Halloween Traditions
This holiday is celebrated on October 31
Halloween
"We all float down here," is said by this villain.
Pennywise
According to superstition, if this animal crosses your path, it means bad luck
A black cat
This undead being rises from its coffin each night, seeking victims to drain of life with a single bite.
Vampire
This Milwaukee serial killer became the subject of the Netflix series Monster and became known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal”
Jeffrey Dahmer
This tradition involves dressing up and going door‑to‑door for candy.
trick‑or‑treating!
The haunted doll in a popular horror franchise has this name.
Annabelle
This ghostly figure, known as “The Weeping Woman,” is a staple of Mexican folklore, said to weep for her lost children by rivers.
La Llorona
This towering creature, stitched together from spare parts, is often misunderstood despite its frightening appearance.
Frankenstein’s monster
His financier's criminal case exposed a network of underage victims and led to worldwide investigations.
Jeffrey Epstein
This bright orange fruit, yes, botanically a fruit, is the most common material used to carve Halloween faces.
pumpkin
The Conjuring is based on the investigations of these two paranormal investigators.
Ed and Lorraine Warren
Stories describe this being as having eyes that appear human even when it takes the form of a coyote, wolf, or other creature.
Skinwalker
This creature transforms under the full moon and is vulnerable to silver.
werewolf
This Canadian college student disappeared while staying at the Cecil Hotel, and was later found in the water tank on the top floor of the hotel.
Elisa Lam
In early American tradition, this activity, now a children’s pastime, was once used for fortune‑telling about marriage and harvest luck.
Bobbing for apples
The actor during the filming of the scene in this movie suffered a fracture to the lower spine.
exorcist
This eerie phenomenon appears in folklore as a ghostly double that mimics your movements and is often seen as a warning of misfortune.
doppelgänger
This half-woman, half-snake creature from Greek myth turns victims to stone with a glance.
Medusa
In August 2018, this Colorado man appeared on local news pleading for the safe return of his missing family—before investigators discovered he had murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their daughters Bella and Celeste.
Christopher Watts
Before pumpkins became standard in America, these smaller, tougher vegetables were carved in Ireland and Scotland for Halloween.
turnips
This 2001 supernatural horror movie centers on a family who inherit a mansion with shifting glass walls, each section housing one of twelve terrifying spirits that power a deadly machine.
13 Ghosts
Witnesses along the New England coast in the early 19th century described a massive, snake‑like form gliding just beneath the waves, inspiring decades of speculation.
Sea Serpent
In Dickens’ holiday tale, this ghost drags chains forged from a lifetime of greed.
Jacob Marley
This unidentified serial killer sent coded letters to the press in Northern California.
Zodiac Killer