ghosts

Halloween

Is Your Office Haunted?

When Sugar HQ first moved into our current home in San Francisco, a rumor began skipping through the office .

When Sugar HQ first moved into our current home in San Francisco, a rumor began skipping through the office . . . but not the kind you're apt to hear over the watercooler like the ones involving secret romances or odd co-worker behavior. As I stood in the elevator lobby one night, an editor pal excitedly asked, "Did you hear that this building is supposedly haunted?" According to a former building resident, a mysterious figure was once spotted in an elevator car and then proceeded to disappear into thin air. While we have yet to record any spectral beings of our own, around this time of year it's still fun to think that an uninvited guest might show up to mingle at our office Halloween party! So we're curious:

Editor's Pick

Throw a (Not So) Spooky Halloween Pac-Man Party

A haunted Halloween isn't complete without spooky spirits, but we'd prefer to celebrate the supernatural spirit the geek way — with our favorite video game ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, the foes of Pac-Man.

A haunted Halloween isn't complete without spooky spirits, but we'd prefer to celebrate the supernatural spirit the geek way — with our favorite video game ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, the foes of Pac-Man.

The arcade phantoms are rarely put on center stage, and we think Halloween is the perfect holiday to showcase Pac-Man's greatest predators. Put a twist on traditional Halloween parties with these ideas for a Pac Man-themed bash.

DIY

OnSugar Blog: Spooky Ghosts

Lot of moms like to think out loud and Crafty McCrafterson is one of them.

Lot of moms like to think out loud and Crafty McCrafterson is one of them. In her latest post, the busy mama shows us how to make some easy Halloween decorations.

Here's another one that we did during a playdate.  I got this from Southern Living Magazine and it only turned out OK.

What you need:

  • Cheesecloth
  • Fabric Hardener
  • Balloon
  • Cup
  • Black Felt
  • Scissors
  • Needle and Thread or Fishing Line

To see how to make the spooky ghosts, read more or, start following Crafty McCrafterson. Have ideas of your own? Start your own OnSugar Blog – it's easy, it's free, and we just might feature your content on our site!

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Très Community: Ghost Pics & Halloween Trivia on the Couch

TrèsSugar's community group The Couch has been getting ready for Halloween all month by turning its inquisitive head to Halloween's history.

TrèsSugar's community group The Couch has been getting ready for Halloween all month by turning its inquisitive head to Halloween's history. Take a history of Halloween quiz; get creepy with photos of ghosts; and learn everything you'll never need to know about jack-o'-lanterns — all created by The Couch's owner blondeyy.


Halloween Quiz
Ghost Pictures
History of the
Jack-o'-Lantern

Want to start your own group? You can! Learn about TrèsSugar's growing community here.

Source: Flickr Users Kam's World, brothergrimm, slimmer jimmer

Halloween

Do Tell: If You Could Talk to Any Dead Celeb, Who Would It Be?

Paranormal activity has just moved into the 21st century!


Paranormal activity has just moved into the 21st century! A psychic in the UK is going to conduct the world's first online séance using Twitter. Ghosts + psychic + séance + Twitter = Twéance.

Psychic Jaynce Wallace wants you to tell her – via tweet — which celebrity you'd want her to reach out to. She will post this dead celebrity Q&A on Twitter.com/tweance Oct. 30 — just in time for Halloween! (Be sure to account for the UK time/ghost time differential.)

Although Twitter really only blew up about a year ago, a spokesman for Angels Fancy Dress in London, the folks who came up with the idea for the Tweance, wondered why it took so long to conduct séances on the site: "We were amazed to see no one had used Twitter for a séance before." Seriously, why so long?

If you could talk to any dead celebrity, who would it be? What would you ask?

Source: Flickr User PotatoBenevolence

celebrity gadgets

The Ghost in the Machine

In recent years, many good ghost stories have revolved around a haunted piece of technology, the proverbial ghost in the machine.
Haunted Gadgets in Scary Movies

In recent years, many good ghost stories have revolved around a haunted piece of technology, the proverbial ghost in the machine. What does a fear of our personal technology becoming possessed say about us as a culture? Whatever it says, it's freaking terrifying sometimes — think of the usual cliche of a television coming on by itself, a computer functioning while being unplugged . . . I have chills just thinking about it. Check out my compilation of the best geeky ghost scenes in movies!