Final Resting Places
The early settlers first started being buried with their feet facing East. This was from the belief that when they were reborn, they would rise with a new day and face the sun.
Once cemeteries started being built in areas with rocky terrain and hilly locations, the direction of these final resting places changed due to the uneven areas.
What are graves?
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What is Bat?
When you are scared, blood flow in your body changes. It moves away from the heart and into these, getting you ready to punch or run.
What are your limbs?
or
What are your arms and legs?
Claustrophobia
What are enclosed spaces?
You can really taste the rainbow if you get lucky enough to have this favorite candy as a treat.
What are skittles?
This is the final resting place for many, where you'll find epitaphs engraved on rows of granite and marble.
What is a cemetary?
prides
What is Spider?
When we encounter something scary, chemicals are released into our brain that increase heart rate, dilate our pupils, and put all of our energy toward emergency functions, putting us into a state known as this.
What is fight or flight?
Aquaphobia
What is water?
32% of those surveyed by Consumer Report agreed that this tricolored candy is the worst thing to find in your trick-or-treat bag.
What is Candy Corn?
Fisk patented the idea for these in 1848. The containers could contain disease, slow decomposition and keep away grave robbers who sold bodies to medical schools.
What are coffins?
mentors
What is monster?
Why do people seek out scary experiences?
Because when you experience fear, your brain also releases more of this chemical, leaving you with a sense of pleasure.
What is dopamine?
Aerophobia
What is flying?
According to a survey taken by Consumer Reports, all of the top 5 best treats include this ingredient/flavor.
What is chocolate?
Believing that the smoke would help carry the deceased into their afterlife, many pagans' remains were treated this way before being placed in an urn, a shallow grave, or a burial mound.
What is cremation?
or
What is being cremated?
What is Skeleton?
This is one of the main hormones in the brain associated with fear and stress.
What is cortisol?
or
What is adrenaline?
Hemophobia
What is blood?
This least favorite candy “looks like medication, and the only reason it doesn’t taste like it is that no one would try to cover up the taste of medicine with an even worse flavor: black licorice.”
What is Good and Plenty?
Offering the option to be laid to rest above ground in a marble or stone building, these final resting places may be for a single person, a family, or a group of strangers.
What is a mausoleum?
Car dual
What is Dracula?
This part of your brain is the primary center for fear. It is also responsible for interpreting images and sounds, processing emotions. When it senses danger, it sends out a stress signal.
What is the amygdala?
Ornithophobia
What are birds?
With a sweet banana flavor (that doesn't even remotely match its shape), this treat is consistently ranked among the worst Halloween Candies of all time.
What are Circus Peanuts?