Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient precursor to Halloween, Samhain commemorates the end of the harvest and the onset of the "dark half" of the year. As ...

Kindergarten students in 1952 race out of school in Los Angeles, eager to celebrate Halloween. Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images “It’s alive!” Dr. Frankenstein cried as his ...

Halloween today is about candy, costumes, and spooky fun, with children dressed as superheroes and princesses going door-to-door collecting treats. At the same time, adults attend parties and decorate ...

As the leaves turn vibrant autumn shades, temperatures drop, and you start to pull out sweaters and jackets, it's time to deck out your porch with pumpkins and get to carving. Halloween, celebrated on ...

You eat the candy. You buy the costumes. Practically everyone has celebrated Halloween in some way, shape or form. But have you ever wondered why we carve pumpkins and trick or treat? Turns out ...

Scary-looking pumpkins, mysterious ghosts, blood-sucking vampires and costumed trick-or-treaters are ubiquitous signs of the spookiest holiday of the year. Whether you are haunting graveyards, ...

Editor's note: This story previously misstated in which month All Souls' Day falls. You eat the candy. You buy the costumes. Practically everyone has celebrated Halloween in some way, shape or form.

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How was Halloween invented? – Tillman, age 9, ...