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31 October 2009
- 19:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Halloween hooks
- ... that bodies (example pictured) buried in Chauchilla Cemetery still retain skins and hair?
- ... that the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship , I Walked With a Zombie , and Zombies on Broadway ?
- ... that one thousand human sacrifices are required to retrieve a treasure hidden in the Bopath Ella Falls ?
- ... that infection by pistil smut induces the development of female sex organs in a male?
- ... that hairy black cups use toxic chemicals to kill living things?
- ... that The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent?
- ... that half-Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash ?
- ... that on every Wednesday and Saturday, the demons of Sri Lanka assemble to give an account of their activities to their king?
- 13:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- ... that the painted suillus (pictured) is not, in fact, the feeding appendages of an underground monster that wants to eat your face?
- ... that Big Max pumpkins are not really pumpkins?
- ... that Cutting Edge haunted house was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest haunted house attraction?
- ... that the title witch of action game Bayonetta can form giant boots with her hair to attack enemies, but loses some of her clothing in the process?
- ... that the demon Maha Sohona , whose head has been replaced with that of a bear, haunts graveyards and feasts on human flesh?
- ... that so many witnesses saw the spectre of Stephen Decatur appear at a window at Decatur House, one of the haunted locations in Washington, D.C. , that the window was walled up?
- ... that The Sunday Business Post praised Fight Like Apes frontwoman MayKay for her "long black hair and banshee wail"?
- ... that Devil's doors allowed the Devil to escape from churches after leaving the souls of newly baptised babies?
- 07:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- ... that "pumpkin sauce," or mashed pumpkin (pictured) , was served at inns in New England as early as 1704?
- ... that Mycena nargan was so named because its white speckles were like the eyes of the mythical nargun of Australian aborigines?
- ... that people paid to see a skeleton strike a thigh bone against a human skull every sixty minutes ?
- ... that the carnivorous monster called a Hidebehind from American folklore cannot be accurately described because it is always hiding behind something?
- ... that the first Canadian musical staged at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival really sucked ?
- ... that the Wells and Mendip Museum has a skeleton believed to be that of the Witch of Wookey Hole?
- ... that according to the Testament of Solomon , the one-winged demon Abezethibou is trapped underneath the Red Sea?
- ... that in the children's book I Like Pumpkins , the narrator sees Frankenstein and his pet alligator buying pumpkins?
- 01:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- ... that Mary Bell (pictured) resigned from the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1941 after being passed over as its director in favour of Clare Stevenson, only to rejoin the following year?
- ... that Terrestrial Physics is a sculpture made out of a 1 million volt (low energy) particle accelerator?
- ... that far right British National Party leader Nick Griffin feared for his safety over his first ever appearance on the BBC's Question Time panel?
- ... that the Seinfeld episode " The Phone Message " was written to replace a script in which one of the main characters bought a handgun, which was considered too provocative?
- ... that footballer James Constable worked in an undergarment lining factory while playing as a semi-professional?
- ... that the Alliance political party claimed in 1998 that the Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Charles Upham was "doing a passable imitation between a lemon and a white elephant"?
- ... that as special counsel for compliance in the United States Department of Energy, Paul Bloom recovered $6 billion from American oil companies that had overcharged refiners for their "old oil"?
- ... that in the 30 Rock episode "Into the Crevasse" , Jack Donaghy redesigns a microwave oven, turning it into the Pontiac Aztek?
30 October 2009
- 19:00, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- ... that streets in the Cambridge, New York, historic district (Hubbard Hall, pictured)
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