Fun Facts
Halloween Movies and Literature
History and Traditions
Creatures, Costumes and Candy
Ghost Stories and Haunted Houses
100

These two colors are traditionally associated with Halloween.

Black and orange.

100

This author created the popular 90s children's horror book series, Goosebumps.

RL Stine

100

This Halloween tradition involves children going door to door in serach of candy and other gifts.

Trick-or-treating

100

This tricolored sweet is one of the most popular, and controversial, Halloween offerings.

Candy corn

100

This ghost ship is doomed to sail the oceans forever, without ever making port.

The Flying Dutchman

200

A superstitious person may sprinkle this on their doorstep to ward off evil spirits during Halloween.

Salt

200

Jason Voorhees drowned in the lake at this summer camp.

Camp Crystal Lake

200

This Mexican holiday to honor the dead is observed in the days after Halloween.

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 

200

These ridged discs are the most popular Halloween candy in America.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

200

This former, and final, queen of France is said to still haunt the Petit Trianon in Versailles.

Marie Antoinette

300

This city hosts the largest Halloween parade in the United States.

New York City

300

This future star made his film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Johnny Depp

300
Halloween originates from the festival of Samhain, celebrated primarily in this country.

Ireland

300

A standard bag of M&Ms contains this many colors.

Six

300

Winston Churchill famously claimed to see the ghost of this former president in the White House.

Abraham Lincoln

400

The word Halloween is a contraction of this phrase.

All Hallow's Eve

400

The Ghostbusters received their first call from this five-star hotel.

The Sedgewick Hotel

400

In Germany, families typically hide these kitchen objects out of sight on Halloween to protect returning spirits from injury.

Knives

400

This type of candy bar, made especially for trick-or-treating, were created by the Mars company in 1968.

Fun-size candy bars.

400

This Bay Area Victorian mansion, known for its unique and curious architecture, was the inspiration for Disney's The Haunted Mansion.

The Winchester Mystery House

500

This Midwestern state grows the most pumpkins in the USA.

Illinois

500

In the film version of The Shining, this forbidden room at The Overlook Hotel is haunted by a previous inhabitant. 

Room 237

500

This country celebrates Halloween with themed trains, including costume parties, haunted house experiences, and more.

Japan

500

This special flavor of lollipop is created when the tail end of one flavor combines with the beginning of another as the factory switches flavors. 

Dum Dum's Mystery Flavor

500

Driving along Archer Avenue in Chicago, you may come across this vanishing hitchhiker. 

Resurrection Mary