Happy Halloween 2012!!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!   Can you believe it's finally here?!  I hope everyone has had a wonderful time tonight.  Tonight the veil between our world and the otherworld is at its thinnest.  If you have heard a strange sound that cannot be explained or saw a shadow when no one was around.....it could very possibly be someone trying to communicate with you!

Don't forget to send me your list of costumes you saw tonight!  I will add all of the submissions together and see just how close I came to predicting the costumes this year.  Also, we will be able to see what kinds of costumes were popular in different parts of the country and the world!

We have had so much fun counting down the days til Halloween and have really enjoyed putting together our Halloween Extravaganza and sharing the videos with you.  While we know it was long in length, we sure hope that we taught you something new.  This was a story we really wanted to tell, in order to honor the victims of the Salem Witch Trials.  While researching and working on the project, we experienced several mishaps and strange occurrences.  One such incident was when Chas was reading about the witches.  The light kept flickering on and off on his 3-way lamp and at one point, it went out completely.  He checked the bulb and the chord and found there was nothing wrong with them.     Was this due to the events in Salem?  Was someone trying to prevent us from sharing our information?  We will never know, but we can't help but feel there were some spooky forces at work!

Our final video of our Halloween Extravaganza is below.  Once again, we truly hope you enjoyed our project.  Soon, you will be able to view all the videos easily in one list on the blog.  Thanks again for making this a great Halloween season for us!  Happy Hauntings!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPvsGsjzs4

Halloween Extravaganza: Chas's Pictorial Tour of Salem

It's the night before Halloween, are you excited?  We sure are!  Chas will hopefully be handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters (weather permitting) and as for me, I'll be watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and wishing I was at a party or something.  LOL!  Don't forget to keep a list of all the costumes you see!  I would like to do a follow up post to my costume prediction list!

We have a special treat for you tonight.  We have given you the history and ghost stories of Salem...now we will take you on a pictorial tour!  Chas visited Salem in 2008 and took some really great photographs of the town.  In this video, he will explain what he saw and give you a better view of Salem as it is today!  Have fun!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-W5r4ILxas

Halloween Extravaganza: More Haunted Places in Salem

Good evening!

We have three new episodes in our Halloween Extravaganza tonight!  Wednesday night we will wrap up this series!  We really hope you have enjoyed watching the videos and hope that you have learned something from them!  We also want to wish everyone a safe next few days on the east coast, also to those further inland. 

Tonight's first video is about the hauntings at Patriot Cinemas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlmY_EMbKA

The second video focuses on the haunted Danvers State Hospital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1aobIuRRY




And our last video features four short ghost stories for your spooking pleasure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNc7Lpvo-WE&feature=plcp




We hope you are getting prepared for Halloween!  We still have two more days full of Halloween fun to share with you!!  :)

Happy Hauntings!

Halloween Extravaganza: Haunted Places in Salem

Another Friday is here yay!!  Once again I've been having internet problems.  Basically, our local phone company who we have our internet through, decided to put in fiber optic lines.  We weren't supposed to experience any problems, but of course they were wrong.  It seems as if each week, we have some kind of problem with either the internet or the phone lines being down.  Ugh! 

So, tonight we have three episodes from our Halloween Extravaganza.  These episodes are about haunted places in Salem.  You will find out why these places are haunted and who is haunting them!  You may want to leave the lights on!  ;)

Our first haunted place is St. Mary's Cemetery.  Cemeteries are spooky enough, but a haunted one?  *shiver*!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQu9nAfYx4 

Our next haunted place is the Salem Marine Society/The Hawthorne Hotel.  Haunted hotels are very spooky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbQo6JEgpOE

Our last haunted place for the evening is Salem State College.  For many, college marks the start of a new life. For a few at Salem State College, it was the beginning of their end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hizpO7mHA

We hope you enjoy the spooky stories from the very real places in Salem!

Halloween Extravaganza: The Bloody Curse of Sarah Good

Hello everyone!

Are you scared yet?  While a ghost story can be scary, what makes it even more scary is when the story is based on a real person.  I think that is what makes the stories surrounding the victims of Salem so eerie.

In tonight's episode we learn about the bloody (quite literally) curse of Sarah Good.  Makes you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u4mDyM7Jsg

Halloween Extravaganza: The Curse of Giles Corey

Happy Monday, or maybe not so happy.  Mondays are never that good of a day are they?  Well, to make it a bit more bearable, we have a new video in our Halloween Extravaganza!  As you know, we are now into the ghost story segment of our special!  Tonight's video is about the curse of Giles Corey!  Watch the video to learn about Giles and why there is a curse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir424U3n9kE



We hope you enjoy!!  There are still more ghost stories to come!

The 2012 Halloween costume prediction list from Halloween Night!

