Ghouls & Ghosts
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<Supernatural Scares>
Masters of Mania
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<Authors of Agony>
Spooky Spaces
<"Haunted" Homesteads>
<"Haunted" Homesteads>
Foreign Festivities
<Halloween Heritage>
<Halloween Heritage>
Sadistic Slashers
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Known as the "Ghost with the Most" and a self-proclaimed bio-exorcist, just don't say his name three times...
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Who is Beetlejuice?
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Often crowned as the "King of Horror", this 77 year old prolific American writer from Portland, ME has published over 60 books during his 57 year career as an author.
Fun Fact: Many of his works were adapted into some of the best films, including: The Shining, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and It.
Who is Stephen King?
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Known as the Old Arnold Estate in Burrillville, Rhode Island, this house has been most notable in the 1970s, when the owners' family began hearing unexplained voices and footsteps, and seeing strange lights and apparitions.
Fun Fact: Andrea Perron, the family's daughter, wrote a manuscript entitled "House of Darkness: House of Light," which inspired the movie featuring paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
What is the Conjuring House?
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This culturally rich tradition in Mexico takes place on Nov 1st with dazzling costumes and colorful face paint, accompanied with singing, dancing, and even offerings to respect the spirits of departed family members.
Fun Fact: Despite it's name, it is a celebration of love & life with families building temporary altars for the deceased, that are laid with confections like sugar skulls and bottles of tequila.
What is Dia de Los Muertos?
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After a suicide attempt due to a fatal tumor, this former civil engineer became obsessed with morals & life and would force "flawed people" into "playing a game" to prove their survival worth, often having them commit severe physical or mental trauma via traps & escape rooms.
Fun Fact: His name is derived from the shape of the pieces he cuts out from his victims.
Who is Jigsaw from Saw?
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The gluttonous, slimy, green ghost, referred to as the "Ugly Little Spud".
Who is Slimer?
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This 1800s Boston native was considered one of the first central American writing figures in Romanticism and Gothic fiction, becoming best known for his works in poetry and short stories such as the The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Fun Fact: The Baltimore NFL team is named after one of his most famous poems.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
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Located in Fall River, Massachusetts, this unassuming home made headlines across the country in 1892 with the accusal of a daughter in the double hatchet murder of her father, Andrew Borden and stepmother, Abigail.
Fun Fact: Since 1996 the house has operated as Bed & Breakfast with various murder paraphernalia, and guided tours with overnight events.
What is the Lizzie Borden House?
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This Celtic pagan festival in Ireland & Scotland known as "All Hallowtide" marks the end of summer and includes a long-held custom of baking and eating Barmbrack, an an Irish fruitcake that contains coins, buttons, and rings for fortune telling.
Fun Fact: The traditions of this festival brought over by Irish immigrants are often viewed as the founding of Halloween in the USA.
What is Samhain?
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With his large stature and superhuman strength, this towering figure was once believed to have drowned at camp Crystal Lake as a child in 1957, only to return years later and murder several camp counselors while wearing a sack to hide his face.
Fun Fact: The trademark hockey mask was added in later film installments.
Who is Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th?
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Known as the legendary terror of Sleepy Hollow, and the tormentor of poor Ichabod Crane...
Who is the Headless Horseman?
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Born in San Francisco in 1916, this famous author is known for her 20 year contribution to the horror and mystery genres with six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories, focusing often on themes of isolation, madness, and the supernatural.
Fun Fact: Her most famous work "The Haunting of Hill House" is considered one of the best ghost stories ever written and was recently adapted into a popular Netflix series.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
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The legend behind this massive Victorian mansion in San Jose, California states the owner's wealthy widow would continuously hire workers to come and add rooms in order to appease all the ghosts of the dead killed by a famous brand of rifle.
Fun Fact: The house is considered a labyrinth of sorts with 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, and nine kitchens.
What is the Winchester Mystery House?
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Ever since first celebrated at Tokyo Disneyland in 2000, Halloween has had a strong presence in Japan via cosplays and parties, including the most prestigious parade event, featuring around 4,000 costumed revelers.
