Salem Witch Trials
What famous play is about the Salem witch trials?
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
This is the only holiday that surpasses Halloween in annual consumer sales
Christmas
This King novel turned movie is the most commercially successful horror movie of all time
It
the Irish,who started the tradition, used this before pumpkins to make jack o'lanterns
potatoes and turnips
This large, hairy human-like mythical creature is purported to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, and smell bad
Bigfoot or Sasquatch
This kind of evidence was allowed in the witch trials, meaning a testimony that the accused person's spirit or spectral shape of appearing to the witness in a dream
Spectral evidence
She was the first First Lady to decorate the White House for Halloween
Mamie Eisenhower in 1958
This was the first horror movie to be nominated for an Academy Award
This candy was given to soldiers in battle in the Korean War
Tootsie Rolls
This creature is often described as being a large, bipedal ape-like creature that is covered with white hair
Yeti
The year the Salem witch trials begin
1692
Halloween was first celebrated in the United States around this time, when there was a flood of Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine
The 1840s
The Halloween franchise currently includes this many movies
13
This Christian holidays following Halloween were created in hopes of getting pagans to convert
All Saints Day (Nov 1) and All Souls Day (Nov 2)
In South Jersey and Philadelphia folklore, this is a legendary creature said to inhabit the forests of the Pine Barrens in South Jersey often described as a flying biped with hooves
Jersey Devil
The inhabitants of Salem were mostly this, although the Salem Witch Trials occurred after they had lost political control of the Massachusetts colony
Puritans
This famous magician died on Halloween
Harry Houdini
1,2... he's coming for you... in your dreams
Freddy Krueger
This Celtic tradition led to modern-day trick-or-treating
the celebration of Samhain
In West Virginia folklore, this humanoid creature was reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area in the days before a tragic bridge collapse accident
Mothman
This kind of poisoning has been proposed as a possible explanation for the symptoms of the "afflicted" in Salem
Ergot poisoning - causes hallucinations, convulsive fits, and sometimes death
He sang the original "Monster Mash"
Bobby Pickett
The Munsters' address
1313 Mockingbird Lane
These two countries popularized Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating
Scotland and Ireland
This cryptid's original story is related to Iroquois legends of giant snakes and has been seen over 300 times in Lake Champlain
Champ