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Spooky Sonnet

Spooky Sonnet

By Maggie Koontz, Senior Staff Columnist October 31, 2018
Obey the laws on Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, because not everything is what it seems. That night the veil between the worlds becomes quite obsolete.
The Early American Nationality Room is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Martha Jane Poe McDaniel.

City of steel is a city of scares

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer October 31, 2018

Pitt students looking for a haunt don’t have to look far. Pittsburgh is home to several haunted locations for those looking for a scare all year long, including one of Pitt’s own Cathedral of Learning...

“Snap-Apple Night,” painted by Daniel Maclise, depicts divination games that would be played on Samhain.

The tricks, treats and traditions of Halloween

By Remy Samuels, Staff Writer October 31, 2018

It’s hard to believe that consuming mounds of Snickers and Kit Kat bars every Oct. 31 hasn’t always been a part of the Halloween tradition. In fact, the holiday used to be far from the hoarding of...

Davis Kuhn and Josie Manns dressed up as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy from “Spongebob, and Jonah Walston and Brittany Zortman went as Baby and Deborah from “Baby Driver.” (Photo courtesy of Sarah Connor)

Eerie ensembles: College students craft costumes at home

By Sarah Connor, Staff Writer October 31, 2017

Students dressed up in outfits ranging from cartoon characters to sexy nuns walked to and from Sorrento’s and mingled in Oakland basements this weekend — but one student in particular stuck out from...

Video by UPTV

Students prepare to scare: Holland haunts with 8 spooky themes

By Anna Bongardino | Contributing Editor October 31, 2017

Students covered in blood shrieked cries for help in the tunnels beneath the Schenley Quad residence halls Sunday night. Other students filed through the tunnels, anxiously clutching each other’s...

(Illustration by Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator)

Movie murderers make killer crushes

In a darkened movie theater, a pale face appears, grinning evilly from the depths of a sewer grate. A masked man in a dark jumpsuit stalks menacingly down a corridor with a knife. A creepy loner stares...

Crew members set up the iconic cage scene from the Silence of the Lambs at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum last October. (Photo by Wenhao Wu | Assistant Visual Editor)

Staff picks: Halloween movies

By TPN Staff October 23, 2017

With hundreds of thousands of Halloween titles to rifle through online, the thought of missing out on the spookiest movies can be frightening. And with Halloween in about a week, there isn’t a better...

The entire month of October is jam-packed with trips to pumpkin patches, scary movie marathons and Halloween parties. (Illustration by Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator)

Frightening Functions

By TPN Staff October 18, 2017

The entire month of October is often laden with trips to pumpkin patches, nights spent watching scary movies under piles of blankets and parties where everyone shows off their handmade Halloween costumes. And...

courtesy of Kurt Miller

A spirited affair: “Fright Night” draws mix of actors, Halloween enthusiasts

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer October 29, 2015

For some people, Halloween doesn’t end with childhood. Every fall season for the past 14 years, local amusement park Kennywood has drawn actors with varying experience to dress up and scare visitors...

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