Pumpkin

Sounds like a perfect place to spend Halloween, but the story of the town is actually pretty funny.

You may have noticed that some houses display different-colored pumpkins instead of the traditional orange-colored ones we are used to seeing every year. Turns out that different colored pumpkins sometimes signify special meanings depending on what color they are painted. Here's what each one represents.

There seems to be one at just about every school, church, or farmers market.

It's a pumpkin decorating party! Rhino Coffee is providing the pumpkins and paint and all you have to pay is $2 per pumpkin.

Over the weekend, a massive 300-pound pumpkin displayed at Hammer's Farm Market in Peoria, Illinois, went missing and may have been taken by thieves. We're not sure what's more impressive -- actually growing a 300-pound pumpkin or working out the logistics to steal one.

A 1,818.5 pound pumpkin that currently holds the world record for the largest pumpkin is being carved into a macabre spectacle of flesh-hungry zombies.

What’s cuter than a cat named Jumbo Pillow eating pumpkin strips while dressed in a pumpkin costume? Honestly, nothing. But if you don’t believe us, feel free to take a look for yourself.