PORTSMOUTH — When the Portsmouth Halloween Parade steps off from Peirce Island at 7 p.m. sharp on Friday, Oct. 31, it will be the 30th time the heartbeat of Portsmouth has unleashed its creepy creativity on the city’s streets to scare all who dare to watch.
The parade first spooked the city’s unsuspecting citizens in 1995. The parade had to skip the real-life-is-too-scary year of the pandemic — 2020 — so that makes this the 30th “all-inclusive celebration of community, creativity and free expression” as the parade organizers describe it.