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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­answers 'what is the best Halloween song?'

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Monster Mash
In a recent poll, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ readers decided Bobby Pickett's Monster Mash is the best Halloween song.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ polled 1135 readers and asked the question: What's the best Halloween song?

The poll ran from Oct. 27-Oct. 31 and garnered 1135 votes, of which we can determine 456 are from within the community. Taking the top spot is a spooky season favourite, Bobby Pickett's Monster Mash.

Originally written in 1962, many of the . The sound of a coffin being opened was made by pulling a rusty nail out of wood with a hammer and the bubbling came from blowing through a straw in a glass of water.

Arguably the most successful novelty song of all time, the Monster Mash has reached the top 100 music chart three times in its nearly 60-year history. It first broke into the charts when it was first released in 1962, then again in 1970 peaking at #91, and again in 1972 when it went all the way to #10.

The full results are as follows:

Monster Mash 45.18 % local, 47.84 % total    
Thriller 27.41 % local, 28.81 % total    
Ghostbusters 10.31 % local, 8.46 % total    
This is Halloween 4.82 % local, 4.14 % total    
Time Warp 10.09 % local, 9.07 % total    
I Want Candy 2.19 % local, 1.67 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.91%, 19 times out of 20.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.