Scary Movies
This 1978 John Carpenter film introduced masked killer Michael Myers.
What is Halloween
Bobby “Boris” Pickett hit #1 in 1962 with this graveyard dance song.
What is Monster Mash
Hide this rubber bag on a chair seat and it makes a rude noise when someone sits down.
What is a whoopee cushion
The ad for this snappable chocolate wafer bar asks you to “give me a break.”
What is Kit-Kat
Halloween traces back to this ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest, pronounced “SOW-in."
What is Samhain
This devilishly named part of Northfield, near the Vermont line, supposedly got its name when a resident walked out of a church after a sermon about the fires of hell, saw a forest fire, and remarked that this place was burning.
What is Satan’s Kingdom
In this Stephen King story, the Losers’ Club battles a clown named Pennywise.
What is It
This 1983 Michael Jackson music video features dancing zombies and a spoken part by horror actor Vincent Price.
What is Thriller
The classic kitchen prank is to swap the sugar in the sugar bowl for this.
What is salt
This tri-colored candy was first sold under the name “Chicken Feed.”
What is candy corn
Before pumpkins, Irish jack-o’-lanterns were carved from this root vegetable.
What are turnips
Before it was Bernardston, the town was known by this name, a reference to the Falls Fight of 1676.
What is Fall Town It was first called the Falls Fight Township, then “Fall Town,” until it was incorporated as Bernardston in 1762.
In this 1982 film, a little girl talks to “TV people” through the static on the family television.
What is Poltergeist
Ray Parker Jr.’s 1984 movie theme asks who you’re going to call.
What is Ghostbusters
You could make a great mummy costume with all of the material used in this classic late-night prank.
What is tee-peeing
This chewy chocolate candy was packed into U.S. soldiers’ rations during World War II.
What is Tootsie Roll
“Halloween” is a shortened form of this name for the night before All Saints’ Day.
What is All Hallow's Eve
This turreted 99-room Northfield mansion became a place the owner’s widow refused to set foot in after her husband died in 1928. She even asked for a hotel room that didn’t face it.
What is the Northfield Chateau
This 1999 low-budget film follows three student filmmakers lost in the Maryland woods, shot like found footage.
What is The Blair Witch Project
In this piece by Saint-Saëns, Death plays a violin at midnight and a xylophone imitates rattling skeleton bones.
What is Danse Macabre
Getting "_________" became the new way of saying that someone got pranked after this popular MTV show debuted in 2003.
What is Punk'd
The Mars family named this candy bar after their favorite horse.
What is Snickers
In medieval Britain, poor people went door to door offering prayers in exchange for “soul cakes,” a practice called this.
What is souling
The Chateau was demolished in 1963, but it was the girls’ school prom location, so Northfield Mount Hermon’s prom still carries this nickname.
What is The Chat
Jordan Peele won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this 2017 horror film.
What is Get Out
This Bach organ piece in D minor became the go-to “creepy mansion” music in movies.
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles’ radio drama of this H.G. Wells novel convinced some listeners that Martians had landed.
What is The War of the Worlds
This Massachusetts candy company, dating to 1847, made famous pastel wafers and Valentine’s Sweethearts.
What is NECCO (New England Confectionery Company)
This famous escape artist died on Halloween in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini
A covered bridge on the Greenfield–Bernardston side of the Green River is said to be haunted by this woman, a reverend’s wife who lived nearby in the colonial era.
Who is Eunice Williams
This 1922 German silent film was an unauthorized version of Dracula, with a vampire renamed Count Orlok.
What is Nosferatu
Disney’s Fantasia (1940) set a giant demon on a mountaintop to this piece by Russian composer Mussorgsky.
What is Night on Bald Mountain
In this legendary senior prank, students let loose three animals (often pigs or goats) labeled 1, 2 and 4, so staff spend all day hunting for this one.
What is number 3
When it launched in 1932, this candy bar came in three pieces: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. That explains its name.
What is 3 Musketeers
The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” in print appeared in a 1927 newspaper from this country.
What is Canada (Alberta)
Satan’s Kingdom isn’t the only spooky name in Northfield of uncertain origin. A ravine toward the south end of town also has a devilish name. It sits in a steep, thickly wooded part of the wildlife area.
What is Hell's Kitchen