Superstitions & Luck
What are shoes
This historic Massachusetts city is famous for its 1692 witch trials and remains a massive global tourism hotspot every October.
What is Salem
This chocolate-covered peanut butter cup brand is consistently ranked as the most popular Halloween candy in America
What is Reese's
Michael Myers terrorizes the town of Haddonfield in this classic 1978 slasher film directed by John Carpenter.
What is Halloween
According to the popular superstition, a Friday falling on this specific calendar date is considered the unluckiest day of the year.
What is the 13th
Bobbing for apples wasn't just a messy party game; it originated as a Roman-influenced fortune-telling ritual where the first person to bite an apple would be next to experience this.
What is get married
This island prison in San Francisco Bay, once home to Al Capone, is widely reported to be one of the most haunted military/federal sites in America.
What is Alcatraz
This type of apple, often coated in a hard, red sugar syrup, is a popular autumnal treat
What is a candy apple or toffee apple
This 1993 Disney cult classic features the Sanderson Sisters returning to Salem, Massachusetts.
What is Hocus Pocus
Halloween falls on October 31st, which means it is exactly this many days before Christmas Day.
What is 55 days
This unusual vegetable was once thought by Scottish and English country folk to have magical, divining powers on Halloween night to tell a young girl the shape of her future spouse.
What is cabbage
This spooky, thousands-of-miles-long network of underground bone tunnels lies directly beneath the streets of Paris.
What are the Catacombs
To ensure trick-or-treaters don't break a tooth, this spherical, fruity hard candy brand proudly boasts that it features a soft "Tootsie Roll in the center."
What is a Tootsie Pop
Tim Burton directed this 1988 film about a "bio-exorcist" ghost who is summoned by saying his name three times.
What is Beetlejuice
According to popular maritime lore and superstition, a cat has this specific number of lives, making a black cat crossing your path a multi-layered omen.
What is 9
Phasmophobia is the clinical, fear-based phobia of these supernatural entities.
What are ghost
Located in the Rocky Mountains, this grand Colorado hotel inspired Stephen King to write The Shining after staying in room 217.
What is the Stanley Hotel
The earliest known written use of the exact phrase "trick or treat" appeared in 1927 in a newspaper from this North American country.
What is Canada
In A Nightmare on Elm Street, this scarred villain attacks his victims in their dreams.
Who is Freddy Krueger
In the classic 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, the wicked Sanderson sisters are accidentally resurrected exactly this many years after they were originally hanged in Salem.
What is 300 years
Traditional folklore says that if you wear your clothes inside out and walk backwards on Halloween night, you will catch sight of this at midnight.
What is a witch
Often called "America's Most Haunted City," this historic Georgia coastal destination features the famously haunted Moon River Brewing Company and Sorrel Weed House.
What is Savannah
These small, round, intensely sour fruit candies—frequently dropped into plastic pumpkins—changed their name from "Mars Men" in 1985.
What are Sour Patch Kids
To capture the iconic, bone-snapping head-turn sound effect for Regan in the 1973 production of The Exorcist, the sound design team recorded themselves twisting this everyday leather object.
What is a leather wallet
According to Guinness World Records, the fastest time to carve a face into a pumpkin is a lightning-fast 16.47 seconds, set by Stephen Clarke in this specific year of the 2010s.
What is 2013