Spooky Creatures
Halloween History
Trick or Treat
Horror Movies
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A zombie
This undead creature is famous for craving brains.
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Orange
This popular Halloween color is associated with pumpkins, autumn leaves, and jack-o'-lanterns.
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Trick or Treat
Children say this phrase when going door-to-door on Halloween.
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Halloween
This 1978 film features a masked killer named Michael Myers who terrorizes Haddonfield on Halloween night.
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A vampire
This blood-sucking creature is often associated with Transylvania and bats.
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Turnips
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland carved these vegetables into lanterns.
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A pumpkin
This orange vegetable is commonly carved into a jack-o'-lantern.
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The Exorcist
In this classic, a young girl is possessed and a priest performs an exorcism.
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A werewolf
A person who transforms into a wolf under a full moon.
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October 31st
This date is when Halloween is celebrated every year.
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Snickers
This popular Halloween candy consists of chocolate, caramel, and nougat, and is often given out by the handful.
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The Shining
This 1980 film is set in a hotel called the Overlook and features the line "Here's Johnny!"
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A ghost
This floating spirit is said to haunt old houses and graveyards.
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Día de los Muertos
In Mexico and other Latin American countries, this multi-day holiday around the same time as Halloween honors deceased loved ones.
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Apples
This activity involves bobbing for these floating fruits in a tub of water.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger is the dream-haunting villain of this horror franchise.
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A banshee
According to Irish folklore, this female spirit wails to warn of an impending death.
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Trick-or-treating
This classic Halloween activity involves children going door-to-door in costumes asking for candy.
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The 1930s
This decade saw the widespread popularity of "trick-or-treating" as we know it today in the United States.
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Scream
This 1996 film follows a group of teens who are stalked by a killer wearing a ghost-face mask while following "the rules" of horror movies.
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