Ghoul Morning-Halloween

LIVE: Prairie Paranormal

If there's something strange in your neighborhood... they want to know about it.

Ghost stories can take on a life of their own, with enough repetition. But if you really want to get to the bottom of rumors and reports of haunted houses, dorms, businesses and parks all around the region to see what’s actually happening there, you’ve got to call in the specialists. They are Joseph and Rachel Heinan, and they’ve been…

Nichole’s Halloween Baking Series: Ghost Ganache Layer Cake

Dark, delicious and surprisingly do-able. We break it down into steps for you.

It’s the second in our series with one of the region’s most renowned bakers. Nichole Hensen, the owner for Fargo-based Nichole’s Fine Pastry, has been creating and selling some of the Upper Midwest’s most sought-after desserts for 16 years now. She teamed up with Ghoul Morning to show us step-by-step demonstrations of how you can make homemade versions of her…

LIVE: Glamour Ghouls

Makeup that can enchant anyone.

Halloween is a time when you really want to knock ’em dead, whether your look is freaky, fun or purely fabulous. But when it comes time to head out on the Halloween town, if you want your look to slay, there are some things you need to remember. Your makeup job has got to survive the evening’s festivities, and it…

LIVE: ValleyCon 2019

Looking for fellow Halloween-heads? Here's where you can find them.

If you’re looking to get in on the biggest pop culture event of the past 45 years in the Fargo metro area – you’d better head on over to ValleyCon. The region’s chief cosplayers, comic book lovers, sci-fi nerds and movie mavens are all converging there this weekend. The convention offers events that are both family-friendly and adult-only, including costume…

Lilly Field: The Ghost of Otter Tail County

A real-life murder that haunts the lakes country of our region to this day.

It was 1887, and in Otter Tail County, a jury was about to make history. A handyman had committed a murder so atrocious that their only recourse, they decided, was to sentence him to death. It would be the first-ever hanging in Otter Tail County, and it would also be the ending to one of the saddest and most violent…

LIVE: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sondheim's scary masterpiece comes to life on the local stage -- and in our studios.

It’s a stage show with enough chills, thrills, scares and spatter to get anyone in the mood for Halloween. “Sweeney Todd” takes the stage this week at Fargo’s FMCT, and the Morning Show was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the performance live in studio for our Ghoul Morning Halloween segment. If you don’t know the show, here’s…

LIVE: A Silent Killer Lurking in Your Yard

They're creeping ever closer... right up from under the ground. It's National Mushroom Day.

By now, you’ve probably spotted them. Their pale heads emerge from the soggy soil, first one, then a handful. Underground, there’s an entire network of them… and with every rain, they multiply. A silent march of mushrooms is on its way right to your very doorstep, fed and nurtured by our wicked wet weather this fall. They’re invading our backyards,…

Nichole’s Halloween Baking Series: Perfect Pumpkin Cookies

Learning the tricks behind making the treats.

It’s Halloween, and you want to show some extra love to all the little trick-or-treaters, Halloween partygoers, and school friends by making them something delicious and homemade. There’s just one problem: working with fondant terrifies you more than any fright-fest you’d find at a haunted house or graveyard. Not to worry, because one of the region’s best-loved pastry chefs is…

LIVE: Kids and Fear

How to strike the right balance between fright and frolic for your child.

Halloween is supposed to be scary, but there’s one thing every parent fears this time of year: a child who’s been truly traumatized by what’s supposed to be Halloween fun. It can be anything from a movie that’s too intense for a teen, a commercial that’s too creepy for a child, a haunted house that keeps haunting even when the…

LIVE: October Fright Nights

A revival of some of the creepiest classics of film history, all month long on the big screen.

If you’re a fan of Halloween — or of “Halloween,” the iconic 70s slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis in her first starring role — you know what a great scary movie can do for your overall Halloween holiday experience. This month, you can not only revisit the classics — you can see some of the greatest scary movies of…