Movies
This famous 1984 comedy movie features three scientists catching ghosts all over New York City, including a giant marshmallow man walking down the street.
What is Ghostbusters?
The girl with telekinetic and telepathic abilities in the American science-fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016).
Who is Eleven?
This iconic neighborhood hosts the world's largest Halloween parade, which grew from a local 1974 puppeteer walk into a massive event drawing millions of spectators.
What is Greenwich Village?
This family was 'creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky'.
Who were the Addams family?
A slasher icon known for wearing a hockey mask and haunting Camp Crystal Lake.
Who is Jason Voorhees? (Friday the 13th, 1980)
This spooky 1993 Disney movie about the three Sanderson sisters features a famous scene where the witches sing "I Put a Spell on You" at a Halloween party in this neighboring New York town.
What is Salem?
This show starred FBI agents Fox Muller and Dana Sculley as they investigate paranormal and extraterrestrial cases.
What is The X-Files? (1993)
When New Yorkers want to see massive whale skeletons and scary dinosaur fossils, they visit the American Museum of this topic on the Upper West Side.
What is the Museum of Natural History?
A song whose music video was the first one ever selected for preservation in the U.S. Library of Congress National Film Registry.
What is Michael Jackson's Thriller?
A world-famous doll who is locked in a case and is featured in 2013's The Conjuring.
Who is Annabelle?
Tim Burton directed this 1990 fantasy romance movie about a gentle, pale young man with sharp blades for fingers who is taken in by a suburban family.
Who is Edward Scissorhands?
This is the show where Lady Gaga starred as 'The Countess,' a glamorous, blood-drinking owner of the Haunted Hotel Cortez.
What is American Horror Story: Hotel (2015)?
Before people carved pumpkins in New York, immigrants from Ireland carved these round, white root vegetables instead.
What are turnips?
The band that sang Pet Sematary, which originally belonged to the 1989 cult classic film with the same name.
Who are the Ramones?
An undead stalker who targets youth in their dreams and sports a glove of razor-sharp claws.
Who is Freddy Krueger? (A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984)
In this creepy 1968 classic, a young couple moves into a spooky Manhattan apartment building and finds out their neighbors are a witch coven.
This Halloween television special was watched by 49% of American television viewers on its very first broadcast.
What is It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)?
This massive park in the middle of Manhattan features a historic castle called Belvedere Castle, which looks like a perfect home for a vampire.
What is Central Park?
Made by Warren Zevon in 1978, this song features a lyric about seeing a werewolf walking through SoHo with a Chinese menu in his hand.
What is Werewolves of London?
You have to say this person's name three times in order to summon them from the afterlife.
Who is Beetlejuice? (Beetlejuice, 1988)
This movie used living death's-head hawk moths for their scenes. Because the moths refused to follow directions, crew members had to refrigerate them to slow them down and use warm lights to wake them up.
What is Silence of the Lambs?
This supernatural horror drama featured over 30 hidden ghost "Easter Eggs" subtly placed in the background of various scenes.
What is The Haunting of Hill House (2018)?
An 1850s brownstone in Manhattan rumored to be haunted by 22 spirits, including the author Mark Twain.
What is the House of Death?
In their song Zombie, this band confronts the emotional toll of war and compares those indifferent in the face of violence as "zombies".
Who are The Cranberries?
This person's mask is a modified Captain Kirk (Halloween mask) bought for under $2 and was painted ghost-white with widened eye holes.
Who is Michael Myers? (Halloween, 1978)