Traditions & Superstitions
This popular interactive attraction involves walking through an engineered environment filled with special effects, hidden rooms, and costumed actors jumping out to terrify guests.
What is a haunted house?
This Transylvanian count created by Bram Stoker can turn into a bat and is famously vulnerable to garlic and wooden stakes.
Who is Count Dracula?
Halloween traces its roots back to this ancient Celtic festival, which marked the end of the harvest and the start of the new year.
What is Samhain?
In this 1996 Wes Craven slasher film, the killer asks victims the iconic question, "What's your favorite scary movie?"
What is Scream?
This 1984 ghost-hunting anthem asks a very important question: "Who you gonna call?"
What is Ghostbusters?
This sweet, spiced beverage is made from unfiltered, unpasteurized apple juice and is traditionally served hot or mulled during Halloween gatherings.
What is Apple Cider?
This Disney sea witch uses a contract to steal Ariel's voice in exchange for giving the mermaid a pair of human legs.
Who is Ursula?
Before pumpkins became the standard, people in Ireland and Scotland traditionally carved these root vegetables to ward off evil spirits.
What are turnips?
In the Friday the 13th franchise, this hockey-mask-wearing killer haunts the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake.
Who is Jason Voorhees?
This 1982 Michael Jackson hit features a legendary, spooky voiceover by horror icon Vincent Price.
What is Thriller?
Opening this accessory inside a house is historically believed to invite misfortune or death upon the household.
What is an umbrella?
This Stephen King villain primarily takes the form of a Dancing Clown to terrorize the children of Derry, Maine.
Who is Pennywise?
According to the Guinness World Records, the world's heaviest jack-o'-lantern was carved from a pumpkin that weighed over 2,000 pounds in this European nation.
What is Belgium
This 2002 supernatural mystery features a cursed videotape that sentences anyone who watches it to die exactly seven days later.
What is The Ring?
this 1982 Michael Jackson hit features a legendary, spooky voiceover by horror icon Vincent Price.
What is the Monster Mash?
According to ancient beliefs, if you must walk past a graveyard at night, you should do this physically to prevent a wandering spirit from entering your body.
What is holding your breath?
This modern folklore entity is described as an unnaturally tall, faceless man in a black suit who stalks and traumatizes people.
Who is Slender Man?
This iconic American candy company capitalized on the holiday by introducing the first wrapped, bite-sized chocolate bars specifically for trick-or-treaters in the late 1950s.
What is Hershey's?
This low-budget 1999 found-footage film revolutionized horror marketing by convincing audiences that three student filmmakers had actually vanished in the woods of Maryland.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
This 1964 television theme song introduces a family that is "creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky" and features an iconic finger-snapping rhythm.
What is The Addams Family?
According to Scottish folklore, if a person peels an apple in one continuous strip and throws it over their shoulder on Halloween, the peel will land in the shape of this specific thing.
What is the first letter of their future spouse's name?
In Scottish folklore, this malevolent shape-shifting water spirit often appears as a horse and lures people to drown in lochs.
What is a Kelpie?
Every Halloween, an online séance is hosted inside a dedicated museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to try and contact this legendary 20th-century escape artist who died on October 31, 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
In this 1980 movie, Jack Nicholson plays a writer who loses his mind while caretaking the isolated Overlook Hotel.
What is The Shining?
Written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1956, this bewitching blues-rock classic was famously covered by Bette Midler in the movie Hocus Pocus.
What is "I Put a Spell on You"?