Monster Mash
Lycanthropy is the mythical condition that transforms a regular human into this beast during a full moon.
Werewolf
In this 1978 slasher film, Michael Myers returns to his hometown on Halloween night.
Halloween
This Halloween candy staple was originally marketed in the late 19th century as 'Chicken Feed.'
Candy Corn
Though the crime became immortalized in a nursery rhyme, this Victorian woman was acquitted of the 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother, and the crime continues to be unsolved.
Lizzie Borden
In the famous 1818 Gothic novel, this unnamed creature confronts its creator after being abandoned, demanding companionship and questioning humanity’s treatment of those deemed monstrous.
Frankenstein's Monster
This horror franchise features a masked killer who calls victims and asks, 'What's your favorite scary movie?'
The Scream franchise
This medieval English tradition went on to inspire the modern practice of trick-or-treating.
Souling
In 1590, John White returned to this New World colony only to find it completely abandoned, with the word "Croatoan" carved into a post.
The Roanoke Colony
In a 1897 novel, this Transylvanian nobleman travels to England, where he seeks to buy real estate, and use his special abilities and unnatural appetites threaten the lives of Jonathan Harker and his companions.
Count Dracula
Leonardo DiCaprio was nearly cast as the teenage main character in this witchy Halloween favorite.
Hocus Pocus
In 1927, Alberta, Canada became the first municipality in recorded history to use this phrase in relation to Halloween.
"Trick or Treat"
This enslaved Indigenous woman owned by Reverend Samuel Parris, was the first person accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Tituba
This winged, red-eyed creature reportedly haunted Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s.
Mothman
This cult classic introduced moviegoers to a cabin in the woods and WMU alumni Bruce Campbell in 1981.
The Evil Dead
Pumpkins replaced this root vegetable as the default face of Jack-O-Lanterns after in the late 19th century when they became popular in Victorian women's magazines.
Turnips
This continuous construction project in California was built over 38 years to appease the spirits of those killed by the homeowner's family rifles.
The Winchester Mystery House
Also known as the "Leeds Devil," this kangaroo-like cryptid is said to inhabit the forests of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
The Jersey Devil
This 1973 classic film, directed by William Friedkin and based on William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel, was described as "the biggest recruiting poster the Catholic Church."
The Exorcist
This oft-mispronounced ancient Celtic festival, celebrated around November 1, is often linked to the origins of Halloween.
Located in Colorado, this eerie hotel inspired Stephen King to write The Shining after a terrifying night in Room 217.
The Stanley Hotel