Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31 ... traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, during which people lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off ghosts.

(Stacker) — Halloween, or All Hallows’ Eve, is a holiday that has come to be celebrated by people dressing up in all manner of costumes, carving pumpkins, and satiating sugar cravings.

Languages: English. October 31 marks Halloween, the spooky holiday that has grown in popularity in recent years. Millions of people celebrate Halloween each year, but many of them don't know the ...

Every passing year, celebrating Halloween may not be the same as it would have been as a child but bit by bit I'm understanding the immense joy people have in masquerading as an entirely different ...

NEW YORK-- It doesn't appear the economic squeeze is going to scare away people celebrating Halloween. The National Retail Federation predicts Americans will shell out $10.5 billion on costumes ...

Nineteen percent of adults younger than 45 years old and 40 percent of older Americans don’t have plans for Halloween, the poll revealed. The most popular ways people reported celebrating ...

Read the latest updates on this story here. A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 153 ...

As many as 100,000 people were celebrating in a popular nightlife district in the center of the South Korean capital. By Choe Sang-Hun Chang Che and John Yoon SEOUL — A raucous Halloween ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The narrow street in Seoul's popular Itaewon neighborhood was already packed with people celebrating Halloween as high school student Eunseo Kim and her friend pushed ...