This episode is our final episode of Sleeptight Science for this season.

We'll be back next year for season two and more exciting science episodes.

I'd like to thank everyone who has submitted questions for the show.

We will continue working on them for season two.

The next to... You're listening to Sleep Tide Science. You're listening to Sleep Tight Science. You're listening to Sleeptight Science. Did you know that more than 20 countries around the world celebrate Halloween in some way?

What?

That's a lot of treats.

This episode is all about Halloween.

It is pseudo-scientific?

How did jackalantrons get started?

Carving jackalantons started in Ireland hundreds of years ago with stories of a wandering spirit named Stingy Jack.

People would carve turnips or potatoes with scary faces and put them in the windows to keep stingy Jack and other creatures away on Halloween.

When the Irish people came to North America, they brought this custom with them,

but soon saw that it would be easier to carve a pumpkin than a turn-up.

Pumpkins come in all sizes, shapes, and colors.

The traditional orange pumpkin is not the only one that can be found nowadays.

There are also white, yellow, red, green, and even striped varieties. Often, pumpkins are

smooth on the outside, but there are some that have bumps all over them. These warty, bumpy-looking pumpkins are grown to look that way, to make for even

weirder-looking jack-o-lanterns and decorations.

In earlier times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the pie crust, not so much the filling

of the pie as we use it today. Pumpkins have also been recommended for getting rid of freckles

and curing snake bites.

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