Mythical Beasts
From Haitian folklore, this is a corpse that is reanimated that has no will of its own. In modern day iterations the corpse is reanimated by a disease or fungus and spread through the bite or in other variations being an airborne disease.
What is a Zombie?
This is a Celtic holiday to where on October 31 the line between the spirit world and the human world are blurred and the spirits of the dead would rise and roam. People would wear costumes to scare the spirits away and ward them off.
What is Halloween?
This is a slasher movie series, popularized due to the comedy found within and its clever plot points that were groundbreaking for the time.
What is the Scream series?
A friendly ghost who is 12 years old and has a egg shaped head. He is the protagonist in his own cartoon and a movie.
Who is Casper the Friendly Ghost?
A mad scientist puts together body parts to make an artificial human and he ended up making a stitched monster.
What is Frankenstein's monster?
These creatures are said to be based off of the effects of rabies with light hypersensitivity, and aggression. It is not allowed to enter homes without permission and its mainly attributed to blood sucking.
What are Vampires?
Widely celebrated in Mexico, and other places with a population of people with Mexican heritage this holiday is celebrated usually on the first 2 days of November. This is a joyous celebration for honoring the deceased rather than for mourning.
What is the Day of the Dead?
A movie with a clown and young boy named Georgie. Balloons are also very prominent within this movie.
What is the movie It?
This is a demonically possessed doll that is also antagonists in some movies within a famous horror movie series. This doll also starred in its own movies.
What is the Annabelle doll?
There is a Japanese story where a young woman with a mask goes around at night and if you spot her she will ask you one question. She will take her mask off and show a smile that is cut through her cheeks from jaw-to-jaw and will ask "Do you think I am pretty?". If you say no she will get mad and kill you and if you say yes she will say you are lying and kill you.
Who is Kuchisake-Onna?
An Eldridge beast of infinite knowledge. The author Lovecraft depicts it as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, in the shape of a green octopus, dragon, and a caricature of human form.
What is Cthulhu?
What animal is commonly associated with devils and demons.
What is a goat?
This movie released in 1999 is a footage found type movie where film makers doing a documentary discover things they unforeseen horrors through a forest.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
This game around 2015 that was done with 2 pencils on top of each other and you would say the name twice and ask a question. This was said to be the ghost of a little boy.
What is Charlie-Charlie?
In the forest near Dresden, Germany, a woman is gathering acorns when she suddenly hears a hunting horn and thud. She sees a rider in a gray cloak and a gray horse standing over her. The woman ignores it and continues collecting acorns. A couple of days later, the same horseman appears to the woman in the woods—only this time, he is carrying his head. What is this man?
What is the headless horseman?
Referred to as the Flesh eater of the Forests, this creature may appear as a monster with some human characteristics or as a spirit who has possessed a human being. It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and cultural taboos against such behaviors within the region of the Great Lakes.
What is the Wendigo?
This holiday is a Buddhist holiday celebrated in Japan during the 7th lunar month around the 15th day. This is done to commemorate lost ancestors whose spirits come back to visit relatives.
What is Obon?
This is a physiological horror film taking place in rural Sweden where a dysfunctional couple and a group stay experiencing a festival where things don't go the way any of them expect.
What is Midsommar?
This is a common house game where a person would look in a mirror in a dark room and say the name 3 times where then a ghost of a woman would show up and haunt them.
Who is Bloody Mary?
A famous story by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who hears a constant heart beating, but it seems that the narrator is not telling the whole truth. Or might they even be incapable of telling whats actually going on.
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
An antagonist within the movie Dot and the Kangaroo this beast is a water spirit from Australia that is a man-eating monster that once lived in the rivers, lakes and swamps.
What is the Bun-yip?
He is a horned, anthropomorphic figure in the Central and Eastern Alpine folklore of Europe who, during the Christmas season, scares children who have misbehaved.
Who is Krampus?
A movie released in 1980 that takes place in a hotel where dark secrets are uncovered as the main character ventures within. This movie was also really popular for a specific scene with a bloody elevator.
What is The Shining?
Based off of Mexican folklore, this is a woman who roams around bodies of water mourning the loss of her children who she drowned after the rage from her husband's infidelity.
These were trials in which women were killed for doing things out of the ordinary calling them witches. They were hanged in most cases but being pressed under stones was another way of death. Some were also burned alive.
What are The Salem Witch Trials?