With Halloween vs Day of the Dead Still Seeking Financing Before Thanksgiving, Let’s Ponder Over This Significance

There’s a new animation in the works (or is finished), which pitches Halloween vs Day of the Dead and both sides need your help to hit theatres.

Halloween vs Day of the DeadAt long last, people curious about the differences between the last two calender holidays will them will get a family friendly film to explore the differences! That’s assuming Celso García and Studio 100’s gets the financing required to go forward to make Halloween vs Day of the Dead. And just whether this idea is borrowing from The Nightmare Before Christmas, we will have to wait.

The idea sounds promising, and here’s what we know so far: In what’s key to go forward is securing global partners so it will have distribution. This film isn’t just a holiday crossover for novelty’s sake; the studio went to the 2025 American Film Market to pitch this product is to show that what they got has international appeal.

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Chasing Shadows: The Hunt for Ghosts from Curiosity to Credibility (Part Two)

From Crookes’s laboratory séances to Harry Price’s haunted investigations, explore how the hunt for ghosts evolved from curiosity to credibility—and what it reveals about the living.

The Hunt for Ghosts is OnWhen people today venture into haunted houses with cameras, EMF meters, and recorders, they’re unknowingly continuing a tradition that began over a century ago. The hunt for ghosts may look modern, but its roots trace back to figures more grounded and genuine than many of today’s TV personalities—people like John Zaffis and Jason Hawes, who carry a lineage that reaches further back to scholars and spiritualists. There was no such thing as a paranormal pop star then; there were only those who genuinely wanted to understand and not trick a generation.

Yet the modern scene rarely mentions the foundations laid by Sir William Crookes and Harry Price. Today’s investigators might name-drop Edison or Tesla for their “ghost phone” and “spirit radio”—devices meant to pull voices from the aether—but communication is more than asking for a yes or no.

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Understanding Paranormal Tech Then and Now. A Field Guide to What’s Exciting

A playful field guide to the paranormal tech built to measure the afterlife, from Victorian Spiritoscopes and ectoplasm cabinets to EVPs, Kirlian cameras, and modern ghost boxes, is listed here. Are we missing anything? If so, please comment!

Paranormal Tech - What keeps A Ghost A Ghost?From the early days when individuals wanted to make contact with the other side to present day, the choices in what to use as paranormal tech is few. They ranged from candles and balls of string to devices that became precursors to what’s used today. Back then, the people didn’t use stuffed dolls programmed to respond to strange activity. And REM pods is still considered a novelty. Some of these toys were created, rooted in belief at the time, and others are just plain weird.

This guide explores some of the most imaginative, audacious, and occasionally fraudulent contraptions created by folks with nothing better to do. Not all of them are truly useful, and if there’s ever a museum to showcase these curiosities, maybe they might rattle out a result to make the observer go hmm. What’s being sought out here is the reason why these creators made these devices. Some of them are precursors to what’s used now, improved by modern engineering; others are best left to rest as oddities in a trade that’s never going to be truly mainstream. Included are the inventors of their respective “toy,” when images of the product are lacking, or so varied, where no one version can say it all.

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The History Behind the Hunt for Ghosts: A Timeless Journey Through Belief (Part One)

A look at how humanity’s fascination with ghosts evolved from ancient myths to Victorian spiritualism. The hunt for ghosts isn’t for everyone, and we consider the contributions of people prior to Crookes and Price laid the groundwork for modern investigative techniques.

The Hunt for GhostsAs Halloween approaches, many folks enjoy a ghostly outing—whether for thrills or to glimpse evidence of something beyond. To go on the hunt for ghosts is a pastime few practice year-round, but when the season is right, more people go chasing after a belief. The old idea October 31 is when the veil is thinnest has roots in Neopagan lore, particularly Samhain, the Celtic festival marking the boundary between the living and the dead. Similar ideas echo in Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, celebrated soon after All Saints’ Day.

Whatever the tradition, humanity’s fascination with the afterlife is ancient. Even in Greek literature, ghosts appear not just as spectres but as participants in moral and mythic storytelling. In The Odyssey (Book 11), Odysseus travels to the underworld and summons shades of the dead to question them—a literal “ghost quest.” Centuries later, during the Victorian era—the golden age of spiritualism—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle developed his own fascination with the supernatural, even though his most famous character never took on such a case.

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From Summer to Fall, Top Spooky Anime Picks For Halloween

Read on to find that we’ve been preparing since Summer for this Top Spooky Anime picks list!

Labrynth TalesAutumn’s creeping in and the anime leaves are turning — which means it’s the perfect time for a dive into something mysterious, uncanny, or just a little weird. This Top Spooky Anime picks list is not full-on horror (we’ll save the jump scares for later), as some of it began early in the Summer. However, since some folks began planning even then, what this list considers are our top spooky anime picks while daylight is still lingering on the horizon during those late nights.

Crunchyroll’s Fall slate is here, and what I present is a cumulation of what started over the heat wave to the cooling. What’s offered here are a list of lightly eerie picks that mix guilty-pleasure romcoms with monstrous appetites, ghostly whodunits, and one final-season epic that feels like a superhero reckoning. Please click the titles to go to each show’s launch or announcement page for trailers, cast lists, and exact premiere dates.

Dan Da Dan Season 2

Dan Da Dan Collector's Edition Blu-ray cover Top Spooky Anime
Season One is available to purchase on Amazon USA

Premiered July 3, 2025

If you haven’t seen part one, now is the time! Either online or with the physical release, what you’ll find here is a mix of yokai and aliens. These groups collide in an outrageous battle that twists the rules of the supernatural. The series balances its chaotic energy with moments of absurd comedy and genuine creepiness. It’s the perfect gateway anime for those transitioning from summer thrills to autumn chills.

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Halloween 2025: Our Top Scary Picks of the Season (Finale)

Through haunted pages we’ve roamed, twelve terrors claimed — but one final fear waits this Halloween 2025. Dare to turn the page?

Halloween 2025 Graphic Novel / Comic Book Finale
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And now, dear traveller, the tour is done;
Through haunted pages we’ve had our fun.
From Western crypts to Eastern skies,
The dead have stirred before our eyes.

But here, at last, the harvest’s deep —
Twelve chosen terrors ours to keep.
With bonus haunts to chill and stare,
We dine with dread in devil’s lair.

So carve your pumpkins as the veil grows thin —
The season of horrors now begins.
Turn the page — embrace the lore,
For OtakunoCulture’s haunt endures evermore…

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