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96 unusual facts about halloween


2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season

October 31, 2009 – The Halloween match-up between USC (BCS No. 5) and Oregon (BCS No. 10) could determine the conference champion.

Adam Yosef

In October 2007, Yosef was included in Ikonz magazine's special Halloween photo shoot, in which he was transformed into a The Crow.

Alpine, Arkansas

The community center located in its heart is a popular draw for Clark County citizens during Christmas, 4th of July and Halloween celebrations annually.

Andy Stamets

Rocket from the Crypt disbanded after playing their final performance on Halloween 2005, which was recorded and later released as R.I.P.

Beerkada

Vernon once won a prize from a Halloween contest by allowing Alan to suit him up as a toilet paper mummy.

Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party

It is Halloween, and Jack Frost (in his ice-covered airplane) covers the fields with frost.

Binalbal Festival

The similarity of Binalbal Festival with "Mardi Gras" of French merrymaking with parades, masked balls, street dancing and Halloween parties, leads to Binalbal's imitation of witches, ghosts, all kinds and shapes of animals, and the so-called fallen angels.

Blount Building

It was built by Charles Hill Turner in 1906-1907 for local attorney William Alexander Blount on the site of the three-story Blount-Watson Building, which had burned on Halloween night in 1905.

Boo Boo Runs Wild

Adult Swim re-aired Boo Boo Runs Wild on Halloween night, October 31, 2008, as part of an advertised "Halloween Stunt" night, where obscure or randomly seen shows preempted the usual programming for that Friday night.

Byham Theater

Built in 1903 and opened Halloween night 1904, the then-named Gayety Theater was stage and vaudeville house, and it featured stars such as Ethel Barrymore, Gertrude Lawrence, and Helen Hayes.

California Riverside Ballet

In addition to staging local ballet performances, the organization is known for its annual fundraiser, called Ghost Walk, that takes place prior to Halloween in Downtown Riverside.

Candy corn

During the Halloween season, blackberry cobbler candy corn can be found in eastern Canada.

Caramel apple

In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to decorate caramel apples for holidays like Halloween.

Celebrate the Magic

The summer months will show films such as The Little Mermaid and Lilo & Stitch, in addition, segments featuring Disney Princesses and couples for Valentine's Day and Disney Villains for Halloween are also planned to be shown.

Chad DiMera

Chad then falls for Abigail's best friend Melanie after they share a kiss at the town's Halloween party.

Meanwhile, Chad falls for Abby's best friend Melanie and Abigail catches them in a lip lock at the Halloween party.

Charlie Redmond

Redmond is a firefighter by profession and has featured in the Dublin fire brigade Halloween health and safety campaign.

Chicago, IL 1996

As has become customary for Halloween shows from the band, several covers debuted for the first time: The Doors' Riders On The Storm, Space Truckin' by Deep Purple and Golden Earring's hit Radar Love.

Church Fall Festival

A Church Fall Festival (often shorted to Fall Festival or simply Harvest) is a Christian holiday supposedly a substitute for Halloween.

Confiture de lait

The taste is very similar to that of the soft caramels used to coat apples during Halloween in the United States, but the texture is much softer than that of caramel candies.

Cromwell, Oklahoma

On Halloween night, 1924, Cromwell Town Marshal and legendary Old West lawman Bill Tilghman was shot outside of a cafe called "Ma Murphy's", by a corrupt prohibition agent named Wiley Lynn.

Damon Johnson

"And Fools Shine On" was also featured in the horror film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Danny Romero

Romero won three fights in a row, then lost, on Halloween night, 1998 to Vujani Bungu by a twelve round decision in an attempt to win a title in a third division, this time the IBF Super-Bantamweight title.

Dead Gorgeous

A Halloween special was said to be filmed in early 2010 and was just a rumour .

Elizabeth McGrath

MF Gallery's 2nd Annual Halloween group Show, 10 September - 2 November 2004, MF Gallery, New York

Fear of bats

Bats, being nocturnal animals, are associated with various dangers and fears of darkness, with the centuries of prejudices and accompanying myths of Dracula, Halloween, etc.

Fluffy Stuff

It is available in popular seasonal varieties, including Snow Balls (December), Cotton Tails (Easter), and Spider Webs (Halloween).

Four Peaks Brewery

The brewery features seasonal ales, including the Leroy Brown, Winter Wobbler and McCarthy Red and in celebration of Halloween, a Pumpkin Porter.

