Creepy Crawlies (Audrey Yang)
The common name for this arthropod means "hundred-foot."
What is a centipede?
This catchy classic Halloween song sings of many monsters dancing.
What is “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett?
Red, orange, pink, and blue, these ghosts will try to eat you!
Who are Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde (or Sue)?/ Who are the Pacman Ghosts?
This term refers to the process by which a dead organism is broken down.
What is decomposition?
In “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, Indiana Jones famously expresses his distaste for this animal with the line “___… Why did it have to be ___?”
What are snakes?
This alliterative song sings of a misunderstood undead group who may be boney and eccentric, but just wants to befriend you.
What is “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” by Andrew Gold.
This ghost, who comes from a 1995 movie bearing his name, is very friendly!
Who is Casper?/ Who is Casper the Friendly Ghost?
This Latin term refers to a body tightening up and becoming rigid after death.
What is rigor mortis?
In a famous Greek myth, the goddess Athena turns this overzealous weaver into the first spider.
Who is Arachne?
This song, sung on the dance floor, sings of beheading and dancing until you die.
What is "Heads Will Roll" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
This Ghost type Pokémon has both a Mega Evolution and a Gigantamax form.
Who is Gengar?
This Latin term, which sounds very similar to an organ with an ironic name, refers to the downward-facing side of the body developing a bruise-like color after death due to the settling of blood.
What is livor mortis?
The Three Witches in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” famously brew a prophetic potion using “eye of newt and toe of ___”, among other gory bits.
What is frog?
This song, from the musical The Addams Family, features Morticia Addams and a few ancestors gleefully singing about death and how she will die one day.
What is "Just Around the Corner"?
This ghastly green pirate scares the citizens of Bikini Bottom for fun.
Who is the Flying Dutchman?
This Latin term refers to the gradual temperature change (generally cooling) of the body after death. It sounds very similar to a still-living former US vice president who is known for being passionate about a global issue involving temperature change.
What is algor mortis?
Worms, snails, millipedes, and other animals that eat decomposing biomatter are known as this term.
What are detritivores?
This song by a two-parent band shares its name with a slang term for disappearing (though the song predates it) and sings, literally or figuratively, of a ghost leaving someone’s life.
What is "Ghosting" by Mother Mother?
This video game antagonist, whose first appearance was in a ghostly mansion, traps his victims inside paintings.
Who is King Boo?
These flies, which can smell carrion from incredibly far distances given their size, are generally the first insects to feed on a dead body. They are used in medical maggot therapy.
What are carrion flies/blowflies/Calliphoridae?