Boo! Did we scare you? Happy Halloween, y鈥檃ll! Little ghosts and goblins will be robbing you of candy soon. But, once your kiddos go to sleep, you can always pick through their loot.
To get you in the mood, here鈥檚 a frightening Halloween roundup. (OK, it鈥檚 not too scary 鈥� we are public media, after all 鈥�)
Take a haunted house tour! Everyone loves a good scare, especially this time of year. Internationally-known photojournalist got a behind-the-scenes look at one of the largest haunted house attractions in North Texas, a place called , which is east of Dallas in Terrell and a perennial favorite. Keasler talks about her photos, in the October 2015 issue of D Magazine. It's still scary. North Texas haunted house ideas 鈥� if you dare!
Why are haunted houses so scary? Did you know professional haunted houses use high-tech scare methods to make you scream? Even neuroscientist , who works at the University of Texas at Dallas, is spooked out by the strange growls. She says that gut reaction is your flight-or-fight response kicking in, which is controlled by a part of the brain called the amygdala. 鈥� if you can handle it!
Ready to get your spook on? It's prime time to take tours of dirty, dark haunted houses, filled with cobwebs, ghosts, mysterious noises, bloodcurdling screams and kooky creatures. But remember 鈥� you might not get out alive. And if you do, the hair-raising experience could haunt your dreams for years to come.
Forget ghosts and goblins. Nothing strikes fear quite like death, which is why there are a lot of superstitions about it. Those superstitions are the focus of a book called Author Ken Untiedt is a professor at Stephen F. Austin University and he鈥檚 with the . He talks about coffins, why we wear black at funerals and why we鈥檙e so freaked out about death. Are you scared stiff yet?
Even nursery rhymes are frightening! Themes in many child-like rhymes can range from infanticide to political treachery. When you find out what most of these poems are really about, it can be downright scary.
Ready for D铆a de los Muertos? Texas Standard reports: 鈥淚t's been a recent switch, but D铆a de los Muertos (at least in Texas) is no longer what it once was: a solemn remembrance of those who've left us. For better or worse, nowadays it's a pop-culture extravaganza.鈥� from a Texas Standard producer into La Catrina 鈥� freaky!
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四虎影院's , , , Therese Powell and contributed to this roundup.