Fultonville Cemetery

Sometime around this time, it was also vandalized on Halloween by a group of teenagers, who destroyed most of the caskets and bodies.

Garfield's Holiday Celebrations

Garfield is awakened by the Binky The Clown Show and learns that it is Halloween.

Going Live!

The Witch Finders, who appeared every Halloween to enlist members of the studio audience to hunt 'witches' and other evil-doers.

Green Goblin

The Green Goblin is a Halloween-themed supervillain whose weapons resemble bats, ghosts and jack-o'-lanterns.

Halloween Documents

The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were originally leaked close to 31 October in different years.

Halloween Problem

The potential for this database error was first discovered by Don Chamberlin, Pat Selinger, and Morton Astrahan in 1976, on Halloween day while working on a query that was supposed to give a ten percent raise to every employee who earned less than $25,000.

Historic Hudson Valley

The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze and Horseman's Hollow explore traditions linked to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and contemporary ways of observing the traditions of Halloween.

House of Yes: Live from House of Blues

The album was recorded on Halloween night in 1999 at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada, during touring obligations for the band's studio album, The Ladder.

Hunter's Creek, Florida

Yearly, on the weekends leading up to Halloween, the Hunter's Creek community puts together the event.

Jack Bros.

The story of the Virtual Boy game is that the brothers have taken advantage of Halloween to leave the fairy realm and play with children; they lose track of time however and must get back to the realm before midnight or they will cease to exist.

The game allows players to play as one of three brothers - Jack Frost, Jack Lantern, or Jack Skelton - as they deal with the predicament of returning to the fairy realm on Halloween in time to not disappear from existence.

Jingle bell

Like many Christmas decorations, jingle bells are also made in versions for other holidays, such as a jack-o'-lantern for Halloween.

John Dimes

In 1995 John sang on the stage of the Apollo Theatre, and later that same year, Halloween 1995, his program, "The Spooky Movie", debuted on Falls Church Community TV (formerly "Channel 38"), where it continues to run every Friday night.

John Reis

2005 marked the end of Reis' multi-band involvement, with the breakups of Hot Snakes in July and Rocket from the Crypt on Halloween.

Johnny Castaway

"Johnny Castaway" also features holidays of the year such as Halloween, Christmas, Independence Day and others.

Jorane

In 2004, the press also reported that Jorane would appear on a Halloween special of the television series ZeD to perform a "witchy acid cello".

Joseph Agbeko

On Halloween night, October 31, 2009, Agbeko lost his IBF title by 12 round unanimous decision to 20-0 Colombian challenger Yonnhy Pérez.

Judson Fountain

Fountain's simple, derivative plotlines often employ Halloween kitsch—spooks, witches, haunted houses—as vehicles in morality plays about redemption for the honorable and damnation for evildoers.

Julie Myers

On Halloween of 2007, Myers hosted a costume party for ICE employees of which she was a judge.

Kaiju Big Battel

The first Battel occurred on Halloween night in 1996 at the Revolving Museum in Boston and featured Midori No Kaiju, as well as Atomic Cannon, Powa Ranjuru, Force Trooper Robo, Taro "The Mouth" Fuji's commentary, and Anthony Salbino's construction.

Kyle XY: Nowhere to Hide

The novel is set during Halloween of the show's first season, specifically 21 days into Kyle's tenure at high school.

Lemonade

C&C label this as "Witches Brew" in the weeks around Halloween.

Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe

Take the one where Greens crashed a Halloween bash dressed as a harem girl and flirted with Leo at the punch bowl: 'Could you pour a cup for me? I’ve traveled so long and so far. I need some refreshment so I can dance with you, Oh noble master,' she purred.

Li'l Jinx

Jinx was the daughter of Hap and Merry Holliday, earning her unusual name by virtue of being born on Halloween.

Liana Churilova

They were also featured on ABC's The View (14th annual Halloween "Transported in Time" extravaganza), and ABC's Dancing with the Stars (Tribute to Haiti 10th season).

Lorraine Ziff

As an actress she stars alongside Robert Picardo and Gary Busey in "Mansion of Blood", which originally planned for 2012 is now scheduled for a Halloween, 2013 release.

Mary Emma Allison

Together with her husband, Allison conceived of a program in which children would collect funds for UNICEF as part of their Halloween trick-or-treating.

