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In preparation for Halloween, we asked our fans on Facebook to share their spooooookiest period-related story. Here are a few of our favorites: 

"I used to wear tampons until one time I was at the mall and I felt sticky stuff trickling down my leg. Period blood. My tampon fell out and I don't even know where it went. I am a super heavy bleeder and this was a super sized tampon! So that sucked!" - Amy

"Mine actually started for the first time ever in the cemetery. We were playing in the cemetery when I felt it. Weird place to get it." - Kristin

"When I was 12, my dad took me to the woods. It was hunting season and had snowed. I had my period and thankfully was wearing a pad so I got out and peed behind the truck. My flow was heavy, so the snow turned more red than yellow. I didn't have any TP so I shook dry and pulled my pants up. My dad got back to the truck and we started to leave. As he's turning around, he sees a bright red spot in the snow. He circles around looking for a blood trail. I never told him him it was me, but my Mom thought it was hilarious." - Michelle

"I pretended to have PMS once in sixth grade to be "older" and "cool."  After my embarrassing fit I got home only to see that I had, in fact, started my period during the hissy fit." LauraAnn

"I got my period while in a paddleboat in my bathing suit in the middle of a lake. What a mess. My friend made me get out and swim beside the boat the whole way back." Melanie

"I was 16 and grew up in a conservative church. I didn't have a boyfriend, but was interested. My mom took me to an all boy's choir event at our church that had boys as old as 18. I had it in my head that I could charm one of them while talking with them after the concert. Unfortunately it was a really heavy flow day for me and I only wore one pad, with no backups. I didn't understand my own period at that point to have known better. On top of that I wore a WHITE skirt! By the time the concert was over, my mom and I stood up to applaud and she immediately noticed the whole back of my skirt was bright red. I could have crawled in a hole and died. My mom pulled herself up behind me, guided me by the waist and we left. Thank God she didn't panic. That was I think the last time I ever wore white or anything light colored while on my period." - Amanda

"When I was in high school I went to live with my dad. Well, when that time of the month came around I didn't have any money and didn't want to ask my dad or my mom (who I wasn't speaking to) so I used mountains of TP as a makeshift pad (that I later flushed to hide from my dad) and clogged the toilet. That conversations with my dad about proper disposal and how I should have asked him for money for what I needed... most embarrassing thing ever." - Michelle

"While babysitting, I was sitting on a little girls bunk bed and bled through my pants. I had to tell the mom. Thankfully none of the kids found out while I was watching them. I felt bad for the mom who had to deal with period sheets and telling the kids the sheet was no good. Before I learned to keep track of my cycle, I only wore black pants." - Janice

"It started with white shorts and a cute boy. And ended with me practicing my cheerleader toe-touches and high jumps in front of him, not knowing my period had chosen that moment to show herself." - Kelli.

We know that for some people, reusables can seem really scary at first. So once again, we asked our fans to share what they think is scarier still. Your responses horrified us (and some really grossed us out), too. Here are our top picks:

What's scarier than blood from your own uterus getting on cloth pads?

1. Stepping on a slug with bare feet and it squishing between your toes!
2. The used condoms and tampons that used to wash off of our apartment building roof when it rained...
3. A landfill full of other people's dirty disposable pads. Biohazard?!?
4. An 8 hour old tampon.
5. Chemicals near my vagina
6. Finding plastic tampon applicators on the beach - gross!
7. Vomit. Hair from the bath tub drain. Centipedes.
8. Stepping on dog poop your son didn't scoop up in the yard...
9. Bleach up in my hoo-ha
10. Amtrak bathrooms
11. McDonald's

What's scarier (and far more likely) than a menstrual cup getting lost in your body?

1. "Period funk" smell from using tampons and disposable pads!
2. Waking up covered in millions of spiders... then jumping out of bed only to find the floor is covered in snakes!
3. Getting a contact stuck behind your eyelid
4. My son vomiting in my mouth
5. Daleks.
6. Not knowing my body well enough to know a menstrual cup can't be lost in the vagina.
7. TSS!
8. The chemicals in tampons and disposable pads. And the community blood bin that everyone uses to put their disposables in.
9. Starting your period with no menstrual products on you.
10. Being eaten by a dinosaur.
11. Zombie apocalypse.

Comment with your own spooky-scary story about menstruation... we're waiting anxiously by the campfire for your scariest tale from the womb!