Folklore &
Superstition
Superstition
Before pumpkins, the Irish carved these foul-smelling root vegetables.
What is a turnip?
Candy corn shares its main glazing ingredient with this garage staple.
What is car wax?
Workaholic writer forces his family into a hotel with terrible heating.
What is The Shining?
Bram Stoker's Dracula didn't sparkle; he had hairy palms and breath smelling of this.
What is blood?
Legendary hook-handed killer with impeccable timing who targets teenagers parked in cars.
What is The Hookman?
Victorian women walked backward down stairs with a mirror hoping to see this.
What is their future husband?
The powdery coating on sour gummies that essentially chemically burns your tongue.
What is malic acid?
Old man forces ungrateful people into elaborate and painful escape rooms.
What is Saw?
Distract a pursuing vampire by dropping these so they are forced to count them.
What are seeds?
The poisoned Halloween candy myth started when a father poisoned his son for this.
What is life insurance?
Historically baked into a "witch cake" to identify whoever cursed you.
What is urine?
Eating too much black licorice causes cardiac arrest via this compound.
What is glycyrrhizin?
Midwestern boy takes his William Shatner mask obsession way too far.
What is Halloween?
19th-century New Englanders killed vampires by digging them up and doing this.
What is burning their heart?
The cursed 13th child of Mother Leeds who terrorizes the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
What is the Jersey Devil?
Never do this if you hear footsteps behind you on Halloween night.
What is look back?
The reason Pop Rocks "pop" is because they are pressurized with this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
HR ignores noise complaints while a space trucker fights a phallic alien.
What is Alien?
According to classic folklore, a vampire is physically unable to cross this natural feature.
What is running water?
Creepypasta entity described as unusually tall, faceless, and surprisingly good at tailoring.
What is Slender Man?
Don't hold your breath passing a cemetery, lest you accidentally do this.
What is inhale a ghost?
This retro candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's daughter.
What is Baby Ruth?
Swedish cult aggressively enforces mandatory participation in their polyamorous arts retreat.
What is Midsommar?
The disease porphyria mimics vampirism by causing an extreme sensitivity to this.
What is sunlight?
The "High Beams" legend involves a killer hiding here, thwarted by a gas station attendant.
What is the backseat?