Rotten: A Bite-Sized Halloween Treat

End of school and summer camps; adventures, long road trips, and endless nights of fun with your friends. Those are the things vacations are meant to be about. But of course, that isn’t always the case. Sometimes, instead of sending postcards, you may find yourself writing eulogi ...  Show more

Sometimes, the stories we hear aren’t just tales, they’re warnings. Warnings from the past, from spirits that linger just out of sight, waiting for the curious to wander too close. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, which celebrates Mexico’s victory over the French at Puebla, these dark ...  Show more

Looking for a scare? Fright this way. With Halloween a few weeks away, Gwenna and Tori are here to get you ready for all the candy, costumes, and scares… oh my. The duo shares their own stories from Halloweens past and present, delving into how they prepare for a spooky, but safe ...  Show more

Candy laced with cyanide and needles in marshmallows, we've long been warned to be suspicious of the sweet treats handed out by strangers at Halloween. But it seems that most stories of "Halloween sadism" are just that, stories. No child seems to have been killed by adulterated H ...  Show more

Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we're revisiting a 2014 episode. Candy and Halloween go hand-in-hand, but when did candy become the standard for trick-or-treating, and who invented the holiday's most famous sweet treats like candy corn?  Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/ ...  Show more

There is no holiday more strongly associated with horror, with all things creepy, frightening, and supernatural, than Halloween. It's the time of year when creatures of legend come alive, on tv and movie screens, in kitschy decorations, as suffocating rubber masks in costume shop ...  Show more