One of those travel spots will be New Orleans. This Halloween night, the NFL is in town for NBC's Football Night in America telecast of the New Orleans Saints vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers. The folks at the network decided to see if the crowd at the Superdome would qualify as the largest Halloween gathering.
“Halloween night in New Orleans was too rich to pass up,” said Fred Gaudelli, “Sunday Night Football” producer. “I think America has never seen anything quite like this, and we intend to take full advantage of it.” The current record was set in 2009 at a Bloomington, Indiana bar that crammed 509 patrons into a small space. It seems a new record is a lock.
This year's top Halloween records include:
World Longest Walk Through a Horror House -
A haunted house in Fort Worth, Texas called the Cutting Edge reclaimed a record from some interloper who had one-upped them last year. The new record at Cutting Edge is 3,590 feet long, more than a half mile. Has to beat mall walking, at least at this time of year.
World Largest Gathering of Zombies - For this record, the Guinness representatives traveled to Great Britain. In August 2009, in Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK 4,026 participants were counted at something called The Big Chill Festival. What the Big Chill has to do with zombies is still up in the air.
World Fastest Time for Carving One Ton of Pumpkins -
For this record there actually must be 2,000 lbs. of pumpkins assembled for carving. It seems it isn't an easy thing to do since the current record was set two years ago in October 2008. In Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the Harrah's Casino Resort, a gentleman by the name of Stephen Clarke caved one ton of pumpkins in 3 hours 33 minutes and 49 seconds.
