Another Halloween is upon us.

The sidewalks are lined with kids in costume carrying bags full of candy, and soon enough, toilet paper and rotten eggs will be flung far and wide.

This is the time of year that strikes fear in the hearts of men. Whether you watch The Shining for the zillionth time, visit your local haunted house, or just speculate about the possibility of Winter arriving months ahead of schedule, there’s really no season that’s more frightening.

On this night last year, I was putting the finishing touches on the first and only Fountain of Youth Halloween Clip, but this year I’m reaching into my treat bag for something even more terrifying. Anyone that has skateboarded in Providence in the past few years will have undoubtedly encountered, at one time or another, a young man who goes by the name Skateboard Billy. Billy has become somewhat of a cult hero in recent years, mainly for his bombastic personality and the fact that he will materialize, seemingly out of the pavement itself, at places and times that one would least expect. One urban legend states that he will appear any time his name is uttered three times, but this has yet to be proven.

About a week-and-a-half ago, Chase Bartee, Eric Spicely and I found ourselves outside a local drinking establishment at 2AM, futzing around on a skateboard after having one too many cocktails. We thought the evening was at its end, and were planning to go our separate ways and head home, when what to our wondering eyes should appear, but Skateboard Billy, who was particularly energetic, even by his standards. With no prompting whatsoever, Billy proceeded to drop a freestyle for us, and as quickly as he came, he disappeared into the night, leaving behind only the image of his “$600 shirt...jacket...whatever” permanently emblazoned in our eyeballs.

Don’t believe me? Watch the clip.