Halloween Trivia Questions

While pet costume spending has soared to over $700 million annually, human costume spending is in the billions. Pets get a fraction of the total Halloween costume budget.

Trick-or-treating actually dates back to medieval 'souling' in Britain and Ireland, where poor people begged for food in exchange for prayers. The candy industry later capitalized on it.

The Irish and Scottish used turnips and potatoes to carve scary faces. When immigrants came to America, they switched to pumpkins because they were larger and easier to carve.

Samhainophobia comes from 'Samhain,' the ancient Celtic festival that Halloween evolved from. It's a recognized specific phobia, not just a made-up term.

Many shelters actually ban or restrict black cat adoptions in October due to fears of ritual abuse. Adoption rates for black cats are typically lower in October than in summer months.

Candy corn is extremely seasonal; roughly 35 million pounds are produced yearly, and the vast majority is bought in the lead-up to Halloween, despite its polarizing taste.

Director John Carpenter needed a cheap mask. They spray-painted a William Shatner 'Star Trek' mask white and altered the eye holes. It cost under $2 and took 20 days to film.

No verifiable record exists of 5,000 trick-or-treaters at one house. The highest documented cases are in the low hundreds, usually in dense neighborhoods with heavy promotion.