NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Things that go bump in the night. A chill that runs down your spine. The hair on the back of your neck that stands up. Your heart starts beating a bit faster.
All these symptoms and more one can expect as "All Hallow's Eve" approaches. Of the many ways to share with the festivities of the ghouls and goblins, 1010 WINS presents this guide to help steer you around the ghosts and witches.
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Some Red Cross Halloween Safety Tips
As if watching for tampered candy wasn't scary enough for revelers on Halloween. The Red Cross says children are four times more likely to be hit by a vehicle on Halloween than on any other day of the year. Thousands of children will be out trick-or-treating after dark on Halloween, which comes two days after the end of Daylight Savings Time. The American Red Cross offers these guidelines to make the evening fun and safer... Read More
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Staten Island President's Halloween Safety Tips
In a continuing effort to keep fun in Halloween, Borough President James P. Molinaro today asked local businesses to restrict the sale of shaving cream and eggs to adults only on this upcoming Monday and Tuesday.
"We want to keep fun in Halloween and kids are entitled to enjoy themselves in the spirit of the holiday," said Molinaro. Read More
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Consumer Report's Halloween Safety Tips
Keep trick-or-treaters scary and safe this Halloween with Consumer Reports (CR) tips for costuming, pumpkin carving, and protecting those little goblins who can't wait to haunt the neighborhood in search of goodies and other ghouls. The Babies and kids section at Consumer Reports presents unbiased advice to help parents keep trick-or-treating a safe, enjoyable family experience this year. Read More
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Halloween Video Game Fun
It really shouldn't be that hard to scare up a few new video games for Halloween. Most titles on store shelves already seem to involve some level of gory first-person bloodletting anyway.
But violence and gore alone do not always haunt the senses. Here are some new titles out and how well they approach the fright game. Read More
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A Look at Halloween Costumes & Safety
With Halloween and trick-or-treating almost here, Angie's List asked its members to share a little about their plans for marking the holiday. "Halloween can be great fun, no matter your age," says Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List. "It's a favorite among kids and it brings out the kid in adults, in fact, 66 percent of our poll respondents said they'd spend up to two hours creating costumes this year for themselves or their kids." Read More
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19th-Century Manhattan Haunted House
The young man bent over his dying father in the dimly lit room, trying to hear the slightest breath. It was too late. Seabury Tredwell was gone forever, lying motionless in his bed. For the next few days, the perfume of lillies drifted through the Manhattan town house as the wealthy merchant's body lay in a coffin in the front parlor. After all, there was no embalming in 19th-century New York and the odor of decay had to be masked. Read More
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Nightmare: A NYC Haunted House
You'll never sleep well again. That come-on line is meant to lure Halloween-minded adults to "Nightmare", 13 high-tech Manhattan rooms filled with terror. And it's so ghastly that no one under 16 is admitted without a guardian. The gimmick is to walk spectators from one room to another, sometimes through dank, narrow passages, as they face hair-raising scenes. Sprinkled with fake blood and real curses, the rooms feature live rats (behind plexiglass), a demented clown, and a little girl who disappears under her bed, among other alarming encounters. Read More
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Halloween Tour of Brooklyn Cemetery
Gather 'round, boys and girls, for a titillating Halloween tale: The Petrified Body of Lake Placid. Mabel Douglass was the first dean of the New Jersey College for Women, which was renamed in her honor back in 1955. But in 1933, she was a retiree who went out in a canoe one day, and simply disappeared. Thirty years later, on a shelf about 90 feet down in the lake, her perfectly preserved body was discovered by divers. Her petrified remains were finally interred in Brooklyn's Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, where Mabel Douglass rests to this day. Read More
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Some Additional Links for Halloween Fun
Still not enough frights and screams for you? Well, who are we to calm your adrenaline levels. Here, for your frightening pleasures, are some more additional links to haunted Houses, Parades, Things to do, etc....
Have a spook-tacular time.....Read More
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