THE ULTIMATE OCTOBER BUCKET LIST
Just in case you’re looking for something to do this spooky season, look no further! Please submit suggestions and additions if you have them 🎃
SEPTEMBER 1ST
Begin reading A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazney
Choose an Inktober Challenge
OCTOBER 1st-31st
Put together a scary playlist, or check out a pre-made one! ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKkteYcz3WqtSTWxrid5ioJMJGLZGsZnj&feature=shared )
Go to a haunted house
Have a festive fall drink—pumpkin spice latte, Halloween-inspired cocktail, apple cider?
Watch a scary movie—like Get Out, Psycho, or Hereditary
Watch a Halloween special— like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Go to a Halloween/scary movie trivia night
Order a Halloween or fall themed mystery/subscription box
Bake Halloween cookies
Go on a ghost tour
Attend a dumb dinner
Buy your Halloween décor
Decorate the house
Compete in a costume contest
Buy Halloween candy
Pick your pumpkins
Carve your pumpkins
Burn a campfire
Tell scary stories
Read some scary stories—like H.P. Lovecraft, Steven King, or Anne Rice
Get lost in a corn maze
Visit a graveyard
Go apple picking
Visit a fall festival
Send old-timey Halloween postcards
Go on a hayride
Do a pumpkin-head photoshoot
Visit a Halloween attraction or theme park—like Halloweentown, OR; or Disneyland, CA
Take a walk to crunch fall leaves
Drive through town and play Halloween decoration bingo
Attend Oktoberfest
Listen to a horror podcast— like The Magnus Archives or Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries
Watch a spooky play—like the Rocky Horror Picture Show or Little Shop of Horrors
Watch some haunting cartoons—like Spooky Month or Villainous (Villanos)
Giant pumpkin regatta/race
Go to some Museum/Zoo Halloween events
Stay overnight in a haunted hotel—like the Skirvin Hotel, OK; or the Overlook Hotel, OR
Get the latest Pokemon Trick or Trade Halloween card packs
Visit a Hot Topic or other ghoulish store
Go ghost hunting
Vote in Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week! ( https://explore.org/fat-bear-week )
Go on a costumed bar crawl
Play a scary videogame—like Cry of Fear or Resident Evil
Play a scary boardgame—like the JAWS boardgame, Shaky Manor, or Betrayal at House on the Hill
Take a (respectful!) tombstone rubbing
Draw for Inktober
Do an old-timey lover’s Halloween premonition
Visit a creepy museum exhibit—like the Museum of Death, CA; or the Jack the Ripper Museum, London
Get a tarot reading or some palmistry
Attend a séance
Try out a Zombie Run or Zombies vs Humans
Enjoy Samhain traditions
Visit a spooky person’s grave—like Lovecraft’s in Providence, RI; or the Paris Catacombs, Paris
Go on a nighttime nature walk and spot some creepy critters—maybe an owl!
Do some history of Halloween research
Make fall themed crafts
Go on a labyrinth walk
Dress up your pets for a photoshoot or a pet parade
Play a trick on someone
Trick or treat!
Hand out candy!
NOVEMBER 1ST- 3RD
Halloween decorations clean up!
Eat your candy!
Celebrate Dias de los Muertos
Do some calavera painting
Put up an Ofrenda/altar
Enjoy a little ancestor remembrance
Walk in a Dias de los Muertos parade
Put up marigolds and other décor
Go to a church service
If you’re crazy, start putting up the Christmas decorations <.< (we all know you gotta wait until at least Thanksgiving!!!)
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Mina and Van Helsing's trip through Romania
Mina says:
The country is lovely, and most interesting; if only we were under different conditions, how delightful it would be to see it all. If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a pleasure it would be. To stop and see people, and learn something of their life, and to fill our minds and memories with all the colour and picturesqueness of the whole wild, beautiful country and the quaint people!
So I thought it might be interesting to see what their trip looks like.
They start off in Galați (Galatz). Here it is in 1867:
They travel by train to Verești. Here's the railway station:
And next they'll be crossing what Bram Stoker calls Borgo Pass, usually known as the Tihuța Pass:
Though it looks more dramatic in winter:
Which, all being well, will bring them into Transylvania:
And eventually - we hope - to Castle Dracula:
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autumn bucket list 🎃
read “autumnal” books like the secret history, the picture of dorian gray, dead poets society, coraline, ninth house, dracula, etc.
visit a haunted house and go pumpkin picking with friends !!
bake seasonal meals and treats! experiment with different recipes that incorporate pumpkin, apple, etc.
visit family owned bookstores and cafés
long hikes on misty & rainy autumn morning when leaves are littered on the forest floor
rewatch gilmore girls, harry potter, twilight, practical magic, hocus pocus, and over the garden wall <33
try pumpkin spice lattes from different coffee shops around my area :)
go thrifting with an goal of finding a cozy/oversized sweater
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Fall Bucket List 2023
Watch 30 horror movies
Make a fall playlist
Carve pumpkins
Pumpkin patch
Eat candycorn
Make spooky cocktails
Read 6 Stephen King books
Go to Scarywood
Scary clown costume
Shanghai tunnels tour
Watch Over the Garden Wall
Make fall bandana for McMuffin
Make ghost pillows
Watch Tales from the Dark Side 1&2
Bake something
Buy fall candles
Drink mulled cider
Watch Friday the 13th show
Watch Halloween Wars
New fall wardrobe
Go to an old graveyard
Halloween party
Roast pumpkin seeds
Compare all pumpkin spice lattes
Finish The Walking Dead
Put McMuffin in a costume
Fall hike
Try 3 weird pumpkin spice items
Make skull ice cube coffee
Stay at haunted hot spring hotel
Make skull sweatshirts
Shoot guns
See Twin Peaks town
3 fall themed dinners
Go to the Peculiarium
Get a tattoo
Go to a concert
Catch up on all AHS
Make spooky sugar cookies
Jack o lantern pizza
Fall beer
Bake stuffed skulls
Bonfire with boozy s’more shakes
Old asylum hide and seek
Gloomy beach trip
Halloween episodes of kids shows
Watch Gilmore Girls
Visit an old mill
Make witches brew
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Pie, sweaters, warmth
Can't wait to spend fall with you soon!! ❤️
October can’t come soon enough!!! 🍁🍃✨
Pie - what's your favorite type of pie?
Pumpkin pieeee
Sweaters - what's your go to fall outfit?
Comfy or cute?
Comfy is my ripped jeans with my docs, a cute sweater, and my mustard yellow beanie
Cute is my forest green dungaree dress with a turtle neck and knee high boots
Warmth - bonfires or indoor fires?
Bonfire! Anything that lets me be outside and warm is a win for me
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