Carving jack-o'-lanterns started long before the legend of the Headless Horseman. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Cindy Ott, author of "Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon." ...

Oct. 21—The origin of the practice of carving scary faces in pumpkins and lighting them from within got its start in Ireland in the early 1600s, when the legend of a shadowy figure began to arise ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — When you think of Halloween decorations and symbols, probably one of the first images that comes to mind is the Jack-o’-Lantern. While it mainly began from Irish tradition, the ...

“In every ancient pagan tradition worldwide, people honor their dead, their ancestors,” says Cerridwen Fallingstar, Witch, teacher, and author of Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey through ...

The horrible history of Halloween goes back around 2 millennia to the Celtic festival of Samhain. Learn all about it.

Popping up each October, pumpkin patches play their seasonal role as Halloween theme parks. Five in Central Arkansas are ...

Where did the idea of carving pumpkins come from anyway? You might be surprised to hear the glorious gourds weren’t the first choice in produce for the earliest jack-o-lanterns. On Cincinnati Edition, ...

Pumpkins are a harvest symbol and part of our nostalgia for a simpler time. But while the word "pumpkin" has been around for ...

Halloween is coming to Augusta, and the USA Today Network is making a gallery of cool jack-o-lanterns in Georgia. Here's how ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Starting Friday, guests will be able to enjoy the thousands of intricately carved pumpkins at the Roger Williams Park Zoo’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. This year’s ...