Maud Moonshine

The 1980s Halloween television movie gave her surname as "Warlock" and the TV series gave her surname as "Moonshine".

Microsite

For example, a retailer of party goods may create a microsite with editorial content about the history of Halloween or some other holiday or event.

Midnight Mutants

On Halloween night in 1992 young Jimmy Harkman's grandfather (known as "Grampa") has been imprisoned inside of a pumpkin by a resurrected villain named Dr. Evil, who is taking revenge for being burned at the stake as a witch by their ancestor Johnathon Harkman on Halloween night in 1747.

Mount Holly Cemetery

Although it takes place around the same time as the American holiday Halloween, the event is meant to be historic rather than spooky.

Munster, Ontario

Munster has a convenience store, a restaurant, and is the site of Saunders Farm, which has outdoor mazes and a Halloween theme park.

New York Ukulele Ensemble

Appearances by the New York Ukulele Ensemble included New York City's Art Parade and the thirty-first annual Village Halloween Costume Ball at the Theater for the New City in 2007, and the Gershwin Hotel's Living Room Series and the New York Ukulele Fest, which was founded by Uke Jackson, in 2006.

Nicky Scarfo Jr.

Scarfo was the victim of a notorious assassination attempt by a masked gunman on Halloween in 1989.

Nude recreation

The Naked Pumpkin Run was an annual event that had taken place since 1974 during Halloween.

Pack Animals

Gwen witnesses a Weevil attack at a shopping centre, Ianto is injured by alien tech at the zoo and aliens are invading on Halloween.

Pavel Chekov

("Catspaw", the first episode shot with the Chekov character, would be aired a month later to roughly coincide with Halloween).

Pender Island Invitational

The PII is typically played in October, typically between Thanksgiving (Canada) and Halloween.

Retrocrush

Known for its popular Halloween and scary movie content, galleries of "retro babes" (popular female personalities from the 1970s–early 1990s), and thorough coverage of pop culture from many eras of American history, it carries the slogan "The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site".

Rick Polizzi

Frustrated by the lack of family friendly Halloween attractions in the Los Angeles area, Polizzi began to construct a display of his own in the front lawn of his Sherman Oaks, California home.

He is the creator of the book Spin Again, animation producer on the successful television series The Simpsons, and creator of Los Angeles based Halloween haunt, Boney Island.

Rocket from the Crypt

They decided to disband in 2005, playing a sold-out farewell show on Halloween in their hometown of San Diego.

The band also gained a reputation for a series of interesting and, at times, seemingly ludicrous gimmicks and stage antics which included holding raffles during live performances, spinning a large game show wheel to determine set lists, onstage fire breathing, annual Halloween and New Year's shows, and the wearing of coordinated and progressively more ornate stage costumes.

Ronnie McMahan

He was on the Chicago Bulls roster for the 1995-6 season until being waived on Halloween.

RVA Magazine

RVA Magazine has also been involved in putting together and sponsoring cultural events including the Falling From Grace music festival, Halloweek (which included Richmond's first Halloween parade by puppet theatre troupe All the Saints), and the Carytown NYE Bash (New Year's Eve street event which drew close to 20,000 people—a first of its kind for Richmond).

Scheideck, California

The Ridge Route Communities Museum and Historical Society, for example, noted that "Judge" Scheideck ran egg hunts on both Easter Sunday and Halloween, which was Scheideck's birthday, and the custom was still being observed in 2013.

Sean Patrick Thomas

Subsequently, Thomas appeared in supporting roles in the films Barbershop and Halloween: Resurrection, both of which were released in 2002.

Segaki

Due to Western influence, however, the ceremony is today often held around Halloween and Mexican Day of the Dead, which are similarly devoted to remembrance of the deceased, and though less emphasized in the modern period, the potential placation of their spirits.

Solicitor General of Ohio

Cordray, who served under then-Attorney General Lee Fisher until Betty Montgomery won the position in 1994, argued a technical criminal case on Halloween day in 1993 when the post was created.

Spaced Invaders

Because it's Halloween, everyone assumes they are just kids in very good costumes.

St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School

STM has an organized "Halloween for Hunger" campaign in which students go door to door collecting canned goods for the Hamilton Mountain "Neighbour to Neighbour" Centre.

Steven J. Baum P.C.

