Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year, so the vast majority of us are getting nightmarish this week, or at least drinking and dancing to Thriller in ‘sassy’ costumes. So — to extend the most wonderful time of the year (eat it, Christmas) — here are five apps to fix your costume, find ghosts, or figure out the most-likely haunted places near where you live.
Ghost Hunter M2
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Hunting ghosts is a fussy business, and if you want to do it professionally and get your own reality show, you’ll need to invest in some sensitive equipment. But if you just want to see if your office is haunted (it is), Ghost Hunter M2 lets you track electromagnetic fields, record low freqency voice phenomena (EVP), and a few other tools you can use to find the donut thieving ghost. Or at least amuse yourself on Halloween.
Mirror
It’s the season for elaborate makeup worn by people who don’t usually wear it, and even makeup ninjas can have trouble maintaining a full-face luchador makeup mask or a Misfits-esque skull pattern throughout the night. Mirror turns your selfie camera into a genuinely effective mirror for makeup.
Ghost Lens
Apps to zombify, vampirify, and otherwise turn you into a monster are a dime a dozen, most of them lingering on the app store graveyard waiting for Snapchat to come end their lives. Ghost Lens is a lot more creative, letting you fiddle with double exposures and filters in a way that’ll satisfy not just your inner ghost hunter, but your inner arty photographer as well.
Cloth
Some of us will buy in stores at the last minute. Some of us will slap on a name tag and write “God” on it, hoping the Buffy reference will fly. And some of us will obsess for a solid week over every last detail of our costumes. Especially if you’re a bit of a fashion plate, finding a look for a costume can be tricky. Enter Cloth, an app that lets you track and share outfits, so you can nail that preppy look (then zombify it!).
If work gets crazy, just use this to find an outfit, add some vampire fangs, and claim you’re an extra from Blade. We, uh, saw a friend do that once.
History Here
Sure, we all know the hook hand bit and the story about the girl who got the dress that soaked embalming fluid into her skin and killed her. But what about your local ghost stories? History Here is a geolocation app designed to help you find real-life murders. disasters, and other stories to build your ghost stories around. You never know, the bizarre history of old train tunnels, mostly forgotten bridges, or seemingly prosaic reservoirs might just haunt generations to come!
Got a favorite Halloween app? Let us know in the comments!