You're not paranoid. They're just out to get you. Don't worry about it.
Know what it might be? He might have just heard some thing about Holloween, and all he was doing was repeating to me the rumor he heard, not something he was privy to, but just being a parrot to the rumors out there. That could explain it, too.
But, when I asked him to explain to me, he just walked away, so, I hope this aint some militia thing like the DEMS want us to believe!!