October 31
The Protestant Reformation begins as this famous agitator posts his 95 Theses on the door of a German church in 1517.
Martin Luther
X, Jason Lives, Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th
Like most good things, Halloween originated with this ancient people
Celts
The southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes.
Lake Erie
The unseen deity who Linus Van Pelt insists will come next year.
The Great Pumpkin
The lowest possible six figure salary
100 Grand
On October 31, 2011, the world's population exceeded this number for the first time ever.
7 Billion
Dream Warriors, Dream Master, The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Instead of pumpkins, Celts originally made jack-o-lanterns out of these root vegetables.
Turnips
Also known as bhut jolokia, it clocks in at just over one million Scoville units.
Ghost pepper
His many professions include doctor, professor, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, metaphysician, and of course, vampire hunter.
Van Helsing
A barred spiral galaxy with a D25 isophotal diameter estimate at 26.8 +/- 1.1 kiloparsecs
Milky Way
Up the Ra went when the 1973 Mountjoy escape results in three IRA prisoners freeing themselves with the aid of an Alouette II type of this vehicle.
Helicopter
In the Hood, In Space, Back 2 da Hood
Leprechaun
The act of "guising" is now better known by this term
Trick-or-treating
Genus heloderma suspectum, it is the only venomous lizard native to North America
Gila monste
This character's name stems from a poem in which a child is described as being full of woe
Wednesday Addams
Aramis, Athos, and Porthos
Three Musketeers
In the scariest event to ever happen on October 31, this man ascends to the role of leader of his country in 1922.
Benito Mussolini
85, Viral, Halloween
V/H/S
Velma Dinkley in Be Cool: Scooby-Doo and Dr. Loomis from Halloween II call it Samhain, but this is how the word is actually pronoucned.
Sah-win/Sow-in
This Ezra Koenig-led band has won two Grammys for best alternative music album.
Vampire Weekend
The most famous nephew of Stretch, Fatso, and Stinkie
Casper the Friendly Ghost
The seedy Berlin nightclub from the musical and film Cabaret
Kit Kat
This midwestern city proved itself on numerous occassions to be the worst place on earth to be in on Halloween. A 1903 train crash killed 17, a 1913 streetcar strike led to martial law and six deaths, and a 1963 gas explosion at a fairground killed 81 and injured more than 400 others.
Indianapolis
Urban Harvest, Fields of Terror, Genesis
In 2024, this was the most popular costume for kids, with 2.6 million using this costume. Hint, I was this 3 years in a row.
Spider-Man
The minimum number of people needed to operate a business or organization, often during a time of emergency, holiday, or reduced operations
Skeleton crew
The only character to appear on both the American Film Institute's list of top 50 heroes and top 50 villains.
Terminator/T-1000
Fisk
Swedish Fish