A plague doctor costume brings trick-or-treating to a slammed door
Patrol POV's doorbell-camera Short passes two million views after a start far beyond the channel's usual.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,519,417 views a day, 37 times a normal first day on this channel (40,978).
When a Halloween Costume Scares Everyone…
The candy bag is open, the visitor has stepped back politely, and the greeting is entirely ordinary. What comes from inside the house is not: screams, followed by a firmly shut front door.
That abrupt exchange is the whole story of "When a Halloween Costume Scares Everyone…", posted by the clips channel Patrol POV. A trick-or-treater wearing a plague doctor costume approaches the porch and knocks. A child screams when the door opens, then an adult woman inside screams too and shuts it. The visitor pauses and turns around, still holding the bag.
The Short has passed two million views, with its estimated first-day viewing more than thirty times the channel's usual start for Shorts. Its comment section was also nearly a hundred times busier than on a typical first day.
Patrol POV posts police interactions, security recordings and doorstep encounters, rather than making the scenes it shares. Here, the doorstep exchange needs very little setup: someone arrives expecting candy, and the door closes before any is handed over.
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What viewers say
Sometimes you get a treat. Sometimes you give a trick.
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- Channel
- Patrol POV
- Subscribers
- 159,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 23,428,727
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,659,939 (on a normal day: 2,586,313)
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,067,972 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,021,166
The numbers
The Halloween clip drew an unusually large first-day audience for Patrol POV, with an even sharper jump in comments.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns in Ireland before pumpkins became the familiar Halloween choice?
Irish lantern-carving traditions used turnips, while pumpkins became the familiar choice in North America.


