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The devil walks the Earth as Season 3 of WGN America’s “Salem” gets going Wednesday, and it’s up to head witch Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery) to stop him – but irst she has to return from the dead. George Dickie speaks with Montgomery about the new season.

15 Frightful ilms will be all over television as the week of Halloween begins. Jay Bobbin looks at some of Sunday and Monday’s attractions, including (of course) the original “Halloween” on AMC, both versions of “Poltergeist” on HBO, and the more comedic “Young Frankenstein” on Turner Classic Movies.

18-19 Maren Morris is having a big first year as a CMA Awards nominee, since the singer-songwriter is up for five of the top honors. Jay Bobbin talks with her about the milestone 50th annual event, airing Wednesday on ABC with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood returning as hosts.

16-17 A support group for alien abductees is at the center of TBS’ new sitcom “People of Earth,” premiering Monday. George Dickie speaks with Ana Gasteyer, who plays the head of the group, and Wyatt Cenac, as a reporter investigating the abductions, about its original plot line.

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6 Will Yun Lee tries to keep his head above ‘Falling Water’ in USA Network drama

7 How Vincent Rodriguez III got it together

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BY GEORGE DICKIEThere will be hell to pay as Season 3 of WGN America’s “Salem” opens this week, and it’s up to 17th Massachusetts century head witch Mary Sibley to stop it.

As the new season gets going Wednesday, Nov. 2, the witches’ plan to remake the New World and bring the devil to Earth is realized when the beast takes human form in the body of Mary’s young son (Oliver Bell). The trouble is, the devil is a liar and instead of freeing Salem from the hypocrisy of the Puritans, he will instead bring nothing but death and slavery to Earth with the ultimate goal being to lead humanity to its demise.

And the only person who can stop him is the person who birthed him, Mary (Janet Montgomery), who died at the end of Season 2.

“It’s quite confusing for her,” Montgomery explains, “because even though it is her son, it isn’t her son anymore. You know, the end of Season 2 her son died. The body of her son is still there but it’s really just a vessel for the devil and sometimes that can be quite difficult because obviously Mary is still mourning the loss of her son but she knows what she needs to do. All the trouble she’s caused within Salem that’s now going to spread to the world, she knows she has to kill the devil.”

And to do that, she must first return from the death she met at the end of Season 2, a storyline the British actress initially had qualms about.

“I was slightly concerned that if you resurrect someone from the dead, what are the risks after that?” she says. “But she isn’t the same.”

“I mean, I’ve never come back from the dead,” she continues, “but it was interesting for me to play and explore and have differences with her and what she went through for how long she was dead, where she was, what she saw and why she’s willing – because when she gave her life for John (Shane West), for her love, I think she was ready to die. But obviously where she went was much worse than what she’s coming back to.”

In addition to Montgomery, West and Bell, other cast returnees include Seth Gabel (Cotton Mather), Ashley Madekwe (Tituba), Tamzin Merchant (Anne Hale), Elise Eberle (Mercy Lewis), Iddo Goldberg (Isaac Walton and Joe Doyle (Baron Sebastian Marburg). They’re joined by goth rocker Marilyn Manson, who plays bloody barber-surgeon and friend of the devil Thomas Dinley.

“I didn’t actually have any scenes with him ...,” Montgomery says. “But I did socialize with him and we were in hair and makeup a lot together. He’s absolutely bonkers but a lot of fun.

“He’s exactly what you’d expect from Marilyn Manson,” she says, laughing.

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STEPHEN FRYIn doing an American series with “The Great Indoors,” did you have conversations about such work with your former comedy partner, Hugh Laurie?I wouldn’t say he’s furious with me, but the fact is, “House” – and his current thing he’s working on, “Chance,” in San Francisco – involve him getting up at 4:00 in the morning and going to makeup and then working for hour after hour after hour after hour ... and then probably wrapping at about 9:00 or 10:00 at night, and then falling comatose on the bed, and doing the same again every day for month after month and month.(On “The Great Indoors,”) we toddle into work about 11:00 in the morning and have a bit of a read and (say), “Shall we put legs on it and wander around the studio?” And, then, it’s 3:00: “My goodness, we must be getting home!” And then we have the weekend off, and then we record it in front of an audience. It’s only half an hour, and it’s fraught with advertisements which CBS likes to show a lot, and the whole thing is over very easily. And so, (Laurie) wants to kill me for that reason, because he doesn’t regard this as proper work.No, we both love working here. He’s obviously very happy.

Having been based in England for so long, how do you like working in the United States?It’s very friendly, very nice. Quite seriously, what I like about working in America is the work ethic. You all work very hard, and you are not embarrassed about working hard. So people reply to e-mails quickly, and they answer the phone and speak, and they are as good as their word. Generally speaking, as far as I’m concerned, it’s just an adventure to work here.Oscar Wilde said you should try every fruit of every tree of every orchard in the world, and some will be better and you might want to try again – and some will be too sweet, and you will become addicted to them. But I’ve tried most of the low-hanging fruit in my country, so it’s quite nice to come here and go on this adventure because of the way you do things.

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While you’re currently playing one of the men in “Good Girls Revolt,” do you still get a lot of feedback for portraying the character who killed Will Gardner on “The Good Wife”?Oh, I do ... but it’s one of my favorite jobs ever, so I’m so grateful for it. (Josh Charles, who played Will) and I had the same agent at the time, and there was some talk about what his future with the show was, potentially and contractually.The Kings (Robert and Michelle, the series’ creators and executive producers) called me – I had done a show with them – and they wanted the essence of an innocence behind something that was very tragic. I was never told what the tragic thing was, and I was three episodes in when I got the script that revealed that I brought (Will) to his end.

What was your reaction when you found that out?It was a tremendous honor, because that was such a story point for them in their journey. And also, it was exciting as an actor to play that role and to be able to dive into it. It was really awesome.

In addition to your run

on “Weeds,” you’re also

known for the movie “It’s

Complicated.” How was that

project for you?

Obviously, it was a dream come true. When you

get a job that says you’re working with

Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin ... to

have gotten that opportunity, I’m

very aware of how lucky I am. And (writer-director)

Nancy Meyers is an amazing storyteller

and filmmaker.That was a very formative time in

my life, and I was still open and still

learning – and I’m still learning, but I

was in my early 20s then. At that time in my career, to get to watch those actors

and learn from them was an amazing

pleasure.

