Halloween Archive

No trick: 2,000 kids knocking on White House door

WASHINGTON It's the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.

This year it's the big gated place on Pennsylvania Avenue, No. 1600. Welcome to the White House, boys and girls.

Have you got your scream on at Busch Gardens?

Through Nov. 1 every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, visit Busch Gardens in Williamsburg for a ghoulishly-good time during Howl-O-Scream. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Blogger: Paranormal Activity

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More than 100 "zombies" crowd MacArthur Center

NORFOLK

It took the Compton family nearly three hours to get ready for their visit to MacArthur Center on Sunday.

They arrived at the mall’s Barnes & Noble at TCC Bookstore from Hampton to check in for the World Zombie Day costume contest and then headed to the AT&T store for a cell phone plan, Joe Compton said.

Suggestion powers 'Paranormal Activity' phenom

 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The no-budget ghost story "Paranormal Activity" arrives 10 years after "The Blair Witch Project," and the two horror movies share more than a clever construct and shaky, handheld camerawork.

Zombie crawl through the mall today

Generic Theater, TCC Barnes & Noble and MacArthur Center Mall unleash Norfolk's first-ever zombie mall crawl today, Oct. 11, 2009, to celebrate World Zombie Day inside MacArthur Center Mall. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Freaks come out at N.C. fright nights

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Wednesday morning, in broad daylight with police officers standing around, Alpha Witch was too frightened to retrieve her legal pad full of important notes sitting on top of the coffin. "I'm scared to death of this place," said Jeannie Young who plays Alpha Witch, one of the primary greeters at Elizabeth City Fright Nights.

Meet Dr. Madblood, watch a horror-movie marathon

Monster Fest, the annual celebration of classic monsters and horror in film and literature held at the Chesapeake Central Library, will feature Dr. Madblood - not pictured (He's a little goofier) - and a horror-movie marathon tonight! Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Local bands rock the Pfac on Halloween

Rock the Center is scheduled just in time to celebrate Halloween with Christopher Newport University students, but is also geared toward families, Pfac members, seasoned hipsters, music connoisseurs and individuals interested in the local music scene.Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Blog: Recipe - Truly frightening jack-o-lantern

Um. Did we miss another memo?

I just got a pitch from the people over at duct tape. They are advocating that instead of carving a jack-o-lantern this Halloween, we should decorate our pumpkins with duct tape. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!