Oct 29 Happy Halloween! Here's an hour-long, 4K jack-o'-lantern video for you By Colleen Shalby Feeling too lazy this Halloween to carve your own pumpkin? Thinking that Jack-O-Lantern clean-up really isn’t worth jack? Have we got the solution for you!… Continue reading
Oct 16 5 Halloween costumes that prove 2015 is a weird year By Larisa Epatko Remember earlier this year the hype around “left shark,” the floppy dancer in Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime act? Halloween costume options have only gotten weirder. Continue reading
Oct 31 The other Ebola scare: the rising cost of chocolate By Santi Falcone With Ebola inducing fears about West Africa's cocoa supply, truffle maker Santi Falcone is paying agribusiness giant Cargill more than he ever has for chocolate. And because he just signed a one-year contract, the pinch Falcone is feeling won't let… Continue reading
Oct 31 8 things you didn't know about Halloween By Ruth Tam 1. It was the baby boomers who made trick or treating what it is today. A movement to start trick or treating began in the late 20s and early 30s. But, according to Susan Whiteside of the National… Continue reading
Oct 31 #insidenewshour By News Desk Happy Halloween! We hope it's spooktacular pic.twitter.com/jhl1PxtDMG — NewsHour (@NewsHour) October 31, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 31 Patrick Stewart nods to Boston on Halloween? By News Desk Happy Halloween. pic.twitter.com/ugLBMzAeNF — Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) October 31, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 30 Boo! Pew survey reveals 18 percent of Americans believe in ghosts By News Desk Photo by Flickr user Joe Penniston A ghoulish devil, a deceased relative, the girl who was killed by a drunk driver. These are some of the phantoms that nearly one in five American adults claim to have seen… Continue reading
Oct 30 The legend of the 'War of the Worlds' By News Desk On Halloween Eve, Oct. 30, 1938, a 23-year-old Orson Welles narrated the "War of the Worlds," an adaptation of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel of the same name. The dramatization, aired over the CBS Radio network, of a Martian invasion… Continue reading
Oct 30 Twitter Chat: How are superstitions created? By Bridget Shirvell PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT each Thursday. Join us @NewsHour using the hashtag #NewsHourChats Photo via Flickr user Feliciano Guimarães. Don't walk under that ladder, or let that black cat… Continue reading
Oct 29 View the 11 creepiest objects in the Smithsonian collection this Halloween By News Desk History can be a bit creepy. The Smithsonian National Musuem of American History has curated "11 collection objects giving us the creeps this Halloween." We're not sure which is worse, the Victorian-era wreath made out of human hair, or… Continue reading