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Did you do anything special to prepare for your “Falling Water” role?One of the things Blake (Masters, the show’s co-creator and an executive producer) wanted me to do early – which is hard to let go, as vain as actors are – he called me and said, “Look, if you want to do this, you have to eat pizza. You have to eat until you can’t eat anymore. And you just cannot go to the gym.” And that’s like kryptonite for me.(I gained) 22 lbs. for the pilot. And I was trying to figure out why he wanted me to do that, and part of it was just breaking me down and having this character ... basically, he falls into his dreams because he’s so broken, and that’s his escape.

What appealed to you most about the series’ concept when you first learned of it?I think what excited me about this show was when I heard that we’re actually (in the plot) just dreaming one dream. We’re all just dreaming pieces of the same dream. I go, “OK. This show’s dreams have to bleed into the real world somehow.”When I wake up in the morning (in character), there’s been certain mornings and I turn over and I look at my wife and she says, “I’m mad at you.” (I say,) “We just woke up.” She goes, “You know what you did? You did this, this, and this.” And I’m like, “You just dreamed them.” She goes, “No. I’m mad.” And that will last for 30 minutes.

What do you think the show’s falling-water motif means?I think it’s (that) all our flaws bring us into this on the other side of the falling water, on the other side of the waterfall ... but it all starts bleeding back into the real world, and that’s kind of how we start finding each other.


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As an actor, singer, dancer, musician and owner of two black belts, Vincent Rodriguez III – Josh on The CW’s Friday musical comedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” – is the very image of a Renaissance man.

But ask the 34-year-old San Francisco-area native about his expertise in the kitchen and he will tell you a story of a transformative period in his life.

The year was 2011 and Rodriguez, then primarily a stage actor, was 25 pounds overweight, depressed and not getting any auditions. Then he saw a video he made of himself for a choreography class and it hit him.

“I watched it and I was so big,” he says. “It just kind of hit me really hard, like I can’t do this anymore. I kind of had a little bit of a breakdown.”

He hired a friend to be his wellness coach, began cooking his own meals and paying attention to what he put in his body. When he landed a role in a touring company of “Anything Goes,” he would pay the extra money to bring his own traveling kitchen – a hot plate, a wok and utensils – from city to city, setting it up in his hotel room. He dropped 26 pounds and changed his body and mind. He asked his agent to get him TV and film roles and the job offers came.

Three years later, he auditioned for the role of Rebecca’s (Rachel Bloom) once and future squeeze on “Girlfriend” and bagged it. He was on his way.

And it started with just taking better care of himself.

“I just started to change my mind-set and my brain and my body in the food I was putting in,” the Filipino-American actor says. “On my 30th birthday, I was in Toronto and I started taking CrossFit. I got down to 169 pounds and six percent body fat, so I gave myself a superhero body for my 30th birthday because I wanted to. I just wanted to see if I could do it.

“So that tour, a lot of things happened, I guess is my point,” he continues, “and it all prepped me mentally and physically for ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.’ ”

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Q: What is the most memorable Halloween costume you’ve worn?By far when I was Napoleon. I am a few inches taller but I felt very powerful.

Q: What is your favorite Halloween-related movie? “Nightmare on Elm Street.” I was so traumatized by Freddy Krueger.

Q: What is your favorite Halloween recipe?Chili has become my go-to dish for Halloween. About eight years ago, a friend asked me to cook chili for her neighborhood party. I had never cooked chili before, but thought I would give it a try. I put three different meats and foie gras in it. It was a huge hit. Every year now I try to re-create that exact recipe, but it is never the same. Still delicious but never the same

Chef Ludo Lefebvre of “The Mind of a Chef” on PBS

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INGREDIENTS- 4 (1.5-ounce) chocolate covered wafer candy bars (recommended: Kit Kat)- 15 individually wrapped caramels- 1 teaspoon butter- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips- 3 teaspoons shortening, divided- 3 cups caramel corn with peanuts (recommended: Cracker Jack)

DIRECTIONSUnwrap candy bars and place face down on waxed or parchment paper; set aside.

In a microwave-safe bowl, combine caramels with butter. Heat in microwave on HIGH heat for about 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted.

Combine white chocolate with 1 1/2 teaspoons shortening in a medium bowl and place over a pot of simmering water to form a double boiler. Repeat with chocolate chips and remaining shortening. Heat both chocolates until melted and smooth, making sure to stir frequently. Remove from heat and set aside.

Drizzle half the melted caramel over the candy bars. Divide and mound caramel corn on top of each bar. Drizzle with half the melted milk chocolate and top with remaining caramel corn. Drizzle with remaining melted milk chocolate, white chocolate and remaining melted caramel. Place in refrigerator for 20 minutes to set.

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Cook: 4 minYield: 4 servings

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If at this late date you’re still grasping for original Halloween treat or party ideas, Food Network has just the tonic for you in programming airing early this week.

Sunday, Oct. 30, tune it to Food at midday for the season premiere of “Giada’s Holiday Handbook,” which finds Giada De Laurentiis hosting a “Halloween Open House” party for neighborhood trick-or-treaters and their parents, for which she decorates her kitchen to look like a haunted house and prepares treats with names like coconut bones, green chicken finger sammies, witches’ brooms and “here’s looking at boo” treats.

Immediately following, it’s “Breakfast at Bobby’s,” in which host Bobby Flay welcomes guest Sunny Anderson to dine on a sweet spread that includes creme brulee French toast with drunken strawberries, Sunny’s Sambal and pineapple glazed bacon and blueberry pancake bites, washed down with sparkling iced espresso. Yum!

In prime time on Food, the season finale of “Halloween Wars” finds the final two teams doing battle in creating displays with a “Demonic Wedding” theme. The winning trio, as determined by guest judges Bitsie Tulloch, Shinmin Li and Don Mancini, is crowned champion and awarded $50,000. Jonathan Bennett hosts.

Halloween night on Cooking Channel is “The Kitchen of Good and Evil” episode of “Food: Fact or Fiction?” where host Michael McKean uncovers the true stories behind pretzels, angel food cake and beer – which presumably doesn’t include Clydesdale horses.

On the subject of food origins, the Sunday episode of Cooking’s “Unwrapped 2.0” sees host Alfonso Ribeiro revealing the secrets behind such delectables as Tootsie’s caramel apple pops, Bissinger’s coconut caramel chocolate bar and Tastycake’s cherry sweet rolls. Get your sweet tooth on.

Post Halloween, there are a pair of season finales on Food, starting Tuesday, Nov. 1, with “Star Plates,” in which guest Minka Kelly tries to learn one of her favorite dishes, bittersweet chocolate molten souffle, at the side of chef Geoffrey Zakarian.

