History
In 1692, this Massachusetts town’s trials led to 19 people being hanged
Salem witch trials
This large, hairy, apelike creature is said to roam the forests of the Pacific Northwest
Bigfoot
John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher has Michael Myers stalking Haddonfield, Illinois
Halloween (1978)
The number of bones in an adult human skeleton
206
These candy-coated chocolates “melt in your mouth, not in your hand”
M&Ms
This 15th-century Wallachian prince’s cruelty and nickname helped inspire Dracula
Vlad the Impaler (Vlad III)
Sightings of “Nessie” have been reported in a lake in this country
Scotland
Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller is set at the Bates Motel
Psycho
This thigh bone is the longest in the human body
Femur
H.B. Reese’s chocolate-and-peanut-butter cups come in this brand
Reese's
This ancient Celtic festival, held around Oct. 31, is the root of Halloween
Samhain
Red-eyed and winged, this creature terrorized Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966-67
Mothman
Jack Torrance goes mad at the Overlook Hotel in this Kubrick film based on a Stephen King novel
The Shining
The “funny bone” is actually a nerve near this upper-arm bone
Humerus
Invented in the 1880s, this tri-colored Halloween candy was once called “chicken feed”
Candy Corn
Before pumpkins, the Irish carved jack-o’-lanterns from this root vegetable
Turnips
Its name means “goat-sucker” in Spanish, and it was first reported in Puerto Rico
Chupacabra
In this 1982 film, an Antarctic research team is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that imitates its victims
The Thing
The smallest bone in the body, found in the ear, is this stirrup-shaped bone
Stapes
This Mars candy bar was named after a family horse
Snickers
This Hungarian countess was accused of killing hundreds of girls in the 1500s-1600s
Elizabeth Bathory
Legend says this creature was the 13th child of Mother Leeds, born in 1735 in the Pine Barrens
Jersey Devil
In this classic of silent cinema, the demon Mephisto makes a bet with an archangel that a good man's soul can be corrupted.
Faust (1926)
This U-shaped throat bone is the only one not directly joined to another bone
Hyoid
This chewy candy was named after the nickname of its inventor’s daughter, Clara
Tootsie Roll