--- title: Pokemon Pumpkin Spewing Purple Smoke Wins Halloween 2019 description: After a Facebook user shared a video of a pumpkin he decorated to look like a Pokemon, the post quickly began making the online rounds. canonical: https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-21T15:48:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:57.373Z og:title: This Is What You Call Going to Great Lengths to Win Halloween og:description: What a Gastly sight og:url: https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9762ec57d1c874a/698a049edb298751ca264566/pokemon-pumpkin.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Halloween pumpkin on black background og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What You Call Going to Great Lengths to Win Halloween twitter:description: What a Gastly sight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9762ec57d1c874a/698a049edb298751ca264566/pokemon-pumpkin.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is What You Call Going to Great Lengths to Win Halloween  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 21, 2019 3:48 PM UTC  Halloween pumpkin on black background Halloween pumpkin on black backgroundSEAN GLADWELL—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 21, 2019 3:48 PM UTC When it comes to [Halloween](https://time.com/5687146/best-halloween-tv-episodes/), each year there are new people who find a way to go above and beyond [celebrating spooky season](https://time.com/5434659/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain/). From [scarily accurate costumes](https://time.com/5414128/best-celebrity-halloween-costumes-2018/) to [over-the-top decoration displays](https://time.com/5694195/halloween-decorations-angelos/), Halloween enthusiasts are continually taking things to the next level. And with Halloween 2019 only a little over a week away, this year’s October efforts are swiftly ramping up. After Facebook user RJ Preston shared a [video](https://www.facebook.com/rj.preston.10/videos/10218107693397471/) on Sunday of a pumpkin he decorated to look like popular Pokémon Gastly, the post quickly began making the online rounds. As is true of the dual-type ghost and poison Pokemon in the franchise, the jack-o’-lantern is painted to look like a black ball of gas with glowing eyes and a toothy grin. The pumpkin is even spewing purple smoke to create Gastly’s signature surrounding purple haze. “A wild Gastly appeared,” Preston captioned the now-viral post, which has been shared over 40,000 times and liked nearly 7,000. See the full Pokemon pumpkin video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/"},"headline":"This Is What You Call Going to Great Lengths to Win Halloween","datePublished":"2019-10-21T15:48:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:57.373Z","description":"What a Gastly sight","url":"https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Pokemon","onetime","Halloween 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9762ec57d1c874a/698a049edb298751ca264566/pokemon-pumpkin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9762ec57d1c874a/698a049edb298751ca264566/pokemon-pumpkin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Halloween pumpkin on black background","caption":"Halloween pumpkin on black background","creditText":"SEAN GLADWELL—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5706040/halloween-2019-pokemon-pumpkin/","name":"This Is What You Call Going to Great Lengths to Win Halloween"}}]}] ```