There is also the Wednesday, Nov. 2, edition of Food’s “Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition,” in which the two finalists must prepare a restaurant-quality meal for a panel of culinary experts that includes Rachael Ray, Sara Gore and Anne Burrell.

If it is just good, old-fashioned home cooking you seek, the Saturday, Nov. 5, episode of Food’s “The Pioneer Woman” has a rib-sticking lunch for you as host Ree Drummond prepares a meal of steak and eggs benedict piled high on garlic butter English muffins and drizzled with spicy hollandaise sauce for her hungry hubby. Lucky man.

And Valerie Bertinelli helps you get ready for the coming winter weather on Saturday’s “Valerie’s Home Cooking” by making such stay-at-home favorites as shrimp scampi with herb bread crumbs and pull-apart garlic bread with asiago. Just remember to keep the breath mints at the ready.

Tune it to Food Network for some boo!-tiful Halloween entertaining ideas

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Ghostly Encounters

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It’s the House.... In 2005, my family and I rented a house for one year while our home was being rebuilt after a ire. We moved into the home on 11/5 and by Thanksgiving, strange things began to happen.

• On Thanksgiving, my daughters and I went to my parents for dinner and my husband stayed behind because he was ill. After we left, he stood at the bottom of the stairs yelling to my daughter. He thought she had stayed behind because he kept hearing footsteps walking in her bedroom. This happened several times until we arrived home.

• My daughter was sitting on her bedroom loor in front of a mirror applying make-up. To the right of her was her made bed with the blanket hanging to the loor. A noise kept coming from the blanket as it moved. The sound was as if someone licked the blanket with their inger. After a few moments, the overwhelming smell of cigarettes illed her room. No one in our home smoked. After a few more moments, a strange sound came from the stairway. It sounded as if someone was throwing coat hangers or something plastic down the stairs and it was scraping along the wall. My husband heard this same sound frequently throughout our stay.

• On an early Saturday morning (it was still dark) – our family woke up to sounds of cookie sheets dropping on the kitchen loor and the sound of something frying in a pan. When we went to the kitchen expecting to ind a cookie sheet had fallen out of the cupboard or someone cooking, we found neither. The sound of cookie sheets falling to the kitchen loor also woke us up in the middle of the night several times.

• One weekend I went grocery shopping and my family was in the living room watching TV. They all heard what they thought was me coming into the house with bags of groceries and got up to help, only to ind that I was not home from shopping yet.

• My husband awoke many nights to the sound of someone whispering his name in his ear.

• While doing my homework one night, I smelled cigarettes in the house. I got up to see where it might be coming from. Nothing. Went back to do homework and a black shadow quickly moved across the wall in front of me.

• In the spare bathroom, there was a section of the countertop that had hinges on the back and you could lift it up. Under the countertop was a dirt loor that lead to a crawlspace under the house. My daughter was in the bathroom one night and the countertop started violently shaking.

• One night while asleep, I kept waking up cold. After several times being woken, I laid there and couldn’t get back to sleep. Slowly, I could feel the blankets being pulled off from me. I pulled them back up thinking the weight of the blankets was the cause. A few moments later, the blankets were pulled off again. -Kim T

The Traveler I have one experience from an apartment that my dad lived in when I was a kid. Actually, I have several from our time there, but I’ll tell you about one …

Now you have to understand the layout of our upstairs apartment in Hudson Falls, NY. In the front, was our living room that overlooked Main St. and the Fire Dept., where my dad was a member for many years. Directly behind the living room was my parents’ bedroom, followed by the bathroom. Next was a closet that connected my bedroom and my baby brother’s room, and inally, in the back of house was the kitchen, along with a hallway on the left side of the house that connected each room.

Now, mind you, I was only 2-4 years old when my dad & stepmom lived in this apartment, so naturally I don’t remember much. However, I do remember, very vividly, seeing a man’s face in the ceiling of that adjoining closet. I would never walk through it; I always crawled because I didn’t want to be close to him.

One night after dinner, my stepmom was in the kitchen doing dishes. All of a sudden she heard me yelling, “Get out of my room! Get out right now! Get out of my room now!!!” My dad, who was in the front living room, yelled back to my stepmom asking, “What is she yelling about?” My stepmom replied, “Oh, she’s just yelling at Cody (my baby brother) to get out of her room.” My dad said, “Cody’s out here with me.” So my stepmom came to the door of my room and asked 4-year-old me, “Des, who are you talking to?” To which I replied, with my hand on my hip and the attitude of an irritated 15-year-old, “Well, he’s gone now!”

This spirit, who my parents believed to have been some type of soldier, was always nice enough to my brother and me. My brother would even stand up in his crib, pointing up to the ceiling, giggling and saying, “… man in hat!” He obviously listened to me when I yelled at him to leave!

However, this spirit despised my dad. He was always taking his keys, moving his ire call pager and even tripped him on a few occasions. One day when my dad was home alone, he was in the kitchen bent over the garbage can to empty an ashtray. All of a sudden, from across the room, my dad’s porcelain Hawaiian ashtray -- that he never used and was always kept on top of the fridge -- touched him on the back ever so gently and then smashed into pieces all over the loor behind him. -Desiree A.

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The Guardian I was 10 when my father called me downstairs from the garage. He needed help with something so my grandmother wouldn’t have to worry about it. Mortiied, I cautiously lowered myself through the hatch and onto the dirt loor. The damp, dungeon-like pit beckoned me to notice the spider webs hanging across the stones that formed the foundation. Droplets of water hit the matted dirt, leaving a hollow echo behind, and a musty smell slapped me in the face.

When my father directed me toward him with his lashlight, I could hear the oil-delivery man and many others talking about seeing a mysterious igure in the upstairs window.

Although I avoided the house at all costs, I did learn that the house was constructed in the 1800s when my family settled in the area, and no other family had ever lived in it.

I found out about the couple who suffered from dwarism, the girl who killed herself in the barn, the man who always stood in the upstairs window and gazed outside, and my grandmother’s child that died in the house.

The igure in the window still haunts me because so many locals have seen it, and all of us family members know that nobody has been in that room.

When my grandmother became ill, I swallowed my fears and realized I had to confront any horror that hid behind the walls. As her condition worsened, my father and his siblings watched over her.

After hooking up a monitor, the seconds crept into minutes, which slowly turned into days. Gram’s last wishes revolved around being in her farmhouse until the end, so my father and his siblings wanted to grant her wish.

