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Scare Dare

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A childhood dare where a group of children explores a location after dark. It will typically involve entering an abandoned house, supposedly haunted, staying in the school for the night, exploring the surroundings of a camp after nightfall, or similar.
Of course, there will always be something else there, too. It might be their friends trying to make the test more exciting, or a harmless resident with the Face of a Thug, but it is also a great opportunity to have fun with Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. If this happens in a horror setting, you're probably better off staying home. It may also prove to be the Call Reception Area or the Forbidden Zone.
See also Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb, where the characters tend to be slightly older and the situation tends to be considerably more dangerous, and Straying Baby, where the character is younger and oblivious.
Compare Kimodameshi, a similar Japanese tradition.

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The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night: Old School building, women's toilet. It was Marie, weeping and letting her anger known. This later becomes a TRUE Scare Dare when she officially becomes Mesomeso.
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20th Century Boys: school after dark. It was just their classmates. Oh, and a boy they thought was dead and whom Donkey mistook for a ghost.
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101 Dalmatians: The Series: Spot has to complete one in "Double Dog Dare". She has to break into Cruella's house and steal her sleeping mask right off of her face. The other characters reveal that they've also had to complete dares, and then they realize that Lucky has never done one. So Lucky has to help Spot with her dare.
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Squid Girl has eponymous character Ika Musume/Squid Girl go on a Scare Dare with the group from Lemon Beach House and lifeguard Goro on a night hike through the woods. They get separated, and the rest of the group is completely freaked out by Squid Girl's bioluminescence, mistaking it for spirit lights, and run off, leaving Squid Girl alone in the woods at night. Then, she runs into a group of actual ghosts who seem to range all the way from the Warring States Era to fairly modern times, as there is are a few in armor, and at least one surfer. They turn out to be helpful, and direct Squid Girl to the main road home, with her never realizing that they were ghosts, and deciding that some humans were friendly after all.
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Big Fish used an abandoned house. It's a witch. For real. She is also the unlucky Love Interest, living backward in time.
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Flunk Punk Rumble: school during the holidays. it's the guys from the supernatural research club. And the head teacher's mother, visiting.
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In one installment of PB&J Otter, Flick and Peanut go into a dark cave after Flick issues a "Double Duck Dare."
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Early in Galaxy of Fear, Zak makes friends with some kids who dare him to head into the middle of a vast graveyard at night and leave a knife on a grave, proving he was there when everyone checks in the morning. Of course, he does and regrets it.
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In The Westing Game, Turtle arranges a dare in which she gets paid two dollars for every minute she stays in the Westing mansion on Halloween night, but flees after discovering a corpse inside (which eventually turns out to be fake).
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Hell Teacher Nube is rife with this. School after dark, haunted house, derelict playground, ancient graveyard, you name it. The scary urban "legend" always turns out to be true, if not worse than the legend. Dammit, Miki!
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A Dark Champions scenario published by Gold Rush Games started off with a Scare Dare — a young boy is missing after having been dared to walk up to the abandoned Radley Manor after dark and place his hand on the wall. (The coal chute broke under his weight. The kids who dared him believe that the ghost of Radley Manor "got" the boy, and are too afraid of being blamed to tell anyone what happened. The biker gang using the Manor's basement as a meth lab killed the boy.)
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An episode of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats has Cleo's one-time fling daring the Catillac Cats to spend the night in a haunted mansion.
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Tales for the Midnight Hour: Ellen asks her friends if anyone dares her to ride the Tunnel of Terror. One of them obliges her. Everyone soon wishes that they had chosen another way to liven up the afternoon.
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The Radley house in To Kill a Mockingbird is an iconic example.
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Ouran High School Host Club: school after dark. - It's the guys from the black magic club.
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This starts the plot of "Rascals' Revenge", the debut episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Little Rascals: Butch kicks the gang's football into an abandoned house, and dares them to go retrieve it, despite Officer Ed telling the Rascals that the old house is private property.
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Castle Mane-ia" sees Applejack and Rainbow Dash spending the night in the ancient ruins of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's former castle, which is supposedly haunted by a dark presence called the Pony of Shadows. Most of the spooky things they encounter are just Rarity and Fluttershy scaring them by accident, while the "Pony of Shadows" that keeps tormenting them is actually Pinkie Pie helping give them some scary fun. After the ponies are convinced the Pony of Shadows isn't real, we get to see that it actually is.
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In Cemetery of Terror, five children head out to the titular cemetery on Halloween night because they were dared to go to the deepest part of the cemetery and count to a hundred before leaving. This puts them straight in the path of an undead serial killer.
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The This American Life episode "House on Loon Lake" is about a real abandoned house that became this kind of place for a group of boys.
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In "The Berry Beast" in the 2003 Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie issues a scare dare to go into some spooky woods. Strawberry replies that dares are silly, so he makes it a double dare, and Strawberry counters that double dares are double silly. He ups it to a Triple Scoop Dare with a strawberry on top and Strawberry says that he's on.
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In The Village (2004), the test is to stand with your back to the haunted woods; first one to give up loses.
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Happens in one of the Halloween episodes of Kick Buttowski when Kendall dares Kick and Gunther to trick or treat the Van der Death mansion up on the hill (with convenient lightning) because Kick thinks her Halloween "party" is lame (justified in that all it was, was Kendall reading a report: "The Origins of Halloween. A Report by Kendall Perkins"). Turns out the old lady who lives there loves Halloween so much that she sets up it as a haunted house every year, effectively scaring off every kid in town... which was the opposite of what she wanted.
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Dragonriders of Pern: In the Masterharper's biography, Robinton has to spend the night in the abandoned Weyr as a rite of passage at Harper Hall.
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In Eden Green, Tedrin dares Eden to visit an abandoned church, claiming it is inhabited by a harmless baby herbivore (made of needles) whom she could capture and study. He's lying.
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