14 Creepy Random Facts to Celebrate Halloween Properly Spooked
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Booooooo! It's a spoooooky ghost! What do you mean, you aren’t scared? That today works on our toddlers. Should we hide behind the couch and emerge with hand claws? No? Fine! We'll put in some effort, we guess. But you better leave scared enough to drop that bag of candy you are definitely way too old to be holding or we'll TP your house, dude.
It’s Halloween! How are you gonna celebrate unless you aren’t freaked out of your mind? But don’t worry, we are right behind you -- because we’ve got your back. We have prepared this collection of fun and scary facts that’ll put you in the right mood for the season. You can share them while trick-or-treating (or to distract that big guy with an axe and a burlap sack on his head, who might or might not be just your neighbor in a creepy disguise. Have fun finding out!)
![Trick-or-freating was created to stop children from wreaking havoc. In the early 20th century, Halloween used to be much more destructive than today, with young pranksters wrecking their neighborhoods. Activities such as treat- or-treating were started in the 1930s to keep the evil imps under control.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/797134.jpg)
![Buddhists monks would mummify themselves while still alive. Some monks would become mummies (called sokushinbutsu) by following a starvation diet of pine needles and resins, to eliminate fat and dehydrate until they died. At least 24 people self-mummified this way before Japan banned the practice in 1879.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/1/797121.jpg)
![Face-down burials |prevented zombie infestations. Rich folks in the Middle Ages were sometimes buried face- down, as an act of humility to God- but in times of plague, face-down burials spiked, even among the poor. In the medieval mind, plague and the undead were related (and apparently revenants were too lazy to turn themselves around).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/797137.jpg)
![A Play Station 2 disc was believed to be cursed- - and it was (kind of). It was an internet myth for years: Kids who played some PS2 demo disc freaked out when disturbing images appeared on screen. The disc was finally identified in October 2020, containing for some unknown reason a trailer for the Japanese horror film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. PlayStation](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/6/797126.jpg)
![Yes, Halloween candy is poisoned sometimes -- - by the parents. Most of the time, rumors of poisoned or tampered with candy are just that, rumors - and in the few documented cases of that actually happening, it was almost always the children's parents who were responsible. As it turns out, the candy was just fine until the kids brought it home.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/0/797130.jpg)
![Begging hellmonkeys roam the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. In Kampung Monyet, a slum in Jakarta, people dress trained monkeys in children's clothes and doll head masks (ostensibly to beg). The government has made efforts to stop the practice, because it's cruel to the animals and because just goddamn look at that.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/5/797125.jpg)
![Donating your body to science? Prepare to be sold to, well, anyone. The brokerage companies handling body donations can't technically sell your stiff remains- but they do collect huge fees, for a massive profit. And pretty much anyone who pays these fees can get hold of you (or a part of you) with barely any hassle.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/2/797122.jpg)
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![Piss cakes were used to find witches. A witch cake was prepared with rye flour and the urine of a curse victim, then fed to a dog, which would somehow point at the culprit. It's unclear how long the cakes were a thing, but they were used in relation to the Salem Witch Trials.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/797135.jpg)
![For a guy' in Britain, Groundhog Day is a terrifying reality. The feeling of deja VU usually goes away after a few seconds. But it came out in 2015 that an otherwise healthy young Brit had been in a constant state of deja VU for years-living like he was stuck in a time loop, without even the advantage of knowing what was about to happen.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/4/797124.jpg)
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![Twins had eerily similar lives. James Edward Lewis and James Arthur Springer were separated at birth, and didn't meet until they were 39. Not only had the same likes and dislikes, and similar jobs- they both married women named Linda, divorced them, married women named Betty, and had sons named James Allan.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/797136.jpg)
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![Corn kill farm can workers. Corn looks pretty much harmless, but a silo full of the stuff is like goddamn quicksand. One false step while you're standing on it, and you can be sucked in in less than 30 seconds, with no way to swim out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/797127.jpg)
![A woman lived for 20 years with her dead son and never knew it. Elderly Brooklyn resident Rita Wolfensohn was legally blind, a compulsive hoarder, and not very close with her family- which explains why for 20 years, she never realized her son had died in his bedroom. Apparently she thought he had just moved out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/797129.jpg)
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![El Terron was Jonestown, but barely yesterday. There were no fruity beverages in EI Terron, Panama, but members of the New Light of God sect were beaten and tied up in their jungle church. And that wasn't the worst -when authorities intervened in 2020, they found seven bodies in a mass pit, killed during an exorcism.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/3/797123.jpg)
![King Leopold II of Belgium was the Dark Lord of the Congo. The Congo Free State was King Leopold's private slave state, and he ran it like he was a veritable villain. How bad was it? There was a traffic of severed human hands. The horrors of the Congo Free Stated were the base of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/797128.jpg)
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