The firm came to national attention in 2011 when New York Times columnist Joseph Nocera published photos from the firm's Halloween party the previous year, leaked to him by an employee.

Baum came to national attention around Halloween 2011, when Joseph Nocera, a columnist at The New York Times, published photographs taken at the firm's Halloween party the previous year that had been sent to him by an employee.

Stitch Up!

There is a Halloween special (also produced in 2004), titled Spook Up!, and is usually repeated around the Halloween time of year.

Summer vacation

Other holidays include around two weeks for Easter and around another two weeks for Christmas and New Year, as well as two midterms with one in October/November during the week of Halloween and one usually in the month of February.

SweeTarts

SweeTarts also come in a variety of other products including gum, little SweeTarts (often packaged to be handed out as Halloween trick-or-treat candy), SweeTart "hearts" for Valentine's Day, "chicks and bunnies" shaped SweeTarts (marketed for Easter in some regions of the US), "skulls and bones" for Halloween, and Giant Chewy SweeTarts, which are a larger, chewier variant of SweeTarts that come 4 to a package, and are the size of a silver dollar and 1/4 inch thick.

Tamara Taggart

Taggart had minor roles in the films Antitrust (film), Josie and the Pussycats, Halloween: Resurrection and Along Came a Spider and on several television series, including, Robson Arms, Cold Squad, and Touching Evil.

The Kreep

Kreepmas combines Halloween and Christmas, and is celebrated October 1 through December 31.

Three Guardsmen

On Halloween night, 1924, and at the age of 70, Tilghman was murdered by a corrupt prohibition agent named Wiley Lynn, while serving as town Marshal for Cromwell, Oklahoma.

Tinley Park Lights

Aerial suspension of lighted objects as a hoax could be considered a possibility, particularly with the event occurring on two consecutive auspicious dates popular with pranksters: Halloween.

Touch Me I'm Sick/Halloween

This version offers a female perspective of the song with Kim Gordon handling the vocals.

Sonic Youth's version offers a female perspective of the song with bassist Kim Gordon handling the vocals.

Troy Philippines

Since 2002, USC Troy Philippines, in collaboration with Filipino organizations from other universities, played an integral part in the planning of SIPA’s Annual Halloween event – which provided a safe and festive Halloween environment for more than 200 Historic Filipinotown youth.

WAJZ

After 18 months of struggling ratings, the station relaunched on November 3, 1997 as new country Power Country 96.3 after a weekend of Halloween-related stunting.

Wax lips

Invented by the American Candy Company in the early 20th century, they became a popular novelty in the United States for many decades, especially during the Halloween season.

Whittemore Gang

Whittemore confronted Kinney at a Baltimore roadhouse on Halloween, accusing him of having an affair with his wife Margaret, and shot him.

Worlds of Fun

Halloween Haunt is a Halloween event that takes place during the Halloween season.

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

Every Halloween in Cornwall, the life size effigy of a man rolls down the cliffs and into the sea inside a flaming wheel; the morbid commemoration of an age old Pagan ritual whereby the dummy would in fact be a human sacrifice.


1, 2, 3 Go!

During the Halloween weekend of 1961, Zacherley appeared for an episode exploring haunted houses.

Bats Day in the Fun Park

Other dark subcultures represented at the event include Horror Punk, Horror Rock, Halloween, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Black metal, Steampunk, Hearse Societies, Industrial and EBM.

Betsy Bobbin

Strangely, more than one of the Oz books start or end with the people of Oz celebrating Betsy's birthday, though it has been claimed as being both in the spring (in Thompson's The Hungry Tiger of Oz) and on Halloween (in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry's Masquerade in Oz--Campbell has acknowledged that had forgotten the spring reference in the former), although the weather in Oz is generally consistent with being in the Northern Hemisphere.

Brad Sihvon

Brad's career began in 1999, and he first made his movie debut in the Sci-Fi/Thriller movie The Man Who Used to Be Me which was released in 2000, then sometime in the 2000s, Sihvon had appeared in television series and movies including Halloween: Resurrection, The Snow Walker, White Noise, Severed: Forest of the Dead and finally Scary Movie 4.

Cascarón

In addition to Easter, cascarones have become popular for occasions including birthdays, Halloween, Cinco de Mayo, Dieciséis, Day of the Dead, and weddings (wedding cascarones can be filled with birdseed).

