Spooky Foods
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit, because it has seeds.
Which country celebrates the Day of the Dead starting at midnight on Oct. 31?
Mexico.
What does it mean when a fire turns blue on Halloween Night?
A ghost in nearby.
Which Ghost drowned all of her children in the river after a man broke her heart?
La Llorona
What location is Stowe, Vermont is haunted by a ghost of woman who killed herself when her lover stood her up?
Emily's Bridge.
Name the colors of Candy Corn from top to bottom.
White, Yellow, then Orange
Which Region of the World do pumpkins originate from?
Which phobia means you have an intense fear of Halloween?
Samhainophobia
What creature gets it's name from the spanish translation of "goat-sucker"?
Chupacabra
What is the name of the location that 50,000 young soldiers died in a 3 day long battle, and never received proper burials?
Gettysburg Battlefield.
What is the original name for Candy Corn?
Chicken Feed.
What do people in New England Call the night before Halloween?
Hint: It's a vegetable.
Cabbage Night
What is the significance of seeing a spider on Halloween?
It is thought to be the spirit of a loved one watching over the person who finds the spider.
A fairy from Irish folklore that wails outside a home to warn the imminent death of a family member. She’s also depicted as an old, deathly woman with a pale face covered by a veil.
A Banshee
During 1936-1967, this luxury ocean liner was the site of at least one murder, a sailor being crushed to death by a door in the engine room, and children drowning in the pool, and is currently sitting as a hotel in Long Beach, California.
RMS Queen Mary.
How many pieces of candy does the average household give to each trick or treater on Halloween?
2 pieces.
What country did Halloween originate from?
Ireland.
Why did people start dressing up in Halloween costumes?
Many Europeans, including the Celtics, dressed in costumes to repel spirits that they believed came back to Earth on what we now know as Halloween.
These Cree Indian creatures are created when a man eats human flesh and supposedly gets supernatural powers and also makes them insatiable. They transform into monsters and lose traces of being human.
The Wendigo
Which haunted location opened its doors to patients in 1864, and in the 1950s, the West Virginia facility reached its peak, housing more than 2,400 patients—even though it was designed to hold only 250.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia
What 3 vegetables have been carved for Halloween?
Beets, Potatoes, and Turnips.
What place in Romania do people travel all over the world for to celebrate Halloween?
Dracula's Castle.*
According to superstition, a person born on Halloween has what particular ability?
The ability to see and talk to spirits
A strange flying creature that came to terrorise the people in West Virginia from November 15, 1966, to December 15, 1967. It is a large man-like figure with “10-foot” wings whose eyes are said to glow red.
Mothman
Which haunted location was made to keep away the vengeful spirits, as a woman was informed by a seer that her family was killed by the ghosts of gunshot victims.