User blog comment:Trainlover123123/2018 Spook & Sinister Hunting Thread/@comment-29825446-20181101224811

Well, October has come to an end, and with that, the spook trees are gone. 2018 was a good year. I personally believe the addition of spook hunting teams was a bad idea, but this was still a much better year than 2017. Most of us beat our records. I found a total of 10 spooks this year, and successfully recovered 6.

I believe the person to find the most spooks was Ewncewl_Ethel; if you are reading this; congratulations for finding (correct me if I'm wrong) 72 spook trees by yourself this year. As for the teams, Team OOF won, with 109 trees (one of which was a sinister). (Some members are believed to have used Artmoney, an exploit which detects spook in a server, but there is no conclusive evidence for this. Therefore, their victory is legitimate unless proven otherwise.) Given that Ewncewl_Ethel rivalled the best spook team completely alone, it stands to reason that being in a team is not a good strategy to find spooks.

I have high hopes for 2019, and possibly December, should Defaultio decide to spawn spooks then too. At least 500 spooks were reported to the wiki this year, probably with thousands more unreported. Hopefully, 2019 will not include spook droughts. Even if it does, do not completely stop hunting in a drought. There could still be a spook out there somewhere.

Honestly, though, I'm glad October is over. After a certain point, spook hunting starts to feel like a chore more than anything, not to mention that it is extremely stressful. I will leave you with a montage of every spook I successfully recovered this year.