Haunting History
This 1930s economic crisis helped motivate communities to organize Halloween activities as an alternative to destructive pranks.
What is the great depression?
What sits beneath Paris that contains the remains of millions of people?
What is The Paris Catacombs?
What type of animal is a bat: mammal, bird, or amphibian?
What is a mammal?
Jack Skellington holds this official royal title in Halloween Town?
What is the Pumpkin King?
Rock band Rockwell sang "I always feel like somebody's watching me," featuring a chorus sung uncredited by this famous friend.
Who is Michael Jackson?
In 1887, pranksters reportedly used this sticky substance to coat chapel seats during Halloween mischief.
What is molasses?
What is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
What is Africa?
Unlike humans, these animals can regenerate lost limbs and are often associated with creepy laboratory experiments.
What are salamanders?
Bram Stoker's widow tried to legally destroy all copies of this 1922 German expressionist silent vampire classic because it was an unlicensed rip-off of Dracula
What is Nosferatu?
This flamboyant rock icon released the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
Who is David Bowie?
In some traditional Halloween games, a person who found a thimble in a dish of food was supposedly destined for this.
What was spinsterhood or a life without marriage?
Where did Halloween originate from?
What is Ancient Celts in Ireland?
Which element, found in the pigments of some fireworks, produces a bright green color that would look right at home in a witch's laboratory?
What is Barium?
The eerie, dissonant mechanical sounding noise used for the screeching sound in Psycho was created by dragged a knife across the strings of an instrument.
What is a violin(cello)?
This synth-heavy, pulsating theme song by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein perfectly captured 1980s sci-fi horror for this hit Netflix series.
What is "Stranger Things"?
This historical ruler, Vlad III, is commonly associated with the inspiration for Dracula's name.
What is Vlad the Impaler?
Which country has a town called Batman?
What is Turkey?
What elements out of the periodic table make up this word: PoISON
What is Polonium, Iodine, Sulfur, Oxygen and Nitrogen?
To create the terrifying illusion of a woman walking face-down a flight of stairs in 1973, a contortionist was rigged into a complex modified crane harness.
What is The Exorcist?
This Canadian artist sings about losing his mind and being unable to sleep in his 2020 dark-synth hit "In Your Eyes" and the rest of the After Hours album.
Who is The Weeknd?
What 19th-century disease outbreak helped fuel vampire beliefs in New England when families saw multiple relatives die in succession?
What is Tuberculosis(otherwise called consumption)
Which country is completely surrounded by Italy, apart from Vatican City?
What is San Marino?
Once symptoms appear, this virus is almost 100% fatal to humans, causing acute hydrophobia (fear of water), violent aggression, and hallucinations before death.
What is rabies?
The devastated final twist of this 2001 Nicole Kidman gothic horror reveals that her intensely photophobic children were actually the ones haunting the house.
What is The Others?
This heavy metal pioneer and "Prince of Darkness" bit the head off a bat onstage in 1982.
Who is Ozzy Osbourne?