Greetings my fellow ghouls!

Welcome to the 6th annual Halloween Night costume predictions list!  I started this annual event in my Yahoo! group "Halloween Night" and have had so much fun writing them!  I make my own predictions on what I think will be *in* this year as far as costumes are concerned.  I will list my top ten choices with #1 being the top costume.  With that said, let's start the list!

10.  I will always save a special place for the classic costumes.  Witches, ghosts, skeletons, etc... these costumes have been around for centuries and never get old!  They are easy to make at the last minute and the little ones always look so cute dressed in them!  I guarantee that you will see at least one trick-or-treater decked out in a classic costume this year!

9.  I think homemade costumes will be big this year due to the economy.  Store bought costumes have become pretty pricey over the past few years and a lot of people just can't afford them.  Thanks to the birth of Pinterest (follow Halloween Night on Pinterest HERE) and several DIY websites, you can find a very easy to make Halloween costume for cheap! 

8. Zombies will definitely be making a comeback this year.  Zombies have seemed to become part of our culture with zombie walks, tv shows, video games, etc....  Just be sure to be armed with candy and you'll make it through Halloween in one piece!  ;)

7. Monster High!  The Monster High dolls have become a highly collectible fad among youngsters.  Thanks to Halloween novelty stores such as Spirit Halloween, kids can now dress as their favorite Monster High character!  

6.  Who wants to visit Sesame Street?  No need, because Big Bird will most likely make an appearance at your Halloween shindig!  Thanks to the presidential debates, Big Bird has become a hot commodity costume with some stores actually selling out!

5. The Avengers hit the big screen this year and will hit your doorsteps this Halloween!  Think of all the possibilities: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, etc...  Super heroes are always a kid favorite, so I think you can expect to see at least one of these characters this year!

4. Gangnam Style!  Psy, the Korean rapper, has because a huge name in the past few months with his hit song "Gangnam Style"!  It's a really catchy tune and the music video is great!  If you attend a big Halloween party, I'm sure you'll see at least one person dressed as Psy!

3. Vampires will definitely be hanging around again this year.  They are still huge in our popular culture with the tv shows True Blood and Vampire Diaries as well as the last movie installment of the Twilight saga.  I love when little kids dress as vampires!  

2. Angry Birds to the rescue!  This action packed game has become a massive hit worldwide!  Everyone I know seems to have played Angry Birds.  I'm a fan myself, having three different versions of the game on my smartphone!  There are costumes for kids as well as adults...they are cute!

1. The number one costume for this year is....Batman!  The third movie in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy starring Christian Bale hit the movie theaters earlier this year.  These movies are the best Batman movies I've ever seen.  Kids love dressing up as Batman and I think there will be a lot of them this year!  Of course, we will never forget the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado during the premiere of the latest Batman movie. 

There you have it!  I would like to ask all of you to keep a checklist of what costumes you see this year, as I would like to post a follow up after Halloween to see how on target my list was!  Thanks everyone and let's have a great Halloween!

Halloween Music

Happy Saturday!  It's a beautiful, Autumn day here at Halloween Night headquarters, hope you all are enjoying the weather where you live! 

I stumbled across this website the other day and wanted to share it with you.  The owner has compiled Halloween playlists and posted them on his website.  You have until November 1st to visit the site and download the compilations until the site disappears for a year (it returns in October for the Halloween season)! 

You can visit the website here: http://www.halloweenhitswebsite.com/index.htm

Don't forget to enter our giveaway!  It ends tomorrow night (Sunday) at midnight!   http://halloween-nights.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-night-giveaway.html

Happy listening!

Halloween Extravaganza: Aftermath part 2 and Haunted Salem

Good evening!

It's Friday once again...all I can say is YAY!  After a very rough week at work, I realized just how much I love writing this blog and I appreciate all of you for taking the time to read it and comment.  :)  You guys are great!  And to reward you this Friday night, we have three new episodes in our Halloween Extravaganza to share with you!

Aftermath Part 2 continues to discuss how the Salem Witch Trials affected the town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4T3f1V5ABQ

 

Our next video is our introduction to Haunted Salem!  You want ghost stories?  You're going to get them! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02AxLj7qnM&feature=youtu.be



Our last video for tonight focuses on our first ghost story!  The ghost of Bridget Bishop!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UONGDzrm28k

There you have it!  We are now getting into the very spooky and strange happenings in Salem!  We hope you enjoy!  Be sure to let us know what you think!

Also, don't forget to enter our giveaway!  You have until Sunday night/Monday morning at midnight central time to enter!  It's all FREE!  :)  Enter here: http://halloween-nights.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-night-giveaway.html

Have a hauntingly great weekend!

