Horror Movies and Television
This horror movie features a set of stairs located in Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
What is "The Exorcist?"
Halloween was first celebrated as a pagan festival in this country over 2,000 years ago.
What is Ireland?
In Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Count Dracula lives in this area of Romania.
What is Transylvania?
The name of the D.C. theater that is said to be haunted by an assassinated president.
What is Ford's Theater?
The packaging of this brew is famous for changing color depending on the temperature it is kept at.
What is Coors Light.
In the 2026 horror movie "Obsession," the protagonist Baron (Bear) uses this magical object to win the heart of Niki.
What is a "One-Wish Willow?"
The origins of pumpkin carving trace back to the Irish folklore story of "Stingy Jack," who famously tricked this infamous creature.
Who/What is The Devil?
This cryptid is famous for making the residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, bug out.
What is the "Moth Man?"
The Flying Dutchman repeatedly threatens to bring Spongebob and Patrick to this haunted watery grave.
What is Davey Jones Locker.
This vegetable, named after a figure of death, was the hottest pepper on Earth until 2023.
What is the Carolina Reaper (or The Reaper).
Brothers Wirt and Greggory traverse a strange forest in this Cartoon Network mini series?
What is "Over the Garden Wall?"
The media-fueled panic that led to warnings for parents to "check your kids' candy" centered on this sharp object.
What is a razor blade?
The famous picture known as the "Surgeon's Photograph" from 1934 is of this famous cryptid.
This infamous building in Hogsmeade is said to be the most haunted dwelling in Britain.
What is "The Shrieking Shack?"
The phrase "Double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble" hails from this play written by "The Bard."
What is MacBeth?
In season 12 of the FX show "American Horror Story," this famous reality television star plays the character Siobhan Corbyn.
Who is Kim Kardashian?
This First Lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween.
Who is First Lady Mamie Eisenhower?
The species name of the giant spider Aragog from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
What is "Tentacula?"
This real Alaska town is famous for a string of disappearances and deaths in the 1960's that inspired the movie "The Fourth Kind."
Where is Nome, Alaska?
In this Oscar Wilde novel, the protagonist makes a Faustian wish to remain forever young while a portrait of him ages instead.
What is "A Picture of Dorian Gray."
In Mel Brooks' parody movie "Young Frankenstein," Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) makes this seemingly lewd comment when he arrives at his grandfather's castle.
What is "What Knockers!"
This candy bar was featured in the first-ever Halloween-themed advertisement in the October 25, 1954, copy of Life magazine.
What is Milky Way? (Or what is Mars?)
Don't be mean to this cryptid! It just might cry and melt into a puddle of its own tears.
What is "The Squonk."
The name of the Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, built by the widow of a gun magnate who claimed to be haunted by the victims of the guns her husband manufactured.
What is "The Winchester Mystery House."
The ancient practice of bloodletting was said to help balance these bodily fluids, collectively known as "The Four Humors."
What are blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile?