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Winnipeg police have issued a warning to parents and children after receiving information that toilet cleaner may have been handed out as Halloween candy.
You wouldn't expect a good ghost story at a university so young that its first graduate is still alive. But ask some of the University of South Alabama's veteran maintenance employees about the buried dogs.
Saints instead of witches, pop songs instead of hooting owls, "Christian cake" instead of pumpkins — France's Catholics are trying everything to fend off a Halloween celebration they say is an ungodly U.S. import.
Bats and river rats cried out unsettling squeaks as Creepy Pub Crawl tour guide John Lile spooked wide-eyed tourists with ghost stories along the misty riverfront in the southern costal city of Savannah, Georgia.
The legend of Bunny Man Bridge has evolved in Northern Virginia over the past 30 years the way most scary stories do — kernels of truth transform frightening rumors into macabre tales where the location's ripe for fright.
For Halloween this year, two friends came up with what they thought was a unique costume idea. One was going to dress as Steve Bartman, the poor Chicago Cubs fan who reached for one of the most famous foul balls in baseball history. The other was going to dress as Moises Alou, the Cubs left fielder. Their act was going to be simple: All night long, they planned to fight over a baseball.
Five years after it took France by storm in a whirlwind marketing drive launched by a lone French entrepreneur, "Le Halloween" looks set to perform its very own disappearing act.
After years of banning the adoption of black cats around Halloween, shelters across Maryland and the country are reversing themselves,
admitting that there is no evidence that the animals are ritually mutilated or used as party props — the stuff urban legends are made of.
Did the infamous Orson Welles The War Of The Worlds broadcast actually cause mass hysteria, or was it the biggest hoax to be found in the fact that we believe so many panicked?
Sen. Pat Roberts wished himself a Happy Halloween. That's what it looked like when Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska arrived in Roberts' office — dressed up as Roberts.
A high school student's "Swamp Thing" costume of leaves and sticks caught fire during a Halloween assembly as his classmates watched in horror, and the boy was hospitalized with burns.