Charles Cyphers

After appearing in Halloween in 1978, Cyphers worked with Carpenter two years later, playing Dan O'Bannon in The Fog, a 1980 horror film which also starred Tom Atkins, Cyphers's fellow Halloween cast member Jamie Lee Curtis, his Assault on Precinct 13 co-star Darwin Joston, and Nancy Kyes, who worked with Cyphers in both Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween.

Emmy the Great

On 31 October 2012, Emmy teamed up with Kate Nash on Halloween in a re-enactment of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode (Once More with Feeling) with herself as Willow.

Girls Under Glass

The record includes the biggest hits of GUG's career as well as out of print and new unreleased tracks including a cover of the classic track "Halloween" theme by John Carpenter.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Returning from Halloween 4 was veteran actor Donald Pleasence, along with Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, and Beau Starr as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lloyd, Rachel Carruthers, and Sheriff Ben Meeker, respectively.

Halloween Jack

After a little torture, Boone transformed from the Loki persona, which he now saw as useless, into the devilish Halloween Jack and went about creating a plan to get back at the Synge siblings and take over Las Vegas in the meantime.

Halloween Night

After 10 years of life in the asylum, in which he has been bullied by inmates and staff alike for the incident, Chris has now quite literally turned insane and, to prove his innocence, he escapes from the asylum on October 31 to his home, which is now occupied by a new family who are holding a Halloween party.

Hammerstein Ballroom

Jane's Addiction recorded the 1997 Halloween Show of their reunion tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom - the band's members performing some numbers in their encore from the balcony.

Jeanne Fleming

Fleming took responsibility for continuing the Village Halloween Parade in 1985 after its founding artistic director, Ralph Lee, decided to no longer run the event.

Joe Augustyn

Augustyn's first feature, Night of the Demons, based on his original screenplay Halloween Party, was remade in 2008 by 7 Arts Productions, starring Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong.

Kresge College

Annual events include the Fall Film Festival and Halloween showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast.

Look Afraid

Look Afraid also collaborated with legendary poster artist Jeff Gaither, who has designed images for the Misfits, Van Halen and Guns N' Roses, on two poster designs for a series of Halloween shows, one of which was featured on the cover of Miami University's Amusement Magazine.

Markus Grosskopf

He regularly uses a pick for the more straightforward, simple bass lines, as in I Want Out or Just a Little Sign, and fingers for more lead-type playing, as on Eagle Fly Free or Halloween.

Mischief Night

In the 1994 film The Crow, based upon comic book of the same name, the protagonist, Eric Draven, and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding on "Devil's Night" by a street gang on the orders of Detroit's most notorious crime lord, Top Dollar.

Mormon Expression

Several notable individuals with ties to the Mormon Community have appeared on the podcast including Ed Decker, Will Bagley, Brian Keith "Mr. Deity" Dalton, Richie T. the producer of the Radio From Hell radio show, and Elna Baker, author of The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance and contributor to This American Life.

Nevada Day

Until 2000, Halloween was observed in Carson City, Douglas County, Lyon County, and Storey County on October 30, so as to not conflict with the holiday.

No One Gets Out

No One Gets Out is Halloween's second release and is perhaps their most well known for the song "Kings" which was played at the 1990 Detroit Pistons playoff game.

Pat Skipper

On film, he played Carducci in the (1996) action/horror film Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, Mason Strode from Halloween, Seabiscuit's Vet from Seabiscuit (2003), Bob from Fits and Starts, and Agent Ellroy from Chain of Command.

Savoy Truffle

Phish covered the song as part of their cover of the entire The Beatles on Halloween 1994, which was released as Live Phish Volume 13.

Sunday World

On 1 November 2009, Northern Editor Jim McDowell attracted complaints to the Press Complaints Commission after the paper published on the front page the photograph of a man hanging from a bridge, having killed himself under the headline "Halloween Horror".

Tara Vanflower

Vanflower appeared on the Type O Negative song "Halloween in Heaven" off their 2007 album, Dead Again.

The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree is illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, one of Bradbury's many collaborators over the years.

The Midnight Hour

It is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove located somewhere in New England, and five high school friends, Phil (Lee Montgomery), Mary (Dedee Pfeiffer), Mitch (Peter DeLuise), Vinnie (LeVar Burton), and Melissa (Shari Belafonte), plan on making it a night they will never forget.