Fun Halloween Facts

• Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

• Some of the other names known world wide for Halloween include, The Feast of the Dead, Samhain (pronounced Sow *like the cow,*-When) and All Hallows Eve.
  

• The first Halloween Greeting Card was made in the Early 1900's.

• Bobbing For Apples was a custom that began as a way to find out who was going to get married first.
  

• The old English word "hallow" means Saint.

• People in Mexico celebrate Halloween by eating candy skulls.

• The Celts celebrate their New Year on November 1st.
  

• Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.

• Pumpkins also come in white, blue and green. Great for unique monster carvings!

• The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.

• Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States.

• Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1.

• Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.

• Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.

• Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.

• Signs of a werewolf are a unibrow, hair palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger.

• To this day, there are vampire clubs and societies with people claiming to be real vampires.

• There really are so-called vampire bats, but they're not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.

• Many people still believe that gargoyles were created by medieval architects and stone carvers to ward off evil spirits.

• If you see a spider on Halloween, it is the spirit of a loved one watching over you.

• The next full moon on a Halloween night will be on Oct. 31st 2020.

• The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are known for burning so-called witches at the stake. Actually, not one witch died by burning; most were put to death by hanging. One unfortunate witch was “pressed” to death and several died in prison of natural causes.

• One of the "Most Filmed" movie characters (if not most filmed) is Dracula.
  

• According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Utah, in 2004, had the highest proportion of its total population trick-or-treating in the 5-to-13 year old age group with Alaska following closely behind.

• An October 2008 CNN Poll showed:
  

• A majority of us, 48 percent, believe in ghosts.
• Twenty-two percent of Americans say they’ve seen or felt a ghost.
• Women are more likely to say they believe in ghosts than are men.
• More than half of younger Americans aged 18 to 45 believe in ghosts.
• A whopping 78 percent of us believe in life after death.