Sitting in a recliner in the living room one day, my Aunt Cindy began relecting on her life. Although she had moved out long ago, the smell of the tiger lilies wafting through the windows brought thoughts about her brother who had passed away shortly after his life began.

Gasping for breath, she glanced toward the monitor. Knowing she had pulled the sheets lat when she last checked on her mother, she noticed a few things that didn’t look right.

A igure that appeared to be a small boy was sitting on the bed. His right elbow was bent and his hand was near his mouth. An orb dashed around the monitor before settling. Cindy looked deeper into the picture and spotted something else out of place, which resembled the outline of a man’s face above the lampshade.

When she got to the room, the sheets were lat on the bed except where they covered her mother. Somewhat relieved, she closed the door and returned to the monitor. The orb ever so slowly traced circles around the screen before once again settling just left of center. The man’s face had become larger, and the igure of the child was still there.

Beyond spooked, she grabbed her phone and snapped a handful of pictures, and the items could still be seen.

After going back into the room to check again, none of the images that were on the screen could be seen in the room.

The next day my family members gathered around my grandmother’s bed, held hands and said a prayer as she passed away. Gram had passed to the other world through the portal in the farmhouse that had been opened long ago. Now, we are left to wonder if we have been treated by our family members of the past who came to bring her home and guide her safely into the other world -- or have we been tricked into creating something that wasn’t really there in hopes of relieving ourselves from stress? Is there another world out there? You can be the judge.-Todd M

The Shadow When I was about 16, there was a time that I walked downstairs to get a snack around 2:00 am. When I rounded the corner, there was a pitch black outline of a person about 6 feet tall standing in the dining room. I didn’t register the form in time and walked right into it. The world went pitch black and dropped by about 10 degrees for, what felt like, 10 minutes; in reality, I had just stepped clear through whatever the form was.

My still sleeping mind didn’t really register what was happening until a few moments later. Needless to say, I ran back upstairs as quickly as I could.-Ashton H.

The Ossuaries It’s from the Kaiserdom zu Speyer in Speyer, Germany -- aka, the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer. My aunt took the photo on January 13, 2008, in the double chapel of Saint Emmeram (St Martin) and Saint Catherine, located within the cathedral. Here’s a link [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpeyerCathedralAfraChapel1.JPG] to a photo (not mine) of the chapel showing a couple of the ossuaries (a container/room into which the bones of dead people are placed) like the one shown in close-up in my “ghost photo.” It will give you a better size/perspective.-Chris P.

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The Haunted Church (An extended version of this story appeared previously in The Chronicle in Glens Falls, NY.)

In the Hogtown area of West Fort Ann, there is an old church, which other then another old building is all that’s left of what once was a settlement centered around an iron furnace and mining industry. The furnace still stands on private property. Also, across the dirt road from the church, which has served as a home for many years, is an old grave stone of a young boy who perished around the turn of the 20th century. The cause of death is not known.

Once a service technician was working on the plumbing at the church and had been left alone in the middle of the day. He kept hearing a screen door open and shut and when he investigated, he could ind no reason for this disturbance. All was secure. He became a little spooked and later asked the owner of the property if the place was haunted. The owner said that a friend had once visited who practiced “friendly” witchcraft and would not enter the house under any circumstance.

A few years later the service technician was called back to the church. A new tenant was living there and noticed his phone number on a sticker on the hot water boiler and called on him to do some maintenance. The two men struck up a conversation during the repair and the new tenant told of how he and his wife would hear his young son talking nearly every night. One morning they casually asked their son who he was talking to. The son responded that he had been talking to the little boy who lived in the ground across the road.

Another story involving the church dates back to the 1970s when four high school students were to watch the church for the owner, who was out of town. Two of the students arrived late, expecting to ind their other two friends in the backyard with a campire. Instead, they were inside the house scared and clutching deer riles. Once all four were together, the two scared teenagers told their other two friends how they’d been outside and heard noises and voices in the bushes surrounding the property. Scared, they went inside where the noises proceeded to come from the upstairs bedrooms -- ending just before the other two teenagers showed up.

Is the ghost of a young boy haunting the area around his burial site -- perhaps having a little fun on behalf of the living subjects he encounters by simply playing the way a youngster would? That’s the mystery behind the haunting of the Hogtown church.-Dan L.

Hide and SeekMy sister’s house is very haunted back in Maine. There has been a crow in my nephew’s room even though all the windows were closed; sink faucets turn on and off throughout the day on their own; and doors lock on the inside when no one is in the room. There are so many stories to tell, but I would like to share one in particular that I personally experienced.

My sister’s house is occupied by many different spirits, some good, some playful, and some just plain bad. The bad ones like to get the kids in trouble (my niece was 9 years old, and my nephew was 7 years old, at the time). One day, I was there before going to work and my phone was missing. We assumed my nephew had taken it, but he denied it. We searched, but to no avail. When we called, it went straight to voice mail as if it was shut off or out of service. We gave up and I ended up buying a new phone.

Two weeks later, my sister called to tell me she had found my phone. It ended up in the basement, under a pile of bottles and garbage bags that were too heavy for my nephew or niece to even pick up. It was fully charged, even after two weeks of being on. Although when you called, it went straight to voice mail as if it had been shut off or died. It also had all the missed calls in my call log even though all those calls went straight to voice mail.-Destinee C

Do you see what I see? Here is a photo of me gooing around at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Westchester at the grave of Washington Irving (the writer of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow). Notice the shadow on his gravestone looks like a rile pointed at me? Spoooooooky!-Kristin G.

The Tidy GhostLast week without me noticing, my dishwasher turned on by itself.-Tyson R.

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CATHERINE BELLFavorite Halloween costume: “It was probably Wonder Woman, back in the Lynda Carter days. I was so cool … LOL!”Favorite scary movie: “ ‘The Shining.’ “

LORI LOUGHLINFavorite Halloween costume: “I’ve had two that I think were really good. I did a Mary Poppins that was just off-the-chart, it was so good. I was at a party where the theme was ‘London,’ so you had to do something related to that … and the marker that my outit was a success was that David Beckham came up to me at the party and said, ‘You win!’ Then last year, I was Tippi Hedren in ‘The Birds.’ I went out and bought those big black crows that they sell on Halloween, and I went to the seamstress I work with and said, ‘Can you sew the crow’s feet onto my handbag?’ And my friend who always does my hair, he took a wig and put one crow in it, so it would look like it was attacking me. And then his husband, who does my makeup, took a wristband and put another crow on that — so when I put my hand up, it looked like it was attacking my face. We got so creative!” Favorite scary movie: “I think ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ That, and ‘Seven.’ Oh, those movies … .”

