Ghosts, ghouls, bats, spiders and vampires! Why is Halloween so popular? For one thing, every culture throughout history has had some spirit of our modern Halloween - a single day to throw off the constraints of who we are and become someone or something we’re not. We have one night a year to take a break from our fears and laugh at death and make fun of the demons among us, real or imagined. Against our often sterile, antibacterial and overly safe society we can remember a time, not so long ago, when we would huddle together around a warm campfire and tell ghost stories among the long, flickering shadows. Read on for some great stories, facts, haunted places and anything else relating to Halloween.
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Haunting Music on iTunes
Halloween comes but once a year if you're a non-haunter, but that's not us! We love to listen to our beloved Terror Syndicate CDs all year and for every occasion - unless my family threatens to put me into one of my own coffins. One day I got to thinking - were there other types of Halloween or haunting music I might be missing? Was there better party music for my next bash that I'd never heard? Sadly, non-'weeners get tired of the usual hokey Halloween monster songs. Those thoughts led to a very fertile search on ...Chainsaw 101 and Other Fun at ‘Halloween Horror Nights’
If you enter a class to see a disheveled professor teaching you the proper way to cut into bodies with a blood-stained chainsaw, chances are you are an employee of Universal Studios Hollywood. (If not, run!) Along with calls for zombie go-go dancers, Chucky puppeteers and zombie dancers, you know you are in for more than a trick or treat come October 5th at Universal Studios Hollywood. Freddy, Jason and Leatherface are joining in the carnage known as "Halloween Horror Nights." From Universal's press release: This year’s “Halloween Horror Nights” will feature four new mazes and a new edition ...Sometimes, You Can Go Home
By Rochelle Santopoalo On October 31, 2003 the well-worn adage by Thomas Wolfe - "you can't go home again" - proved to be incorrect. For on that day, accompanied by two of my grade school classmates, I returned to my roots and attended the annual Halloween festivities at my childhood elementary school, Glenwood Grammar School in Waukegan, IL. The experience was surreal. Allow me to share my story. Like nearly all the adults I know who love Halloween, my love for the holiday began as a child. Maybe it was the time of year. Witnessing the transformation of the world left ...There’s No Place Like Home for the Holiday
By John Pearson It was more than 20 years ago that Bob Burns and his crew of Hollywood FX masters magically transformed his quaint home in Burbank, California, into a haunter's paradise. This past Halloween, they resurrected the tradition one last time hoping to dazzle guests once again with a final show based on the 1951 film "The Thing." Bob began haunting his home 1967. Tired of hearing true horror stories of razor blades in apples and poisoned candy, he and his wife Kathy, decided to dress up the house for the neighborhood kids. Some of those kids soon started hanging ...Halloween - October 31st Traditions
When you start with a chilling upstate autumn evening and add in the mausoleum cold that entombs the imagination of a ten year old boy on Halloween, you can be guaranteed to hear the sound of chattering teeth at some point during trick or treat night. The October 31st tradition my brothers, sisters and I stuck to was as follows: we ran home from school as fast as possible to scare up the costumes that had been haunting us every night since October 1st flipped forth on the kitchen calendar. Next came the painful and fruitless search for the magic ritual ...Halloween Pumpkin Sculptures
Russ and Pam Leno, Sleepy Hallow Master Pumpkin Carvers, are pumpkin sculptures extraordinaire as witnessed by their sculpting of this massive 1,262 lb pumpkin. We first discovered the Leno's last year when we featured them in "Halloween Goes Patriotic" in Happy Halloween Magazine (Vol. 4, Issue 4). They carved a 912-pound pumpkin depicting the Firefighter Memorial for the Washington State Fair in Puyallup last September. During our interview we discovered that they had sculpted yet another larger pumpkin in 2001. Entitled "Geneva's pumpkin patch" (in honor of its grower), the scene depicts a lady covered with vines and pumpkin leaves. The sun ...Shy Mama’s Halloween
Book Review By Anne Broyles Halloween deserves it's reputation as the holiday that welcomes everyone as shown in this beautifully illustrated and touching book set in the 1930s. For Anya, Dasha, Irina, and Diminitrii, newly arrived to this country, Halloween seems a wonderfully strange and exciting holiday. They enlist an upstairs neighbor to help with their costumes, and Papa agrees to take them out trick-or-treating. But when Papa comes home sick that evening, it looks as though the children will be watching the trick-or-treating from the upstairs window. Mama, who is frightened by so much in this new country&emdash;especially the thought of ghosts ...Pumpkin Hall of Horrors
The Pumpkin Hall of Horrors is a collection of pumpkin vignettes, little scenes acted out by one or more pumpkins. They might be as simple as a white pumpkin carved with vampire teeth and a mouth full of pumpkin gore, next to a frightened pumpkin that has seeds spilling out of two puncture wounds. Or, the scene might be as complex as an entire Pumpkin Operating Room. Here you see concerned doctors, sweat beading up on their foreheads, a pumpkin patient on a gurney opened up to expose green bean intestines and a red bell pepper heart, and long eye-lashed ...Mystic Fortune Telling
Halloween and Fortune Telling Today, we do not have as much emphasis placed on fortune telling with the celebration of Halloween as once was the case. In the beginnings of the holiday in this country, fortune telling was one of the most important events. There weren't Halloween parties and parades or costumes and trick or treating, but many a girl in the late 1800's and turn of the 1900's would be sitting in her parlor dropping a hazel nut in the coals of her fire that she has named for the one she loves. If it burns completely to ashes, he ...Europe’s Spooky Places
By Roberta Beach Jacobson Europe feels a wee bit spooky now and then, you say? No, it's not your imagination. The continent is filled with creepy, crawly things of all manner. Here are some of the ghoulish highlights: Skulls and Skeletons Due to lack of burial space, these skulls and skeletons were removed from area cemeteries during the Plague years and the Palatinate War. They have been stored in the cellar of St. Michael's Church in Oppenheim, Germany. The Sewers of Paris Who knows what sort of monsters inhabit the 2100 kilometers of the city's famous sewers? Find out for yourself. Guided ...
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