Craziest Origins Behind Your Favorite Halloween Traditions

Like so many parts of mainstream culture, children appropriated wearing costumes from the drag community.

Invented by corporations to sell scented candles.

Woven into the tapestry of American history

We’re actually not sure where these come from. They kind of just show up on their own.

These mini-candies came into being after dozens of children and parents were killed fighting over a 50-foot Kit Kat.

This is a godly household. We do Halloween a little differently.

Took off immediately after it was realized that this is an easy way to gather a bunch of people together to murder them.

This started when a portal opened up at midnight on Halloween above a normal suburban town and closed exactly 24 hours later just as people emerged.

This spooky fad swept the nation in the 1960s and remains a nostalgic mainstay of the Halloween season.

Before the advent of the wheel, broomsticks were the most common form of transportation.

Look at that little one dressed like a panda. It’d be nice to take a kiddo trick-or-treating, but you chose another path, and most days you’re fine with it. It’s just hard every now and then.

This famous Halloween tradition was started after a hay-stuffed man was crucified in the 1st century for claiming he was the son of God.

Fucking bitch. She doesn’t even know the first thing about being Michael Myers.

One Halloween Grandpa started shimmying around with a Twizzler in each hand and everyone felt obligated to be like, “Woo! Go Grandpa!” even though it was a little sad.

A rich holiday tradition you’re pioneering right now.

Many will be surprised to learn that his longtime Halloween pastime originated with the release of Friday the 13th in 1980.

The tradition of screaming at one’s partner while dressed in costumes originated between a couple in 1920 and quickly turned into a popular annual ritual to abruptly end the evening.

What? You don’t do this? Guess you’re not a true Halloween believer, like us.

Fuck it, let’s get him.

Yeah, the pagans actually felt the same way and kinda grew out of it after a while.