DICK VAN DYKEFavorite Halloween costume: “I don’t really ever dress up, but I’ve been putting on a Halloween show at my house since 1961. I used to even make my own monster, including a Frankenstein. I prefer to be behind the scenes scaring the children. My wife, Arlene, and I used to do a lot of animatronic/hydraulic monsters but it began to take over the whole house. We even had to get a monster storage bin. We still do it ‘til this day. But we’ve scaled back and use plug and play monsters and we’ve even added a live stage show that we keep adding to. Last year, we had a marionette puppet show and my wife lip-synced “Poor Unfortunate Souls” as Ursula. The kids and parents love it!Favorite scary movie: “ My favorite scary movie was the irst one I saw at 8 years old. My Mom would let me go to the Saturday matinee by myself every week and this particular Saturday they were playing “Frankenstein.” I was so scared during the entire ilm that I was standing up in my seat. When the picture let out, it was dark outside and I saw him in every dark corner on my walk home. He also visited my nightmares. Terrifying!

NASCAR DRIVER JOEY LOGANOFavorite Halloween costume: “Me and (my wife) Brittany dressed as tourists with special suits, luggage and sunscreen on our noses. That was a lot of fun and people had a good time with it.”Favorite scary movie: “I don’t really have any favorite Halloween movies. I’m not much a scary movie fan. Give me comedies.”

NASCAR DRIVER RYAN BLANEYFavorite Halloween costume: “When I dressed up as Austin Powers a few years ago.”Favorite scary movie: “It would be any from the “Friday the 13th” series with Jason. They are pretty creepy and a Halloween favorite.”

JILL WAGNERFavorite Halloween costume: “My favorite was when I was Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. I was that for three years, I loved it so much. In fact, I didn’t want to take it off! I was like, ‘Can I be this year-round?’ “Favorite scary movie: “Probably that vampire movie with Kiefer Sutherland, ‘The Lost Boys.’ I should have said ‘Splinter,’ since I was in it, but it’s not.”

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These hand carved and painted tombstones are an inexpensive and easy way to create a personalized and creative outdoor Halloween display.

Materials Needed:- one 2” x 12” x 36” dry loral Styrofoam sheet- serrated bread knife- paring knife- permanent marker- black spray paint- dark gray and white acrylic paint- 2 1/2” sash brush

Outline TombstoneUse permanent marker to sketch an outline for two tombstones. Keep shapes simple so it’s easier to cut out. Tip: A ive gallon bucket lid or splatter screen makes a great template for a round top tombstone.

Cut FoamCut foam along sketched outline with a serrated bread knife. Since this step is messy, it’s best to do it outside. Keep blade perpendicular to foam and use caution while cutting.

Draw DesignSketch out tombstone design. This can be a funny saying, a cross, RIP or anything you’d like. Keep designs simple and easy to carve. Tip: The tombstones will be painted, so sketching mistakes will not be visible.

Carve DesignCarve sketched design with a serrated paring knife. Scratch knife point into surface at an angle, and carve at depth of about a 1/2 inch.

Spray-Paint TombstonesPaint all tombstone surfaces with a can of black spray paint. Work in a well-ventilated area and apply paint in long even strokes. Spray tombstones from multiple angles to ensure good coverage. Allow ample dry time.

Dry-Brush With Acrylic PaintApply a thin coat of dark gray acrylic paint with a 2 1/2-inch sash brush. Drag brush along tombstone surface, preventing paint from getting inside carved design (this method is called dry-brushing, as very little paint is used). Allow this coat to dry.

Apply second coat in the same manner, but in a mix of dark gray and white acrylic paint. Allow second coat to dry.

Apply third coat in white acrylic paint in same manner as the others. Adding multiple layers of paint will give foam the appearance of granite. Allow inal coat to dry. Tip: To place outside, insert bamboo skewers into tombstone and stick into ground.

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TV’s house of horrors: Halloween prompts home-screen treats

BY JAY BOBBINWhat’s Halloween without some scares?

And what’s Halloween-season television without some movies to supply them?

Though Oct. 31 falls on a Monday this year, that still leaves ample time for films both classic and contemporary to make for a couple of fright nights (and days, for that matter) this week. Here’s a look at some of the horrific highlights.

“Halloween” (Sunday and Monday, Oct. 30 and 31, AMC): Well, of course. Several of the sequels also are on view, but director John Carpenter’s 1978 original was intensely original ... and gave Jamie Lee Curtis a screen identity she has parlayed into her current work on Fox’s “Scream Queens.”

“Poltergeist” (Sunday, HBO): Both versions of the thriller about a suburban family threatened by ghosts are on view here – but, by far, we’ll take the 1982 original produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper. Stay away from that TV screen, Carol Ann (Heather O’Rourke)!

“Young Frankenstein” (Sunday, TCM): While clearly not as chilling as some other Halloween attractions, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s ingenious 1974 parody of the genre is brilliantly authentic, right down to using some of the actual sets and props from 1930s “Frankenstein” movies.

“Lake Placid” (Sunday and Monday, Syfy): Laughs are mixed in with the scares in this David E. Kelley-written 1999 tale – especially when Betty White shows up – but that huge, fearsome alligator is worth the price of fearful admission.

“Hocus Pocus” (Sunday and Monday, Freeform): An October favorite of many viewers, this 1993 Disney

fantasy-comedy casts Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as sibling witches who cause havoc in contemporary Salem, Mass.

“The Blair Witch Project” (Monday, Chiller): Many other movies (and even TV episodes) have emulated its shaky camera work, tight close-ups and low lighting, but the 1999 original remains the textbook example of this style of screen terror.

“House of Wax” (Monday, TCM): Vincent Price made a career in horror for himself as the wax-museum proprietor who has incredibly lifelike exhibits ... for a reason you probably can guess. Bear in mind that some scenes of this 1953 classic were made for the 3-D it initially was shown in.

“Saw” (Monday, The Movie Channel): If you want a gory Halloween, this is as far as you have to go. The ingenious-but-gruesome-traps-for-victims 2004 thriller launched a franchise, as also demonstrated by TMC’s Halloween showing of “Saw 2.”

“Hotel Transylvania” (Monday, FX): For a family-friendly choice on Trick-or-Treat Night, this animated 2012 comedy offers a tamer-than-usual Dracula and Frankenstein (voiced by Adam Sandler and Kevin James).

