Origins of Evil
Immigrants from this European island nation helped popularize Halloween traditions in America, including customs associated with jack-o'-lanterns
What is Ireland?
According to a popular urban legend, repeating this woman's name in front of a mirror is said to summon her ghostly reflection
What is Bloody Mary?
In Greek mythology, this three-headed dog guards the entrance to the underworld, preventing the dead from escaping
What is Cerberus?
This NFL team has hosted a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934, except during World War II
What is Detroit Lions?
Bram Stoker's fictional vampire Count Dracula comes from this region of present-day Romania
What is Transylvania?
Before it became strongly associated with Halloween, candy corn was marketed under this poultry-inspired name, reflecting its original connection to the autumn harvest
What is Chicken Feed?
In 2016, a nationwide wave of frightening sightings involved people dressed as these figures lurking near schools, roads, and wooded areas
What is Clowns?
In European legend, this deadly creature was believed to hatch from an egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a toad or serpent
What is Basilisk?
This Hall of Fame slugger earned the nickname 'Mr. October' after his legendary postseason performances, including three home runs in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series
What is Reggie Jackson?
Many bats navigate and locate prey in darkness by emitting sounds and interpreting returning echoes, a process known by this term
What is Echolocation?
In 1920, this U.S. state hosted a pioneering organized Halloween celebration in the city of Anoka, which later became known as the Halloween Capital of the World
What is Minnesota?
A 2009 online photo-manipulation contest gave rise to this fictional, unnaturally tall figure, often depicted in a dark suit and associated with disappearances
What is Slender Man?
In traditions of several Algonquian-speaking Indigenous peoples, this malevolent being embodies destructive hunger and is closely associated with cannibalism
What is Wendigo?
Played annually during the Texas State Fair in October, the Red River Rivalry is contested between the University of Texas and this university
What is University of Oklahoma?
Ancient Egyptian mummification involved removing many internal organs, but embalmers generally left this organ inside the body because it was considered essential in the afterlife
What is Heart?
One of the earliest known newspaper appearances of the phrase ‘trick or treat’ occurred in 1927 in this country
What is Canada?
A widespread urban legend claims that a 1938 radio dramatization of an alien invasion caused mass panic across America, with thousands supposedly believing the fictional broadcast was real
What is War of the Worlds?
The earliest widely reported descriptions of this creature in the 1990s portrayed it as a spiny, upright monster, long before later sightings popularized its hairless, doglike appearance
What is Chupacabra?
Unlike the NFL's other divisions, this division contains the only four teams whose franchises have all won at least one Super Bowl
What is NFC East?
Long before Hollywood depicted zombies as flesh-eating monsters, the 1932 horror film White Zombie portrayed the undead as controlled laborers on a plantation in this Caribbean country
What is Haiti?
In some nineteenth-century American accounts, Halloween was nicknamed for this leafy vegetable, which featured in both mischievous pranks and rituals intended to predict marriage
What is Cabbage?
A wave of reported sightings in 1909 brought national attention to this legendary winged creature, said to haunt the Pine Barrens
What is Jersey Devil?
In Navajo tradition, this feared figure is associated with harmful witchcraft and the supernatural ability to assume or imitate animal forms
What is Skinwalker?
In football, punters use this two-word term for the area near a sideline and the opponent's goal line where a precisely placed kick can pin the receiving team deep in its own territory
What is Coffin Corner?
The skull-and-crossbones motif found on some historical gravestones is associated with this Latin phrase meaning 'remember that you must die.'
What is Memento Mori?