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Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called – friggatriskaidekaphobia – Happy Friday the 13th!This superstition holds to be a day of bad luck. It occurs at least 1-3 times each year.
Another funny Halloween viral video. Go behind the scenes at the Spirit News Network while we take calls from viewers.
Halloween time is here.
With less than 50 days until Halloween it is time to get excited.
We have started to see costumes and props in local stores. We have begun to see local Halloween specialty stores opening up. Our favorite lately is all of the great new props that we have seen posted online.
We have no doubt that Halloween 2011 will be the most exciting season yet.
Spirit Halloween just posted a video on Youtube that shows a lot of the 2011 Spirit Halloween store displays.
This video shows a lot of great props!
Halloween Season is here! Everything is starting to go in full force.
Most online stores now have their 2011 items in either pre-order mode or where you can order it now.
Zombies seem to be the most popular item this year from all of the stores that we have seen.
Zombies are good!
It is now July ( already ) and the REAL Halloween season is beginning. 
Yes, there are those folks that do not love Halloween as much as the rest of us.
Well WE LOVE IT.
In the coming days and weeks we are going to begin posting more for the season and discuss the many new things available for the new season.
Technology has made it possible for newer props to be more sophisticated whit more than just one movement. Also, many props seem to have not increased much in price or lowered in price. This will make things great for the year!
Halloween 2011 is coming soon! We have to accept that the 2010 Halloween season is over.
The holidays have come and gone. Some of us even received a few presents for Christmas of Halloween props. You know that you are a big fan when the holidays are still about your favorite season.
Each of the past few years have been better than the last for Halloween enthusiasts. 2011 will be even better with the large amount of people online, better technology and better props.
Get ready…. Halloween 2011 is coming!
Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in the American holiday calendar. Halloween costumes have not always been worn. The origins of Halloween go back thousands of years to the Celtic people of Ireland and Britain. The ancient Celts had a different calendar than the one we use today, and on the Celtic calendar the new year started on November 1. The night before was called Samhain, and it was believed by the Celts that on that night the spirits of the dead would be able to return to the world of living and play tricks on the living. The Celts used to carve gourds, which are small squashes, into scary faces instead of pumpkins. They would put lit candles in the gourds to light them up and scare away the spirits.
Halloween today is a fun holiday full of magic and make-believe. The majority of Americans celebrate Halloween by trick or treating or attending costume parties, giving out treats and watching scary movies. Here are some fun facts about the celebration of Halloween in the US:
1. 38 million children under the age of 13 went trick or treating in 2008. Even though that number wasn’t as high as the number of kids who went trick or treating the year before that is still a lot of kids who did enjoy trick or treating. That number doesn’t include the number of teens and adults who also went trick or treating. You’re never too old to go trick or treating.
2. 93% of households in the US felt that their neighborhoods were safe enough to trick or treat in as of 2008. That number may surprise you, since so many cities and towns now hold supervised trick or treating events at local malls because neighborhood trick or treating is considered to be unsafe. Most of the people surveyed said that they felt very safe taking their kids trick or treating in their own neighborhoods.
3. At last count in 2007 there were more than 110 million occupied homes in the US. That’s a lot of potential candy! Most people think of trick or treating as something that is done from house to house many kids who live in apartments with their parents trick or treat in their apartment buildings where they can get a nice haul of candy without going outside.
4. More than a billion pounds of pumpkins are grown for Halloween – All over the country farmers grow huge pumpkin patches just for Halloween. Since pumpkins are the primary decoration for the entire autumn season, not just for Halloween, they are in high demand from the end of September to the middle of November. Illinois produced the most pumpkins of any state in 2007.
5. In 2007 Americans ate an average of 24 pounds of candy per person – Can you imagine eating 24 pounds of candy? You probably did, but just didn’t realize it since you didn’t eat it all at once. This Halloween after you go trick or treating weigh your treats to see how many pounds of candy you’re eating that are just from Halloween treats.
Halloween 2010 has come and gone.
It was the best Halloween season EVER! It was great.
Halloween 2011 will be here before we know it. Many people that we know are already thinking of the next season. WE CAN”T WAIT!
We will be here all year preparing for the next season. Happy Halloween!
Halloween Forum has begun to become very busy for the Halloween season.
It seems that every time we visit the site, that there are tons of people searching the site, posting and sharing.
It was only a few years ago when searching the web only turned up a few big fans of our favorite holiday.
The Halloween community is getting better and better both online and off!