Horrifying World Records To Shout About For Halloween!

To celebrate Halloween's imminent arrival, we’ve picked our favourite horrifying Halloween-themed world records. Plus, find out how Stikins® name labels can keep your Halloween haul safe and sound.

Truly Terrifying & Seriously Spooky Record Breakers

This year, we're celebrating Halloween with some spooky record breakers (beware, content ahead contains A LOT of pumpkins!).

• Halloween means amazing costumes. World records for the largest group of people in a particular costume include: 15,458 zombies, 2,495 scarecrows, 2,018 skeletons, 2,000 angels, 1,607 witches, 1,580 superheroes, 1,369 vampires, 1,024 ghosts, 878 fairies, and 804 dinosaurs.
• Halloween parties often involve bobbing for apples. World records include: 37 apples bobbed in a minute, 361 apples bobbed in three minutes (by a team of 6), and 597 people apple bobbing at the same time.
• You might also have tried pumpkin carving, which has a number of frighteningly good records.
  American Stephen Clarke owns two pumpkin records; he carved a single pumpkin in 16.47 seconds and carved a tonne of pumpkins in 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 49 seconds. Most pumpkins carved in one hour is 109, most people carving pumpkins simultaneously is 1,060 people, and the longest line of carved pumpkins featured 4,164 pumpkins. At the other end of the scale, the most pumpkins smashed in a minute is 52 and most pumpkins smashed just with the elbow in one minute is 31. 
  The world’s largest (and heaviest) Jack O’Lantern was created from a pumpkin with a 642.6cm circumference and weighing 1,246.9kg. Nicknamed "Michael Jordan", the pumpkin was carved with military motifs in honour of Veterans' Day in the US. 
  Other records include the longest tunnel of pumpkins (6.09m) and the most lit Jack O’Lanterns (30,581).
• Have you ever visited a haunted house? The longest outdoor walk-through horror attraction measured 1,933.72m (just over 1.2 miles!). The longest indoor attraction was even longer at 2,189.59m (just over 1.3 miles).
• If scary films are more your thing, you may have noticed that horror films tend to stack up an impressive number of sequels. The (current) record breaker is Witchcraft, a horror franchise featuring 16 films, which also holds the record for most direct sequels (15). The first ever horror film was Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle), which was released on 24 December 1896, while the highest-grossing film is It (2017), which has earned $719,766,009 from cinema releases. Interestingly, the most frequently cursed object featured in horror films is rings (with around 188 films), followed by dolls and books.
• The largest gathering at a Halloween event was a truly terrifying 17,777.
• Finally, it’s time for some record breaking ghosts!
  The oldest drawing of a ghost appears on a Babylonian clay tablet thought to be around 3,500 years old. The tablet describes how to send ghosts to the afterlife and depicts a female figure leading a male ghost back to the underworld.
  The oldest ghost could be 220 million years old! Ghost Ranch in Arriba County, New Mexico is home to a serpentine ghost. Around 6-9 metres long, locals named it Vivaron (snake demon). Early sightings were initially dismissed as folklore until 1947, when palaeontologist Edwin H. Colbert unearthed many prehistoric fossils nearby. One belonged to a 9-metre-long creature from the Triassic Period called a phytosaur, leading to speculation that the ghost could belong to one of these ancient creatures.
  

Keep Your Halloween Stash Safe & Sound With Stikins® Name Labels

As multipurpose name labels, Stikins® labels work on a frighteningly wide range of items, including your Halloween bags, boxes, and other treat-carrying devices – preventing terrifying tantrums over which sweets belong to whom! They’re also a great way to label costumes or a change of clothes if you’re planning a spooky sleepover.

We make our stick on name labels with a unique adhesive, which forms strong bonds with a range of surface types. This includes soft, flexible fabrics and hard, flat or curved plastics. You simply peel each label carefully off the backing sheet and apply firmly onto your item.

Apply your name labels onto the wash-care label of clothing, not directly onto the fabric. In shoes, avoid applying your labels directly below the heel. We recommend using the side wall or beneath the tongue.

To order your own horrifyingly good name labels, you can order online at any time or by phone during office hours (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm). We offer four pack sizes of 30, 60, 90, or 120 name labels. We print and post orders same working day (order by 3pm) or next working day (orders placed after 3pm or over the weekend). All orders are posted by Royal Mail's first class service and delivery is free.

Whatever your plans for All Hallow’s Eve
We Wish You All A Spooktacular Halloween!