16 of the spookiest Halloween world records

The world's heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,702 pounds (1,226 kilograms). The record-breaking gourd was grown by Stefano Cutrupi and achieved at a pumpkin festival in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. The record was set in September 2021.

Cutrupi also won second and third place, with pumpkins that weighed 2,158 pounds and 1,751 pounds respectively.

The world's heaviest jack-o'-lantern (not pictured) was 2,350 pounds (approximately 942 kilograms), and the record was achieved on October 31, 2020 by Travis Gienger at the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off held in Half Moon Bay, California.

South of Mexico City lies the Island of the Dolls, which houses the world's largest collection of haunted dolls.

Guinness World Records describes the island as a "vast network of canals" with small houses that contain thousands of broken, mutilated, and decaying dolls hanging from trees and bushes.

The story goes that the doll collection began in the 1950s, when a man known as Don Julian Santana Barrera moved to the island and claimed to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who had drowned in the surrounding canals three decades earlier. It's said that the man placed the dolls around the canals to calm the spirit of the dead girl — and that to this day, the dolls come alive at night.

In May 2015, an event that was part of a conference in Ciudad de Victoria, Philippines, set a world record. At the Philippine Arena, 30,050 people wearing costume masks became the largest group of people to wear the masks in one gathering.

The record was achieved by the Alliance In Motion Global Inc., a Philippines-based group. The masks depicted smiley faces as part of the conference's theme of happiness.

A 2013 event called La Bruixa d'Or in Sort, Lleida, Spain, included 1,607 people dressed as witches — which set a world record for the largest witch gathering. Appropriately, participants sported black hats and floor-length dresses and carried brooms.

Rich "Ormortis" Schreck spent a year building a massive Ouija board — called "Ouijazilla" — using 99 sheets of plywood and 20 gallons of wood stain and paint, according to UPI. The giant board also has a 400-pound planchette, or piece that slides over the letters and numbers. The record-breaking Ouija board was built in New Jersey and unveiled in Salem, Massachusetts.

The previous record was set by a team that built a Ouija board on the roof of a supposedly haunted hotel, the Grand Midway Hotel in Windber, Pennsylvania, in 2016. The board was 1,302 square feet.

At a 2015 conference in London for parenting bloggers, participants achieved a world record by wrapping 51 people as mummies in three minutes using rolls of toilet paper — beating out the previous record by one person.

The record was achieved in Doswell, Virginia, in September 2011 at an event organized by amusement park Kings Dominion and Guinness World Records. The 1,039 participants dressed up in their best vampire-inspired garb — including capes and fangs.

Guinness World Records named the vampire ground finch as the most bloodthirsty bird. The birds often use their sharp beaks to peck at wounds of other birds and animals, according to WIRED.

The world record for the largest zombie gathering went to the 15,458 participants of the Zombie Pub Crawl, an annual event in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The record was achieved on October 11, 2014.

Ronald Sarchian smashed 52 pumpkins in one minute in Van Nuys, California, on October, 31, 2020.

In January 2009, groups from the two Ottawa, Canada, universities published the world's first mathematical investigation of the zombie. They calculated that if a zombie epidemic were to break out in a city of 500,000 people, zombies will outnumber the living in about three days.

The record-breaking ghosts or hauntings film stars Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment. According to IMDb, "The Sixth Sense" had a cumulative worldwide gross amount of nearly $673 million after it came out in 1999.

On October 15, 2016, Rick Swenson hopped in a scooped-out, giant pumpkin that he grew himself and sailed the Red River, which connects Grand Forks in North Dakota with Breckenridge, Minnesota.

He traveled 25.5 miles (or approximately 41 kilometers), which became the longest trip taken in a pumpkin boat.

At Mercy School Mounthawk in Tralee, Ireland, 560 people dressed up as ghosts to break the world record for the largest ghost gathering. The record was achieved on March 24, 2017.

The record-breaking shriek was achieved by Jill Drake, whose scream was measured at a Halloween event in the Millennium Dome in London in October 2000.