Game show audiences may see a familiar face on stage when watching “Press Your Luck” on Halloween. Barbara Moses, a Neshannock Township resident and retired English teacher at New Castle Jr./Sr.
High School, appeared on “Press Your Luck” in its first Halloween Spooktacular on Sunday. The Spooktacular, the series’ eighth episode of season six, will air again Thursday night at 10 p.m.
on ABC. Producers flew Moses, her daughter, Amy Monsour, and her boyfriend, Richard Tibolla, to Hollywood, California, from June 10 to June 15 where she spent most of the week filming at CBS Television City from 6 a.m.
to 3 p.m. They stayed in a Beverly Hills hotel with their lodging, food and transportation paid for.
Moses spent one day meeting the other contestants, one day at rehearsal and two days filming while sightseeing on their off day. “They had the stage all decorated for Halloween,” Moses said. “They even had the spooky Whammies come out.
It was unbelievable.” Moses, a 74-year-old breast cancer survivor, listed on her application that she was the queen of Halloween, watches scary movies every night and has been scaring her granddaughter since she was little. “On Halloween night,” Moses said, “she sees me, and she just screams and cries and cries until I take my mask off and she’s still crying.
I thought she’d outgrow it, but she doesn’t.” The application included a background check, a list of hobbies and 20 prizes she or her family would like to receive i.
