Dressed As Elsa
We weren’t going to do a post after Halloween about trash collectors dressing up as “Frozen” characters, but we just couldn’t let it go.
Created Candy Chute For Halloween
Not all heroes wear capes.
Happy Goosey Night, And Mischief Night, And Cabbage Night (Cool Weird Awesome 409)
In some areas, Halloween festivities actually start the night before October 31, on a night that goes by a few very unusual names. Plus: how about an unusual lollipop that's far off the beaten trick-or-treating path?
“Elvis”
He's alive and on the local news!
Halloween 2019 Outtakes
My favorite part of Halloween is going to the resale shop so the kids can try on whatever they like.
Halloween 2019!
The snow didn't cancel Halloween, it just spread it out over the course of a week.
Harry Houdini, If You’re Out There, Let Us Know (Cool Weird Awesome 161)
This isn’t just Halloween. It’s also the anniversary of the passing of the legendary illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, who they say wanted to make the greatest escape of all time... from mortality. Hence why Bess Houdini held seances every Halloween, trying to pick up whatever signals her late husband might be sending out from the hereafter.
Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story (Cool Weird Awesome 160)
It’s National Candy Corn Day, and while no candy gets more hassle around this time of year than candy corn, it also has its fans. I mean, someone's eating those 9 billion pieces produced each year. Plus: a haunted house in Utah with an unforgettably creepy name.
In This Minnesota Town, It’s Always Halloween (Cool Weird Awesome 159)
There's still time to get ready for Halloween in most places, but in Anoka, Minnesota, it’s kind of always Halloween. The community north of the Twin Cities bills itself as the Halloween Capital of the World. Plus: Pennsylvania invites you on a Halloween-themed trip it calls the Trail of the Living Dead.
When Entertainment Is Literally A Train Wreck (Cool Weird Awesome 149)
Every era has its forms of entertainment. In the old days, promoters would stage actual train wrecks, using trains that were on their way to the scrap heap. Others would stage massive recreations of disasters and tragedies from the news and history. And thousands of people would pay to see them!