As Halloween approaches, the members of London Vampyre Group are searching for new recruits to participate in wild parties, trips to Transylvania and bat spotting nights. However, it ruled out coffin-dwelling and blood drinkers.

LVG's Mick Smith, 57, told Reuters in an interview in a London pub, "People who think they're un-dead, hundreds of years old, or that you have to drink blood if you're interested in the dark side of things, we can put them right on that."

What Halloween pranksters probably don't know is that throwing raw eggs at someone could potentially cause permanent eye damage.

According to a recent study published in the British "Emergency Medicine Journal," the raw egg toss that accidentally hits a human eye can be serious enough to lead to blindness.

Legend has it that vampires can be repelled by garlic and killed with a wooden stake, but a fresh take on the popular myth carried out by a University of Central Florida physics professor has debunked the possibility of such creatures using a bit of simple math.

Professor Costas Efthimiou, attempting to draw attention to a public literacy campaign, formulated a simple math equation. The math works as follows: At the beginning of the year 1600 the human population was approximately 540 million. Had the first vampire bit one person a month beginning that year, there would have been two vampires by February, four by March, and so on. After only two and a half years the entire human population, according to simple math, would have become vampires. There would be no more humans for vampires to feed on by the year 1603.

A survey conducted the Thorpe Park in Surrey, England has found that more and more people are becoming less superstitious about the "unlucky" Friday the 13th.

The poll, which questioned about 1,000 adults, also suggests that other superstitious beliefs are no longer a concern these days.

This year's annual Drag Queen Halloween Parade in San Francisco won't last as long or have as many activities because of some outsider's rowdy behavior in past years.

Every year the parade has attracted hundreds of thousands of participants and viewers. But each year outsiders have become rowdier and their misbehavior caused community officials to have this year's event shortened, Bloomberg News reported Friday.