Grew up in Georgia, lived in STL, now in Alabama, never heard of any of these pre-Halloween "festivities".![]()
Used to be called "Devil's Night" in Detroit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Night
So help me--you'd think half the city would burn:
"The destruction reached a peak in the mid- to late-1980s, with more than 800 fires set in 1984"