Hauntingly Historical
The Christian holiday that influenced Halloween is called this.
All Saints’ Day (or All Hallows’ Day)
This superhero has been one of the most popular Halloween costumes for decades, especially after Marvel movies.
Spider-Man
This sweet activity involves collecting candy door-to-door.
Trick or Treating
This Disney Channel movie follows Marnie Piper.
Halloweentown
This blood-drinking creature of the night avoids sunlight.
Vampire
Immigrants from this country are credited with bringing Halloween traditions to America.
Ireland and Scotland
In the 1980s, this movie inspired a surge in ghost costumes featuring uncut white sheets.
Ghostbusters
This common Halloween decoration is made by stretching white cotton.
Fake spiderwebs
The three witch sisters in Hocus Pocus share this spooky last name.
Sanderson
This monster is formed by reanimating stitched-together body parts, as seen in a famous 1818 novel.
Frankenstein's monster
Halloween originated from this ancient Celtic festival that celebrated the end of the harvest season.
Samhain
This 1978 film inspired countless people to wear a white mask based on actor William Shatner’s face.
Halloween
What is the classic rhyming phrase a witch says when adding things to her cauldron in Shakespeare's Macbeth
"Double, double toil and trouble"
This 1984 horror film introduced Freddy Krueger, a villain who attacks in dreams.
Nightmare on Elm Street
In Irish folklore, this female spirit's screaming is believed to foretell death.
Banshee
This First Lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween, doing so in 1958.
Mamie Eisenhower
Dressing in costume on Halloween was originally meant to do this.
Disguise oneself from spirits (or ward off ghosts)
Bobbing for apples originated as a fortune-telling game about this.
Marriage or romance
The game was tied to Roman harvest festivals honoring the goddess of fruit, Pomona, and later became a form of divination, predicting one's future spouse or relationship success.
Jack Skellington is known by this royal title in his homeland of Halloween Town.
In the folklore of the Middle East, these evil, corpse-eating spirits live in deserts or graveyards.
The practice of carving jack-o’-lanterns was originally done with this vegetable instead of pumpkins.
Turnip
This popular movie character is the top-trending Halloween costume in the United States of 2025, unseating all superheroes, characters, and pop culture icons.
Rumi, K-Pop Demon Hunters
The custom of lighting bonfires on Halloween night comes from this ancient belief.
Ward off evil spirits and to help guide the souls of the deceased to the otherworld.
This character waits for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin every Halloween.
Linus (from the Peanuts cartoons)
In Slavic folklore, this supernatural being is an evil old woman who lives in a house that stands on chicken legs.
Baba Yaga