Witchful Thinking
Batty about Vampires
Stabsolutely!
Ominous Omens
Frightening Phenomena
Morbidly Curious
Creepy Cryptids
100
In The Wizard of Oz, this color is associated with the Wicked Witch of the West's skin.
What is green?
100
This fictional Transylvanian count is arguably the most famous vampire in literature.
Who is Count Dracula?
100
In this Nickelodeon cartoon, a mysterious late-night employee fears this bizarrely named supernatural killer will appear at the Krusty Krab.
Who is the Hash-Slinging Slasher?
100
Walking underneath one of these is traditionally considered bad luck.
What is a ladder?
100
These supposedly transparent apparitions are the classic supernatural residents of haunted houses.
What are ghosts?
100
This skeletal figure carrying a scythe is a classic personification of death.
Who is the Grim Reaper?
100
This legendary creature is said to transform from a human into a wolf during the full moon.
What is a werewolf?
200
According to folklore, this household object is famously associated with witches flying through the night.
What is a broomstick?
200
According to popular vampire lore, this vegetable is traditionally used to ward off vampires.
What is garlic?
200
Norman Bates works at this motel in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
What is the Bates Motel?
200
Breaking this household object is famously said to result in seven years of bad luck.
What is a mirror?
200
This device is traditionally associated with attempting to communicate with spirits through letters and a planchette.
What is a Ouija board?
200
This term describes the examination of a body after death to determine the cause and manner of death.
What is an autopsy?
200
This legendary creature is said to inhabit the forests of the Pacific Northwest and is often described as a large, hairy, human-like ape.
What is Bigfoot?
300
This 17th-century Massachusetts town became infamous for its witch trials in 1692.
What is Salem?
300
In Twilight, Bella Swan falls in love with this vampire.
Who is Edward Cullen?
300
In Scream, this is the name commonly given to the killer's distinctive mask.
What is Ghostface?
300
If your ears are burning, according to superstition, someone is doing this.
What is talking about you?
300
In paranormal investigation, EVP stands for these three words.
What is Electronic Voice Phenomenon?
300
This grand above-ground structure is built as a permanent tomb for one or more deceased people, often resembling a small building.
What is a mausoleum?
300
According to legend, this creature was supposedly the 13th child of a woman known as Mother Leeds, who was born with hooves, wings, a horse-like head, and antlers.
What is the Jersey Devil?
400
This term for a gathering of witches became popular in English and is traditionally said to consist of thirteen members.
What is a coven?
400
In What We Do in the Shadows, four vampires share a house in Staten Island and struggle with the mundane realities of eternal life. What is the name of the relentless vampire who considers himself the group's leader?
Who is Nandor?
400
This 1974 film directed by Tobe Hooper introduced audiences to the cannibalistic Sawyer family and their chainsaw-wielding member Leatherface.
What is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
400
In ancient Roman religion, priests known as haruspices attempted to predict the future by examining this organ of sacrificed animals.
What is the liver?
400
This phenomenon involves a person supposedly becoming physically unable to move while experiencing a terrifying presence, often during the transition between sleep and wakefulness.
What is sleep paralysis?
400
This natural process causes a dead body to become rigid several hours after death, before the stiffness eventually disappears.
What is rigor mortis?
400
According to Native American folklore, a Wendigo is created when a person resorts to this taboo act in times of extreme hunger or desperation.
What is a Cannibalism?
500
This legendary witch from Slavic folklore lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and may help or hinder those who encounter her.
Who is Baba Yaga?
500
This 1922 German film, an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, features the vampire Count Orlok.
What is Nosferatu?
500
Jason Voorhees is most closely associated with this fictional New Jersey summer camp.
What is Camp Crystal Lake?
500
In ancient Roman tradition, this practice involved interpreting the flight, calls, or behavior of birds to predict the future.
What is augury?
500
The word "poltergeist" comes from German words meaning this.
What is "noisy ghost"?
500
This notorious medieval method of execution involved placing a condemned person inside a hollow bronze statue and heating it from below.
What is the Brazen Bull?
500
This West Virginia town is considered the home of the Mothman legend and even has a giant metal statue dedicated to the creature.
Where is Point Pleasant?
600
Published in 1487, this infamous Latin treatise on witchcraft helped fuel European witch hunts and is commonly translated as “The Hammer of Witches.”
What is the Malleus Maleficarum?
600
Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in this year. (Will accept +/- 10 years)
What is 1897?
600
In the original Halloween, Michael Myers escapes from this institution before returning to Haddonfield.
What is Smith's Grove Sanitarium?
600
In ancient Greek mythology, this prophetess was cursed to make true predictions that nobody would believe.
Who is Cassandra?
600
This California mansion is famous for its bizarre staircases, doors that open onto walls, and legends that its owner built it to appease spirits.
What is the Winchester Mystery House?
600
This unusual condition, sometimes called “the walking corpse syndrome,” involves a person's delusion that they are dead or no longer exist.
What is Cotard's syndrome?
600
According to lumberjack folklore, the best way to lure the elusive jackalope out of hiding is to leave a glass of this potent drink unattended as bait.
What is a Whiskey?
700
In 18th-century Portsmouth New Hampshire, this woman was labeled a witch after local pigs were supposedly bewitched; legend says she died after townspeople attempted to counter the spell by burning the pigs' severed ear and tail tips.
Who is Molly Bridget?
700
In vampire folklore, the term for a vampire returning from the grave to torment the living comes from a Latin word meaning "to return."
What is revenant?
700
Mary Shelley gave this subtitle to her famous novel about a scientist who creates life from dead body parts.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
700
Someone afflicted by Hexekontaheptaphobia has a fear of this number.
What is 67?
700
This New Hampshire couple claimed they were abducted by aliens in 1961, making their experience one of the most famous alleged extraterrestrial encounters in American history.
Who are Betty and Barney Hill?
700
According to a macabre historical anecdote, English geologist William Buckland once consumed a piece of this French monarch’s preserved heart, reportedly quipping that he had eaten many strange things, but never a king’s heart.
Who was Louis XIV?
700
Legend says the Hodag roams the forests around Rhinelander, Wisconsin. In one version of the legend, the creature was supposedly born from the ashes of this animal after it had been burned on a funeral pyre.
What is an Ox?