Boo! Do You Know the Real Story Behind Halloween?

October 31, 2008

If you dress up for Halloween today, you're celebrating a 2,000 year-old tradition! While today's world would surely be unrecognizable to the original trick-or-treaters, they would feel at home on one night of the year: All Hallows' Eve. Find out if you know the origin behind today's spooky traditions. Happy Halloween!

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Colleeninator 4 years 28 weeks

I have to agree with the people saying that #5 is untrue. Dia De Lost Muertos is simply not the same thing as Halloween just because it falls in the same time period.

momma tikita 4 years 28 weeks

:rotfl:They weren't feeling ya Jude!

momma tikita 4 years 28 weeks

:rotfl: They weren't feeling ya Jude!

Jude C 4 years 28 weeks

Ouija update: It didn't work :(Although that might have been because we didn't have a planchette and used a shotglass instead. Maybe it was too heavy and non-slidey for the spirits to move :ROTFL: or they were disappointed it was empty!

Jude C 4 years 28 weeks

Ouija update: It didn't work :( Although that might have been because we didn't have a planchette and used a shotglass instead. Maybe it was too heavy and non-slidey for the spirits to move :ROTFL: or they were disappointed it was empty!

ilanac13 4 years 28 weeks

whoopsies i guess i don't know as much about the holiday as i thought, but i think that it's nice to learn the history behind the day since most of us really don't know the backstory.

ediebaby 4 years 29 weeks

2/6 lol.

ediebaby 4 years 29 weeks

2/6 lol.

Fallen85 4 years 29 weeks

When I was younger my friends and I used to love playing with the Ouiji board and one night when me and my friend Eartha were "camping" out in my backyard (which was actually beside my house facing the street) we started playing with the Ouiji board. It was about 2am when we made "contact" with a spirit named Johnny. Johnny said he was 14 years old and died somewhere near our house way before we ever moved here. We, of course being the skeptical young ladies we were, asked him to come and meet us and he said he would come visit us when it stopped raining as it had just begun sprinkling outside. About an hour later it stopped raining so we got back in contact with Johnny and told him to come see us now and he said he would. At that moment we heard very faint footsteps from up the street. We looked out of the tent windows and saw someone walking towards us from the very beginning of the street about 10 houses away... this was odd seeing as it was about 3am, we are the last street on the road and we were the last house on the block. Not many people came this way in the day, nevermind at 3am. We could tell it was a guy, not too old but we couldnt see his face due to the dark. He kept walking closer and closer until finally he reached the grass of my house... and then turned and walked to his car in the parking lot beside my house and drove off. Turned out it was my neighbour's older brother, James, going to work. We had no idea he worked that late and barely anyone parked in the parking lot because everyone had driveways. It scared the living SH!T out of us and we never touched that stupid Ouiji board ever again. I think it was a sign to stop f*cking with the spirits... that memory still totally creeps me out.

Fallen85 4 years 29 weeks

When I was younger my friends and I used to love playing with the Ouiji board and one night when me and my friend Eartha were "camping" out in my backyard (which was actually beside my house facing the street) we started playing with the Ouiji board. It was about 2am when we made "contact" with a spirit named Johnny. Johnny said he was 14 years old and died somewhere near our house way before we ever moved here. We, of course being the skeptical young ladies we were, asked him to come and meet us and he said he would come visit us when it stopped raining as it had just begun sprinkling outside. About an hour later it stopped raining so we got back in contact with Johnny and told him to come see us now and he said he would. At that moment we heard very faint footsteps from up the street. We looked out of the tent windows and saw someone walking towards us from the very beginning of the street about 10 houses away... this was odd seeing as it was about 3am, we are the last street on the road and we were the last house on the block. Not many people came this way in the day, nevermind at 3am. We could tell it was a guy, not too old but we couldnt see his face due to the dark. He kept walking closer and closer until finally he reached the grass of my house... and then turned and walked to his car in the parking lot beside my house and drove off.Turned out it was my neighbour's older brother, James, going to work. We had no idea he worked that late and barely anyone parked in the parking lot because everyone had driveways. It scared the living SH!T out of us and we never touched that stupid Ouiji board ever again. I think it was a sign to stop f*cking with the spirits... that memory still totally creeps me out.

milosmommy 4 years 29 weeks

oh man the ouija board stuff really creeps me out. I'm too chicken to have ever even played with it.

Jazz Z 4 years 29 weeks

Sounds fun!! I wish I was going to a costume party. I guess I might have to go crash someone's party! If I'm in disguise who would know?! :witch: Or maybe I'd just be showing my true colors. jk

Jude C 4 years 29 weeks

:ROTFL: I don't think it existed when I was that age either. And I must be older than you, because cell phones were not things kids had back then (except for Zack Morris, I guess).

Jude C 4 years 29 weeks

:ROTFL:I don't think it existed when I was that age either. And I must be older than you, because cell phones were not things kids had back then (except for Zack Morris, I guess).

NYFashionista 4 years 29 weeks

ew im old.

NYFashionista 4 years 29 weeks

ew im old.

NYFashionista 4 years 29 weeks

lol exceeeppt 411 didnt exist back then :)

Jude C 4 years 29 weeks

I can't wait for midnight! Just have to make sure I don't get hammered at the block party before then.

Jazz Z 4 years 29 weeks

:rotfl: Good point Jude. I think someone with their hand on the pointer might have also had their hand on that joke....I mean info

Jazz Z 4 years 29 weeks

:rotfl: Good point Jude. I think someone with their hand on the pointer might have also had their hand on that joke....I mean info

Jazz Z 4 years 29 weeks

Jude be sure to tell us what happens with yooooooouuuuuuuuuu!!!! when you play! :scared:

Jude C 4 years 29 weeks

Ghost: "I'VE BEEN DEAD FOR A HUNDRED YEARS AND EVEN I KNOW THAT!"

Jude C 4 years 29 weeks

The spirits were all, "DUH, CALL 411"!

NYFashionista 4 years 29 weeks

Oooo I want to hear more Ouija board/scary stories!!I have a silly one- but when my friends and I were in 7th grade we played it on halloween and nothing really happened. My friend had to call her mom to pick her up but completely forgot her new cell number so "jokingly" we asked the spirits through the board and the number we got was that of an operator to help look up her number and it worked and she was able to contact her mother. haha it was so weird. I used to love that stuff when I was younger :)

NYFashionista 4 years 29 weeks

Oooo I want to hear more Ouija board/scary stories!! I have a silly one- but when my friends and I were in 7th grade we played it on halloween and nothing really happened. My friend had to call her mom to pick her up but completely forgot her new cell number so "jokingly" we asked the spirits through the board and the number we got was that of an operator to help look up her number and it worked and she was able to contact her mother. haha it was so weird. I used to love that stuff when I was younger :)

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