Westchester Halloween
Origins of Halloween
Scariest Moments
Halloween Movies
Candy
100

This famous Halloween character originates from Sleepy Hollow

Headless Horseman

100

Which ethnic group begun the first Halloween celebration?

The Celtic Tribes

100

This famous technique is utilized by movies and video games to scare the viewer when they least expect it.

Jumpscare

100

This movie features its star, Jason the Killer

Friday the 13th

100

In 1900, Milton Hershey introduced this famous Candy Bar

Hersheys

200

This road in White Plains is known for many ghost stories.

Buckout Road

200

Before Pumpkins, The Irish would carve out faces in these plants to make jack-o-lanterns.

Turnips

200

This historical mystery began once a settlement was established by English colonist in North Carolina, just for John White to come back to everything being destoyed and gone.

Roanoke

200

This film director is know for his gothic artwork, making movies such as the nightmare before Christmas.

Tim Burton.

200

In 1979, M&M’s introduced this famous candy bar with caramel and a gold packaging.

Twixts

300

This place inspired many of Washington Irving’s horror stories.

Old Dutch Church

300

This Catholic Holday inspired the act of dressing up as people would dress up as angles, saints, and even the devil.

All Saints’ Day

300

This internet meme blew up around 2019, stating if kids called her, they would die.

Momo

300

This movie includes a girl possessed by the spirits.

The Exorcist

300

This candy bar was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter.

Baby Ruth Candy Bar

400

This park in Yonkers was home to rituals, torch lighting activities and cults inhabiting its grounds.

Untermyer Park and Gardens

400

This Roman festival would be incorporated with Halloween after the Romans conquered the celts.

Pomona

400

What New Ro fears 

Jackson’s Bicarb

400

A masked killer known as Ghostface targets a group of high school teens in a meta-slasher mystery.

Scream

400

Produced by Mars, this was an 8-inch braided rope of soft caramel coated in milk chocolate.

Marathon Bar

500

At this place along the Saw Mill River, a legend says three white-clad women descend from a hill to chase away trespassers, with a chilling photograph said to capture their apparition.

Oakland Cementary

500

This Scottish poet was one of the first people to outline the traditions of Halloween in his 1759 poem, “Halloween”.

Robert Burns

500

These twins spoke to each other in a completely different language, yet to no one else, until one of them died, in which the other sister would begin talking to everyone normally.

Gibbons sisters.

500

This Halloween movie would be played every single time we would be indoors during October at Ridgeway Elementary school.

Scary Buddies

500

1927, Austrian inventor Eduard Haas III created the small, brick-shaped mints as a breath freshener and an alternative to smoking

Pez