Halloween

Earlier this week on Halloween, first responders in Ohio held an emergency-management drill while 200 volunteers in zombie makeup milled about looking for brains. Well, it’s good to know that somebody will be prepared if the dead should rise.

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Several Google employees recently swapped their laptops for carving knives and spent the day whittling six enormous pumpkins with the letters of the search engine’s name.

The result? The Halloween Google Doodle, of course.

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Womens' costumes tend to leans toward the “questionable” side of the costume spectrum. Halloween is the only time of year when anything and everything can be considered “sexy.” Of course, that doesn'

When it comes to serious haunted houses, if they want to scare you, they’re probably going to scare you. So as much as ABC 7′s Kimberly Craig was hoping to walk out of Pontiac, Michigan’s 4-story, Guinness World Record holding Erebus Haunted Attraction with little more than a few goosebumps, ultimately she wound helpless on the floor, surrounded by zombies.

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Just in time for Halloween, ‘Today’ anchors Lester Holt, Amy Robach and Jenna Wolfe joined the cast of SyFy’s ‘Ghost Hunters’ to search for spirits at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Mighty brave, given that the abandoned prison is supposedly a hotbed of paranormal activity.

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Few monsters have appeared more on TV and film than Dracula. The character, who first appeared in Bram Stoker's novel way back in 1867, has long lapsed into the public domain. Thus, pre

Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang is back for a long overdue sequel to ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!’

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The Munsters. The Addams Family. The Von Trapps. These famous fictional families made a habit out of appearing together in costume. A

Halloween is just a few days away and since this annual holiday falls on a Monday, parties are bound to pop up during the weekend to accommodate those who have to go to work without hangovers on (though that probably won’t stop people from having too many candy corn martinis).

The only problem is that you don’t have a costume. You could throw on a dirty old bedsheet, cut a few holes in it and tell people you’re a beige ghost. Or you could actually be clever and in-tune with what’s happening and hip (as the kids say) by going as viral video star the honey badger.

Sure putting together a costume of such a fearsome sounding creature sounds like you’ll be sitting at a sewing machine all night trying to un-sew the sleeve of your shirt out of your costume, but it’s actually one of the simpler clever costumes you can put together for 2011. After the jump, we’ll show you how.

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Sure, Halloween is all about the kiddos. Opening the front door to the neighborhood wee ones (yours or someone else's) dressed in their trick-or-treating finery is a sugar rush unto itself.

So

Mothers are 11.3 percent less likely to give birth on Halloween than they are on the days before and after the holiday.

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Halloween parties are a great opportunity for random hook-ups. Especially because every girl is wearing a sexy costume. We don’t know that for fact, since we haven’t been invited to a Halloween party in years. We based that info on the comments people with lives make on their Facebook pages.

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