Energy-related haunts
Pre-1960s Halloween Film Classics
Halloween + Environmental Impact
Spooky Opower Products
Screams
100
Another spooky name for power wasted by devices when they're not in use or turned on.
What is phantom power/ghost electricity/vampire power?
100
This bitingly popular supernatural horror film starring Bela Lugosi was released on Valentine's Day in 1931.
What is Dracula?
100
This many pounds of pumpkin are sent to landfills in the aftermath of every United States Halloween.
What are 1 billion pounds?
100
Count Dracula has just received insights about how much communal blood he is drinking during peak hours. Transylvania Utilities provided him with recommendations on how to shift or reduce his peak usage with this Opower program.
What is Behavioral Load Shaping?
100
The artist behind the 1893 painting entitled The Scream.
Who is Edvard Munch?
200
These pumpkin-esque accoutrements prevent low-flying planes from hitting utility tower wires.
What are visibility markers or aerial marker balls?
200
This 1933 film details a doctor researching a new drug with supernatural abilities. While he shares out the secrets of this special titular ability with his confidants, it becomes increasingly clear a side effect of the potion is insanity.
What is The Invisible Man?
200
When you choose chocolate with this certification, you know that the farmers and workers who produced the cocoa received an additional premium on top of the price of their crop which they can invest in their communities and use to fight the effects of climate change.
What is Fair Trade chocolate?
200
Anticipating a 30% increased usage in his future based on the upcoming weather, the utility Stadtwerke Ingolstadt Netze GmbH sent Doctor Frankenstein this notification to 'warn him that he is on track for extra energy costs' using this Opower product.
What is a High Bill Alert?
200
Amongst the first political memes, this democratic political candidate made a name for himself at his 2004 Iowa rally when he accelerated his talk into a pithy yell.
Who is Howard Dean?
300
This town neighboring Seattle City Light's Skagit Hydroelectric Project is host to public Ghost Walks every Saturday night in October.
What is Concrete, WA?
300
This 1931 film details a doctor researching a new drug with supernatural abilities. Its core theme he seeks to prove: "in every human dwells a good and an evil force."
What is Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde?
300
Name one of the three best sources of zero-waste Halloween costumes.
What is a thrift store, renting an outfit, or in your closet?
300
This service allows utility program managers like Skeletor to explore the utility data of his underworld realm on his own. Using this tool, he can create his own customer segments, identify trends over time, and extract customer data to PDF, CSV, or Excel format.
What is the Opower Analytics Visualization Cloud Service (OAV CS)?
300
This famous scream recording can be heard in over 100 films, often accompanying someone falling off of something.
What is The Wilhelm Scream?
400
The Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, UK is home to this utility maintenance skeleton with a punny name.
Who is Electric Bill? 
400
This 1954 film features Universal's first specifically non-human monster: "a living amphibious missing link."
What is Creature from the Black Lagoon?
400
The approx. electricity cost of running a haunted house in the United States for a week (featuring thunder and lighting effects, outdoor lighting, a special effects projector, a sound effects machine, a black light, a fog machine, strobe lights, a spark fence, and animatronic monsters).
What is $281.32 (+/- $20)?
400
Carrie White returned home to Carline street to find this Opower product in the mail, a printed communication that provides personalized information to customers about their energy use, as well as easy-to-follow tips that can lead to energy savings.
What is a Home Energy Report (HER)?
400
In a 2019 Emory University study on whether humans can discern the meanings of screams without contextual clues, researchers found that "Humans seem to be able to distinguish screams of fear from screams of aggression, but they have a harder time distinguishing screams of fear from screams of __________."
What is excitement?
500
This clock-changing Fall phenomenon started in Germany in 1916 as a nationwide strategy to cut down on electricity costs.
What is Daylight Savings Time?
500
This 1931 film starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, and Edward Van Sloan is anything but a mish-mash.
What is Frankenstein?
500
The seasonally appropriate name of a Rubicon recycling program in which they give schools and businesses boxes to collect up to 10 pounds of candy wrappers, clean them, grind them, and transform them into plastic pellets that can then be recycled into plastic products.
What is Trick or Trash?
500
At Cousin It's behest, the Addams Family has recently installed an AMI smart meter at 001 Cemetery Lane. They qualify for (and will soon be receiving) this Opower product.
What is an Advanced Metering Infrastructure Customer Education Report (AMI CER)?
500
Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on the energy and rhythms of specific areas — and organs — of the body. It indicates that yelling is good exercise for these two parts of the body.
What are the lungs and the liver?