Come this time of year, Halloween jack-o’-lantern-shaped food and carved pumpkin ... and apparently Irish people used to carve scary faces on turnips to scare away Stingy Jack's wandering ...

Spooky stories are just as much a part of the Halloween season as witches, jack-o’-lanterns and skeletons. There are scary stories for people of all fright levels—from the safety of a ...

Did you know carved turnips were the original scary lanterns in Ireland for #Halloween? The pumpkin is a later American twist on this tradition. Clodagh Doyle, The Keeper of the folklife ...

This Halloween, get creative with your jack-o’-lantern and get inspired by these pumpkin-carving templates. Once you’ve chosen a scary stencil and cast your eye over these pumpkin carving ...

Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...