Say hello to the Mickey Mouse Light-Up Jack-o’-Lantern and the Minnie Mouse Jack-o’-Lantern, two delightfully charming ...

The term jack-o’-lantern was first applied to people, not pumpkins. As far back as 1663, the term meant a man with a lantern or a night watchman. Just a decade or so later, it began to be used ...

Don’t let your jack-o-lantern go bad before Halloween With the scary season comes a classic fall activity that all ages enjoy: carving pumpkins. Unfortunately, most jack-o-lanterns only last ...

But what is it about the crisp air, changing leaves, and end of summer that urges us to break out the carving knives and carve jack-o’-lanterns? Halloween is filled with odd traditions ...

A far cry from the grinning pumpkins of Halloween today, the original folklore version of Jack-o-Lanterns, named for Jack O’Lantern of the Irish myth, were actually quite terrifying. They were ...

Every fall, Providence's Roger Williams Park Zoo transforms into a captivating world of carved pumpkins known as the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. The zoo's Wetlands Trail turns into the illuminated ...

Halloween festivities will soon kick off around Milwaukee, with the Racine Zoo's Jack-O'-Lantern Nights starting as early as next week. The festival will feature Halloween-themed sculptures and ...

Jack-o’-lanterns aren’t truly "alive" until they're lit up. Historically, this has been done using real candles, but these days, there are many more ways to set them aglow that don't involve ...

Walk through thousands of hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns at Jack O’ Lantern World! The popular pumpkin attraction is returning to Lake Zurich this month to kick off spooky season. As dusk turns to ...

Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns sells out every year, making it one of the hottest Halloween events around town. Under the flickering lights of more than 1,000 hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns, families ...

Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...