Movies
This stop-motion animated movie directed by Henry Selick follows a skeleton who seeks to take over Christmas.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This hit single, from the best-selling album of the same name, features a monologue from Vincent Price.
What is Thriller?
A type of ghosts known for moving around objects and even, by some reports, people.
What are poltergeists?
This Celtic holiday is considered to be a direct influence on Halloween as we know it today.
What is Samhain?
This hairy, ape-like creature walks through the woods of the Pacific Northwest.
What is Bigfoot?
This Rob Zombie directed horror film began as an idea for a haunted house attraction at Universal Horror Nights.
What is House of 1,000 Corpses?
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath—these bands are known as "The Unholy Trinity" of this genre of music.
What is heavy metal?
This book is based upon a haunted house in Long Island where Robert DeFao Jr. shot and killed six members of his family.
What is The Amityville Horror?
These red fruits are placed in barrels of water as part of this Halloween game.
What are apples?
Name-dropped in the song "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" by Steely Dan, this creature cries everywhere it goes.
What is the Squonk?
What is Hellraiser?
This song is about a visually distinctive alien's fall to Earth and quest for fame in a rock and roll band.
What is The Purple People Eater?
This doll, currently on display in the East Martello Museum, is said to be responsible for "car accidents, broken bones, job loss, divorce and a cornucopia of other misfortunes."
What is Robert the Doll?
What are chestnuts?
Mothman was apparently sighted around this bridge not long before its collapse in December 1967.
What is the Silver Bridge?
This Peanuts Halloween special was the first to have a title ending with the name "Charlie Brown".
What is It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
This movie musical became famous for the elaborate rituals and show put on by fans at late night showings.
This barren circle in the woods of Chatham County is known for anything left in it overnight being moved outside of it.
What is Devil's Tramping Ground.
This tradition originates in part from earlier practice of dressing up to ward off evil spirits and traveling from house to house to collect food.
What is trick-or-treating
The CIA spread rumors about this vampire-like creature as a form of psychological warfare while in the Philippines.
What is the Aswang?
This Star Trek actor lent his face to be used as the mask for the iconic slasher villain Michael Myers.
Who is William Shatner?
This Florida death metal band made a cameo appearance in the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Built by the heiress to a arms dealer's fortune, this mansion is known for its twisting hallways and stairs that lead to nowhere.
Tumshee lanterns, the predecessors of Jack O'Lanterns, were carved out of these root vegetables.
What are turnips?
This creature is described in several Bantu myths as something similar to a sauropod dinosaur that dwells in the Congo River.
What is Mokele-Mbembe?