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These are fun Halloween facts you didn’t know updated from a post I wrote in 2023.
“The Pioneer Woman” publication has given us quite a number of the beliefs and little known facts. Halloween is such a fun time to share unusual and spooky remembrances.
Before getting on to the weird, some statistics. Between 43% and 46% of we Americans plan to make or carve a jack-o’-lantern every year. It fluctuates slightly based on population estimates, but has remained in the mid 40 percent range for the past several years. That is 143 to 154 million of us making jack-o’-lanterns! What fun we have. I usually draw mine, however, this year I opted out and bought one.
Now for some fun Halloween facts and beliefs you didn’t know!
Transylvania is a real place in Romania. I believe most of us actually have known this fact for some time now.
A new one for me: there is a statue of Jason Voorhees from “Friday the 13th” at the bottom of a lake in Minnesota, ever since 2013. Now it’s a popular underwater diver attraction.
Greenwich Village in New York has the largest Halloween parade in the world. It is attended by an estimated 2 million with 100,000 costumed participants, giant puppets, and live music enroute through Manhattan along Sixth Avenue. Makes me want to board a plane to New York for Halloween. I have never been to a Halloween parade and this one sounds like a ton of fun.
It is believed Ireland was the birthplace of Halloween. They still celebrate today with street parties, lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks, plus trick or treating, and dressing in scary costumes. My sis and I used to wear Halloween masks to greet and hand out candy to the trick or treaters. Now I place a pail of candy on my hall table for passerbys to ‘take one’. I still do decorate my hall table, interior, and deck for Halloween–every holiday, actually. I enjoy the celebrations.
Halloween dates back to the 1800’s with the Celts who believed the dead returned to earth that night. That is why, it is believed, they lit bonfires and wore costumes…to ward off the ghosts.
Irish immigrants brought the Halloween tradition with them to the US in the mid 1800’s. This was when there was a potato famine in Ireland. Originally they carved turnips rather than pumpkins.
In the USA we started our trick or treat candy tradition in the 1950’s…when the candy makers started promoting their goods through the retail trade. On this note, check out Halloween celebrations with our pets.
New Hampshire’s City of Keene has the Guinness World Record for most lit jack-o’-lanterns – just under 30,600. They have held the title for several years, set at the Keene Pumpkin Festival in 2013. Their record has been broken many times since by their own small town of close to 25,000 people. That appears to be more than one jack-o’-lantern per person. What a fun town to visit in October!
Scarecrows, a Halloween agricultural symbol, were originated by Greek farmers to protect their crops, mainly from crows.
Another Halloween fact, in my book, is that pumpkin is actually considered a fruit, as it originates from a flower. This is the only mention of pumpkin as a fruit that I have heard but then I was not born near a farm.
One last interesting fact is that we Americans spend, on average, on Halloween every year just over $100 with an expected total in 2025 of $762.8 million. That is from the National Retail Federation which does an annual survey of Halloween expenditures in the USA.
For more Halloween lore see my post “Cat breeds: a guide with Halloween lore and cat tips”.
Funny Animal Videos
From Big Geek Daddy, see Guinness World records on cats vs. dogs.
Next, enjoy Dog says “No”.
And, for our last video see cute sleepy animals.
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Loved your cool facts about Halloween! The videos were great too. Liked that giant cat and the adorable great dane.
Glad you enjoyed my post, Kathy…and the videos!