoers and creative costumes throughout Bellisseria during this virtual Trick-or-Treat.

Plus, there are prizes to be won for all who participate! Read Patch Linden’s forum post for all the spooky details and teleport over to one of the following locations to pick up the HUD and start trick-or-treating now!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Millbank/205/38/23
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Campwich%20Forest/118/101/24
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Randelsham%20Forest/150/112/70
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Muehlenbach/158/120/37

Halloween Haunted Neighborhood

Once again, the Millbank region has undergone a spooky overhaul, with numerous Linden Homes getting a haunted horror theme. Visit the Halloween Haunted Neighborhood, grab a red balloon, and explore the many haunted houses and see the scary sights! 

Halloween Haunted Tour

Our classic Halloween Haunted Tour is back again for a limited time. Are you brave enough to enter? Hop in a coffin and enjoy the wild ride through the twisted mind of madness!

Halloween Shop & Hop 2021

The annual Halloween-themed multi-region shopping event continues until October 31st. If you haven’t had a chance to pick up free gifts from over 280 participating merchants, head over now to complete your spookiest look yet! Check the 2021 Halloween Shop & Hop guide for a list of all merchants with direct slurls.

Haunted Category on the Destination Guide

We now have over 100 haunted destinations listed on the Destination Guide where ghosts, goblins and other scary surprises lurk around every dark corner. 

Halloween Contest Coming Soon

We have one more spooky surprise for you: this Halloween month, Second Life will hold a costume contest with a L$ prize – more details on rules and submissions to come soon!

UPDATE: The 2021 Official Halloween Costume Contest has been announced, with a grand prize of L$25K! Click here to enter and for the official rules and guidelines. 

There is so much to explore this Halloween season, so grab a costume and hit that teleport button now! Happy Halloween!

160 participating merchants. Eight shopping regions. Tons of fun. The annual Halloween Shop & Hop is here!

Held through Nov. 1, the Halloween Shop & Hop features exclusive and discounted items you won’t want to miss! This year’s event features some of the creepiest and coolest creations in the virtual world from both established and emerging creators -- and each merchant has at least one free item so you’ll want to collect ‘em all!

Expect lots of spooky surprises as you shop -- and don’t forget to share your favorite shopping snapshots and haul on Social media. Use hashtag #SLShopHop to tag your photos on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Feeling in the mood for even more Halloween fun? Check out our round up of Halloween highlights which include dozens of haunted attractions and events you won’t want to miss!

Tune into Lab Gab today as well, Strawberry Linden will be giving you a quick run through of Shop & Hop, the Swaginator Hunt, and the Haunted Neighborhood. Watch live on YouTube at 11am PT/SLT today.

Happy Halloween!
 

A complete list of participating Shop & Hop Merchants in alphabetical order is below:

Something spooky is happening in Second Life! As October begins, hundreds of haunted experiences and events are emerging from the dark shadows of Second Life. To jumpstart your jumpscares, we’ve assembled a few Halloween-themed highlights you won’t want to miss.

Halloween Swaginator Hunt 2020

The Halloween Swaginator Hunt is back! Can you find all five hidden Halloween-themed gifts? This year’s freebies are among the best ever! To get started, look for the special haunted edition of the Swaginator gift-giving station to grab your free HUD. 

Once you have the HUD, you can seek and find your free gifts through the month of October. 

New Premium Gift: Ghoul Follower

Want more gifts? Premium Members can now pick up the latest Premium Gift, an exclusive Ghoul Follower that will haunt you wherever you go in Second Life. 

Make a friend this Halloween with your own personal Ghoul! Add him to your avatar and your own spectral phantom will follow you wherever you go. Or rez him out on your land to haunt a particular area.
 

All-New Halloween Haunted Ride and Haunted Neighborhood

Halloween Haunted Neighborhood

The Millbank region has undergone a spooky overhaul, with numerous Linden Homes getting a haunted horror theme. Visit the many haunted houses, see the scary sights! Take a step inside the homes while you’re at it: we have such sights to show you!

Visit in Second Life

Have you heard the news? We’ve got an all-new Halloween Haunted Neighborhood filled with many haunted houses and other scary sights.

Halloween Haunted Tour

The bone-chilling Haunted Tour is back again! Hop in a coffin and enjoy the wild ride through the twisted mind of madness.

Visit in Second Life

There’s also our classic Halloween Haunted Tour, which is back again for a limited time. Are you brave enough to enter?

More Haunted Attractions

Over two dozen haunted attractions and events have been added to the Haunted category in the Destination Guide in the last week alone - and you can expect dozens more in the coming weeks as we get closer to Halloween. Some of our favorites include MadPea’s Halls of Horror Interactive Hunt, Laurel’s Nightmare, and Halloweentown.

The Halloween season is right around the corner, and this year Second Life brings you not one but TWO Halloween experiences!

The Millbank region has undergone a spooky overhaul, with numerous Linden Homes getting a haunted horror theme. Visit the Halloween Haunted Neighborhood and explore the many haunted houses and see the scary sights! Take a step inside the homes while you’re at it: we have such sights to show you...

Halloween Haunted Neighborhood

The Millbank region has undergone a spooky overhaul, with numerous Linden Homes getting a haunted horror theme. Visit the many haunted houses, see the scary sights! Take a step inside the homes while you’re at it: we have such sights to show you!

Visit in Second Life

Grab a Red Balloon ride over the region. Explore the paths that lead through the forest. And don’t forget to grab your souvenir flashlight from the landing area: it gets dark here!

Additionally, the Halloween Haunted Tour is once again open for business! Take a coffin ride through the twisted terrors inside. To begin your journey, head on over to Portal Park and look for the Halloween Haunted Tour sign to enter the portal...if you dare!

Halloween Haunted Tour

The bone-chilling Haunted Tour is back again! Hop in a coffin and enjoy the wild ride through the twisted mind of madness.

Visit in Second Life

Stay tuned for more Halloween season announcements!