Halloween Extravaganza: Aftermath part 1

Hi everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We are now ready to share more episodes from our Halloween Extravaganza with you!  Tonight's episode will start our focus on the aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1YDnYnwpE


Also, don't forget to enter our giveaway!  You have until Sunday night (at midnight central time) to enter!   http://halloween-nights.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-night-giveaway.html

We hope you enjoy tonight's video!

Halloween Night Giveaway!

Greetings boils and ghouls!

It has been a stormy weekend here at Halloween Night headquarters...perfect weather for doing Halloween activities!  Speaking of, we promised to do a giveaway in October if we reached 200 likes on our Facebook page.  We are now well on our way to 300 likes!  So, as promised here are the details for the giveaway!

The prizes include: a set of Halloween coasters, a magnetic notepad, a Charlie Brown sticky notepad, a glow-in-the-dark ghost containing Skittles candies (this is awesome, I have one!), and two owls which were handmade by me (I sell them on my craft page Peridot Moon Creations).  I wanted to include more items, but had to watch my budget.  Maybe next year I will have a bigger prize package.  ;)

In order to enter our giveaway, you must visit our blog and leave a comment on THIS post.  I WILL NOT accept email entries.  If you try emailing me your entry, it will get deleted.  I receive too many emails in my inbox as it is, your entry would most likely get lost!  We will not accept entries on Facebook either.  You do not need a blogger account to leave a comment.  There are several methods in which you can "sign in" to leave a comment which are as follows:

• You can comment anonymously.  Yep!  No account needed!  I will ask that you put a first name and the first initial of your last name, or something similar in order to tell you apart from the other commenters.
• You can comment by using several different log ins from other websites including: LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM, OpenID, Blogger, and Google.

So, as you can see it is very easy to leave a comment.  When you comment, let us know your favorite part of Halloween!

This giveaway is totally FREE!  I see so many giveaways where the winner has to pay shipping.  I'm sorry, but that's not a true giveaway to me.  We will also ship the prizes to anywhere in the world, so don't hesitate to enter!  Please note if you are outside of the United States and you win, YOU will be responsible for any customs fees that might occur once the package hits the country you are in.  I've never had trouble with this, but you never know what any of the postal systems will decide to do!

I will be using the website random.org to pick the winner.  You will need to keep an eye on the blog and Facebook page...once the winner is picked, I will post on the blog who the winner is.  You will have up to 5 days to email me and claim your prize as well as give me your mailing details.  If you fail to email me within the 5 day period, your name will be tossed out and I will use random.org again to pick a new winner.  You can follow the blog by email.  On the right hand side of the page, if you scroll down a little, you will see a letter.  Click on that picture and follow the prompts.  You don't need to worry about spam, if we don't post anything, you don't receive an email.  :)

If you have any questions please let me know.  You can message me via the Facebook page.  So, there you have it!  The contest will be open from now until next Sunday night.  I will stop accepting entries at midnight Sunday night/Monday morning...that gives you a week to enter!  Good luck to all of you, and Happy Hauntings!

Halloween Extravaganza: Salem Witchcraft parts 4, 5, & 6

Hello spooky friends!

How is your week coming along?  I am definitely ready for Friday...I'm sure you are as well!  Tonight we have three videos in our Halloween Extravaganza to share with you! 

Salem Witchcraft Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOX4SdQWP8

Salem Witchcraft Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd3FqzV8EZo

Salem Witchcraft Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBcwtv-lHE

Happy Hauntings!!

Halloween Extravaganza: Salem Witchcraft part 3

Greetings!

We have a new episode tonight in our Halloween Extravaganza which finds us continuing our research into the Salem Witch Trials.  Please make no mistake, we are not making light of this tragedy.  We wanted to bring people closer to the events in Salem in order to better understand what was going on at the time and what the true story behind the witch claims really was.  That being said, here's our next episode!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hpdyDjcJk

 

Happy Hauntings!

Pumpkins & Salem Witchcraft: Part 2

Good evening!

Did you attend any haunts over the weekend?  I'm hoping to visit the local pumpkin patch soon to take part in their festivities!

I did manage to get two pumpkins last week.  Check them out!  $4 for each!

These pumpkins are huge!  Not sure how much they weigh.  They are the perfect size and shape for carving and I can't wait until I'm able to carve them!  I'll carve them the weekend before Halloween.  By then I may have acquired more pumpkins!

We also have a new episode in our Halloween Extravaganza to share with you tonight!  We've been getting good feedback on our project so far and we really appreciate those of you who have taken time to comment!  In tonight's episode we explore more of Salem witchcraft.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caTprTCRGNQ

Enjoy and have a great day tomorrow!

Halloween Extravaganza: Salem Witchcraft Part 1

Happy Weekend!

