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Halloween, celebrated on 31 October, originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, during which people lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off spirits. Today, it’s a holiday synonymous with not just witches and ghouls, but also crows, bats, owls, snakes and other ‘spooky’ creatures. Nature asked nine scientists what inspired them to study […]
Turning accident into amusement Photographs became collectible amusements partly thanks to the midcentury invention of the stereoscope — a device that created three-dimensional optical illusions. Stereoscope cards contain two pictures of the same scene, photographed from slightly different angles. A viewer selects a card, inserts it and then presses the instrument to their face. The […]
This article is adapted from the October 26, 2024, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Throughout my 20s, I hosted an annual birthday costume party with a different theme each year. The theme for my 21st was, of course, alcohol: I glued crystals to my face and went […]
While many Jews don’t celebrate Halloween, that doesn’t mean we don’t have our own share of spooky, scary skeletons scattered throughout our day. Most Jewish holidays can be sorted into two categories: 1. They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat.2. They tried to kill us. They did. Let’s fast. Thinking about ways to […]
If you missed out on Don’t Starve Together back in the day or fancy returning, spooky season is the best time. Klei Entertainment’s beloved co-op survival game is a certified all-timer, with the return of its Halloween event and a steep Steam sale making it especially inviting right now. If games like Valheim, Rust, Sons […]
SOUTH SHORE — Even as a collection of South Shore community groups prepares a night of horrors and haunts, they are banding together to tell their neighbors: “Don’t be scurred” to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood this Halloween. The HallowHood community crawl takes place 3-9 p.m. Thursday along the 71st Street corridor in South Shore. More […]
25 Oct 2024 6 Spooky New YA Novels Perfect for Halloween Get ready for a spine-tingling treat! This Halloween, immerse yourself in six new YA novels that blend eerie atmospheres with captivating plots. From haunted houses to supernatural mysteries, these stories promise to thrill and chill, making them perfect companions for a cozy, candlelit reading […]
Artist and author Geo Rutherford created Spooky Lake Month to highlight the strange and eerie waters of the world. She first fell in love with the Great Lakes during graduate school in Milwaukee. Rutherford was an early educational video creator, but it was a video about spooky lakes that skyrocketed her to viral fame. She […]
I adore Halloween; the costumes, the pumpkin carving, the opportunity to cause public disorder and write it off as seasonal trickery. Everything about the spooky season calls to some of my dearest passions – well, everything except the best horror movies, that is. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m impartial to a good ghost story, […]
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