Witches, a shark, a princess and a female Pennywise were seen at an unlikely place on Sunday, Oct 13 — the Cottages of Dartmouth Village, an assisted living facility.

For about 10 years the Cottages at Dartmouth Village hosted a trunk or treat Halloween event for children primarily related to the residents or staff members, but on Sunday, Oct. 13, the event was held indoors.

The event moved inside last year so that they wouldn’t have to depend on the weather, said Marjorie Roche, a director of programming at the Cottages.

“This is much more manageable for us,” Roche said.

With the move indoors, the nature of the event looks a little different.

Residents sat around tables with buckets of candy and kids went trick or treating from table to table.

Last year, the Cottages also introduced a haunted room, complete with automated sounds and moving witch and ghost figures.

Several buckets were set up around the room and contained items to mimic teeth, hearts, spiders, maggots, worms, fingers and toes, warts and scabs, livers, eyeballs and guts.

The eyeballs, for example, were actually olives and the fingers and toes were circus peanut candy.

“It’s just something really fun for the kids to come out to do before Halloween,” said Doreen Ustinovich, who is also a director of programming at the Cottages at Dartmouth Village.

“This will be bigger and better every year,” Ustinovich said.

The children weren’t the only ones having fun at the event.

A handful of residents dressed in costumes and went trick or treating between the tables or stepped into the haunted room.

Leonard Quintin, who has been a long time resident at the Cottages, dressed up as a cardinal from the Catholic Church and passed out candy.

“I think it’s great for the little ones,” Quintin said, beckoning kids over so he could give them candy.

And while the kids form memories of their own trick or treating at the Cottages, the event reminded Quintin of his own childhood.

“I come from a large family of eight, so it brings back memories,” he said.