Halloween in Media
(movies, shows, etc)
(movies, shows, etc)
Frank the Bunny ends up just being a Halloween costume in this film named after its protagonist.
What is Donnie Darko?
This large, hairy bipedal human or ape-like creature is said to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
What is Bigfoot?
This holiday takes place in October for Canadians and November for Americans.
What is Thanksgiving?
This historic landmark located in London, England was a site of imprisonment and executions for more than 900 years and said to be haunted by Henry VIII's former wife, Anne Boleyn.
What is the Tower of London?
This U.S. city is known as the “Witchcraft Capital?”
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
“The Nightmare Before Christmas” composer Danny Elfman performed in this 1980s band.
What is Oingo Boingo?
If you say her name 3 times in the mirror, she is said to appear.
Who is Bloody Mary?
On November 5, UK residents celebrate the failure of the "Gunpowder Plot" of 1605 by lighting bonfires and fireworks.
What is Bonfire Night aka Guy Fawkes Day?
This luxury ocean liner turned WW2 warship turned hotel has found its permanent home in Long Beach, CA and is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of passengers.
What is the Queen Mary?
This Japanese horror franchise, Ju-On, was licensed and remade into this early 2000s American horror film franchise.
What is The Grudge?
Famed paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren's account of the real-life haunting of the Perron family who moved into a haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island inspired this horror movie franchise.
What is The Conjuring?
According to Algonquian folklore, these malevolent spirits possess humans and invoke in them an insatiable cannibalistic hunger.
What is a Wendigo?
New England, US; Kyoto, Japan; Ontario, Canada; The Lake District, England and The Bavarian Forest, Germany are the top destinations around the world to see this.
What are Fall Leaves?
Rumors of a “pharaoh’s curse” spread after English aristocrat Lord Carnarvon died of infection shortly after excavating the burial site of this Egyptian king.
Who is Tutankhamun?
From 1947 to 1969, the US Air Force investigated unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, as part of this government project.
What is Project Blue Book?
This 2023 gothic horror drama on Netflix, created by Mike Flanagan, is loosely based on the various works of 19th-century author, Edgar Allen Poe.
What is The Fall of the House of Usher?
This is the name for the class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore and include spirits such as the Kappa, Tengu, and Yuki-onna.
What are Yokai?
This ancient Celtic tradition is said to be the root of what is considered Halloween today.
What is Samhain?
This battlefield in Pennsylvania, USA, was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War in July of 1863 and is said to be haunted by the ghosts of fallen soldiers.
What is Gettysburg?
The 1818 Gothic novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is also known by this additional title.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
This director perhaps best known for his horror films has also done the music for many of his films.
Who is John Carpenter?
This ghostly nurse, whose name means “The Ironed Lady”, has been spotted in hospitals around central Mexico.
Who is La Planchada?
During this Korean harvest festival, people visit their hometown to pay respect to the spirits of their ancestors.
What is Chuseok? (pronounced chew-sock) or Hangawi
This ancient Japanese castle built in 1333 is the largest and most visited castle in Japan, however it is said to be haunted by a palace servant thrown to her death in the castle's well.
What is Himeji Castle?
This movie serial killer is immortalized with a statue at the bottom of a Crosby, Minnesota lake?
Who is Jason Voorhees?