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History of Halloween

Halloween , or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" , carving Jack-o'-lanterns , reading scary stories and watching horror movies . Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century.

Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland (where it originated), the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and occasionally in ...

Halloween in People's Republic of China

There is no Halloween in Chinese culture, but there is a similar Chinese holiday called Ghost Festival . The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday, which is celebrated by Chinese people in many countries.

In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 14th night of the seventh lunar month, which is called Ghost Day. In ...

House of Torment, Austin, Texas

This Halloween experience House of Torment's new vision that will forever change "The Haunted House."

House of Torment: Contagium is brand new for 2008 and is regarded by the Haunted House industry as one of the most innovative haunted attractions in the country.

It features over the top sets, intense acrobatics, and state of the art animatronics taking the customer through a devastated post apocalyptic city infested with mayhem and chaos.

Praised by its peers for its design and innovation, House of Torment: Contagium, is considered to be one of the top haunted houses in the country.

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