The night is over: the website is back to its usual look. See you next Halloween.
Special seasonal edition
Tonight,
SifG22 is
dressing up.
From 10 October to 3 November, the site fills up with cobwebs, ghosts and pumpkins. But this year is different: exactly a hundred years ago, on the Samhain night of 1926, a girl called Elvira disappeared in the house on the hill. And tonight someone has lit the candles again.
There are seven pumpkins hidden on this page. And that's just the beginning: five chapters, six lost souls and a loot. Allow an hour, preferably in the dark.
This year's costumes
Our products
are dressing up too.
Dressed as a camera obscura
Lower the temperature, raise the contrast and try a filter: your costume photos, with a horror-film look.
See productDressed as a haunted arcade machine
Turn off the lights and start a game of a classic. The best scares were always in 8 bits.
See productDressed as a candy detective
Scan the sweets in your haul and find out which ingredients and additives are hiding in every bag.
See productDressed as a crystal ball
Check the hourly forecast for the night of the 31st before heading out for candy. In case the fog is real.
See productDressed as a ghost teacher
Learn where it all comes from: from the Celtic Samhain to the Galician Samaín, when turnips and pumpkins were carved.
See productDressed as a cursed book
Find a scary story in your reading space and read it with just enough light. Don't look back.
See productDressed as a midnight clock
Put the night of the 31st in your calendar. Don't let midnight catch you without a costume.
See productThe map of the night
Nine corners.
One single night.
- ✦
The pumpkins
Seven, on this very page. They open the crypt.
0/7 - ✦
The secrets
Thirteen things nobody is going to tell you. Not all of them happen here.
0/13 - ✦
Lost souls
Six roam other pages of the site. They only show themselves with the decorations on.
0/6 - I
The book of riddles
Seven questions, seven letters and an ancient name.
0/8 - II
The haunted house
Four notes in the dark and a chest locked since 1926.
0/5 - III
The graveyard
Six graves, six candles. The dead want order.
0/1 - IV
The ouija
Ask Elvira. She has a question too.
0/1 - V
The door
The last one. It doesn't open from this side.
0/1 - ✦
The loot
Nine cards, a wallpaper, a ghost and a touch of gold.
0/9
Lost souls
They escaped tonight and roam other pages of the site. They glow faintly: look carefully. When you find one, tap it to set it free.
- One stayed behind developing photos nobody came to collect.
- Another watches the sky, hour by hour, waiting for it to clear.
- One wanted to know who we are and what drives us.
- Another got stuck halfway through a download, looking at what was inside.
- One got lost exploring, wondering what it could do next.
- And the last one is truly lost: look for it where there's nothing.
Knock on the door
Trick
or treat?
Knock and wait for them to open. Sometimes a hand pops out with a sweet for your bag. Sometimes something else pops out.
Your bag 0/6
- Strawberry candy
- Swirl lollipop
- Chocolate bar
- Gummy eyeball
- Candy corn
- Golden candy
The crypt
Locked
up tight.
There's something inside we don't show just anyone. Find the seven pumpkins hidden on this page to open it.
Hint: some are in plain sight. Others only show up with a little light.
The crypt is open
Seven out of seven.
You've found all the pumpkins. Now you get to know what's shouted in here when nobody's looking:
AUPA SIFG
Other secrets
0/13Hint: not everything that moves is decoration. And not everything happens on this page.
- Blood moon
- Ghost word
- The lantern
- The secret code
- The poster spider
- Someone at the window
- The shy ghost
- Tired eyes
- Invisible ink
- Dizzy pumpkin
- The witching hour
- Collector of scares
- Full bag
Stuck? See hints
Pumpkins
- The first one signs the name of the night.
- Orange on orange, at the foot of the poster.
- Someone sneaked onto the end of the list of treats, tricks and scares.
- It wanted to dress up too, and joined the back of the parade.
- Knock, yes. But notice where you'd put your hand to open it.
- It sleeps inside an answer that talks about keeping things.
- The last one signs the ending, by its own light.
Secrets
- The moon doesn't answer the first time. Or the second.
- Ghosts have a favourite word. Type it… or keep insisting on its first letter.
- At the foot of the page, someone keeps light for when everything goes dark.
- A code as old as the arcades: up, up, down, down… you know the rest. A finger works too.
- Someone hangs by a thread above the poster. Scare the one who scares.
- The door has a round eye. Who could live on the other side?
- Someone peeks over an edge when you think you're not looking.
- If you stay very still in front of the poster, someone will get sleepy.
- There's a sentence you can't see. Not with your eyes, not in the dark.
- The pumpkin up top gets dizzy if you don't leave it alone.
- Some things only happen when the clock strikes twelve.
- The door keeps five different scares. Collect them all.
- Six different sweets fit in the bag. One is gold, and almost nobody sees it.
You've found every secret. Not even the ghosts know this page as well as you do. Your card is waiting in the loot.
Before midnight
Spooky
questions.
How long do the decorations last?
Until 3 November, inclusive. After that, the website goes back to its usual look on its own.
Can I turn the decorations off?
Yes. Tap the pumpkin in the top bar, on the right, or the button at the end of this page. We'll remember your choice on this device; tap it again to turn them back on.
Are the pumpkins I find saved?
Yes, in your browser. You can close the page and keep looking later. We don't send anything to any server.
Is anything else hidden?
Much more. Check the map of the night: five chapters telling Elvira's story (a book of riddles, a haunted house, a graveyard, a ouija and a door) and six souls lost on other pages of the site.
What do I get if I find everything?
Collectible cards, a wallpaper that grows with what you find, a ghost that keeps you company around the site and a golden surprise. It's all in the loot.
Happy Halloween