“The Haunting” (Monday, TCM): A truly great haunted-house movie, director Robert Wise’s dread-inducing 1963 hair-raiser puts a team of parapsychologists – including Julie Harris and Claire Bloom – in a mansion apparently plagued by the supernatural.

“Resident Evil” (Monday, Cinemax): A research facility that’s sealed off by a virus that turns people into zombies and animals into monsters, and that’s equipped with lasers that slice and dice anyone who tries to escape? Yes, the horror quotient is high in this 2002 Milla Jovovich vehicle that started another movie series.

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BY GEORGE DICKIEAnyone who has ever found themselves complaining about the lack of original story ideas on scripted TV these days may find relief in a comedy airing this week on TBS.

“People of Earth,” a half-hour sitcom from Emmy-winning producers Conan O’Brien (“Conan”), Greg Daniels (“The Office”) and Jeff Ross (“Eagleheart”) premiering Monday, Oct. 31, centers on a support group for alien abductees in a small upstate New York town and the big city reporter assigned to investigate the incidents.

At first, Ozzie (Wyatt Cenac, “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”) is skeptical and less than thrilled at the assignment. But the more he looks into the oddball claims of the abductees, the more he finds they may not be so off the wall. In fact, he learns he may be one of them.

Among the people this brings him into contact with are Gina (Ana Gasteyer, “Saturday Night Live”), a part-time therapist who runs the group; Kelly (Alice Wetterlund, “The Interview”), a pretty but clueless goofball; Gerry (Luka Jones, “The Campaign”), a tollbooth operator and social dropout; Richard (Brian Huskey, “Neighbors”), a tech employee convinced his wife is an abductee; and Margaret (Nancy Lenehan, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”), an amorous retirement home resident.

Father Doug (Oscar Nunez, “The Office”) runs the local church where this ragtag group of “experiencers” – the PC term for alien abductees – meets.

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“You don’t want to say, ‘abductee,’ ” cautions Gasteyer with a laugh, “because you want to have some authorship over your own experience. It gives you more agency. It gives you less of a sense of having been violated.”

And Gina, Gasteyer’s character, has apparently been, well, violated.

“She’s a survivor herself and an experiencer herself,” the actress explains. “Definitely has had her soul rattled and shaken by that experience and has enough training where she feels qualified to try to shepherd some of these people through their challenging time, though not as qualified as she would like to be. But that’s sort of the goal.”

Into this group comes Ozzie, who has an episode that leads him to believe he’s had alien contact.

“Ozzie goes in very skeptical of all of this,” Cenac says, “and then has a bit of an awakening when he thinks he’s maybe gone through a similar experience and I think questions not only the veracity of that but if that’s true then what does that make him? And so I think there’s a lot of sort of crisis of conscience personally as he struggles with that but also on a larger sense, ‘Oh yeah, this thing could have actually happened to me.’ ”

“People of Earth” was shot outside Toronto but the choice of the setting of Beacon, a historic Hudson Valley burg about 60 miles north of New York City, was not haphazard.

“Beacon actually has a huge number of experiencers ...,” Gasteyer explains. “What do they call it? A cluster.”

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As the Country Music

Association marks the 50th anniversary of its

annual awards, Maren Morris has her own number to celebrate ... five.

That’s how many nominations the singer-songwriter has in the event, in her first time in

the running, and they’re all the big ones: album of the year (for “Hero”), single and song of the

year (for “My Church”), and female vocalist and new artist. Morris is tied with Eric Church and Chris

Stapleton for the most bids in the ceremony, which ABC televises from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 2, with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood teamed as hosts for the ninth consecutive year.

In what she calls “a crazy year” that has seen her tour as an opening act for Keith Urban, Morris – who wrote songs for such artists as Tim McGraw and Kelly Clarkson before starting to record her own material – is trying to stay level-headed about her chances for CMA honors. However, she can’t deny being excited about receiving such a big embrace from the country-music community.

“It’s cool to be with my peers and also people I look up to,” Morris says of her fellow nominees. “No matter what happens that night, it’s just going to be a big party for all of us. Everyone put out great records this year. It really

feels familial at this point because I was a writer first, so I feel like a lot of

people know me just from that. To be there as (a nominated)

artist, it’s a really special year.”

Maren Morris could take the 50th Annual CMA Awards by musical storm

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Performing at the CMA Awards, too, Morris surely will be a lot closer to the action than she was last year: “I watched them on TV at this restaurant across the street from the arena. I got all dressed up with my friends, and I never thought that a year later, I’d actually be going to them ... let alone be nominated. I’ll be in the actual room this time.”

As for other CMA nominees this year, Underwood, Urban and Dierks Bentley have four bids each, and McGraw has three. Those with two nominations are Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Bryan, Cam, Old Dominion, Brothers Osborne and Thomas Rhett. A special highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award to Dolly Parton.

Though Morris deems her five CMA nominations “all significant,” she’s particularly gratified “to be up for album and song of the year. There have been so many amazing albums released this year alone, to be in those two categories really validates the work that you put in. It’s not easy making a record, especially your first record, so it’s an incredible honor.”

Also the composer of a number of songs for the drama series “Nashville” (which resumes on CMT in January), Morris gained her initial fame as a performer via the digital music service Spotify, leading to her being signed to the Columbia Nashville label last fall.

“I sort of stand in both worlds,” she reasons, “of streaming being such an important discovery tool, but also of knowing the importance of buying and owning a record and paying for something that people put their blood, sweat, tears and money into. I’m an advocate of both, and I think it’s all about the strategy and the way that you play it.

“I feel that ‘My Church’ going platinum is a testament to my maybe having been discovered by people on Spotify, but at the end of the day, they still want to own the music in their library – and that’s a huge honor. I’ve been lucky to get the most out of both platforms.”

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BY GEORGE DICKIE©Zap2it

The image most of us on this side of the pond have of Queen Elizabeth II is that of a staid, proper and dignified monarch who put duty first in her 64-year reign of Great Britain.

But a Netflix drama series premiering this week paints of much different picture of this most public of figures.

In “The Crown,” which drops Friday, Nov. 4, with 10 hourlong episodes, Claire Foy (“Wolf Hall,” “Upstairs Downstairs”) stars as Elizabeth, who ascends to the throne at age 25 following the 1952 death of her father, King George VI (Jared Harris, “Mad Men,” “Lincoln”). The series covers the early days of her reign, her marriage to Prince Philip (Matt Smith, “Doctor Who”) and her relationship with England’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill (John Lithgow, “Third Rock From the Sun”).

