Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

NASA/GSFC/SDO On October 8, the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured a spooky sight in distant the sky: the sun looking like a menacing jack-o'-lantern, just in time for Halloween. Take a ...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 31, the 305th day of 2024. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Oct. 31, 1984, Indira ...

Picture this: a roaring bonfire, scary ghost stories, spooky snacks, overflowing sweets, and spirited trick-or-treaters. Sounds like the perfect All Hallow's Eve, right? But have you ever stopped and ...

The Great Jack-O’-Lantern Blaze got off to a gord-geous start last weekend. On Friday the 13 th, the Historic Hudson Valley’s annual Halloween event kicked off its 2024 season with jack-o'-lanterns ...

Guess what? The end of October is officially here, which means it's time to decorate pumpkins! While Jack-o'-lanterns are now used as festive fall decor, they were traditionally carved as a way to ...

It’s hard to know what to carve every year! Sure, you can just put some spooky eyes and teeth on your jack-o’-lantern and call it a day, but this year we decided to be a bit more ambitious and ...

Get a free printable butterfly pumpkin stencil for easy Halloween carving! A cute, non-scary Jack O’lantern design that solves the ‘what to carve’ problem fast. Don’t miss out on my other printable ...

While it may sometimes seem like it, not everything about Halloween has to be scary. There are plenty of ways to partake in the spooky festivities without shielding our eyes from the creepy figures in ...