Haunted Houses
This official residence of the U.S. President is famously said to be haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, who has been spotted by Winston Churchill and Queen Wilhelmina.
White House
This catchy 1984 movie theme song asks a very simple question: "If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?"
Ghostbusters
This fluffy, tri-colored triangular treat features layers of yellow, orange, and white, making it the most famous (and debated) candy of the Halloween season.
Candy corn
Crossing paths with this specific, dark-furred animal is a classic omen of bad luck, historically tied to medieval myths about witches' familiars
Black Cat
This 1845 narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe features a grieving lover who is slowly driven mad by a talking, midnight-black bird that only says "Nevermore
The Raven
This huge theme park company puts on "Halloween Horror Nights" every year, featuring movie-quality haunted houses.
Universal Studios
This classic Halloween theme song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett tells the story of a mad scientist whose monster gets up from his table to dance.
Monster Mash
Introduced in 1930, this best-selling chocolate bar features nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts, covered in milk chocolate.
Snickers Bar
Observed in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd, this beautiful holiday honors deceased loved ones with vibrant yellow marigolds, sugar skulls, and home altars called ofrendas.
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
This "King of Horror" wrote the 1977 novel The Shining, trapping winter caretakers inside the haunted Overlook Hotel.
Stephen King
This classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie features a creepy house on a hill right next to a spooky motel run by Norman Bates
Psycho
This creepy, finger-snapping theme song introduces a kooky, spooky TV family that includes characters named Gomez, Morticia, and Thing.
The Addams Family theme song
These colorful, button-shaped chocolates were originally invented during the Spanish Civil War so soldiers could carry chocolate that "melts in your mouth, not in your hand.
M&M's
The modern tradition of trick-or-treating became widely popular in America during this specific, post-World War II decade when suburban neighborhoods boomed.
1950's
This 1967 Ira Levin novel follows a young couple moving into a historic New York apartment building, only to realize their eccentric neighbors are a witch's coven.
Rosemary's Baby
This famous historic fortress in London, England is where queens were locked away, and visitors claim to see the headless ghost of Anne Boleyn.
Tower of London
This famous 1970s rock musical features a spooky dance song called "The Time Warp" that instructs you to jump to the left and step to the right
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
This U.S. President loved Jelly Belly jelly beans so much that he had over three tons of them shipped to his 1981 inauguration festivities
Ronald Reagan
Mary Shelley's famous 1818 Gothic novel introduces a brilliant student who builds a giant, stitched-together creature out of old body parts collected from charnel houses.
Frankenstein
In Washington Irving's 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is chased through the woods by a spectral rider famously missing this body part.
Head (The Headless Horseman)
Located in San Jose, California, this massive Victorian mansion has hundreds of rooms, stairs that go nowhere, and doors that open into blank walls.
Winchester Mystery House
This legendary "King of Jazz" crooned the romantic but spooky 1931 hit "I'm Doomed to Be Haunted by You," and famously voiced the narrator in Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Bing Crosby
Invented in 1912, this fruit-flavored hard candy with a hole in the middle was originally sold in a cardboard tube wrapped in tin foil to look like a life preserver.
Life savers
To ward off a blood-sucking vampire from entering a house, traditional folklore suggests hanging bundles of this pungent, white root vegetable around windows and doorways.
garlic
In Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Roderick Usher accidentally entombs this specific twin family member alive inside the mansion's deep vaults.
Madeline Usher (His sister)