Much of the drama derives from how a 25-year-old woman takes on the sudden awesome responsibilities of being queen and the toll that takes on her marriage.

“I think it’s a terrible pressure to be ... Elizabeth Windsor, a woman, and on the other hand, to be the queen,” writer/creator Peter Morgan (“The Queen”) recently told a gathering of journalists in Beverly Hills, Calif., “and how many times you have to suppress your own opinions in order to have the opinions demanded of the crown, and you lose somewhat some sense of yourself. I think it must be an extraordinarily difficult thing to live with.”

For Foy, it goes beyond that.

“I think it’s a lot to do with duty as well,” she says, “and the right thing and the thing that you want to do are two very, very different things, I think, for her. And her instinct is very much, I think at the beginning, of family and her love and her husband and her children, and I think she’s realizing that that’s not necessarily what her job is and the acceptance of that job. And it’s a very difficult thing to have to deal with while also grieving for the loss of your father, which, I think, people forget when someone comes to the throne, it’s because a family member has died, and that’s a terribly sad thing for her and for everyone, I think.”

In taking on the daunting responsibilities of queen, Elizabeth had to make an ally of Churchill, the formidable British PM played by Lithgow. To bring the portly 5-foot-6-inch Churchill to life, the lanky 6-foot-4-inch American actor says he “thought small” while relying on research, heavy padding and makeup. But he was careful to avoid doing an impersonation.

“I found that just about every Englishman I met had an impeccable impersonation of Winston Churchill. This scares the hell out of you,” Lithgow says. “But ... the way I approach any acting role, there’s me and there’s the character, the real life character, ... . It’s sort of like Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. The entire challenge is, in my own mind, forgetting the real Churchill at a certain point and making viewers forget the real Churchill and making him just as authentic as I can.”

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Kevin Durant made headlines in the NBA offseason when as a free agent he jumped ship from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Golden State Warriors. The star forward and his new team will host his old one Thursday, Nov. 3, on TNT. The Thunder and Warriors are no strangers to each other, which makes Durant’s move all the more interesting. The Warriors have been to the NBA Finals each of the past two seasons; winning a title over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015 and losing to them in seven games last season. They reached the finals in 2016 by beating Durant and the Thunder, also in seven games after being down 3-1 in the Western Conference Finals.

Durant now shares the court with Stephen Curry and his 2016 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball teammates Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. To say expectations are high for both Durant and the Warriors would be an understatement. This is a team that went 73-9 during the regular season; an NBA record for the most wins in a season. Before having to come back against the Thunder they steamrolled through Houston and Portland in the early rounds of the playoffs.

But just as they overcame a 3-1 deficit against the Thunder, they too let the Cavs come back from being down 3-1 to win the championship, thus becoming the first team in NBA history to lose in the finals after establishing such a lead. The Warriors are expecting the addition of Durant to prevent that from happening again.

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“Deepwater Horizon” has all the makings of a traditional disaster movie, but as many people know, the story it tells is all too real.

In the hands of actor-director Peter Berg, the drama very effectively re-creates an oil-rig explosion off the Louisiana coast several years ago, allegedly brought on by the demands of company honchos who wanted work completed faster.

The results? The largest oil-spill-related environmental threat in U.S. history, and a disaster of another kind – the public-relations one – for those insistent executives.

Because the situation is so well-known, you likely expect more than just the required pyrotechnics (which, it must be said, are quite good) from “Deepwater Horizon,” and the film wisely delivers on character development. Better still, it has the caliber of cast to handle that.

Mark Wahlberg and “Jane the Virgin’s” Gina Rodriguez play workers aboard the rig, and they’re allowed to flesh out their roles – as does Kurt Russell as their immediate boss, who also feels the heat from higher-ups who demand improved results. Russell’s unofficial stepdaughter, Kate Hudson, also is in the film as Wahlberg’s wife; John Malkovich appears as one of the worried big bosses.

Once the explosion happens, filmmaker Berg makes it as suspenseful as possible, with the main question coming down to the familiar “Who will survive?”

However, those charged with bringing the story to the screen appear to recognize that it can’t be given short shrift. Not only is this a matter of paying respect to those who lost their lives In the crisis and the man who were affected by the aftermath, but

also of heeding the lessons it taught about corporate responsibility.

Also a producer of the picture, Wahlberg is ideal for the part of the everyman simply trying to do his job, then to save his colleagues. The performance evokes memories of his roles in such other projects as “The Perfect Storm,” “The Departed” and “Lone Survivor” (the latter of which also teamed him with director Berg). Russell also fares nicely on the acting front as a supervisor caught between a rock and a hard place, attempting to service both his work force and those he must answer to.

In marrying disaster-film traditions to a tragically true story, “Deepwater Horizon” might seem exploitive if it wasn’t as thoughtful and well-developed as it is. Like “Sully,” it turns recent history into satisfying moviegoing.

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“BILLIONS: SEASON ONE” (Nov. 8): A federal attorney (Paul Giamatti) sets his sights on the hedge-fund king (Damian Lewis) who employs the lawyer’s wife (Maggie Siff). (Not rated: AS, N, P)

“FINDING DORY” (Nov. 15): In the sequel to Disney-Pixar’s animated “Finding Nemo,” fish Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres) sets out to find her parents. (PG: AS)

“GAME OF THRONES: THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON” (Nov. 15): The fate of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is a major element of this most recent round of the hugely popular HBO series. (Not rated: AS, N, GV)

“THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS” (Nov. 18): The Ron Howard-directed documentary compiles footage of the Fab Four’s live performances in the mid-1960s. (Not rated)

“MECHANIC: RESURRECTION” (Nov. 22): A former assassin (Jason Statham) must carry out three kills to ransom his new love interest (Jessica Alba). (R: AS, P, V)

“ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE” (Nov. 29): Jennifer Saunders (also the writer here) and Joanna Lumley reprise their television roles as the high-living Edna and Patsy. (R: AS, P)

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“STAR TREK BEYOND”The entertaining third installment of the

rebooted movie series – co-written by co-star Simon Pegg, alias “Scotty” here – gives considerable time to character

development, as an attack on the Enterprise leaves Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and other

principal characters marooned on a remote planet. A very agile alien (Sofia

Boutella) proves helpful as the crew battles a new enemy (Idris Elba) for

possession and control of a biological weapon. Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and John Cho also return in the film, which

is dedicated to late co-star Anton Yelchin and franchise staple Leonard

Nimoy. Shohreh Aghdashloo and Greg Grunberg also are featured as Justin Lin (“Fast & Furious”) takes over the

directing reins. ››› (PG-13: P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)


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SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 9:30 a.m. on FOX NFL Football London calls for the third and final time this season for the NFL as Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins take on Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals from Wembley Stadium in London. This gives NFL fans in North America an early start on the Sunday viewing. Both playoff teams a year ago, each is battling to stay afloat in their respective divisions. A key match up will be Washington cornerback Josh Norman covering Bengals wideout A.J. Green. New

10 p.m. on Destination America Haunted Case Files Paranormal researcher Ursula Bielski enters a site reputed to be one of Chicago’s most haunted locales to investigate sightings of a “devil baby,” but unwittingly brings something home with her that is every bit as scary in the new episode “Haunted Hospital.” In other segments, a ghost-hunting team encounters a terrifying presence stalking the decaying halls of an abandoned Utah hospital, and investigator Joe Cetrone battles a powerful animal spirit summoned during a dark ritual.

