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2,000 years ago celebration took place by a big bonfire on October 31.

Halloween has a deep history behind the root of the holiday

Abby Kearns, Managing Editor September 26, 2024

Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31. Halloween is full of costumes, candy, and jack-o-lanterns now, but, Halloween began many years ago with different traditions. Halloween's origins date...

Fall is a cozy season full of color exciting films

Autumn is a great time to rewatch spooky, cozy classics

Isabella Pacotti, Writer October 25, 2023

Fall is here, bringing cooler days and beautiful colors. With fall comes movies, and without fail, popular media is always re-watched during this time as a bit of a kickstart to the spooky season. Here...

Halloween and Day of the Dead are often compared, which can leave the Day of the Dead in disregard.

Halloween and Day of the Dead are separate holidays often mixed up

Savanah Bayer, Content Editor November 1, 2021

During the season of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, it is important to understand these two holidays are separate and aren't celebrated the same way. Halloween includes people dressing up as anything...

Just like Samhain, Halloween is observed on October 31st. Samhain believed this was the day the worlds of the dead and the living converged.

Halloween has unique historical roots

Melia Sloss, Copy and Design Editor October 31, 2021

Halloween — a holiday with a unique twist. Instead of warming up alongside a chestnut fire or confessing your feelings to a lover, you’re instead running for your life in a corn maze, followed by...

Though I enjoy and love all holidays of the year, I have a few select favorites.

Halloween or Valentine’s Day? Your favorite holidays ranked

Arizona Lee, Editor-in-Chief February 8, 2021

Oh, holidays. Every single one has those who love it and those who despise it, trying to distract themselves on that day to avoid getting involved with anything holiday-related. And from all the people...

40 years after the events of Halloween (1978), Michael Myers returns for another chilling set of murders on his quest to finish off Laurie Strode

40 years after the events of Halloween (1978), Michael Myers returns for another chilling set of murders on his quest to finish off Laurie Strode

Matthew Silbernagel, Content Editor October 24, 2018

40 years later, and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is still petrified after the murders of her friends in 1978. She is now a grandmother, with two failed marriages and a daughter (Karen) who wants nothing...

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