Now in the Boos...

Now for Some Halloween news for ya...

In Florence, South Carolina, A hayride that happened for no reason(except for the fact that nothing else was going on) went bad. An 18 wheeler slammed into the tractor pulling a flatbed trailer, killing 4 and injuring 14. The Flatbed had no lights, but on the brighter and more morbid side, in years to come, it will make a great urban legend for the local area.

In Waco, Tx, a Baptist Pastor was electrocuted while inside his church Sunday morning when he adjusted a nearby microphone while standing in water. He Died. The woman he was trying to baptize hadn't stepped in yet, so she was unharmed. One member says, "We use microphones all the time during baptisms and this has never happened." Well try stepping away from the Cadillac Dealer, and instead purchase some wireless microphones. Now this speaks to 3 points.
1) Baptists are not very intelligent. (I know....Duh)
2) They will all say this happened for a reason, but I bet they cant find a good one to give you.
3) technically I guess it is impossible that this guy died anyway, since to have done so he needed opposable thumbs, and the Baptists don't believe in evolution, So I guess "God took him". Dumbass.

A mystery phantom smell is haunting New York City. Residents say it smells like maple syrup. I know what the real source is. Some gang put a cap in Mrs. Butterworths head and the smell is her ghost haunting the city with her sweet buttery smell.

A poll shows more Britons believe in ghosts than in God. Interesting....

BEWARE of candy laced with poison and needles and razors. NOT! This semi Urban Legend flys around every year. I don't know that it has ever really happened, and if it has, it was very Isolated. If this type of thing happened like people thought it did, there wouldn't be so many damn kids running around, in fact, there wouldn't be so many Damn adults running around either.

And now, some Jack'O Lantern Halloween Lore:

It was said that if a demon were to encounter something as fiendish looking as themselves, they would run away in terror.
In Ireland - the tradition was to carve out turnips, but now it seems pumpkins are all the rage.
According to folklore, the Jack O'Lantern is named after a blacksmith Stingy Jack who tricked the devil into paying for his drinks.
Unable to enter heaven or hell when he died, the devil threw him a burning ember.
He was left to wander the earth carrying it about inside a turnip - or should that be a pumpkin?
Ronald Greenway grows up to 10 acres of turnips near Dungannon in County Tyrone.
Hallowe'en used to be his busiest time - but not any more.
"When I was small, I didn't know what a pumpkin was really, so I suppose we used the next best thing, a turnip."
At the Ulster American Folk Park - they have been growing pumpkins in the run-up to their Halloween festival.
Irish immigrants took the tradition of the Jack O'Lantern with them to America, as Rachel Craig, an interpreter at the park explains.
"In Ireland, people cut out heads and faces of turnips and hid them in the hedgerows as a prank during Halloween and they would have carried the tradition over to America."
But when they arrived in the New World, they just could not find any turnips, so they used pumpkins instead.
And now that Halloween has become more commercial, the American tradition has become more common.
Liam Corry, the assistant curator of the Ulster American Folk Park, says folklore is constantly evolving.
"Each generation creates its own folklore drawing on the traditions of the past and also the needs of the present.
"So with Halloween, it started off as a commercial sort of thing and pumpkins were introduced from America for creating a bit of atmosphere."
But perhaps the proof as to why pumpkins are more popular now is in the eating.
Once you have scooped out a pumpkin you can make pumpkin pie or pumpkin soup.
While the good old turnip, well, you can make turnip surprise.