Folks who live in Manitou Springs, Colorado have a strange way of celebrating Halloween each year- they dress up and race decorated coffins down the street.

The Emma Crawford Coffin Races are a yearly tradition which is named after a woman whose coffin-ated body washed down Red Mountain during a flood.

Now the townspeople celebrate her memory by dressing up, some in clothing inspired by the late Ms. Crawford, parading their fancy coffins down the street then teams race their "Emma" down the 195-yard track for a trophy, bragging rights, and a $50 gift certificate for the local shops.

Sounds like a fun way to spend the afterlife!

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The Ghostbusters will be well represented at your Halloween party with popcorn slimed up with tasty green ectoplasm! Don't be afraid to eat it; it's made of white chocolate and cream. Read how to make your own with instructions from Suzie the Foodie. Link -via Laughing Squid

Answer any and all situations with one of these Halloween reaction GIFs, and kiss the need for all normal responses goodbye.

You'll find a reaction for everything Halloween on the list, from when someone doesn't understand what your costume is to when you're doing the Monster Mash, and each animated nugget will fill the viewer with happiness...or disgust...

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Any video that starts with the movie guy voice saying something like "In a quiet town..." is already funny, but when you add chopped up clips from the hilarious TV show Modern Family you've got comedy gold in the making!

Hit play and you'll hear the tale of Fizbo the Clown, a clown so tough, so terrifying, that he'll make you wish you were never born...

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If you're tired of throwing away all those pumpkin seeds after carving up your pumpkin then you should take a gander at these delicous recipes that involve, you guessed it, pumpkin seeds.

Making these delicious pumpkin seed enhanced food items will give you a break from all that candy you've been gobbling up on a daily basis, so maybe there'll be some left over for the trick-or-treaters!

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This Philip J. Fry pumpkin cuts right to the chase, and when trick-or-treaters are given an order they listen, or else they get no candy...

Silly humans and their holiday traditions, flaming pumpkins are for dancing not handing out candy!

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Tim Curry has certainly been typecast throughout the years as a bad, bad boy, and movie lovers wouldn't have it any other way.

Take a look at Mr. Curry's wide range of wrong, from the terrifying Pennywise to the laughably androgynous Frank N. Furter, and you'll see why Tim really floats our Halloween boat!

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Puppet films with an all puppet cast are few and far between, and puppet horror movies are virtually unheard of, which is why Chompers is such an important film.

The puppet community will finally have their chance to show the world that they can die dramatically like everyone else, perhaps forcing the Oscars to add a few more categories...

By the way- this trailer is in 3D so if you happen to have a pair of those old red and blue lens 3D glasses sitting around put them on and prepare to be wowed!

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This looks cool, but keep it away from decorations, hay, and trick-or-treaters. And be aware that it will smell like flaming pumpkin. -Thanks, Dave!  

Be forewarned- this isn't a very fun article, and it kinda goes against the Halloween traditions of munching on gobs of goodies and sampling all sorts of sweet treats, but since health and diet are a big issue for a lot of people these days we've decided to play devil's advocate and share these healthy tips on resisting Halloween candy.

Whether you choose to heed this advice or not is entirely up to you, but if not then let's unite and eat candy!

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Pumpkin Maestros is an interesting look at the jack-o-lantern art studio Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, and these guys really live up to their name!

Marc Evan and Chris Soria are highly skilled artisans who know how to skin a pumpkin right, so the light shines through where they want it to and the whole thing looks all pretty gruesome for Halloween.

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Here's a world record for you to file under "Mathematical" and/or "Why?"-the most digits of Pi ever carved into a pumpkin.

Tai Star managed to carve 66 digits of Pi into what is now officially the world's nerdiest pumpkin. I've heard of making pumpkin Pi but this is ridiculous!

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Those of you who can't wait until Thanksgiving to bring a big old turkey home with you should keep an eye out for anyone wearing this costume.

Once you get past the ridiculous exterior you might find that Tom isn't such a turkey after all...

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I have always been fascinated by the steampunk community, but I don't think I really understood why until now. Why make everything look so odd? Because you can! This Ghostbusters Proton Pack is made by Grant Wilson on Deviantart. Grant, where can I get one?

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Just in time for Halloween, here comes the "headless" ladybug:

Ross Winton, a former entomology grad student at Montana State University (MSU), found the bug in a trap he set up in a sand dune in southwest Montana. He initially thought the tiny tan insect was just part of an ant or a bug with its head missing.

But upon further examination, Winton identified the one-millimeter-long insect as a male ladybird beetle, or ladybug, and found that it wasn't actually headless — its head was just hidden inside a tube in its thorax, much like a turtle that has its head tucked back into its shell.

Now let's see if it can entertain passers-by in San Luis Obispo like a certain headless magician.

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