Hope you have been able to watch some Halloween movies this weekend!  Tonight we have the next episode in our Halloween Extravaganza.  This is the moment you have been waiting for...will we now be exploring the Salem witch trials!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6k62sRgZo

We hope you enjoy tonight's episode!  Lots of history, chaos, and drama!  Let us know what you think!

Happy Hauntings!

Halloween Extravaganza: Cold Winter Days & Let the Witch Hunt Begin

Good evening!

Hope everyone is ready for the weekend!  Tonight would normally be our Fright Night Friday movie review, but with our Halloween Extravaganza project underway, the move reviews will return in a few weeks.  Instead of posting a movie review, we will be sharing two videos with you tonight from our Halloween Extravaganza!

In "Cold Winter Days" you will learn about the events that led up to the Salem witch hysteria.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exF273dEIk0

In "Let the Witch Hunt Begin" we will 'test' you and see how much you really know about the witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9kgctTwtU

We you hope enjoy watching these videos tonight!  Don't forget, you can rewatch all of our videos so far via our youtube channel or by reading our recent posts here on the blog.  Let us know what you think!  Thank you to those who have left us comments so far, we really appreciate it!

Happy Hauntings!

Halloween Extravaganza: Salem Politics

Hello everyone! We are fastly approaching Halloween, can you believe it?! I sure hope all of you have made your preparations for the big night! Costume picked out, candy purchased, party plans, haunted houses you'll be visiting etc... If you do anything special for Halloween, why not drop us a line and share your party pictures..we would love to feature them on the blog!

We have a new video from Chas and Anna's Halloween Extravaganza to share with you tonight! In this episode, we will explore the politics of Salem during the time of the witch trials. From a political point of view, Salem was divided into two groups. This would ultimately be one of the main issues leading up to the witch trials. As always, please feel free to comment and let us know what you think! Hope you enjoy this installment!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhho6rgHu0&feature=plcp

Halloween Extravaganza: Salem History

Hello everyone!

So, we got your attention with our intro video to Chas and Anna's Halloween Extravaganza.  Are you ready for the next video?  Of course you are!!  ;)

Now we will be traveling over 300 years in the past to explore Salem's history!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J76OWUEMtOk&feature=plcp

We hope you enjoy!  Be sure to leave us comments on what you think so far!  You can view the first video again here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttYnx4-QVM&feature=plcp



Happy Hauntings!

Countdown to Halloween 2012!

Hello everyone!

I'm proud to report that we are participating in the 2012 Countdown to Halloween!  You may remember that we participated for the first time last year. What is Countdown to Halloween?  It's exactly what it sounds like!  Countdown to Halloween is a community of Halloween bloggers who hold month-long blogging marathons counting down until Halloween.  All of the participants are listed on the Countdown to Halloween blog, so you are able to peruse at your leisure!  Participants also get to display the Countdown to Halloween badge.  It is a lot of fun and even though some of us aren't able to post every single day, we do try our best to bring you a month-long Halloween fest!  :)  For further details on joining in this year's countdown or to see the list of participants, you can visit Countdown to Halloween here.

If you have found us from the Countdown to Halloween page, please let us know!  :)  Let's make this the best Halloween ever!

Chas and Anna's Halloween Extravaganza!!

Happy October 1st everyone!  I hope you all have your Halloween decorations out and are ready to get spooky!

My co-owner, Chas, and I have been working on a secret project for the group/blog for two years now.  We were supposed to unveil the project last year, but life got in the way and we had to set it aside for awhile.  Eventually we were able to pick it back up and work on it full force.  We wanted to do something special for you: our readers and fans to thank you for all your support!  If it wasn't for you reading the blog posts, submitting movie/book reviews, sharing recipes and craft ideas, and interacting with us on our Facebook page, we wouldn't be here!  We wanted to share something interesting with you, but at the same time try to spook you as well!  We were not sure what we wanted to do, but then we started researching Salem, Massachusetts just for fun and the idea for our project was born.  The history and tragedy surrounding Salem was a story that we felt compelled to tell...we are not making light of this tragedy.  We created this project with the hope that we might inform people who otherwise may not know what all happened in Salem.  Of course, since Halloween is our business, we wanted to share the spooky side of Salem: ghost stories and curses!  The project turned out to be longer than we expected, so we will be posting the video links in segments during the month of October.  This will give you something fun to do while counting down the days until Halloween!

We would love to hear your feedback on this project.  Each time we post a video, please be sure to leave us a comment either here on the blog (you don't have to have a blogger account to comment), at the Yahoo group, or on our Facebook page.  We would really appreciate it!  Please keep in mind we are amateurs and are not claiming to be professionals.  We are doing this project for a hobby and to share our love of Halloween!

Are you ready for our first video?  Well, here it is!  Welcome to the first annual Chas and Anna's Halloween Extravaganza hosted by Halloween Night!  We hope you have a hauntingly good time!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttYnx4-QVM