Feast Mode
Often sprinkled over eggnog and used in pumpkin pie, this aromatic spice comes from the seed of a tropical evergreen tree.
What is Nutmeg?
This burrowing Australian marsupial produces cube-shaped droppings, which may help its territorial markings stay in place instead of rolling away
What is Wombat?
In Back to the Future Part II, October 21, 2015, is the date Marty McFly travels to in this time-traveling car built by a short-lived American automaker
What is DeLorean?
In Disney's 1993 Halloween comedy Hocus Pocus, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary are three witch sisters who return from the dead after a teenager lights the Black Flame Candle, unleashing this infamous family of witches known by their shared last name
What is Sanderson?
In Tim Burton's 1988 supernatural comedy, a recently deceased couple hires this mischievous, striped-suit-wearing bio-exorcist to frighten the living occupants out of their former home.
What is Beetlejuice?
Often roasted with carrots and potatoes during autumn, this pale, carrot-shaped root vegetable develops a noticeably sweeter flavor after exposure to cold weather
What is Parsnip?
Reports of fish falling from the sky during storms are sometimes explained by this tornado-like column of rotating air over a body of water, which can lift small objects from the surface
What is Waterspout?
Published on October 21, 1940, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was written by this Nobel Prize-winning American author, also famous for The Old Man and the Sea
What is Ernest Hemingway?
Released in 1999, this found-footage horror film follows three student filmmakers who disappear while investigating a local legend about a witch in the woods of Maryland.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
In Irish folklore, the mournful wail of this female spirit is believed to warn that a death is approaching within a family
What is Banshee?
Traditionally harvested by Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes region, this dark, slender grain is actually the seed of an aquatic grass and is often served in autumn soups and holiday stuffing.
What is Wild rice?
Packing one of the fastest punches in the animal kingdom, this colorful marine creature can smash open snail shells with specialized clubs and create tiny shock waves as bubbles collapse around its strike
What is Mantis Shrimp?
On October 21, 1973, Los Angeles Rams defensive end Fred Dryer made NFL history by recording two safeties in one game, years before starring as the title character in this NBC police drama
What is Hunter?
In Act IV of this Shakespeare tragedy, three witches stir a cauldron filled with ingredients including eye of newt and toe of frog, before summoning apparitions that offer a Scottish king cryptic warnings about his fate
What is Macbeth?
In Victorian-era spiritualism and later paranormal fiction, this mysterious substance was supposedly produced by mediums during séances, sometimes appearing as a ghostly, gauze-like material emerging from the body
What is Ectoplasm?
In poultry anatomy, this small, muscular digestive organ grinds food with the help of swallowed grit and is commonly included among the giblets used in traditional holiday gravy
What is Gizzard?
For some people, hearing music automatically triggers the perception of colors, while certain letters or numbers may consistently appear to have their own hues; this blending of sensory experiences is known by this neurological term
What is Synesthesia?
Released on October 21, 1983, this Stephen King film adaptation stars Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher who awakens from a coma with the ability to see the future by touching people
What is The Dead Zone?
On the mythical island of Aeaea, this enchantress uses a magical potion to transform Odysseus's companions into swine, until the hero confronts her with help from the god Hermes
What is Circe?
Built over several decades in San Jose, California, this sprawling mansion is famous for its maze-like architecture and legends that its owner kept expanding the house to appease spirits connected to her family's rifle-making fortune
What is Winchester Mystery House?
In the 1973 television special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Snoopy and Woodstock prepare an unconventional holiday feast that includes popcorn, pretzel sticks, jelly beans, and this breakfast food
What is Toast?
Unlike most metals, this silvery element can melt in the palm of your hand because its melting point is only about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, yet it can remain liquid well below that temperature under certain conditions
What is Gallium?
Photographs taken on October 21, 2003, at California's Palomar Observatory later revealed this distant dwarf planet, whose discovery helped trigger the debate that led to Pluto's reclassification in 2006
What is Eris?
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West casts a spell over a field of these flowers, causing Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion to fall into an enchanted sleep on their way to the Emerald City
What is Poppies?
In Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is said to be the ghost of a soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during this American war
What is American Revolutionary War?