Trick or Treat
The number of pieces of candy an average house gives to each trick-or-treater.
Two pieces.
This famous magician died on Halloween.
Harry Houdini.
jack o'lantern
This ancient Roman goddess is said to be honored on Halloween.
Pomona.
The goddess of fruit and tress - many believe bobbing for apples on Halloween stemmed from Roman traditions to honor Pomona.
This film, in the Paranormal Activity franchise, was the most successful.
Paranormal Activity 3
The original name for candy corn.
Chicken Feed.
The original Ichabod Crane lived in this region.
Staten Island.
The original purpose of Halloween costumes.
Repel spirits believed to have come back to earth.
The first city-wide Halloween celebration was in this city.
Anoka, Minnesota.
The original mask for Michael Myers is based on this celebrity.
William Shatner.
This medieval English tradition inspired trick-or-treating.
All Souls Day.
The poor would go "souling", knocking on doors offering prayers for residents' deceased loved ones in exchange for food.
Count Dracula's original name in the Bram Stoker classic.
Count Wampyr.
This first lady was the first to decorate the White house for Halloween.
Mamie Eisenhower, 1958.
This American state has made it illegal to be a priest or nun for Halloween.
Alabama.
The original title for Disney's Hocus Pocus.
Halloween House.
The number of calories in an average trick-or-treater's Halloween stash.
11,000 calories.
This man sang the original "Monster Mash"
Bobby Pickett.
Halloween first thought to originated in this century.
4000 B.C
Scottish women hung this in front of a fire to see their future husbands on Halloween.
A wet sheet.
This classic horror movie creature's shape was based on the Oscar statuette.
The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
A whopping 35 million pounds of this candy is made every year - amounting to 9 billion pieces.
Candy Corn.
The hometown of the world's longest haunted house, stretching for 3,564 feet, and located 80 feet underground.
Lewisburg, Ohio
Halloween was first celebrated in the United States.
Around the 1840s when there was a flood of Irish Immigrants fleeing from the potato famine.
Hong Kong's festival of Hungry Ghosts.
This horror movie was the first American film to ever show a toilet on screen.
Psycho.