Let’s say you love Halloween and you love food. But you are bone-idle. How can you serve some spooky treats without actually doing any work? I know exactly who can help.

Ghost Donuts

Step 1 Buy Entemann’s mini powder sugar donuts

Step 2 Buy some black decorative frosting in a tube

Step 3 Do this

Ghost Pudding

Step 1 Buy pudding in individual cups

Step 2 Find Ghost Peeps–if you can find them.

Step 3 Do this

Ghost Lollypops

Step 1 Buy some big marshmallows

Step 2 Stick them on lollypop sticks

Step 3 Find that black icing you bought earlier

Step 4 Do this

Step 4A as a bonus you can stick some coconut on as hair but that’s a lot of effort and you’re kinda in the lazy zone.

I refuse to explain this one. You should not need instructions

If you need a spirit guide to spirits maybe this will help. This book was written by a woman who runs a blog about travel, ghosts and food. You should visit her.

There are two, that I know of, restaurants in Hoboken NJ that are widely considered haunted.

If you search that you will find the same short paragraph repeated over and over again–that a bride tripped on the stairs and broke her neck, killing her. Then her new husband killed himself out of grief. The staff say they can be seen “late at night, when they’re cleaning up.”

The staircase in question is also beautiful. But aside from the frequent repeats of the dead bride story I was unable to find anyone, without a desire to run a special Halloween themed party, to corroborate.

That story also seems to be repeated via a copy/paste over and over again. I have been up and down the stairs there and they are fairly unchanged since the early 1900’s. I can believe a lot of the creaking is just the wood expressing displeasure. The second floor is said to be more actively haunted. I have eaten there and I can easily believe it’s haunted by the cows they serve–since the signature steak is a 24 ounce rib eye served with a pile of fried potatoes. You can read more about that from at Hoboken Girl.

In the interest of pseudo-science I consulted one of the best resources I have on weird things in Hudson County NJ–my father. His statement is “I don’t know about ghosts but they have a really good weiss beer. I had one and then I got a second and I couldn’t drive the tow truck.” Yes, that might explain a few ghosts.

I do have an unreasoning affection for the Cthulhu Mythos. I’m still kinda mad that I lost 4 vintage paperback HP Lovecraft books on the bus when I was 12. Why I thought it was a good idea to try reading them at 12 is unknown even to me.

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