These pumpkins in New Hartford are pretty damn big, but they're still no record holders.
The pumpkins at Old McMarley's Apple Farm (pictured near some cars for a sense of scale) are easily a few hundred pounds. You can compare them to some more McMarley's beauties I posed with a few years ago...
The City of Buffalo is claiming the Freddy Kruger character from Nightmare on Elm Street is based on a real serial killer who lived in Buffalo NY in the 1800s.