Halloween is widely celebrated in the United States with traditions like trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, and dressing up. However, many countries have their unique ways of celebrating this spooky ...

Halloween traditions have been around as long as people can remember, with their festiveness originating in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain – a ritual that celebrates the end of summer and the ...

What we call timeless Halloween rituals are, in truth, inventions of culture, commerce, and reinvention. Halloween is one of America’s favorite holidays—a night of costumes, candy, and glowing ...

Fall brings a festive lineup of holidays, but one stands out for its costumes, candy, spooky fun and centuries of tradition: Halloween. Other holidays, such as Dia de los Muertos, All Saints' Day, All ...

Some Halloween traditions come and go, but trick-or-treating and spooky costumes are timeless. Bobbing for apples was popular in the 1940s, and glitter paint costumes were big in the 1970s. Vintage ...

From a daytime techno underground rave in Ukraine and pumpkin carving in Romania to a bash hosted by the U.S. President and his wife at the White House, the U.S. Halloween tradition is celebrated ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Little ghouls and goblins will fill the streets on Halloween night, hoping to score a jack-o'-lantern full of candy. Kids dressing up and going door for sweet treats is a Halloween ...

Eden Smigel, 2, left, watches her mother Esther, right, carve a pumpkin at the home of Suzy Fortgang and David Nehring, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in Northampton. Fortgang and Nehring started a ...

On any night during the week leading up to Halloween at UNC, you’ll see battalions of jack-o'-lanterns guarding front porches, spot becostumed revelers traversing Franklin Street between bacchanals, ...