Halloween Informative Essay
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Halloween dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago and has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts, vampires, and other frighteningly mysterious objects, identities, places, and deeds.
In America, today, while Halloween has evolved into a celebration mainly characterized by child-friendly activities, such as costumes, trick-or-treating fun and fall holiday activities to carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, and apple bobbing….there is still a spooky edge to the tradition.
This year, if you and your family looking for some fun travel adventures, fright walks, haunted houses and other frightening places to spend Halloween, here are a few places around the country that may just scare the spook right out of …show more content…
is the resting place of America’s most famous and infamous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” still resounds throughout the country…
Valentines_Day_Massacre
Pictured above: 2122 North Clark St, Chicago, IL (St. Valentines Day Massacre)
Chicago, IL is up to its neck in bloody gangster history and violence and that’s not just from 1929’s Valentine’s Day massacre…courtesy Al Capone …
Athens, OH where The Ridges/Athens Lunatic Asylum, ‘operated’ from 1874 until 1993… practicing lobotomy was a specialty…
Galveston, Texas where the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 took some 8,000 lives…
Kill Devil Hills, N.C. dating back to the Colonial era, where shipwrecks were common on the shores and rum runners ran amok… in the very sand dunes where the Wright Brothers made their first flight…
Park City, Colorado bears the briefest of witness to a discovery of Silver sometime prior to 1880…and where there are scores of charred old foundations and walls of cabins still standing… abandoned in 1884…or was it? Judge for yourselves by the sounds of unidentified haunting…
Death Valley, CA…probably haunted and possibly hot with a trail of
Halloween dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago and has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts, vampires, and other frighteningly mysterious objects, identities, places, and deeds.
In America, today, while Halloween has evolved into a celebration mainly characterized by child-friendly activities, such as costumes, trick-or-treating fun and fall holiday activities to carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, and apple bobbing….there is still a spooky edge to the tradition.
This year, if you and your family looking for some fun travel adventures, fright walks, haunted houses and other frightening places to spend Halloween, here are a few places around the country that may just scare the spook right out of …show more content…
is the resting place of America’s most famous and infamous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” still resounds throughout the country…
Valentines_Day_Massacre
Pictured above: 2122 North Clark St, Chicago, IL (St. Valentines Day Massacre)
Chicago, IL is up to its neck in bloody gangster history and violence and that’s not just from 1929’s Valentine’s Day massacre…courtesy Al Capone …
Athens, OH where The Ridges/Athens Lunatic Asylum, ‘operated’ from 1874 until 1993… practicing lobotomy was a specialty…
Galveston, Texas where the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 took some 8,000 lives…
Kill Devil Hills, N.C. dating back to the Colonial era, where shipwrecks were common on the shores and rum runners ran amok… in the very sand dunes where the Wright Brothers made their first flight…
Park City, Colorado bears the briefest of witness to a discovery of Silver sometime prior to 1880…and where there are scores of charred old foundations and walls of cabins still standing… abandoned in 1884…or was it? Judge for yourselves by the sounds of unidentified haunting…
Death Valley, CA…probably haunted and possibly hot with a trail of