You don't grow up around the Amish and not know what an outhouse is. We would go camping at times during Halloween and we would stake out the girls bathrooms. They were non flush, pit bathrooms, with no electricity. We would rig up black wire around the toilet that would make the person sitting think an animal was in the bathroom with them. They would scream.
The next day all us lads were lined up by the men and spoken too for scaring the ladies. It was all show for our Dads all asked how we did it.
You don't fish in Canada or hunt in northern Minnesota and not know what a outhouse is!! And, we used JC Penny catalogs!!