I never scare the little ones--not in the past when haunting someone else's yard and not now at my apartment building. Uh-uh. If they seem really afraid of me, I just go away.

If they seem hesitant, I talk to them, using my fake-English-gothic accent, asking if they want to know the secrets of this haunted place. I tell them not to worry, that the spirits here will do no harm to them.