Truman State Lore
Spooky Season History
Kirksville Lore
Spooky Movies
Spooky Media
100

Which dorm hall is still occupied by Charlotte Burkhalter?

Ezra C. Grim Hall. Charlotte is known as a benevolent and kind ghost.

100

What Celtic festival does Halloween come from?

Samhain

100

True or False: The abandoned Rainbow Basin Ski Lodge exists?

True

100

What are the names of the three Sanderson sisters in the movie “Hocus Pocus”?

Winifred, Mary, and Sarah

100

Who plays the song "Monster Mash"?

Bobby Pickett

200

Urban legend says Sue Thomas is what supernatural creature?

A vampire

200

How much money did Americans spend on Halloween in 2023? (Within 1 billion)

Approximately $12.2 billion, per the NRF

200

What is the legend of the Devil's Chair?

If you sit in the Devil's Chair in Highland Park Cemetery at midnight on Halloween, you may die within the year or be pulled into the earth by a ghost.

200

How long did it take to make the movie “A Nightmare Before Christmas"?

Three years

200

Where does the quote “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?

William Shakespeare's “Macbeth”

300

Which dorm hall is said to be occupied by Joan Escobar?

Centennial Hall. It is said that her death was so swift that she doesn't realize it happened and still does her work as an RA.

300

From 1947 to 1969 the U.S. Air Force investigated unidentified flying objects, or U.F.O.s, as part of a project named what?

Project Blue Book

300

In what cemetery is a mass grave for executed Confederate Soldiers?

Forest Llewellyn Cemetery

300

What's the top grossing horror movie of all time?

"It"

300

What ghoulish 1984 song returned to the charts on Billboard's “Hot 100” in October of 2023?

Michael Jackson's “Thriller”

400

There is rumored to be a lamp made of what material in the Kirk building?

Human skin

400

Which U.S. president told a group of schoolkids that the White House was haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln?

In 1989, George H.W. Bush jokingly told a group of children that Lincoln was rumored to haunt the White House

400

What shop on the square was used as a hospital during the Civil War?

Hidden Treasures

400

Who played Laurie Strode in the 1978 movie "Halloween"?

Jamie Lee Curtis

400

Besides horror, what other genre did “Dracula” author Bram Stoker publish books under?

Romance
500

How were books saved during the mysterious Great Truman Fire?

They were thrown out of windows

500

Whose tale inspired the tradition of carving jack-o'-lanterns?

The tale of “Stingy Jack,” a man who cheated the devil and was sentenced to carry a glowing ember in a hollowed-out turnip for eternity

500

What is the legend of the Dybbuk Box?

A.T. Still Museum Director picked up an old box for a friend when he started coughing, became covered in welts, and bled from his eyes. Later, (still in possession of the box), at a lunch with his mother, a chandelier shattered behind them.

He had bought this box from a Holocaust survivor who had managed to immigrate to America despite laws put in place by Harry Laughlin to keep Jewish people out. Harry Laughlin was a native of Kirksville and a former student AND faculty member of Truman State University.

He eventually donated the box to a Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.

500

Which movie tops Rotten Tomatoes' list of the Scariest Horror Movies Ever?

"The Exorcist"

500

The 1962 novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” was penned by what author?

Ray Bradbury

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