Halloween is an exciting holiday that offers an opportunity to dress up like your favorite monster, fictional character or real-life hero. But getting together the perfect costume can be time ...

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It’s Halloween, and you know what that means: It’s the perfect time to watch horror movies. Vampires, serial killers, haunted houses, the month that precedes Halloween is the prime time to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — With glowing eyes and a crooked smile, jack-o-lanterns crop up every Halloween, but where did the tradition come from? "Pumpkins derive from an old folktale that's found in ...

Halloween is upon us and what better way to celebrate than by indulging in a few seasonal activities? Whether you mark October 31 by carving a jack-o'-lanterns, going trick-or-treating or watching ...

The top U.S. cities to celebrate Halloween and the spooky season have been revealed — and one popular location claimed first place. WalletHub gathered 100 of the most populated U.S. cities and ...

But where does the Halloween staple come from? Turns out there's a long history behind the tradition tied to the originally pagan holiday. Here's what to know about where the phrase "trick or ...

Halloween may be less than a week away, but a last-minute party invitation may call for a costume to be conjured with scary speed. While pre-packaged costumes are an easy solution, they often end ...

It isn't just hype, there is an actual chance of seeing another comet this month and the timing may line up perfectly with Halloween night. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is currently streaking towards ...

On Halloween night, babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) becomes the target of the masked killer Michael Myers, who escapes from a mental institution and returns to his hometown.

Disney's Halloween comedy became a pop-culture staple for kids in the '90s and has since found a new generation of fans who dig Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as evil 17th ...

Talk about a Halloween treat. A recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween, astronomers say. Comet C/2024 S1, first found at the end of ...