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The entries are in, and the judges have made their decisions. Here are the best entries for our 5th Annual David McCalden Most Macabre Halloween Holocaust Tale Challenge.

Enter our 2009 Contest and Win Cash!

Send in your entries now for the 6th Annual David McCalden Most Macabre Halloween Holocaust Tale Challenge.

Pits of boiling human fat? Human soap? Giant "death by steaming" pressure cookers? Fountains of blood squirting from the earth?

Help us find new Holocaust stories you find macabre and ridiculous.

Please submit the tale, with full citations of its appearance and use, to the e-mail address below. If you need or prefer to send photocopies (or originals, of course), you may do so to:

Halloween Contest
PO Box 1710
Apple Valley, CA 92307

It's never too early to enter!

Last year, we awarded the winner a $200 cash prize; second place received a $50 cash prize. Entries are judged on four factors:

  1. Originality (search our site before entering),
  2. The macabre nature of the tale,
  3. Citation of the source(s) where the tale or claim has appeared, and
  4. The use of the tale in official Holocaust histories. (Receive added points if your submission was used in a court of law.)

The contest deadline is Thursday, October 30, 2009. You may enter as many times as you wish, but there will be only one winning entry per person. Each contest entry is subject to verification. The winners will be announced on Friday, October 31, 2009 (Halloween).

The prize is in honor of skeptic and founder of the Institute for Historical Review, David McCalden. Each submission becomes the property of the Holocaust Historiography Project, and may be published on this website. Please let us know if you want attribution for your submission, or if you wish to remain anonymous.

Let's make David proud!

If you want to see what you're up against, check the winning entries from past years: