Vampires
In modern fiction, this specific precious metal is lethal to vampires, though historically it was almost exclusively used to hunt werewolves.
Silver
It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhein, one representing death and the other representing the autumn harvest
Orange & Black
Eric Knudsen, under the internet pseudonym "Victor Surge," created this lanky, faceless internet icon in 2009 for a Something Awful forum Photoshop contest.
Slender Man
To save your game progress in early Resident Evil titles, you couldn't just open a menu. You needed to find an ink ribbon and use this item.
A Type Writer
Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, and their crew have been yelling at shadows and locking themselves in haunted buildings since 2008 on this Travel Channel hit.
Ghost Adventures
Directed by F.W. Murnau, what 1922 German silent horror film substituted Count Dracula with Count Orlok due to copyright issues?
Nosferatu
What chocolate candy is consistently ranked as one of the most purchased treats for Halloween in the United States?
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
This notorious "lost episode" creepypasta claims that a disturbing, unreleased episode of a popular Nickelodeon cartoon caused viewers intense psychological distress, ending with a character's suicide.
Squidward's Suicide
In Phasmophobia, players use this handheld electronic device to detect spikes in ghostly activity, measuring fields from tiers 1 to 5
EMF Reader
This 1872 Gothic novella by Sheridan Le Fanu predates Dracula and features a female vampire who preys on a young woman.
Carmilla
The famous creepypasta Ben Drowned revolves around a haunted Nintendo 64 cartridge of this game.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
This German term translates to "noisy ghost" and refers to spirits that physically move objects, slam doors, and make loud thuds.
Poltergeist
This infamous 16th-century Hungarian countess was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women, allegedly bathing in their blood to retain her youth.
Elizabeth Bathory
This famous internet story is about five prisoners kept awake for 15 days in a sealed room using a strange gas.
Russian Sleep Experiment
EVP is the acronym for the audio phenomenon that involves capturing voices or sounds on recording devices that weren't audible to the human ear at the time of recording.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon
In 18th-century New England, communities exhumed bodies to stop a "vampire" panic that was actually a tragic outbreak of this deadly pulmonary disease.
Tuberculosis
This no-hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona
Bobbing For Apples
This file, attached to a 2008 email chain, depicts a gruesome, wide-eyed canine smile that forces the viewer into a state of fatal insanity unless they 'spread the word' by sharing the image
Smile.jpg or Smile.Dog
This 2002 GameCube cult classic features a "Sanity Meter" that, when depleted, causes the game to fake system crashes and delete save files.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
This thick, mist-like substance is said to emanate from a medium or a spirit during a manifestation.
Ectoplasm