Mischief Night or Devil’s Night can be a trick or a treat, depending on which side of it you end up on. If there’s any day that can be thought of as the official TP-your-neighbor’s-house ...

Camden's hottest night ever started with a big of mischief gone wrong In 1991, a record 133 blazes involving structures, vehicles, trash and other thrust Camden into the national news spotlight.

Mischief Night. Cindy Gangemi, resident in Little Silver, loves mischief night and Halloween. Every year she gets all the kids on the block to come and toilet paper and shaving cream her house.

It’s called “Mischief Night.” The tradition refers to the eve of Halloween in which children and teenagers celebrate the holiday one night early with pranks, tricks, and sometimes vandalism.

Mischief Night is straightforward enough. Halloween and Mischief Night have their roots in both Samhain—the Celtic New Year—and the Christian All Souls Day. But what do the other terms mean?

"Mischief Night," also known regionally as Goosey Night, Cabbage Night, Devil's Night, and Gate Night, is not the October 30 tradition it once was — a fact that Chief Michael Foligno, ...

Now, mischief night pranksters pull off petty acts of vandalism such as toilet-papering yards and homes, egging buildings and vehicles, writing on windows with soap, or smashing pumpkins.

Tonight is Mischief Night — which is only what people in this area call it. It has been 23 years since more than 100 fires were set in Camden this night.

1. Mischief Night. Residents of Philadelphia and New Jersey are familiar with Mischief Night, a time for some pre-Halloween pranking and mischievousness—the tricking without the treating, in ...

Traditionally, kids have taken the occasion of the night before Halloween to stir up a bit of deviltry. The tradition dates back to the 1790s in parts of England, Canada and the United States. In ...

“Last night was mischief night and most local police departments report a fairly mild evening of the usual pranks—soaped windows, smoke bombs and egg throwing.” Bucks Co. Courier Times, 1969 ...