Fun Fact: Parade participants must apply at least two months in advance to join the festivities, and need to meet the required costume standards.
What is the Kawasaki Halloween Parade?
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With his "walk, don't run" approach, signature navy blue jumpsuit, and razor sharp butcher knife, this mask wearing silent terror wreaked havoc on the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois in 1978.
Fun fact: His mask design was based on a mold of actor William Shatner's actual face worn inside out.
Who is Michael Myers from Halloween?
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As a restless spirit, she is able to infect a video cassette that, when watched, curses the viewer to death in a week's time.
Who is Samara Morgan or Sadako Yamamura?
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This Pulitzer Prize American author wrote the classic Something Wicked This Way Comes, a story told from the perspective of two young boys in a small town witnessing sinister events due to the arrival of a mysterious carnival controlling the local residents.
Fun Fact: Although probably most renowned for his work in the science fiction & fantasy genre with the dystopian Fahrenheit 451, he still left his mark on the horror genre with over 500 published works.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
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Once the home of a physician, this famous ghost house in Atchison, Kansas is said to be the dark lair of a demon that manifests in the form of a 6 year old girl believed to have died on the operating table due to a failed appendix surgery.
Fun Fact: Hauntings were most ominous in 1993 when a young couple experienced frequent moving objects, mysterious coldness, and even physical scratches & bruises, particularly in the nursery area with their baby.
What is the Sallie House?
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Near Brasov in Transylvania, this day in Bran marks a very special occasion, as Romanians really get serious with costuming and partying, offering all inclusive tour & show packages to a certain Gothic fairy-tale castle that was the inspiration to a very famous novel by Bram Stoker.
Fun Fact: Although some celebrate locally this day on Oct 31st, the widely observed date is Nov 30th known as Saint Andrew's Night or "Night of the Vampires".
What is Day of Dracula?
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Featuring a black hood and jagged cloak with a white rubber mask of despair, this popular Halloween costume persona was worn by many individuals with various motives, often taunting their victims via phone calls and voice changers before using a hunting knife to end their existence.
Fun Fact: The mask worn in the movies was first developed for novelty stores during the 1991/92 Halloween season by Fun World, as part of a series entitled "Fantastic Faces"
Who is Ghostface from Scream?
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The twin ghosts of the former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, who went mad and murdered his family.
Who are the Grady Twins/Sisters?
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An icon of classic Gothic horror literature in the late 1800s, this Irish newspaper writer from Dublin was better known as the personal assistant to actor Sir Henry Irving, whom he befriended quickly after leaving a favorable review of his performance in Hamlet in 1876.
Fun Fact: His novel, Dracula, is epistolary written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings.
Who is Bram Stoker?
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Located in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood, this 10th street brownstone townhouse is said to be haunted by the ghosts of 22 people who lived or died within its walls, including that of a six-year-old girl who was killed by her adoptive father.
Fun Fact: Author Mark Twain was said to have stayed in the house back in 1900 and reportedly still returns for an occasional visit.
What is the House of Death?
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Since the 4th century AD on Nov 1st, this festival has been Italy's version of All Hallows' Day honoring martyrs and saints, with Nov 2nd's Giorno dei Morti or Day of the Dead being primarily a time to attend mass with friends and family.
Fun Fact: Each region has its own rituals and traditions, such as Sicily where it is believed the dead bring sweets or small gifts to well-behaved children, and in Lombardy, where it’s customary to leave a vase full of water in the kitchen for the dead to drink when they visit during the night.
What is La Festa di Ognissanti?
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Although highly controversial at the time, this silent, hulking, and human skin wearing 1974 horror icon set the standard for future slasher villain personas as a mentally disabled cannibal who would commit brutal acts with various weapons as a means of appeasing his deranged family's orders.
Fun Fact: The character wore three masks: the "Killing Mask," "Old Lady Mask" and "Pretty Woman Mask" with each determining the personality conveyed.
Who is Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
