“My neighbor had Spongebob Squarepants.”

— Thomas Knapp, journalism major, Dallas

“Just a normal Jack-o-lantern.”

— Nick McCartney, manual laborer, Little Rock, Ark.

“A Nikitak, it’s like a ferret with antennae.”

— Tanith Elder, homeschool student, Lawrence

“Actually, I saw one that looked like Richard Nixon.”

— Marilyn Spencer, retired newspaper editor, Lawrence