--- title: Headless Girl Costume Wins Halloween 2018 With Spooky Video description: A little girl walking around in a Halloween costume where she appeared to be carrying her own head has won the hearts of the Internet. canonical: https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-31T15:04:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:44.554Z og:title: Kid in a Headless Little Girl Costume Wins Halloween 2018 og:description: Sweet and spooky og:url: https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a13196a5ec35357/69893de1457a524a42d5fc2d/headless-kid-halloween-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jack-o'-Lantern og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kid in a Headless Little Girl Costume Wins Halloween 2018 twitter:description: Sweet and spooky twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a13196a5ec35357/69893de1457a524a42d5fc2d/headless-kid-halloween-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Little Girl Walking Around in 'Headless' Costume Is Your New Official Halloween Queen  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2018 3:04 PM UTC  Jack-o'-Lantern (Photo by © Viviane Moos/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Jack-o'-Lantern (Photo by © Viviane Moos/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)Viviane Moos—Corbis via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2018 3:04 PM UTC A little girl wearing a [Halloween costume](http://time.com/5414128/best-celebrity-halloween-costumes-2018/) where she appeared to be [carrying her own head](http://time.com/5003856/headless-weatherman-halloween/) has captured the hearts of the Internet, thanks to the sweet and spooky spectacle. In a now-viral Facebook video posted by her mother Krystel Hwang, 2-year-old Maya is seen running around a playground in Manila’s Parañaque City, attired in a floral dress while seemingly carrying her own head on a platter. In an interview with [_Coconuts Manila_](https://coconuts.co/manila/news/kid-wins-halloween-headless-costume/), Hwang said that she made the costume herself, along with input from her kids, and that it was constructed out of “materials you can find at home.” While little Maya’s creepy costume might have scared a few observers, Hwang said that because she involves her daughters in creating the costumes, there’s no fear in their household. “They’re not scared because we made the costume together and my kids have watched Halloween makeup tutorials on YouTube and so they know it’s fake and it’s all makeup,” she said. See Maya strut her stuff in her scene-stealing costume below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/"},"headline":"Little Girl Walking Around in 'Headless' Costume Is Your New Official Halloween Queen","datePublished":"2018-10-31T15:04:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:44.554Z","description":"Sweet and spooky","url":"https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","halloween 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a13196a5ec35357/69893de1457a524a42d5fc2d/headless-kid-halloween-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a13196a5ec35357/69893de1457a524a42d5fc2d/headless-kid-halloween-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jack-o'-Lantern","caption":"Jack-o'-Lantern","creditText":"Viviane Moos—Corbis via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/","name":"Little Girl Walking Around in 'Headless' Costume Is Your New Official Halloween Queen"}}]}] ```