10 p.m. on El Rey Network Killjoy’s Psycho Circus Oh, great, as if we didn’t have enough scary clowns popping up in the real world these days! A Kickstarter campaign provided part of the funding for this, the fifth entry in a successful low-budget franchise that finds Trent Vargas taking over the title role of a satanic clown – actually the demon of vengeance – who usually is summoned to help mortals get revenge. In this new 2016 title, Beelzebub (Stephen F. Cardwell) is tasked with bringing Killjoy – whom he let escape from hell – back to his infernal home. Premiere MONDAY OCTOBER 31 9 p.m. on Destination America Paranormal Lockdown In the new two-hour Halloween special

episode “100 Hours at Black Monk House,” paranormal investigators Katrina Weidman and Nick Groff travel to Yorkshire, England, to launch a special study of the Black Monk House. The two confine themselves in the home for a record-breaking 100 hours to search for evidence that either supports or debunks the site’s long-standing reputation for some of the most violent poltergeist activity ever reported. New

9:30 p.m. on CBS The Odd Couple There’s no better night than Halloween itself for the new episode “I Kid, You Not,” in which Oscar (Matthew Perry) tries to prove himself to Charlotte (Teri Hatcher) by taking her son Evan (Caleb Brown) on trick-or-treat rounds. Meanwhile, Felix (Thomas Lennon) guides a tour of the apartment building for other youngsters, detailing its “haunted” background. Lindsay Sloane, Wendell Pierce and Yvette Nicole Brown also star. New 11 p.m. on IFC Stan Against Evil Dana Gould (“The Simpsons”) is creator, writer and executive producer of this new horror comedy series starring John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”) as Stan Miller, who is peeved to be put out to pasture after years as sheriff of his small New England town. Stan reluctantly teams up with his successor, Evie Barrett (Janet Varney), after discovering their community – the site of a mass witch burning in the 17th century – is being assailed by demons. After this preview, the show moves to its regular Wednesday time period. New TUESDAY 9:01 p.m. on FOX Scream Queens Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) can’t stay quiet about the murders any longer in the new episode “Chanel Pour Homme-icide,” but instead of keeping prospective patients away from the institute, the news draws many new ones there. Chanel (Emma Roberts)

sees that as fertile ground from which to enlist members for her group. One newcomer to the facility has a definite effect on the staff. Lea Michele, John Stamos, Abigail Breslin, Taylor Lautner and Keke Palmer also star. New

WEDNESDAY 9 p.m. on FOOD Worst Cooks in America In the season finale, “Celebrity: The Final Showdown,” the last two recruits standing face off for their ultimate challenge: cooking a restaurant-quality meal to suit the demanding palates of culinary experts Sarah Gore, Akhtar Nawab and Laura Vitale. Anne Burrell and Rachael Ray coach their respective rookie chefs and hope theirs will be the cook who is awarded $50,000 for a favorite charity. Season Finale New

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10 p.m. on NBC Chicago P.D. Olinsky (Elias Koteas) has a personal investment as the death of a teenager (guest star Violett Beane, “The Flash”) is probed in the new episode “Skin in the Game,” The body is found in the house of a baseball star (guest star Billy Burke, “Zoo”) Olinsky knows, signaling a conflict of interest for the police detective. Flowers arrive for Lindsay (Sophia Bush), possibly reopening a chapter of her past. Jason Beghe also stars. New

10 p.m. on PBSSecrets of the DeadCreatures such as a crocodilian and a 40-foot-plus snake might sound as if they come from a made-for-cable horror film, but they once were quite real. The new episode “Graveyard of the Giant Beasts” recalls the ancient period when they thrived, indicated by a find by a mining team in Northern Colombia. Scientists examine fossils to determine what the lives of the “beasts” were like, including which enemies they fought for survival and superiority. New

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on ABC Grey’s Anatomy A consultant’s arrival can be worrisome, as the doctors learn in the new episode “Why Try to Change Me Now.” The more intrusive the newcomer is, particularly in the operating room, the worse the situation gets. Amelia and Owen (Caterina Scorsone, Kevin McKidd) can’t keep their troubles confined to home. Debbie Allen, also an executive producer and frequent director of this show, returns as Catherine. Ellen Pompeo and Justin Chambers also star. New

8 p.m. on TRUTVImpractical JokersThe guys collectively known as The Tenderloins — and individually

as Joe, Murr, Q and Sal — wrap up another season and tackle their biggest challenges yet in the new two-hour special episode “Impractical Jokers Live: Nitro Circus Spectacular.” From Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., extreme sports superstar Travis Pastrana hosts the program, which is scheduled to include two high-stakes live punishments and a four-part obstacle course. Season Finale New

FRIDAY 8 p.m. on CW The Vampire Diaries Subjected to a sadistic game, Bonnie (Kat Graham) must make a seemingly impossible choice between two of the people to whom she’s closest in the new episode “You Decided That I Was Worth Saving.” Alaric (Matt Davis) thinks he may have found the means to retrieve Damon and Enzo (Ian Somerhalder, Michael Malarkey). Damon gets advice that he may have sunk too far into the depths to accept. Paul Wesley and Candice King also star. New

SATURDAY 8 p.m. on LIFETIME Movie: Who Killed JonBenét? Nearly 20 years after a murder that dominated headlines across America, this new docudrama revisits the events and investigation surrounding the death of petite junior beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey (Payton Lepinski), which remains unsolved today. Eion Bailey (“Once Upon a Time”) stars as Steve Thomas, lead detective on the case, while Michel Gill (“Mr. Robot”) and Julia Campbell (“Dexter”) play the victim’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, both of whom emerged as suspects during the proceedings. Premiere

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