Spooky Sky
The lunar phase traditionally blamed in folklore and gothic horror for triggering werewolf transformations and erratic human behavior.
In Science, the lunar phase that occurs when Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and the Moon, causing the Moon's entire illuminated side to face Earth while its shaded side points directly away.
What is a full moon?
A real mammal native to Central and South America (Desmodus rotundus) that uses heat sensors in its nose to locate blood vessels on sleeping livestock.
What is a vampire bat?
Made by pressurizing melted sugar with carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) gas, which escapes in tiny popping physical explosions as saliva dissolves the sugar casing.
What are pop rocks?
Creepy, fenced grounds filled with weathered tombstones and iron gates where ghosts, vampires, and zombies are said to haunt at midnight.
What is a cemetery?
Jinkies! Four teenage sleuths and their talking Great Dane travel in the Mystery Machine, unmasking fake ghosts and spooky villains.
What is Scooby-Doo?
Vampire's probably delight for this, the term for a red-colored moon. It occurs when the earth's shadow completely blocks sunlight from reaching the moon.
What is a blood moon?
Of Walking Dead fame, the common name of the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, which takes control of the host's central nervous system and forces it to climb vegetation before killing it to spread spores.
What is the zombie fungus?
The most popular tret category in America. Contains cocoa butter, a lipid whose unique molecular alignment gives it a melting point just slightly below human body temperature, allowing it to transition from solid to liquid on your tongue.
What is Chocolate?
Spooky, deserted settlements with empty wooden buildings and creaking doors where bustling populations vanished, leaving behind a frozen-in-time village.
What is a ghost town?
Who you gonna call? Three eccentric scientists start a business in New York City capturing slime-spewing phantoms and trapping them in containment units. Their iconic weaponry relies on portable particle accelerators.
What is Ghost Busters?
The name commonly associated with the shape of the moon that looks like a siler curve in the sky.
What is a crescent moon?
A nocturnal carnivorous marsupial native to Australia with bone-crushing jaw strength and a foul odor emitted when stressed.
What is a Tasmanian devil?
Made by spinning melted sugar at high speeds using centrifugal force, pushing it through micro-fine holes where it cools instantly into ultra-thin, non-crystalline sugar strands.
What is cotton candy?
Pitch-black subterranean chambers where screeching bats hang from sharp stone teeth and spooky echoing noises trick your mind.
What is a cave?
A classic horror story and iconic film where a mad scientist stitches together body parts and uses a bolt of lightning to bring his monster to life. Demonstrates bioelectricity, the flow of electrical impulses through neurons and nervous tissue that causes muscles to contract and flex.
What is Frankenstein?
In spooky stories, this is the darkest night of the month when no moon is visible in the sky to light your path.
In science, this phase occurs when the Moon sits directly between Earth and the Sun, placing its sunlit side completely out of view from Earth.
What is a new moon?
A shore crustacean named for its pale, translucent body and its ability to vanish into sand burrows at speeds up to 10 miles per hour.
What is a Ghost Crab?
Covered in thousands of microscopic surface pits that act as nucleation sites, giving dissolved carbon dioxide gas in Diet Coke a place to rapidly form bubbles and erupt.
What are Mentos?
A spooky patch of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico where ships and airplanes are legendarily said to vanish into thin air without a trace.
What is Bermuda Triangle?
A group of 1980s kids riding bikes in Hawkins, Indiana, battle the Demogorgon and search for their missing friend trapped in the "Upside Down."
What is Stranger Things?
This lunar event inspired a popular saying that describes something happening very rarely, as in "once in a..." The name given to an extra full moon, most commonly when a second full moon occurs within a single calendar month. The last time is occurred on Halloween was in 2020, the next time will be 2039.
What is a blue moon?
A rare, deep-sea creature (Mitsukurina owstoni) known for its long, flattened snout and terrifying, extendable jaws lined with needle-sharp teeth.
What is a goblin shark?
This mineral inspired candy is produced by dissolving sugar in boiling water until no more can dissolve, creating a supersaturated solution that deposits sucrose crystals as it cools and evaporates.
What is rock candy?
The clock forever strikes 12 here, a pitch-black realm thousands of feet below the ocean surface where glowing deep-sea monsters swim through endless, freezing, sunless water.
What is the midnight zone?
The hair on your body might stand on end when reading R.L. Stine's popular spooky book series which is now a movie and TV franchise features kids battling ventriloquist dummies, lawn gnomes, and haunted masks.
What is Goosebumps?