If you take a step back, it might seem a bit strange that every fall, thousands, if not millions of innocent pumpkins are carved up, just to give a room a spooky look. But there is no denying that a creatively carved pumpkin does add that little bit of spice to any Halloween decor. And some people really do take their decorations to the next level.
So people from all over the internet share the most interesting, cool, and spookiest pumpkins they have carved, designed, and decorated in the spirit of Halloween. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite creations, and be sure to comment your thoughts and ideas below.
#1 This Year’s Pumpkin Worked Out

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#2 Pumpkin Carving Of Carving A Pumpkin

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#3 My Pumpkin This Year

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#4 Finished My Pumpkinpede

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#5 Instead Of Carving The Jack-O’-Lantern Myself This Year, I Poked A Bunch Of Small Holes In A Pumpkin And Stuffed The Holes With Peanut Butter
I then let the squirrels go at it for two days. The result is something truly disturbing.

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#6 A Very Easy Pumpkin With A Truly Haunting Result

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#7 Finished The Pumpkin Carving

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#8 My Pumpkin Carving For This Year

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#9 Carved By My Incredibly Talented Husband. Yes, It’s A Real Pumpkin. He Used Watered-Down Acrylics To Create The Aged Wood Texture

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#10 My Attempt At A Mera Mera No Mi Pumpkin
Second time ever carving a pumpkin and took 20+ hours so please be gentle with the critique.

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#11 My Boss Told Me My Pumpkin Was “Too Basic” To Be Entered Into Our Work’s Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#12 I Carved A Pumpkin Beholder

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#13 Poison Apple Pumpkin

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#14 Tried Something Different During Pumpkin Carving This Year. Pretty Stoked With The Result

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#15 Jacked-O’-Lantern

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#16 A Brigantine-Style Boat That’s Brimming With A Treasure Haul Of Pearly White Gumballs And Candy Gold Doubloons. No Tricks, All The Treats

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#17 Giant Pumpkin Geode
We carve/decorate a giant pumpkin for Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta every year for my company’s Peapod Jewelry. This was our entry for 2022.

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#18 My Gandalf & The Balrog Pumpkin
Went LOTR for my second pumpkin of the year – Gandalf and the Balrog of Morgoth! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
Stencil creation: ~1 hour
Stencil transfer/prep: ~1.5 hours
Carving: ~6 hours

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#19 I Won The Work Contest With This Guy

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#20 My Kid Is Obsessed With Sea Life. This May Be The Coolest Pumpkin I’ve Ever Carved

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#21 Stunning Tiger Carving

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#22 A Lil Over The Garden Wall Inspired Carve On 6.5” Michaels Foam Pumpkin. It’s A Pumpkinception

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#23 Kitty Cat Jack-O’-Lantern

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#24 Here’s A Little Beetlejuice I Carved Recently On A 6.5″ Foam Pumpkin

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#25 I Know Halloween Is Over But My Pumpkin Won 3rd Place In A Contest Tonight And I’m Super Stoked

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#26 I Was Proud Of My Maleficent Pumpkin Carving

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#27 Some Of The Floors Had A Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#28 This Is The Wall Pumpkin

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#29 1st Butternut Squash Carving

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#30 Girlfriend’s And My Pumpkins This Year

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#31 First Pumpkin Carving Of The Season

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#32 I Made An M. C. Escher Pumpkin. Had A Costume Too, But Most People Thought I Was Harry Potter

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#33 I Think I Have Arthritis Now… Done With All My Pumpkins For The Year

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#34 I Carved A Happy Little Bokoblin

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#35 My Wheezing Jack-O’-Lantern That I Carved Way Too Early
I just carved a pumpkin for the first time in over a decade and it turns out a carved fruit doesn’t do so well outside in Florida.

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#36 Carved Pumpkins By Danish Midwives At A Local Hospital

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#37 “Skeleton Drinking” – Me, Pumpkin, 2022

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#38 Vecna Pumpkin. Freehand Carved And Painted

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#39 Dragon/Basilisk Pumpkin With Shark-Style Double Row Of Teeth

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#40 Finished My Pumpkin For Halloween

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#41 Friend’s Hocus Pocus Pumpkin Carving

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#42 Andromeda Proxy. Carved Into A Living Pumpkin

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#43 My Latest Carve

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#44 Carved A Pumpkin Into One Of My Favorite Witcher Monsters: A Leshen

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#45 This Is Tator Tooth. He Has No Eyes, I Don’t Know If I Want To Ruin It Adding Eyes

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#46 Another Mini Pumpkin
I used a Dremel to get the skin off and then used an Xacto knife to cut all the triangles. I wanted them to be scallops (first row) but it wasn’t turning out right so I changed it. Too short for a tea light, so phone light it is.

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#47 I Carve Pumpkins. People Always Say I Should Sell Them, But I Just Do It For Fun

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#48 My Jack-O’-Lantern

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#49 I Won First Prize At My Company’s Pumpkin Carving Contest This Year. Not Much Carving, But It Is More Of A Sculptural Piece

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#50 Happy Halloween Grounded! I Tried To Make The Scariest Pumpkin Possible

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