What the Abominable Snowman is to Asia, or Bigfoot is to America, the Nandi Bear is to Africa. It is one of the most notorious of those legendary beasts which have, so far, eluded capture and the collector's rifle.

Halloween was shot in only 21 days in 1978 on a very limited budget. The movie was shot in the Spring and used fake autumn leaves.

In 1917, novelist Emily Grand Hutchings claimed that her book Jap Herron was dictated by Mark Twain himself, from whom she started receiving messages 2 years prior to the release of the book. 13 years before she started writing the book with the help of a Ouija board, Hutchings corresponded with Twain via letters, mostly asking his advice on writing.

In 1995, the Mars candy company decided that having two shades of brown M&Ms were unnecessary, so they did away with the light brown ones, leaving only the colors red, yellow, green, dark brown, and orange. Mars held a replacement contest, inviting candy lovers to call a 1-800 number and vote for their favorite color: blue, pink, or purple. Blue won, and M&M's haven't looked the same since.

Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, Carrie revolves around the eponymous Carrie White, a misfit and bullied high school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her.

Transylvania is a historical region located in what is today the central part of Romania. In the English-speaking world it is commonly associated with vampires, due to the influence of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

A person born on Halloween can see and talk to spirits.

First Lady Dolley Madison planted the famous White House rose garden in the early 1800s, and then 100 years later, First Lady Ellen Wilson requested the garden be dug up. But garden workers reported that Dolley Madison's ghost appeared and refused to let them tear up her garden. Since then, an unexplained smell of roses is sometimes experienced inside the White House.

When the zombies are eating the bodies in the burnt-out truck they were actually eating roast ham covered in chocolate sauce. The filmmakers joked that it was so nausea inducing that it was almost a waste of time putting the makeup on the zombies, as they ended up looking pale and sick anyway.

If you see a ghost, walk around it nine times, and it will disappear.