"Give us candy, give us cake, give us something sweet to take. Give us cookies, fruit and gum, hurry up and give us some. You had better do it quick or we'll surely play a trick." That quote is from ...
Many early pranks involved “buggies.” Teenaged boys would sneakily take a buggy apart, piece by piece, only to reassemble it in unusual places, like churches, schools, or “rooftops.” Another popular ...
EVANSVILLE – The Evansville area has been celebrating Halloween for as long as there’s been Halloween in America. As the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival's one-time Halloween pageant and carnival ...
Jimmy Kimmel's controversial Halloween trick has returned. After a two-year hiatus, Jimmy Kimmel Live! has officially brought back and endorsed its annual YouTube prank challenge, "Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I ...
Anoka, Minnesota, began its Halloween celebrations in 1920 to curb destructive pranks by local youths. The town's civic festivities, including a parade, became a model for other cities to deter ...
Some Halloween costumes have been around for decades. Kids dressed up as witches, ghosts and even princesses, long before Disney. Other getups are inspired by their times: Leg warmers for a ...
ANOKA, MN – Anoka’s Halloween tradition began less as a celebration than an intervention. It was 1919, and the one-time logging town set along the Rum River about 20 miles north of Minneapolis was ...